Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi UniTaiChi,

Lets say somewhere between the highest and the lowest there lies our answers. OK?

XJ

Hi Louis, Thank you for your further explanations, I have the same feeling that Master Gao’s sayings don’t quite fit in with Taijiquan skill. Without form or no-form (wuxing 無形) has more to do with a fighting strategy or a Buddhist philosophy (I have seen this phrase “有形有相皆是假，无形无相才是真”in the explanat...

Hi Louis, Thank you for your feedback, I could not understand Master Gao’s words and started to wonder if I know my Chinese characters at all! 有意無意, 是真意 don’t make sense to me at all and Sun’s quote that you have highlighted 拳無拳, 意無意. 無意之中, 是真意, makes perfect sense to me. What are your thoughts on M...

May be with this video of Mater Gao presenting tuishou we can understand better what he meant by these words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP5RJqBA97U

In the video link posted by UniTaiChi, Master Gao Zhongfei wrote these words on the blackboard, how would you translate them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNcBci3eeI&feature=youtu.be 拳無拳 quan wu quan 意無意 yi wu yi 有意無意 you yi wu yi 是真意 shi zhen yi 有形皆是假 you xing jie shi jia 無形才是真 wu xing cai s...

Hi Meghdad, Just saw your thread, which is a very interesting topic, thanks for posting it, here is my belated two cents worth. When we can translate the rest of the Taijiquan Essential No 8 “Nei Wai Xiang He”, we can see clearly what the spirit means in Taijiquan. It is the coming together of the i...

Hi UniTaiChi, First there is void ( O - Wuji ) , then come existence ( 1 - Taiji ) , then Yin/Yang ( 2 - Liang Yi ) then come Trinity ( 3 ) which give birth to the myriad of creation ( 10,000 things/萬物) . --- Since the Daodejin originate from Yi Jing, so it is the same. It also tally with what I wro...

Hi UniTaiChi With reference to GM Wei Shu Ren and John Fung, I know John in the first video, at that time he did not know how to sink his qi to the lower dantain to withstand any form of push. Anyone with good skill can do what Master Wei does in the video, there is nothing "impossible", o...

Hi UniTaiChi, The video you showed actually contradicted what you said (the Shaolin one only has frontal views): http://youtu.be/Zu6-zBznDZc The presenter Jake Mace said to tack in his hips when doing the leg strengthening exercise against a doorway, but at 2:45 when he straightens his body after sq...

Hi UniTaiChi, Diagram “C” is a flat back posture and medical researches have found that this type of posture over time will most likely to shorten the abdominals, the hip extensors, the thoracic erector and the scapula refractors muscles, plus weakening the lumbar extensor, the hip flexor, the scapu...

...and when you are talking about tucking in the tailbone you are talking about tightening the pelvic floor muscles because the two are intimtely connected and it is in exercising the pelvic floor muscles that we would get the health and martial benefits. It is not about straightening the spine, it ...

Hi Louis, I agree with you that the knees shoud be slightly bend most of the time and so it is the same idea with the tailbone, it should be relaxed and being centrally correct most of the time and then at the appropriate moments slightly tightened to get the optimal effect but not all the time. Eve...

Hi Dan, I am certain that traditional Yang Taijiquan desires a posture similar to image “A” because that is the natural state of being and the only way to generate power in a “wuwei” way. The problem is many of the so-called masters misinterpreted the classic and tell their students to tuck in their...

In this discussion thread there is a series of animated pictures of what happens to the spinal column when the tailbone is straightened: http://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=21178096&extra=&page=1###. A straightened spinal column looks a bit unatural to me. So what does 虛靈頂勁, 尾閭中正 me...

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