Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

I decided on those three for a few reasons. In working on lift hands and hands strum the lute, i realized I was thinking of them as moving very similarly, but they do not. I had been working on understanding the motion of the waist in lift hands, and what the relation between the right hand and the ...

Louis, Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I am familiar with those and will work with your idea of attention to alternate translations to get different nuances. Since all translation is also interpretation to some degree, no doubt I will get something a little different from each. I am an assiduous...

Yes, Elizabeth did. That was where I took classes with her. I knew of Dr. Wu's Kang Tai Chi on Clark St., but I never studied with him. I did on occasion go to his shop for gan mao ling and Chi Kwan Ye Wan. Hsu Fun Yuen still owns a school at 6014 N. Broadway, but back then his school was at Lunt an...

Well, my teacher Elizabeth Wenscott is a student of Hsu Fun Yuen, one of CMC's senior students in the 1950's. I have trained, albeit on and off, since 1994, and had moved out of Chicago away from my teacher. I have been trying to become more regular in my study and to find some people to play push h...

What has been described here by both of you is similar to what I have been paying more attention to as well. I find that when i hit a state of deeper concentration when i am doing the beginning posture, either statically as a taiji horse stance, or moving as a constant repetition of the raise arms p...

Hopefully Louis feels like taking this up http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/biggrin.gif What do you think, from a scholarly point of view (quality of translation, background, historical situating of the works) of the following: Barbara Davis' book The Taijiquan Classics, with commentary by Chen We...

Is anyone familiar with credible Yang teachers in Baltimore? I cannot really travel to Wshington D.C. regularly and I was hoping to find someone in the city here.

Thank you.

Just testing my account.