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- Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:57 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Major Knee Problems. Help Needed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10994
Re: Major Knee Problems. Help Needed
I had knee problems when I began learning taiji. In one of Yang Zhenduo's seminars he showed how the front leg pushes back (as if resisting someone pulling you forward) at the same time the rear leg pushes forward. Practicing like that cured my knee problems. You can find some discussion of this pri...
- Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:03 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Farewell
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4744
Farewell
I am no longer the bulletin board administrator. Please address any issues or questions you have about the board or permissions thereon to the new administrator, bbmaster@yangfamilytaichi.com . I have enjoyed this decade of discussions with you all and now it is time for me to move on to other pursu...
- Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:36 am
- Forum: Book and Video Recommendations
- Topic: Roll Back In Action
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10527
- Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:27 am
- Forum: Book and Video Recommendations
- Topic: Roll Back In Action
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10527
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:23 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Recording of Yang Zhenduo calling out form
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7791
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:08 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Recording of Yang Zhenduo calling out form
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7791
Recording of Yang Zhenduo calling out form
Hey there Association members! Here for your enjoyment is a recording of Yang Zhenduo calling out the names of the long form which I recorded August 10, 1996. In those days, at the end of the long form seminar the group would practice the entire form together with Yang Zhenduo calling out the names ...
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:40 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
To generalize this a little bit further, we must avoid the temptation to devise a sort of permanent scaffolding which we use to support and explain what the actual teachers in the lineage are giving us. There is a reason why they have kept their teaching quite spare and rely on a few general princip...
- Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:16 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:22 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:10 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
Andy Lee had a dinner party at a restaurant years ago and Yang Zhenduo and several students were there. Susanna DeRosa (hope I spelled that right) asked Yang Zhenduo to explain a bit more about 'matching up inner and outer'. Chris Pei was translating for Yang Zhenduo then but he was away from the ta...
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:15 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:38 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:51 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
Consciousness is like this: 0 Everything outside of a narrow circle is excluded. To focus is to exclude. But if your focus in this circle jumps from reference point to check my feet to is my waist working, etc. etc this is all far away from striking, kicking, advancing, turning. In order to focus on...
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:29 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
I don't know, Audi, sounds to me like you have it backwards. The idea is where the yi goes, the qi goes. So we are not trying to produce qi, but rather qi follows our intention. By the way the qi sticking to spine idea comes from hanxiong babei. If you do those, the qi will stick, not the other way ...
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:48 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Reference Points
- Replies: 52
- Views: 35023
Here's an example. At seminars Yang Zhenduo used to do a horse stance, then pivot on a heel so one toe faced out 45 degrees. He would then drag the other foot straight forward into a bow stance. All this to show the correct spacing between the feet. Now after seeing this we would all check the spaci...