I practice okinawan karate for many years and own two books from Dr Ying, I really get amazed every time I see his techniques on my books and now on video, on how chinese martial arts infuenced the 90% of the okinawan style I practice. Its really inspiring, makes me train harder, thanks for posting!
If there is no qualifie teacher in your area, books and videos from someone like Dr Yang are the next best thing. He is an open teacher, and he teaches with as much detail as possible, in an effort to preserve the arts while we still can.
Using Dr. Yang's 88 Movement Fighting Form instruction to great effect. Impressive clarity of technique with nuanced detail of intent and execution. A very difficult two person form impossible to learn without superior teaching. Invaluable for the serious Tai Chi stident. Eagerly mastering the "get outs" and intentionally avoiding certain techiques at "noon" and "midnight" to avoid lawsuits and loss of students! flowingenergytaichi - Poconos, Pennsylvania
Another example of the soft power of taichi. Even though the movement is slow but embedded underneath each movement there is a formula for self-defense which one only realizes after years of practice. When you are familiar and well acquainted with the movement one after the other the application can be spontaneous outbursts when the urgency to defend yourself arises. Or, you can watch the following Yang taichi application. Indeed, you can learn something!
defense from leisure ! One can defend himself better in relaxation when mind is calm, vision is clear and movement is faster! Do you ride a motorcycle like a Harley? When you make a turn or handle a special situation on the highway, make sure your muscles are loose, do not tighten your fingers, breath slowly, then you can do better! This is the same principle as the martial art as shown here! If your curse, get mad, shake and quiver, you will be a punch bag!
the Chinese martial art deals with two fundamental aspects. first, be patient and become aware of the strategy embedded underneath the slow movements. second, the best offence comes from defense. when somebody attacks, you can redirect his force against him.
to luis Fernando, I higher form of taichi defense is the "spontaneous bounce back" when attacking a taichi master. a friend of mine almost broke his wrist when invited to punch a taichi master's chest by the bank of West Lake near Shanghai. bust masters on such level rarely demonstrate. and that friend lives in San Diego and used to be NCR's national sales manager. I met him on a cruise on The Grandeur of the Sea by Royal Carribean.
if you use a bit more strength here then you have a broken arm or wrist. Taichi master never really do get in a fight, also by their accepting the teaching, unless their safety or lives are threatened. In that case, the combat is normally very brief.
it's like a dance. i've been so ethused by mixed marital artists and how they have achieved so much knowledge. it reminds me of a scene from the karte kid where the girls dance wearing the komonos.
i used to study with him his style when i was in boston and it is very traditional as i am a chen stylist before learning his yang style so my inclination and emphasis is health and combat. he writes and publishes his books check him out, Dr. Yang Jwing Ming is a good teacher and his students and school are friendly and open minded. (a slice of shaolin temple )
I love Yang Jwing Ming's books! I wish I had a Taiji instrustor close to home. Looks a bit like wing chun with the sticking and chi na. This vid got me excited about kung fu again......Thanks
Dr Yang Jwing Ming is amazing. Sold his publishing company to build a remote self sufficient training centre in the mountains and dedicated the first 10 years of his retirement to teaching there. I'm not sure if this is still the deal but when it started out you had to commit to 10 years and if you completed the training you'd get all your money back so long as you invested it into setting up your own school to pass on the martial arts. Top class!
@tentobot Dr. Yang's tai chi lineage can be traced back to the Yang family through Grandmaster Kao, Tao and his teacher Yue, Huanzhi , an indoor disciple of Yang, Chengfu .
hope that helps as its my personal experience and limited skill level, its interesting though how similar they are when one study and forms are revealed like jems. chen style 10 years yang style 3 years. i still practise both for equilibrium.
Yo creo son mas un apoyo para los instructores con conocimientos que para los estudiantes, Yo practico las formas simplificadas y desafortunadamente no hay mucho interes por aca en el aspecto marcial, asi ke esto me sirve para reforzar lo que ya se y darle un poco de perspectiva y uso.
@ggglllllll He teaches the separate 37 movements of Yang tai chi and their applications. These are repeated to make the 108 form. This video is 4-hours of applications instruction. The form is taught on a separate 4-hour video. Thats the max you can fit on a DVD.
there are many out there training intensive and the martial way. and of course i think body- structure and form training is important but not everything. taijiquan has a big potential wich only few people know ... but many talk...
