Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Dpasek, The only thing I would change about what you've posted is that strengthening the flexing and extending muscles does not weaken the stabilizers, they can and should all work together rather seamlessly without causing any problems. The problems come in if you train your muscles, any of them, t...

GVI, That's the spirit! TCC is a LONG hike, not a short walk. The best way to approach it, in my personal not so humble opinion, is to simply enjoy the journey. You mentioned previously that you had found an instructor who teaches Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan. If you don't mind my asking, w...

GVI, In actuality Tai Chi Chuan does enhance most of the exercises you've mentioned. However, and once again, you have to go about them a different way. I do push ups, every day. And I do abdominal exercises as well. Not "sit ups" because they don't do very much for me but I could if I wan...

Woodenfish, I don't see what I said about the TCC origins or current variations in the styles as being "patronizing". I meant it when I said that, in my opinion (which is worth what you paid for it), the origins of the art don't really have much impact on how we do it today. That said... D...

Chidragon,
Well...
Missed that bit.
I stand corrected and you have my apologies.

Bob

Woodenfish, I wouldn't even try to hazard a guess at the origins of TCC. Too many claims and counter claims to even want to start down that road. And... It doesn't really matter, does it? Would knowing the exact origin right down to the date, time, place, who, what, where, why or how TCC got it's &q...

Chi Dragon, I wasn't disagreeing with what you said as a whole, in fact I went out of my way not to as I don't disagree with most of it. What I was saying was that if moving heavy weights is something you aspire to do and still do TCC then it is possible to do so. The two don't have to be mutually e...

Hey! I inspired a thread. Whaddya know! GVI, I can't say I agree, entirely, with ChiDragon on the weight training thing always being detrimental to doing TCC. That's because there's "weight training" and then their's "weight training". When I first started training in the Wu's Ta...

Dannyboy, I realize I'm late to this discussion, hopefully you will read this at some point. I have been extremely fortunate in that I have tripped, by shear blind luck mostly, into some very good and "authentic" teachers of TCC in my time. However I've also had the opposite happen and hav...

Subitai, Sorry if I conveyed an "attitude" as it was not my intention. Perhaps it reads that way, unfortunately conveying meaning in printed media is difficult to gauge. I was was going for amusement and elucidation, I guess it came across differently. If so, my apologies. I would gladly e...

My questions were designed to showcase that it doesn't matter at what points we are in contact with our opponent, wherever they are we should use them for listening energy. They were meant to be rhetorical. The lead up imagery for our imaginary encounter had been dispensed with at the time of my que...

Subitai, One of the major downsides to Tai Chi Chuan homework is that you can't get away with telling your teacher that the dog ate it. :lol: About the pluck being preferable... Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It really just depends on where my opponent is, where I am, and what we are both doing at tha...

Frank, I understand what you're saying about some schools not teaching/understanding the martial art of TCC and calling themselves Taiji/Tai Chi. However, I have a different understanding. The martial aspect in the name Tai Chi Chuan/Taijiquan is the Chuan/quan. The Tai Chi/Taiji reflects only on th...

Tim,
Glad I could help.

Bob

TimjFlynn, The weapons forms that you reference in your question are the Traditional Yang Family weapons forms, the 67 sword and the 13 Saber. You ask about the relative difficulty between the two, however you don't really give a frame of reference for us to understand to what you would consider to ...