New style of Tai Chi

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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby wayne hansen on Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:45 pm

Water style is quite good and offers some new ways of looking at tai chi
I have yet to see any teachers in the second generation who have quite got it
As for the clip above it is just factory tai chi not done all that well
I was teaching that to beginners over 30 years ago
Not sure how far it goes back but I think it was developed by Sha Gou Zheng quite some time before that
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Niall Keane on Sun Aug 06, 2017 2:48 pm

Appledog wrote:
Niall Keane wrote:Now you are being deliberately deceiptful... Cheng Tin Hung didn't align himself with any of the famous families... BUT he had a lineage...
do you even understand the term?


Which term, lineage or deceiptful?

Look, lets make this part of the discussion very open and obvious to avoid any misunderstanding. Please tell me who Cheng Tin Hung's teacher was and let us see what his lineage is. Is it Wu family? Yang family? I mean, this is public knowledge, isn't it?

Niall Keane wrote:dont play the fool... you set out to play the gallery with lies and half-truths... exactly as you plan to play your unfortunate students.


That doesn't make sense -- you started this discussion, and you're the one who's so upset. If you want to talk about it though I am game. First, since you brought up lineage, you can tell us who CTH's teachers were.

Niall Keane wrote:Oh... and to answer your other question about my ability to teach traditional tai chi chuan...
traditiinal Wu family style ... no. I never claimed to train such?




But Niall. That's what I am interested in learning. Wu style, Chen style, Sun style, Yang style. I don't want to learn wudang style. Wudang style is not the same art which is taught in the Wu, Chen, Yang, Sun families. Right? So why do you even care about this thread?

Niall Keane wrote:Traditional Wudang / practical tai chi chuan - lineage as linked above... absolutely, in fact im authorised by Dan Docherty to have students baishi under me...

You'll also find photos of me doing applications and tuishou in Dan's books, just like you'll find photos of him likewise in Cheng Tin-hung's books.

How many of your past teachers in Chen , Wu and Yang styles bestowed the same level of recognition of skill upon you? It's a rhetorical question.


Okay then I won't answer. I don't think you would like the answer anyway.

I'm just saying, it would seem to me that if someone wanted to learn Wu style Tai Chi, it would be better to go to the Wu family. You're not really qualified to judge people in that area, since you can't teach Wu style. I mean, you just said so, right? Having said so, if I wanted to teach something out of Wu style, who are you to speak to me?

In a perfect world, Niall, I would want to learn Tai Chi from you or at least visit your school since at least you talk a good game. Maybe we could get together and find a way to promote Tai Chi and help people. But this isn't a perfect world, there are many problems in this world. I am looking to work with people who are trying to be part of the solution to these problems. I'd like to think you are faking your weird attitude to try and solve the problems in this world. So I forgive you.




So, that's your game troll? Quote everything that suits your twisting fallacious arguments and leave out the parts that already answer and destroy your argument?
Parts like this:

Now you are being deliberately deceiptful... Cheng Tin Hung didn't align himself with any of the famous families... BUT he had a lineage...
do you even understand the term?

On that website there is even a page "wudang style" with a graph of the lineage... dont play the fool... you set out to play the gallery with lies and half-truths... exactly as you plan to play your unfortunate students.

http://www.taichichuan.co.uk/informatio ... i_chi.html



So I guess you are playing the gallery - troll style? Misquote / snip here / edit there, so as to fool the inattentive? Well for those others who you hope to confuse....

Here's my, My Sifu and Cheng tin-hung's lineage... (Cheng Tin-hung who in a published interview with the current gate-keeper of Wu style was said to be one-time gate-keeper of same style... Wudang / Practical and Wu are closely related. )

A "lineage" according to the Oxford dictionary means:
Direct descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.


There is a direct line of Tai Chi Chuan senior disciples (those authorized to have students baishi under them - if you understand the weight that carries..)

http://sanshou.webs.com/lineage%20chart.jpg

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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Appledog on Sun Aug 06, 2017 5:56 pm

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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Appledog on Sun Aug 06, 2017 6:02 pm

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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby wayne hansen on Sun Aug 06, 2017 10:19 pm

I already pointed out she did not invent it
It is factory tai chi that has been around for at least 30 years that I know of
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Appledog on Sun Aug 06, 2017 11:49 pm

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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby cloudz on Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:25 am

Appledog wrote:
wayne hansen wrote:I already pointed out she did not invent it
It is factory tai chi that has been around for at least 30 years that I know of


Oh, I thought you meant water style tai chi.

Yeah of course, it's the presentation and branding I am referring to. Doing Tai Chi as single movements is a tradition that has certainly been passed down before Men Huifeng, for sure.

It's the packaging, the steps behind it, to go from A to D vs B and C instead of requiring a giant leap, which seem more important to me.

I'm close to formulating the style and naming it. There's just one problem, organization of the material.

There is so much basic physical conditioning in the system due to the modern lifestyle, that people might not start learning the form for over a year. Right now I am working on chin to toe, splits, and the bridge as being core requirements at the white belt level. Do you think this is too extreme? It may be easier to break the progression across belts; i.e. splits progression for white belt, chin to toe for yellow belt, and bridge progression for orange. I've also been taking a hard look at DuanWei form 1 from Chen style, and Yang style, since these forms have basically the same purpose as the forms I am creating. I am actually really impressed with the Yang style duanwei 1, moreso than the chen version (which would seem odd if you know me because I love Chen style the most, even though I was always a Yang guy). Anyways, although I have great respect for the Chen family today I like to do the movements, perhaps, more like Yang style than I should in that I like them to be big, open, round and continuous. I am sure I will come up with something interesting.