@tentobot Correct. That's whay we were so excited to finally be reunited with Dr. Yang's first Taijiquan teacher, GMN Kao, Tao and hear his stories of his old master. It is great to learn that Yang, Chengfu had disciples. This was kept secret because of the communist party in China at the time. In fact, Greatgrandmaster Yue, Huanzhi was eventually killed by the communists for refusing to heal of the party member with qigong. Cut and paste: ymaa.com/articles/ymaa-taijiquan-lineage
I've watch Dr yang jwing-ming alot. he's a very good sifu. he know what he talking about. the tai chi self defence is real and it work. Dr yang is a real sifu.
nice video , i practice aikido and the joint locks , the twisiting of arms etc are very similar. unfortunately aikido is non-violent way of settling fights ( or for the most part of it) , so its made fun of by most people. Are there any pressure point applications of tai chi chuan ?
You may have a preference but either are accepted. Tai Chi and Tai Chi Chuan are the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese, Taiji and Tajiquan are the pinyin romanization which is more recent (introduced by the Chinese govt. in the 50s) and is generally preferred as a standard by western governments, library systems, etc. Wade-Giles has disappeared in China itself and will most likely fade out elsewhere.
is it me, or am I the only one who finds it funny when the narrator is speaking, it cutscenes into Dr yang owning his students, with that china combat music playing lmao
@Xfrond Dr. Yang is technically a Grandmaster, as he has a few students who have mastered his complete taijiquan curriculum. But he doesn't like calling himself a "Master".
Did you know that techniques came first and then came forms? The form is just a way to remember the moves. You don't know how to use "white crane spreads its wings" until you learn the application.
My sifu is like that somehow. He learned under the school of Cheng Dsu Yao whom is the master of our art and even met and trained somewhat with Chen Man Chi'ing.
@carlislewingchun His school was excellent when I was in Boston training with him. Unfortunately I had to move south, but I had a couple of good years at his studio.
I study the true yang style that is from a teacher no one has heard of,but his skills are beyond any that I have seen in the martial world or the spiritual world and I have studied the martial arts and spiritual disciplines of almost all systems.I also was informed of this but in a different manner,I still claim after 14 years under this teacher tai chi may be easy to understand,so we like to think,but where is the proof? I still know nothing of this art but my life has such a deep meaning to it
Sir Did Master Zheng Bu Su 郑仙纪 teach Master Zhou Zi He 周子和 虎尊拳 or Tiger Style and if so then did Master Zhou Zi He teach Mr. Uechi Kanbun 上地・完文 教師 (Uechi Ryu Karate 上地流空手) Tiger Style? Thank you for your time.
That's what we thought too. Until we reunited with Dr. Yang's teacher in Taiwan from his teen years, and he gave a more clear history. Google YMAA Taijiquan lineage, for an article w more detail. Cool stuff. Yang, Chengfu did have indoor disciples.
@Dvivid Interesting, according to both their family trees, there was no such student nor branch. The Yang (Y) family had no official inner disciples until the last century with Yang Sau Chung (YSC). After gaining notoriety with the emperor, the Y family had taught court members Y-style, but they didn't teach everything. However, they branch off as Wu-style after the fallout. Perhaps he only kept the martial aspects because it resembles more Chen style than Y-style.
While the dude does know self defense methods, his form doesn't resemble the traditional form of Yang Sau Chung's nor Yang Zhen Duo's line. Who was this guy's teacher?
I'm not sure then. I was told there were no inner-door disciples of Chengfu due to the son(s)-inheritance rule. I learned Tai Chi through Yang Shao Chung's line and I was told only after he lost his only heir and unable to produce anymore sons (kept having daughters) that he decided to teach Y-style openly. He later had 3 disciples; I was warned that the Y family lost their way long ago. They shamefully promote their family name and too proud to ask the fully trained ones to reclaim their style.
Dr. Yang is one of my heroes! Read his book Muscle/Tendon Changing Marrow/Brain cleansing Qi Gong! Check out my channel for a beginner course on meditation and martial arts. Based on the teachings of the Buddha, Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Systema, Muay Thai, Qi Gong and much more.
