Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Luis, Thank you for your interesting quote coming from Item 2 of Hao Yueru's 13 Taiji boxing requirements, which refers to one of the 13 fundamental body standards while doing the form, but it (Item 2 - plucking up your back 拔背) is not specific only to Wild Horse parts its Mane. In fact, every mo...

I like the idea of parting (fen 分), it means the two hands are going apart in the opposite direction, but I think it is done with the waist and footwaork through dantian rotation. What we feel in the upper back (opening and closing) is a consequence of what is being done lower down.

The character "wild" (ye 野) could also mean an uncultivated open field, so may be 野马分鬃 could be translated as "A horse in the wild parts its mane".

A bit of typo here, it should be bottom right hand and top left hand.
XJ

Hi Luis, I am reading your tranlation "The Essence and Application of Taijiquan" right now and I am enjoying your work very much. To me, the mane of a horse is not separated from its body, when a horse gallops forward, its manes shoot back in the opposite direction. When I am doing the for...