Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

MLS, Oh, yeah. I love the "chi ball" throwers. They make me laugh. I've told my tale of disproving that they can actually do that a long time ago on this forum, so will not bore everyone with it again. Let's just say that we know it doesn't work like that. However, the snake oil peddlers s...

mls_72, You are preaching to the choir with me. I have long held the same belief regarding sparring being an integral part of training. We call it a "martial art", so where's the martial art? I came from a martial art school for TCC and that is how I learned it originally. To not have it b...

He took the challenge. He lost the fight. From this loss hopefully he will learn. In TCC, we invest in loss. What it comes down to... The MMA guy fought well, he did not. He needs to train more if he wants to win, simple as that. There does not appear to be a loss of "honor" on either side...

We are battling semantics. That's a battle no one can win. I learned that early on this thread. "Coming over" from another style to TYFTCC I had a head full of "terms and phrases" and "what they mean" but they did not always "come over" cleanly between WCC sty...

CD, That sounds like a martial scenario to me but... OK, sure, let's go with it being an accident. If am standing in horse stance, weighted 50/50, and someone accidentally pushed me from the front, stepping back would not be my first instinct most of the time. Instead I would turn my waist, accept, ...

We all know I am NOT a linguist, but I've seen this particular phrase before and have seen several translations of it. Unfortunately, each translation has been different. Similar, but... That's how it seems to go with that kind of thing. Translators rely on their knowledge of both languages in quest...

CD, What if you are not in contact with your opponent with your shoulder, torso, or chest, and still need to bump them? Do you simply not do it? Or, do you do it with whichever body part you happen to currently have in contact or can make come in contact when you need it to? Once again, any and all ...

So... Why are you limiting yourself in this way? I koa, or bump, my opponents all the time using my feet, my calves, my knees, my thighs, my hips, my torso, my elbows, my hands, my head... Oh, yeah, and my shoulders too. Once in a while I do use those as well. You do know that just because it is cal...

I am unclear how being unable to lift one leg off the ground equals being double weighted. In all my time in this art I've never seen that listed as one of the symptoms of the sickness. You do not have to lift one leg off the ground to respond to incoming energy or to be able to send it out. We do t...

Most people become double weighted when they stand on one leg. Think about it, when most people stand on only one leg can they respond to incoming energy without even a split second of not being able to move freely? That would be a... No. So... Yeah. That's going to be true for at least most of the ...

I don't think it's "safe" to say that moving the rest of the body is cosmetic aid, at all. In fact I think that's the least correct thing I've ever heard put forth about the subject. Let's review the very first line from the TCC Classics that most of us learned to see why: Energy is rooted...

Without delving too deeply into the current topic... I will simply say that I have been taught that you can express any energy with any body part at any time. That does not mean that only local jins are used in TCC, in fact quite the opposite. What that means is that we clearly have and utilize loca...

ChiDragon: You did not just try to say that keeping weight in both feet is the same as being "double weighted". Did you? Because it sure looked like it. I sure hope not, because that is clearly not what "double weighted" means. If it did, then EVERY last branch of TCC has been te...

Audi, I also do not use Fajin during regular, traditional form work. No explosions of energy occur in that portion of my practice. I do however, from time to time, practice the Wu Chien Chuan Large Frame Fast Form. Fajin is part of that exercise. I've seen videos of Fu Zhong Wen doing specific fajin...

Audi, I do my RML very close to how you describe it, as far as grabbing with the toes. I do not "grab" with the toes in any heel down empty stances until I am sending the energy back into the empty weight foot. Prior to that my toes are relaxed and ready, neither lifted upwards or curled d...