Can't believe I'm subscribed to this thread, nor that it's gone for so long. I remember when it started ...
Originally Posted by
shaolindoiscool
... here is a clip of me practicing my understanding of yang tai chi chuan.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9nJ3vwcR1EQ
what is "strange" about the way i presented yang tai chi chuan as i have learned it from shaolin do?
how is what i presented a "basically cheap rip off of tcma"?
Hi Bruce,
I don't formally learn tai chi, yang or any other style, but your movements are very limb oriented. It's "empty", there's no body behind it. I see no opening or closing, no torquing, your body seems static the whole way through. Sure, you turn and move but it's driven by your feet. Your arms move but they move alone, not through your centre. Compared to tcma, it's not necessarily strange or a cheap rip off because I see a lot of empty tcma too, at least on youtube vids. The way I learn (almost?) all movement should originate in the lower dan tien and all movements should be whole body, not limb. So, e.g. at ~19s you step with your left leg, weight it and turn to your left. It's not driven by your body. If I did the move, my leg would turn because it had to, because my centre would've turned it. Hard to explain, easy to show, hard to do.
I'm sure you could develop good mechanics if you specialised in yang style tai chi, but I guess that's the downfall of SD - as soon as you learn the basics of something you change to something completely different (at least from what I recall of the syllabus).
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