Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Dear Louis, I did translate the Ten Essentials into Persian and finished it about two months ago. Regarding Taijiquan in Iran, I should say it has many enthusiasts and they are increasing as Taijiquan is getting more and more known to the public. Martial Arts have a rather long history in Iran and i...

Dear Audi, Thanks for your careful analysis and explanation. Dear Louis, Thanks for your explanations and your detailed interpretation. Sorry if I caused some discussions over your wonderful and scholarly work. My intention was just to be more clear about this phrase since I was translating the Ten ...

Dear Audi, Thanks for your detailed explanation, I indeed appreciate. I believe the answer is yes, except for one important caution. Since the Jian and Dao are edged weapons, strong energy is usually of less use than with bare hand practice. These weapons are more about finesse than percussive force...

Dear Friends, Wish you all a Happy New Year full of Happiness and Peace. When reading Taijiquan texts we often encounter the character Shen (神) and it is one of the most important components of Taiji practice. As it is said in Yang Family Taijiquan Ten Principles (太極拳十要): 太極拳所練在神。 What one trains in...

Dear Louis, Thanks for your elaboration. I think Yang Jwing-ming must have been trying for a functionally accurate translation. I agree and I think he has been successful in so doing. Remember that earlier in the paragraph an analogy is made to the meridians being like the “watercourses” 溝洫 gōu xù o...

Dear Audi, Thanks a lot for your instructions. What you mentioned is quite interesting: I am also aware of other solo and partner practices to develop Fajin that do not appear to be taken from the form....We talk about feeling Peng in all parts of the body and being able to issue energy from all par...

Dear UniTaichi, First of all I'm glad to know you and thanks a lot for your explanation and comments. I liked your Jing-Luo/Water Hose analogy very much and I think it is an illuminating one. As I understood what Louis said in his comments here is very much the same as what you conveyed by this exam...

Dear Louis, This is what one would expect from a Taiji master and researcher, to be receptive and open. 佩服，佩服！ "If the stiffness of the entire body fills the meridians, the qi and blood will be obstructed." This reading takes "stiffness" to be the subject of the first clause. To ...

Dear Friends and Masters, First I would like to thank you all in advance for taking your time to read this post and for your guidance. I was translating "Yang Family Ten Essentials" and faced some issues about which I'm going to seek advice. 6- Use Yi, do not use Li （用意不用力） There is a sent...

Hello Audi, Thanks a lot for your further explanation. It is really helpful for me. One is that I find that increasing one's understanding also makes one's practice much more effective. What I try to teach is that it is not only important to practice according to principles like the Ten Essentials, ...

hello meghdad just like you im also new here if only i can help you :( but any ways this is pretty interesting hope someone will help you i would like to know also some of the practical guidelines/information that can be applied to the Sword form..*cross-finger* Hello allenvirgil, Thanks for your k...

Hello dear Taiji friends, This is my first post in this forum and I should say I have really enjoyed and learned from reading different topics here for some time. I have some thing in my mind about the Sword form which I would like to have your opinions about it. In the introduction part of one of t...