Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Nice to watch the vedio about Judo.

We can reach a conclusion that the master against his disciple shows the way of application of being loose (relaxed), sink, light and agile.

Hi, T
Quite Clear in applying to the opponent.

If your receiving Jin is good, direct his whole body weight down the ground even though your hands are held. Just like your opponent's two hands are pushing the swing.
Then raise your one knee attacking like chicken standing on one foot.

When your inner jin can go through and out from the foot to index and middle finger or a fist, the opponent in an unfavarable or falling situation can feel the fingers aiming at him as a needle and a fist as an hammer. True or not, it takes real experiences. Those who can give a needle and a fist ha...

In cotton is a needle. Is a needle Michuang?
Draw in and empty the opponent and hit back at the good timing. Is this theory Michuang?

Good teachers will teach us, but the teaching is not necessarily enlighten us and make us a needle used at a good timing.

Hi,All When you guys circulate the jin as silk--floating, and subtle, your opponents are hard to predict and land force upon you. They feel in danger like being at the edge of the cliff, their heart and chi leap up and disturbed, and their feet are weak and unstable. This is the use of silk jin, als...

Greetings All. Mozart's music is obvious in his beginning, flowing (in the process),and ending. Then repeated play causes an unceasing circulation of beginning, flowing and ending. As a reference, Mozart's goes to Taichi Chuan. When someone pushes hand with you freely. Once the attack begins, you ar...

Hi, Dragomilak Quote----------------------------------- Does Standing like a tree help by Taijiquan practice? ___________________________________ quote Think about standing like a scale. What do the scale do to the opposite weighty object. While we stand like a scale, we can cope with the opponent j...

Agree

One is the whole. The whole is one.
Lu is one of the 13. The same goes An or Lie. One lies the whole. and the whole originates in center.

Hi, Rich quote________________ I see what you mean now about mind - you're saying that by having a fixed idea of completed technique we fall into the trap of committing to attack and losing the Taiji principles. Once we do this, our opponent can take advantage of us. This is "giving up the near...

Hi, Rich Quote _______________________________________ Yes, I agree - lu does involve turning the waist, and if you try to just yank the opponent you can get into trouble if they follow your force. It's better to respond to their advance by leading them in and then turning and pulling at the last mo...

Hi,Audi Nice to have your response. What your action --White Crane Spreads Wings is to separate an opponent's incoming push--is correct. Because the separation jin works. the oppenent is in the imbalanced state. At this timing, actually,the oppenent becomes a puppet. Your Yi(stored in the spine) pus...

My guess is that lu would involve a pull backwards (and then could get mixed up with cai!!)

Hi,Rich
If we do Lu as we pull the door backwards, we are doomed. Speaking of Lu, if we ourselves have an energy like a whirl.
Without human's mind, a whirl can display its own nature.

Hi,All Again, as for Liejin, If we've exprieced to hit the opponent by using the White Crane Spreading Wing, we know the Jin before knowing it, we are still trying the Jin by pushing each other--so called "Listen". Once the attacking from the opponent,all we do is a turn ( the opponent lie...

Hello,all In my opinion, Jin is only one, not eight. Why eight? It's because,in moving, the hands, following the jin spreading the whole body, are just in the different positions. And the different positions cause eight different effective attacks and defenses. After all, defense is attack. If we wa...