Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Greetings! Simon: there was a discussion back in 2003 in a thread titled: "Form in 20 minutes?" http://beta.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000051-2.html There were lots of opinions but basically it was set that no extreme is good (neither too slow nor too fast). In the Newsletter of ...

Hi to everyone Simon: I asked for Master Yan Jun's opinion about this but what I meant was Yang Family's opinion (it's the same). Thanks a lot for your posting. Did you get this information about the trigrams and five elements matchings from the book "Yang Family Secret Transmissions, by Dougla...

Greetings! I was reading the Ranking Theory Tests Study Material and when I got to this question:"How is Chinese Culture incorporated into Tai Chi?" I didn't understand this part quite well. I understand that Earth is nourished by fire, Metal is created by earth, etc. But when it comes to ...

Hi! Louis, thank you for explaining fajin's proper translation. DPasek I don't know anything about chinese language, but here in this web site there is something that may help us to know the proper term for full speed fajin in the staff training of Yang style: http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/about/f...

Hi! I just want to say that I think there is Dim Mak in Traditional Yang Style, or at least that's what I have been taught. Two years ago I went to a seminar with my teacher's teacher, Mr. Sergio Arione. He is Montreal's center director (www.taichimontreal.com). He told us that in the movement fan t...

Hi Shugdenla don´t get me wrong: I am not against innovation or developing of a new form. Actually you are right, every single style of Tai Chi Chuan evolved from another (Yang from Chen, Wu from Yang, etc) but what I am trying to say here is that they all have two things in common: 1) They were cre...

Greetings! Simon I totally agree with you. It is pointless to try to recreate your own short form. What for? 30 minutes a day is nothing. Besides, I think that someone who attempts to create a new form should have A LOT OF EXPERIENCE in the field. Someone with 40 or 50 years of training. (Someone li...

Hi to everyone Check this out: http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/about/faq/ "..3. Yang Lu chan, Yang Shaohou and Yang Chengfu are said to have demonstrated some fast taiji solo form. Can you tell us about the fast Yang taiji and the two person sparring set? Originally Yang family members engaged ...

Hi Roh Mih
look at this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSAaqb30hfU
it is a Yang Zhenduo´s video performing traditional form.
And take look at this picture for your reference (this is master Yang Jun):
http://ceitai.com/yangjun/

I hope this helps

César

Hi Vincent

Perhaps you may find this article interesting:
http://www.taijigongfu.com/tradition.html


take care

César

Hi Alan As a physician myself, I strongly recommend you to talk about this with your doctor. The way you describe this symptom, it seems like if it is "Tinnitus" (the medical term for Ringing In The Ears). Since it is a symptom, this may be a manifestation of another illnesses like high bl...

Hi!
perhaps you should look at this site:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Caeg06

I also posted a couple of videos that you might find interesting.

I hope you enjoy them!

César

Hi everyone!

I was watching this video, It is a VincentChu's video, performing taichi staff and I wonder if this is the same taichi staff form that the Yang Family, i.e. YangJun, teach.
this is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAFvE7uTd6k

Thanks!

César

Hello Simon! Check this out: http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000051.html In the Newsletter of the International Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association (N° 10), Master Yang ZhenDuo says: "...Doing the form one time commonly takes about 25 minutes now. In the past, we took 45 minute...

Hello Bai-Hui!
Yang Jwing Ming teaches Yang Ban Hou's lineage. His master was Kao Tao, although I don't know the exact lineage up to Yang Ban hou.
I hope this helps
César