Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Matt, Are you training for anything specific: general exercise/fitness, fighting, competition, etc...? I also supplement my tai chi workouts with additional exercises and you reminded of a few that I might want to add. I find that tai chi works my legs very well, and I don't do anything additional f...

>>What the heck is a cage fighter, and why should I care? Mr. Swaim, "Cage fighter" is one of the terms used for professional fighters in mixed martial arts today - mixed martial arts because of the multitude of styles that these fighters usually study. Example, one who wants to learn more...

A most excellent post, Bob.

Respectfully,
Wu

Myth Busters (Discovery Channel, I believe) ran an episode dealing with the "Chi power strike" as they referred to it as. During the show, students were thrown down / around, without being touched, by the instructors chi. Yet, when someone from the program stood there, he couldn't be moved...

Hi TCCStudent.

Bill Walsh, of the NYC Yang Family Tai Chi Center, posted a write-up addressing that question.

http://www.nycyangfamilytaichi.com

Respectfully,
Wu

An I-Chuan sifu recently posted some thoughts on push-hands training that I found to be insightful.

http://www.i-chuan.net/

Respectfully,
Wu

Greetings! My first instructor taught Repluse the Monkey / Wave Hands Like Cloud with 3 repetitions each, but, you could really do as many times as you had the room for and it was repeated an odd number of times. She also said that however many repetitions you performed RTM with, you also used the s...

Kal,

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Wu

I use Feiyues as well and am very happy with them after having tried cotton sole slippers, plastic sole slippers, running shoes, and boat shoes (same as deck shoes, I think).

I also like practicing in my Dr. Marten's at work.

Wu

I have studied under two instructors. From the first instructor, I learned the 103 posture hand form. This instructor just referred to the form as Yang style Tai Chi. My second instructor is a member of this association. From this instructor I have been correcting / improving / learning the applicat...

I just reviewed the description of the left peng of GTST from YCF's The Essence And Applications of Taijiquan. YCF describes in his scenario that the attack comes in from a left hand, not right, as I used in my example. So, you would open your opponent's body up with the move instead of going to his...

------------------------------ So what I gather from what you are saying is that the opponent is indeed attacking from the NORTH with a right punch, although you never actually face him directly when warding off. ------------------------------ Correct - you never want to face directly into an attack...

IMHO, from a combat-effectiveness standpoint, the Yang family method is the most efficient. If you perform the posture straight into your opponent, you will not deflect their attack, but, suffer the force from it, using that particular posture. Let's say you're being attacked by an opponent's right ...

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

It appears that I have a lot of studying to do!

Audi - thanks for sharing your knowledge, your posts are always thoughtful and insightful.

Greetings. I have been reading Waysun Liao's translation of the "Tai Chi Classics", published by Shambhala. I purchased the book because of the explanations and examples of chi, jing, li, and the translations of the classic treatises. What I found most interesting about this book was the h...