Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

If you are just looking for one posture to use to illustrate lei, then you can use the following: 手挥琵琶 shou3 hui1 pi2 pa – Hand Strums the Lute The hand farther from you would be on the outside of an opponent's elbow while your closer hand would be on the inside of the same arm's wrist - both have a...

I have had to significantly change the focus of my class. I used to emphasize the small niche of “Interactive Taijiquan” both because that is my primary interest and because many (most?) schools do not spend much time on interactive work, and the feedback and lessons learned from it. I will now swit...

Don’t take credit for being first to bring up these ideas as the linked article has been around since at least 1996. There are things in the article that I would have liked to check the original research papers for, but I cannot seem to find the cited sources since only numbers are given and there i...

The author seems to be much more knowledgeable than I am on these topics (my specialty is in different areas). He provides contact information and lives in California (I do not know if he is anywhere close to you) so you may want to contact him for discussions concerning mitochondria, ATP, oxygen, q...

ChiDragon wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:13 am Tai Chi should be considered in the high-intensity interval training (HIIT).

Please! ChiDragon,

You think that Taijiquan is a form of high-intensity interval training (HIIT)!

OK, I’ll make one more attempt at an explanation. If CD does not understand this explanation, then I have to conclude that he is either incapable of understanding, or unwilling to do so; but if other readers understand, then that is enough for me. • All the links that CD has provided address normal ...

I should perhaps be clearer about the last post. The study on TJQ and telomeres does appear to show beneficial effects, so one could probably extrapolate to the mitochondria and ATP. But ChiDragon’s apparent premise is that ATP is equivalent to qi AND that TJQ builds qi while most other exercises de...

The second study is a step in the right direction and does support linking telomere dysfunction to mitochondrial biology: In summary, multiple levels of evidence establish telomere dysfunction-induced p53 represses PGC-1α and PGC-1β, thereby linking telomeres to mitochondrial biology, oxidative defe...

Just to point out something brought up by Louis, form posture names can only be expected to reflect the postures rather than giving specific details. The turned-out orientation of the right fist in Draw the Bow and Shoot the Tiger is different than what one would have if using a finger draw techniqu...

The wrap looks good. The ring pommel looks odd to me combined with the style of pommel (which would have had a peened over tang holding everything together and no attachment place for a cloth on the pommel) that came with the waster, but if they want to attach a saber cloth then I guess it helps. Th...

Yea, there are many possible associations that could have contributed to the selection of the form names, and scholars of Chinese literature (like Louis Swaim) or ethnic Chinese (like ChiDragon) may have their ideas, although they would only be speculations unless the person who named the forms left...

GVI, I cannot see the image, but I am guessing that you have wrapped the handle with the gutted (to make the sheath flatten rather than being round) 550 paracord? I would think that nylon material would be more slippery in sweaty hands than cotton or silk cords, but perhaps it will work well when th...

I do not know what was intended with the analogies for TJQ of the falcon and the rabbit or the cat and mouse, but it seems like there could be numerous interpretations of them. The following video may relate to “The rabbit rises as the falcon lowers” [兔起鶻落] phrase that Louis mentioned: https://www.y...

RIP

Of course [it is obvious that] unhealthy people can get healthier by practicing many things, including TJQ, but that does not automatically mean that they can fight once they become healthy. The comparison with Hung Kuen was, AFAICT, simply an example of a training system that includes progressions ...