@ClygarPro Im afraid to ask what you're talking about. After 40+ years of humbly studying and practicing the subject, it is pretty insulting to say that this teacher has no skill, and thereby imply that you do. EGO
Personally, I don't think you can say it is full wellness inless you incorporate ALL of Taiji in training. The people I see that just move slow and do not bother with the whole of Taiji are no where near the health of those that practice Taiji fully.
I practice okinawan karate for many years and own two books from Dr Ying, I really get amazed every time I see his techniques on my books and now on video, on how chinese martial arts infuenced the 90% of the okinawan style I practice. Its really inspiring, makes me train harder, thanks for posting!
If there is no qualifie teacher in your area, books and videos from someone like Dr Yang are the next best thing. He is an open teacher, and he teaches with as much detail as possible, in an effort to preserve the arts while we still can.
Mater Yang's applicatation of Tai Chi principles is on the highest level he is a true Master.
I think so highly of Dr. Yang - I own several of his books and they are of such a high quality. I look forward to purchasing his dvds.
I have this DVD -- seeing these techniques has changed the way my forms feel to me. I recommend it!
To your honor you have chosen from amongst the very best to perform on your clips.
Using Dr. Yang's 88 Movement Fighting Form instruction to great effect. Impressive clarity of technique with nuanced detail of intent and execution. A very difficult two person form impossible to learn without superior teaching. Invaluable for the serious Tai Chi stident.
Eagerly mastering the "get outs" and intentionally avoiding certain techiques at "noon" and "midnight" to avoid lawsuits and loss of students!
flowingenergytaichi - Poconos, Pennsylvania
dr. Yang is a very good insractor. I have learn so much from him. Good video.
I love this stuff, I am a Wu style student from the same area as YMAA, those guys are great.
Yang Jwing Ming, one of the most real, if not the realest CMA masters out there. Thanks for this.
Another example of the soft power of taichi. Even though the movement is slow but embedded underneath each movement there is a formula for self-defense which one only realizes after years of practice. When you are familiar and well acquainted with the movement one after the other the application can be spontaneous outbursts when the urgency to defend yourself arises. Or, you can watch the following Yang taichi application. Indeed, you can learn something!
defense from leisure !
One can defend himself better in relaxation when mind is calm, vision is clear and movement is faster!
Do you ride a motorcycle like a Harley? When you make a turn or handle a special situation on the highway, make sure your muscles are loose, do not tighten your fingers, breath slowly, then you can do better!
This is the same principle as the martial art as shown here!
If your curse, get mad, shake and quiver, you will be a punch bag!
slow movement guided by breathing slowly and long is not as easy as perceived!
Imagine riding a bike really slowly.
the Chinese martial art deals with two fundamental aspects. first, be patient and become aware of the strategy embedded underneath the slow movements.
second, the best offence comes from defense. when somebody attacks, you can redirect his force against him.
to luis Fernando, I higher form of taichi defense is the "spontaneous bounce back" when attacking a taichi master. a friend of mine almost broke his wrist when invited to punch a taichi master's chest by the bank of West Lake near Shanghai. bust masters on such level rarely demonstrate. and that friend lives in San Diego and used to be NCR's national sales manager. I met him on a cruise on The Grandeur of the Sea by Royal Carribean.
if you use a bit more strength here then you have a broken arm or wrist. Taichi master never really do get in a fight, also by their accepting the teaching, unless their safety or lives are threatened. In that case, the combat is normally very brief.
it's like a dance. i've been so ethused by mixed marital artists and how they have achieved so much knowledge. it reminds me of a scene from the karte kid where the girls dance wearing the komonos.
i used to study with him his style when i was in boston and it is very traditional as i am a chen stylist before learning his yang style so my inclination and emphasis is health and combat. he writes and publishes his books check him out, Dr. Yang Jwing Ming is a good teacher and his students and school are friendly and open minded. (a slice of shaolin temple )
I love Yang Jwing Ming's books! I wish I had a Taiji instrustor close to home. Looks a bit like wing chun with the sticking and chi na. This vid got me excited about kung fu again......Thanks
Dr Yang Jwing Ming is amazing. Sold his publishing company to build a remote self sufficient training centre in the mountains and dedicated the first 10 years of his retirement to teaching there. I'm not sure if this is still the deal but when it started out you had to commit to 10 years and if you completed the training you'd get all your money back so long as you invested it into setting up your own school to pass on the martial arts. Top class!
