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There is an alternative way to arrange the 8 Principles to the Huotian Bagua:

采求乾三连，挒行坤六段。
捋要离中虚，掤填坎中满。
挤是震仰盂，肘为艮段碗。
按劲兑上缺，靠劲巽下断。

This way of correlating the 8 Principles to the 8 Bagua don't need to add the extra PI 劈 to fill up the nine palaces, the centre has no trigram so it is left empty.

Hi BBTrip, Thank you for the informative drawings, they are a great help for the beginners and by the look of these notes Chen Yingjun is becoming a really good teacher just like his father, able to transmit the core essence of Taijiquan. The fundamentals in Chen should be the same for Yang, except ...

Hi Louis,

Glad to be of assistance. You will find Tan gave a preface to Huang's book in which he wrote about the three essentails for Taijiquan from his point of view.

I enjoyed reading your translations, thank you,
XJ.

Howard Choy doing the long form. Choy studied with Yang Sou-Chung and Chen Xiao-Wang.
http://www.shou-yi.org/photos-videos/ya ... -long-form

谭系少侯先生早年弟子．

黄文叔按：谭梦贤氏，为民国初年陆军大学之前辈，于文学、军学、技术，皆有深刻之研究，独到之领悟。素为儕辈所推重。尤其是太极一门，曾经多年苦练，遍访名师而述于右。非一般学太极者所能道也。

楊家太極拳各藝要義 - 黃文叔著
出版社:国术统一月刊社 出版日期:1936
简介:本书为《武术偶谈》及《各艺要义》之合刊本:《武术偶》包括练武之目的、练拳十则、推手十则、武当剑名称等。《各艺要义》包括十三势行功心解、太极拳名称、太极长拳名称及太极剑歌等。附:历代剑侠名人表等5篇。

Hi Bob,

If we look at nature, cross-fertilization helps to maintain a greater variety for natural selection to act upon, thereby increasing a species’s capacity to adapt and to survive, so why not cross-training in TCC?

EJ

Hi Audi, Great post, I have an additional note to make, it is not only trying to impose our will onto others that weakens the mutual resonance, but expectations of what others will do or should behave also prevents us from empathize with the other. That is not only in Taijiquan but in everyday life ...

Hi Louis, Another interesting and thoughtful topic from you, here is my two cents: Chinese use the expression “感”而“通” to express when there is empathy, things will interpenetrate, that is why in we prefer “以静制动” and “以柔制剛” in Taijiquan, because quiescence and yieldingness can have a better chance to...

Hi UniTaiChi,

These words came to me while doing Taiji this morning, it is for you:
"I set out to find the extraordinary in Taiji, but found it in the ordinary instead."

This will be my last posting here, my best wishes to everyone.

XJ

If you have spent years looking into it, then you are definitely an opened-minded person. Cheers to that. However, the experiences you had was disapppointing(for you) to said the least, which leads to your present conclusion. Hi UniTaiChi, It has not been disappointing to me, I have learned from my...

Hi Louis,

Thank you for your explanations. Our understanding is similar but expressed with different words.

Take care,
XJ

BTW Louis, do you know anyhting of Brennan's background? Is he a Taijiquan practitioner?

Hi Louis, A question about translation again, if you are still reading this thread and have times to make a reply. In Brennan’s translation of a passage from the 太極拳經, he translated: 人剛我柔謂之走。我順人背謂之黏 as
 “He is hard while I am soft – this is yielding. My energy is smooth while his energy is coarse – ...

Hi Dan, Thank you for the link to an interesting old thread about the similar topic going on here. I think Louis just about sumed up the whole thing when he said: On the issue on which I entered this discussion—whether Yang style taijquan advances some kind of “no-touch” abilities to overcome an opp...