It's a mish-mash of xinjia yilu/erlu movements. It does not appear to be one of the standardized competition sets. The way it is being done is in tune with performance wushu- not any kind of taiji,...
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It's a mish-mash of xinjia yilu/erlu movements. It does not appear to be one of the standardized competition sets. The way it is being done is in tune with performance wushu- not any kind of taiji,...
Bob10 wrote:
Does Sifu Ding use that term? Richard Dunn claims that the energetics they do is not empty force (see quote below)
Brad wrote
bob10 also wrote:
Here are more quotes from Richard...
That's him.
Thanks for the heads up... I wasn't aware. I've seen some good Yang Lineage flowcharts with some of these names on them, but did not know that there were more of them in the US. Again- thank you.
He studied under John Ding (link below) for something like ten years, but it is my understanding that they had some kind of falling out. I remember him saying that he's been doing Taiji for 14 years...
I don't think Richard was criticising "soft", but what is, and what is not "energetic", versus what is physical. He's saying Taiji ain't Taiji unless it has "energetics", which he says Chen style is...
Dunno Lawrence but what he says about the Yang lineage is true. There are only two teachers in the US that come from the genuine Yang lineage- Chu Gin Soon, and his son Vincent. They teach in...