Category: taiji

  • Fang Ning Push Hands

    Fang Ning Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Professor Fang Ning, 83 years old, speaks fluent English and Japanese, graduated from an Amercian Mission School, St. John University in Shanghai, China, in 1947 with degrees in Political Science and Economic. He has been practicing and researching qigong for more than 50 years. He is the 5th…

  • Yang Style Tai Chi Ball

    By Yang Fukui, as told to Bob Feldman The Taiji ball or “qiu” is an integral part of intermediate and advanced training in Yang Taijiquan. While there was some interest in the ball among Taiji practitioners in the 1920’x and 1930’s, interest subsequently diminished and few people, even in China today, are familiar with its…

  • An Interview with Yang Fukui

    By Yang Fukui, as told by Bob Feldman Note: This interview was done over the course of several sessions. I took the liberty of organizing the interview into a cohesive discussion of an “insider’s view” of Yang style Taijiquan. The essence of what Yang Fukui says in this interview is consistent with how he personally…

  • Li Heshen

  • Tai Chi Chuan Tao

    Poem of Zhang Xiumu Lai (Zhide)´s Tai-chi is the principle of Quan, A single line runs through Heaven, Man and Earth. Noumenon of Tai-chi is the innate Qi, Dividing yin and yang form postnatal body. Strategy to opponent attrack is magic number one (unitary Qi), Flowing Qi comes from the centre cavity. Training way is…

  • What is the 10 essentials of tai chi chuan?

    Following are the Ten Essentials of Tai Chi Chuan Orally transmitted by Yang Chengfu Recorded by Chen Weiming Translated by Jerry Karin Empty, lively, pushing up and energetic ‘Pushing up and energetic’ means the posture of the head is upright and straight and the spirit is infused into its apex. You may not use strength.…

  • 80 Years Old – Wei ShuRen

  • The key points to observe in T’ai Chi Practice

    1. Relax the neck and suspend the head from the crown point. 2. The eyes should focus and concentrate on the direction in which the ch’i flows. 3. Relax the chest and the back. 4. Drop and relax the shoulders; drop and relax the elbows. 5. The wrist should be set comfortably while the fingers…

  • Grandmaster Wang Yongquan (1903 – 1987)

    Yang Style Taiji Grandmaster Wang Yongquan (1903 ~ 1987) Student of Yang Jianhou, Yang Shaohou and Yang Chenfu 楊氏太極拳第四代宗師 / 汪永泉 (1903–1987)

  • The Five Virtues of T’ai Chi Ch’uan

    1. Your study should be broad, diversified. Do not limit yourself. This principle can be compared to your stance, which moves easily in many different directions. 2. Examine and question. Ask yourself how and why T’ai Chi works. This principle can be compared to your sensitivity, which is receptive to that comparison which others ignore.…

  • The Eight Truths of T’ai Chi

    1. Do not be concerned with form. Do not be concerned with the ways in which form manifests. It is best to forget your own existence. 2. Your entire body should be transparent and empty. Let inside and outside fuse together and become one.. 3. Learn to ignore external objects. Allow your mind to guide…

  • Song of Substance and Function

    1. Taijiquan. Thirteen postures. The marvel lies in the nature of qi; yin and yang. 2. It changes into infinity and returns to the one. Returns to the one, taijiquan. 3. The two primary principles (yin and yang) and four manifestations are without boundary. To ride the wind, the head is suspended at the crown,…

  • That which shrinks Must first expand

  • The sixteen steeps of transferring power

    1. Root and twist the foot, allowing power to travel up the leg. 2. Let the power spring upward at the knee. 3. Allow the power to move freely in any direction at the waist. 4. Drive the power upward through the back. 5. Let the power penetrate to the crown point at the top…

  • Songs of the eight postures

    Attributed to T’an Meng-hsien (as researched by Lee N. Scheele) The Song of Peng What is the meaning of Peng energy? It is like the water supporting a moving boat. First sink the ch’i to the tan-t’ien, then hold the head as if suspended from above. The entire body is filled with springlike energy, opening and closing…