Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

GVI, There's not much more to I can convey in writing. I could show you... if we were in proximity. But just typing these things out... it doesn't work. I've tried so many times before with zero success. When I say doing these things are "ridiculously easy" I mean it from the bottom of my ...

If anyone is still paying attention... "Extended" is the key for proper TCC based physical movement, that's what I was talking talking about above as being the difference between getting beaten down by doing calisthenics and actually moving correctly when doing TCC so that it instead becom...

Hey, improvement! Not a single laugh yet. That's good. I wanted to give this time to stew a bit, plus I was on vacation last week and never even glanced sidelong at my computer (I work on them eight to ten hours a day, five to six days a week for a living, so when I "go on vacation" I don'...

In the vein of gold, fire, no fear... Challenge accepted! Let's see what happens... because... You want to talk about TCC theory? Go ahead, everyone's an expert and they will talk with you about it for hours. But getting people to put their money where their mouth is and actually DO TCC... Well... T...

Y, I meant by posting it on a predominantly hard style dominated site, which is an exercise in futility. If you tell a hard stylist the truth about internal arts it sounds like "high level magic" to them and because of that they can't, or won't, believe it. The same is true for most studen...

GVI, I think how much is the art and how much is personal conditioning depends on how much of the art you are actually doing. It took me about a decade to realize how movement in TCC works, which was about six or seven years before my first Yang family seminar, after that doing TCC became quite easy...

When I got home from my first hand form/sword form seminar with YJ I could barely walk! I had spent a week and change in Louisville between the two seminars, including the daily "warm up sessions". I was nearly twenty years younger then, had been doing TCC for over 15 years, and it still b...

The lists of energies and where you will find each of them in the named forms when practicing against the air are legion, and I can clearly see why they'd be necessary for learning purposes since I've used them many times myself to do so and then again when I was teaching them to others. I am not kn...

GM Yang Jun normally does a quick set of group warm ups at the beginning of a seminar session in the morning, usually again after the mid day break, but I've only ever heard him call them "warm ups", never Chi Kung. Some of the warm ups he uses probably could be considered "Chi Kung l...

I currently do many different types of calisthenics using only body weight for resistance, also I ride either my exercise bike or my real bicycle almost daily to keep up my cardio system. I have to keep up a certain level of resistance training because I used to do quite a bit of "body building...

Practice more than you eat.

Each person would need to define what they want out of "weight lifting" and what they want out of Tai Chi Chuan, only then can there be a productive discussion on whether each person should do only one, only the other, or both together. If all you want is very large muscles and have no int...

By letting me move past the idea of trying to figure out, and finally even caring about, what the name is of an energy I might be using or where it is at any one time. If you're trying to chase down which energy, or energies, you're using you're chasing ghosts. What do you care what you call what yo...

My answer: all of them.
You have to express each and every energy in each and every posture, and understand how each fits in with all the rest, or you are missing a vital piece of the art.

Work with Ken, he should be able to guide you moving forward with this.