Yes, understood.
Qi (or Chi) means energy.
Taiji (or Tai Chi) means Grand Ultimate. Different word.
Excellent video.Excellent style and technique.
I study Hung Gar and Taiji also, they are very similar. Different training approach, but very similar in the end.
Thank You for the demonstration. I really enjoyed it.
Excellent style and technique.
It's very nice teaching. In the future I'd like to join your center. I have trained yang taiji for 10 years
@tentobot Dr. Yang's tai chi lineage can be traced back to the Yang family through Grandmaster Kao, Tao and his teacher Yue, Huanzhi , an indoor disciple of Yang, Chengfu .
hope that helps as its my personal experience and limited skill level, its interesting though how similar they are when one study and forms are revealed like jems. chen style 10 years yang style 3 years. i still practise both for equilibrium.
Yo creo son mas un apoyo para los instructores con conocimientos que para los estudiantes, Yo practico las formas simplificadas y desafortunadamente no hay mucho interes por aca en el aspecto marcial, asi ke esto me sirve para reforzar lo que ya se y darle un poco de perspectiva y uso.
excellent!! so nice to see this!!!
Thank you!!
Capoeira is similar to ti chi as well if you ever look in to it. basically its the same with bigger movements faster.
@ggglllllll He teaches the separate 37 movements of Yang tai chi and their applications. These are repeated to make the 108 form. This video is 4-hours of applications instruction. The form is taught on a separate 4-hour video. Thats the max you can fit on a DVD.
there are many out there training intensive and the martial way. and of course i think body- structure and form training is important but not everything. taijiquan has a big potential wich only few people know ... but many talk...
finally a tai chi video that makes sense =D
Why don't people study the martial arts aspects of tai chi, I do and I couldn't imagine not.
Which is why this DVD exists.
@tentobot Correct. That's whay we were so excited to finally be reunited with Dr. Yang's first Taijiquan teacher, GMN Kao, Tao and hear his stories of his old master. It is great to learn that Yang, Chengfu had disciples. This was kept secret because of the communist party in China at the time. In fact, Greatgrandmaster Yue, Huanzhi was eventually killed by the communists for refusing to heal of the party member with qigong. Cut and paste: ymaa.com/articles/ymaa-taijiquan-lineage
I've watch Dr yang jwing-ming alot. he's a very good sifu. he know what he talking about. the tai chi self defence is real and it work. Dr yang is a real sifu.
This is amazing! MY favorite stuff to see :D I want a teacher who can show me how to do this.
I wouldn't go that far but I will say that he is quite good and has an extensive undersanding to Tai Chi chuan.
nice video , i practice aikido and the joint locks , the twisiting of arms etc are very similar. unfortunately aikido is non-violent way of settling fights ( or for the most part of it) , so its made fun of by most people. Are there any pressure point applications of tai chi chuan ?
You need to train in the applications to understand their purpose and how to apply them properly. just like in any martial art.
@ZhuangziZhou this one:
ymaa.com/publishing/internal/taijiquan/taiji_martial_applications_DVD
You may have a preference but either are accepted. Tai Chi and Tai Chi Chuan are the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese, Taiji and Tajiquan are the pinyin romanization which is more recent (introduced by the Chinese govt. in the 50s) and is generally preferred as a standard by western governments, library systems, etc. Wade-Giles has disappeared in China itself and will most likely fade out elsewhere.
is it me, or am I the only one who finds it funny when the narrator is speaking, it cutscenes into Dr yang owning his students, with that china combat music playing lmao
@Xfrond Dr. Yang is technically a Grandmaster, as he has a few students who have mastered his complete taijiquan curriculum. But he doesn't like calling himself a "Master".
Did you know that techniques came first and then came forms?
The form is just a way to remember the moves. You don't know how to use "white crane spreads its wings" until you learn the application.
he deserves the title of tai chi grand master......
4:06 Poor guy and his "I got owned" face forever imprinted on a DVD case!
My sifu is like that somehow. He learned under the school of Cheng Dsu Yao whom is the master of our art and even met and trained somewhat with Chen Man Chi'ing.
Great! Reminds me of Silat application.
