Randy Fung performing Kuo Lien Ying's Tai Chi Chuan
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- A recent early morning practice performing Tai Chi Chuan as taught to me by master Kuo Lien Ying of San Francisco in 1967.
He gave me the gift of understanding what kung fu really meant:
"Time dedicated to a practice"
I am so grateful to you for creating this channel. At 48, after decades away from practice, I reconnected to GPY Tai Chi Ch'uan and the other forms I'd learned from Sifu Kuo...but it's only now, at 68 and through your videos, I feel a true visceral connection to my Portsmouth Square days. Your instruction has wholly reinvigorated my practice. 谢谢
Thank you so much for you comments! This makes me so happy that these videos are helping people connect back with their practice! Alot of us didn't realize at the time what a true treasure it was to study with Sifu Kuo. Since there was no internet, it was our only world.
thank you
This is the first time I've seen anyone practice Guang Ping Yang Style Tai Chi the way I was trained. Thank You.
i sometimes tell people , who understand , that TaiChiChuan is a practice to maintain the integrity of the human body's energetic / physical structure .
Thank you Randall Fung Laoshi for recording this video that illustrates it completely !
Respectfully ,
ed
Thank you for the kind comments!
It is a joy to watch this video practicing Kuo Lien Ying's form. I recall now that I also studied with Sifu Kuo back in San Francisco about 1969-1970 , for a few months before circumstances took me elsewhere. I have studied with other teachers since those days. I recall my last teacher telling me I was very linear and stretched out ... watching you , I can see it again. I never learned the whole ... but I practiced it on my own for many years , in the wilds of Colorado. I recently got to spend a morning with Bing in Point Reyes. It does bring back memories
Thank you and welcome to the Channel. It's great that you got to visit with Bing!
Wow...I have not seen this form for a couple decades. I learned it from Sifu Henry Look. He would train a few of us six days a week. Those were great times I will always cherish. Powerful set.
Well done. The second-generation yang tai chi is next-level.
Master Fung I have studied tai chi specifically yang jian hou, yang cheng fu forms as well as chen style lao jia. I have always been intrigued by guang ping. I have been judging at the US Kuo Shou Nationals in Hunt Valley, MD for almost 15 years. I am using your videos, as well Master Marilyn Cooper and Master Bing Gong and Master Look. I have noticed subtle differences in the way in each of you practice the form, not in arrangement of postures but the number of repetitions of certain postures such as cloud hands, and wave the lotus/brush knee.
In additions, each practioner has some freedom in interpreting different characteristics of the set form as well. You can perforem the same move many different ways just as you can play a melody many different ways. What has to stay the same is the sequence of the moves as well as the fundemental movement of the classic form. Thanks for asking these deeper questions because I will have to present a video to demonstaate exactly what I am talking about.
Great performance. Guang Ping Tai Chi exactly as Master Kuo taught it at Portsmouth Square in 1967 and for the next two decades until he returned to China.
My computer decided to not allow me to finish. Anyway could you enlighten me as to what is orthodox in the number of repetitions of certain postures as I mentioned earlier. Thank you.
There is no set number of repetitions in repeated movements. You can do one or many, and it can depend on the space that you are working in.
Movements like Brush Knee Twist step, Repulse monkey, Cloud hands, Golden Cock stands on one leg for example have no set number of repetitions.
glad to see others on utube. let's all keep practising, and teaching if we can
Lao Shr Randy. great to see you in action......Ed W.
Sifu Fung is there anyone in the baltimore/washington dc area that teaches guang ping?.
Here is a link to the Guang Ping Association page with their "certified teachers" list. Not certified by Kuo Lien Ying, but by the associiation, and many of the teachers are from the Peter Kwok lineage, so their form varys from that taught in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco.
www.gpytca.org/find-a-teacher
Thank you sir.
respects big brother....
"Chi down, no body down."
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Otherwise, not bad, particularly considering the usual terrible examples of this set that I see on the Tube. This is the first version of Tai-Chi that I learned, in 1974, from TR Chung in Berkeley. It was Kuo's widow (Simone) who came up with the idea to call this "Kuang [Guang] Ping) Tai-Chi. Nobody in Kuang Ping village does this style. It is a very old Yang Style set that Kuo saved from extinction. It used to be a lot longer. There are some people who claim to know the long version.
Good job mate. Looks nice.
nicely done :)
Must take many years to learn!
Pardon me for pointing out , that, just because someone is moving around slowly and gracefully, that Don't makeit Tai Chi .