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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kalamondin: <B>Hi Audi, It sure is fascinating to think of all the circles that go into every part of the form. Lately I’ve been thinkin...

Hi All, Really interesting stuff, good reading. Paul Feyerabend springs to mid, but that would be going waaaay off topic. So, going back onto topic, specifically On Louis' last post, I seem to remember Cheng Man Ching giving creedence to no-touch Yang style Tajiquan practices. If I recall correctly ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kalamondin: <B>Anyone have a bird I can borrow? http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/smile.gif In the Scientific Basis of Energy Medicine...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Greetings Wandering Brit, I must confess to often indulging in “adversity’s sweet milk,” but with Wittgenstein’s attitud...

Great post Anderzander, I totally agree. I have seen things done by a master that I can't explain, to people I know were not 'letting' him do anything (at least not conciously) - it's a fascinating topic and I would never discount the possibility that affecting without touching is a real, if rare, s...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bob Ashmore: <B>Anderzander, I don't know that there is too much actual, real, meaningful debate as to the skill level of Yang Cheng Fu....

I musy agree with Brian - I had a VO2 max test done at the British Olympic Institute with three other people, and none of our max heart rates or lactate thresholds were anywhere near what they 'should' have been if you take the 220-age formula...it can be drastically wrong. [This message has been ed...

Ander, Chee, Thankyou very much for your insights - I have been starting to focus on opening and closing from the centre only very recently, as the concept has only just been introduced to me by my teacher. Internal opening and closing is something we focus on in standing Chi Kung practise and I am ...

I am currently working on what my teacher likes to call 'Joined up writing'...focussing on the body and the mind moving as one, trying to ensure that when one part moves, all parts move, including the Yi. Whether it's through paying more attention to this or the fact that I have been practising for ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: <B>Hi WB, 1. One way, which I do not believe to be Yang Jun's way, is to maintain a strong "dance with gravity" and cont...

Hi Audi, Thankyou for your reply...some of the things you said rang a few bells and after several readings I went away and did the form. I think that I was indeed 'compartmentalising' my body - when, say, stepping forward to brush knee or to do the punch in advance, parry and punch, I was forcibly t...

I was browsing a few sites searching for information about the kwa and found the following - I was interested to see what other people thought of it and how it tallied with their own practice. I believe different schools place different emphasis on the relative importance of the kwa, and wondered wh...

We do standing qigong at the start of every class, starting and ending in Wuji, we work through 6 postures -3 opening and 3 closing - holding each for between 30 seconds and a few minutes. At the moment our teacher encourages us to bend the legs as much as possible without breaking structure. I find...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kalamondin: <B> For example, I’m interested in knowing more about why you think the few women you pushed with were stiff…and I’m not ask...

Hi, The way my teacher instructs is for stances to get progressively lower as your legs strengthen and you develop the ability to maintain the structural integrity of the postures at lower levels...then at a certain point in your development I believe it starts to go the other way, you begin to make...