@carlislewingchun
His school was excellent when I was in Boston training with him. Unfortunately I had to move south, but I had a couple of good years at his studio.
Love your books too!
I study the true yang style that is from a teacher no one has heard of,but his skills are beyond any that I have seen in the martial world or the spiritual world and I have studied the martial arts and spiritual disciplines of almost all systems.I also was informed of this but in a different manner,I still claim after 14 years under this teacher tai chi may be easy to understand,so we like to think,but where is the proof? I still know nothing of this art but my life has such a deep meaning to it
@Dvivid Does Dr. Yang teach in the video the ways to practice a form of taichi or just how to excecute in a fight?
Look in the video description please.
Excellent.
Waterbending is the only time where Tai Chi is completely badass.
You can check out Chen family.
ohhh nice and simple moves..
Thank you.
Sir
Did Master Zheng Bu Su 郑仙纪 teach Master Zhou Zi He 周子和
虎尊拳 or Tiger Style and if so then did Master Zhou Zi He teach Mr. Uechi Kanbun 上地・完文 教師 (Uechi Ryu Karate 上地流空手) Tiger Style? Thank you for your time.
what are the difference that you experienced?
@Dvivid RUclips wont allow me to post their Chinese names for some reason.
hello where does Limbu chin come from again?
That's what we thought too. Until we reunited with Dr. Yang's teacher in Taiwan from his teen years, and he gave a more clear history. Google YMAA Taijiquan lineage, for an article w more detail. Cool stuff. Yang, Chengfu did have indoor disciples.
muito bom
Excellent
@Dvivid In other words, Dr. Yang knows what's what.
@Dvivid Interesting, according to both their family trees, there was no such student nor branch. The Yang (Y) family had no official inner disciples until the last century with Yang Sau Chung (YSC). After gaining notoriety with the emperor, the Y family had taught court members Y-style, but they didn't teach everything. However, they branch off as Wu-style after the fallout. Perhaps he only kept the martial aspects because it resembles more Chen style than Y-style.
Great Master !
@deva930 I really don't understand that concept?
While the dude does know self defense methods, his form doesn't resemble the traditional form of Yang Sau Chung's nor Yang Zhen Duo's line. Who was this guy's teacher?
some of this stuff is aikido
Not bad. I learned all these techniques in Hung Gar. Go figure.
@jtschau You just Nuked my brain but that was fascinating to read, thank you.
@SirCharles2908 That's so true!!! I started tai chi about 3 months ago and when i told my friends they also laughed at me --'
COOL
I'm not sure then. I was told there were no inner-door disciples of Chengfu due to the son(s)-inheritance rule. I learned Tai Chi through Yang Shao Chung's line and I was told only after he lost his only heir and unable to produce anymore sons (kept having daughters) that he decided to teach Y-style openly. He later had 3 disciples; I was warned that the Y family lost their way long ago. They shamefully promote their family name and too proud to ask the fully trained ones to reclaim their style.
Dr. Yang is one of my heroes! Read his book Muscle/Tendon Changing Marrow/Brain cleansing Qi Gong!
Check out my channel for a beginner course on meditation and martial arts.
Based on the teachings of the Buddha, Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Systema, Muay Thai, Qi Gong and much more.
@ClygarPro Im afraid to ask what you're talking about. After 40+ years of humbly studying and practicing the subject, it is pretty insulting to say that this teacher has no skill, and thereby imply that you do. EGO
It seems like aikido.
Personally, I don't think you can say it is full wellness inless you incorporate ALL of Taiji in training. The people I see that just move slow and do not bother with the whole of Taiji are no where near the health of those that practice Taiji fully.
To the Speaker...
TAI CHI CHI CHI CHI CHI not JI
understood?
haha..i love this shifu..hes so cool...
No offence but I think that tai chi nowadays are just for wellness and not for martial arts.
Fei Yue Shoes D:
wisdom is for the wise, fools will be fools, and the dumber they are the smarter we look.
dude u could so kill sum1 if u exert enough force....................... i so wanna learn i culd use it for self defense
hey master taichi can you fight muay thai fighter if you win i will train taichi but if you lost taichi is sucks ahahahahahhaahah
taichi quan is not effective
fight this in muay thai buakaw im gonna sure he goona fuck up muay thai fighter