Yang 108 form

[unixfudotnet]

Hello,

I am now learning the Yang 108 move form. I am curious of to what it looks like when someone does the whole thing. Does anyone have a video I can download to check it out? I searched via google and could not find anything.

Just curious, and would feel like I would be insulting my teacher to ask him this, as he would probably say something along the lines of just worry about what you have to work on and do not get carried away with yourself, etc. I understand this, yet just curious :)

So, if anyone has a video of this I could see, that would be awesome :)

Thanks!

[norther practitioner]

While I don't think they have the whole 108, I think they have some other good Yang forms on there..

www.taiji.de

[DoGcHoW108]

Actually, NP, im pretty sure that the 108 form is also known as the 88 form, which is a form they should have on that site.

by the way, how are you doing man?

[unixfudotnet]

Thanks, yes, I am aware of that site, and actually used the 24 move form references before.

Cool, I was not aware that the 88 form on that site was the same as the 108.

Appreciate it folks :)

[DoGcHoW108]

that is, to the best of my knowlege....

its a matter of how you count the moves.

[GLW]

To clear it up...

The Yang 108 is NOT the 88.

The 88 posture routine is based HEAVILY on the Yang Chengfu routine...so much so that MANY teachers in China view the 88 as an act of plagarism...but there are some significant differences in method and flavor. for example, the 88 mandates the rock step for Gong Bu. The Wave hands in 88 is like the wave hands in 24 NOT the classical Yang method, etc...

In China, you will see what people often call the 108 counted as 103 or more commonly 85 "Ba shr wu" and NOT 88.

There are a couple of decent books on Yang form...Yang Zhenduo has one that is OK. Fu Shenyuan also has one. teh production quality of Fu's book is better...but it is MUCH more expensive. For just a series of pictures, Jou Tsunghwa had a book that showed that and other Taijiquan routines in one book....

For video, try some VCD's from China.

[unixfudotnet]

Thanks :)

[DoGcHoW108]

well there you have it, i'm WRONG AGAIN!

thanks, RJW, for keeping tabs heh.