The thing that has been bugging me most is that Tai Chi is a complete art -- everything is really in the long form (more or less) -- i mean, in terms of things like qigong sets, applications, etc -- really there is just so much there. And it's a blessing to be sure but also something of a curse, because the beginner may find it difficult to work on anything in particular. Even YCF's 10 points are a jumbled mess unless broken down into some sort of logical, stepwise method of application. The difficult is of course creating a form which illustrates just a small handful of concepts without being incorrect tai chi. It's actually such a problem, because the limitation being intentional, itself almost breaks the tai-chi-ness of the form. I also don't want to create a form which is "really" just a series of qigong movements. What I want to do is create a shortcut idea to doing the form properly (lets just assume you know what I mean by that for now) with a minimum of preparation work.

Zhu TianCai tells a story about how he visited another school of Wushu in China, he was invited, and taught them some tai chi. He spent more than six hours with them going over what amounts to Opening of tai chi (raise hands and grasp bird's tail, essentially). The movement is a small number of basic circles, three, four or five at most I think, depending on how you count them. But they just couldn't get the movement because they were unaware or unable to do the taiji circle movements. Thus they conceptualized every part of the motion and tried to come up with a number of steps to perform it i.e. 1. raise hands up, 2. turn to the left and turn palms to the left, etc. and a whole list of requirements for each posture. So in the end they could not get it, but it's such a simple foundational movement, just front circle left and right, then then stereo circle then split circle (i.e. just three or four foundational movements). What I want to do is reduce back to those foundational movements and expand the set out to a short 10 or 20 moves which can be done in 2 or 3 minutes. This is snack-sized Tai chi, for beginners, and it requires the utmost care to get it right. Here getting it right does not necessarily mean it is a difficult form. it is supposed to be exceedingly easy. Anyways I've rambled long enough, thanks for the clarification and letting me bounce that question off you.


I don't know why you really need to worry about coming up with your "own" form so to speak. I mean I get it, it will be a compendium of your favourite stuff, your favourite stylistic flavourings.. But really all you need is the first section for a beginner. You don't need to make some new short form. The 3 sections kind of build on eachother I think. You could even organize them so you focus in on a particular group of learning(s) in each solo form and or section. When you say organizing that's the key, remember you don't have to re invent the wheel.

Maybe it's your background, but for me your approach is too reasoned out, too planned out. I think an intuitive approach, just helping each person by leading them along a path.. some form, some solo exercise, some push hands, some technique, some sparring drills.. it's a good start. Just keep offering up the tools for progress, a good student will appreciate a good teacher, and a good teacher can not help but teach a good student..
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Bao on Mon Aug 07, 2017 7:30 am

I don't know why you really need to worry about coming up with your "own" form so to speak.
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Maybe it's your background, but for me your approach is too reasoned out, too planned out. I think an intuitive approach, just helping each person by leading them along a path.. some form, some solo exercise, some push hands, some technique, some sparring drills.. it's a good start.


The few years I've had my own group and taught people, I found out that your more intuitive approach worked much better than what I had thought I was going to teach and how I had planned. Quite fast after trying to be a teacher, I abandoned my plans and started to improvise each and every class. Everything went much better this way. I could adjust my classes to who was there and how the progress went. So too strict and planned approach will IME indeed restrict your teaching. But, and a big but, this guy wants to promise his students to feel and use their qi, in some way that he refuses to explain what he means, and in order to have guaranties like this, he needs to have a very strict and thought out plan, a structured way to teach them so they surely believe that they can use their qi in 6 months. :P
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby cloudz on Mon Aug 07, 2017 7:36 am

that's the thing.. you don't know who's going to walk in, what are their strengths and or weaknesses, what their rate of progress will be. You don't know how much they will be practicing and so on. Why sit and write the future for them, just give them what they need to progress, when they need it (are ready).
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Bao on Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:35 am

cloudz wrote:that's the thing.. you don't know who's going to walk in, what are their strengths and or weaknesses, what their rate of progress will be. You don't know how much they will be practicing and so on. Why sit and write the future for them, just give them what they need to progress, when they need it (are ready).



Exactly 8-)

...But a guarantee that you can use qi after 6 months is still a very good selling point. ;)
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Appledog on Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:08 am

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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Bao on Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:03 am

Appledog wrote:
Thanks for your input. If you had written that first and nothing else on this thread we would be cool. As it stands I don't think we're cool -- at least, you don't really act like it. Responding properly to a question like this takes over an hour of thought and typing. I guess all I am saying is, please, make yourself worth the effort, treat people seriously and don't try to play along with the other trolls.


You are correct. Another reaction from my part and more thought before posting would have been appropriate. I am still not perfectly sure about your intention. The first post had the troll stamp all over it. And I don"t think that you have given answer to all questions. But sometimes I can write a bit provocative as well, sometimes just to ensure I get some answers. Anyway, your further replies indicate that you have a more serious intention than I thought....

When a student walks into a usual tai chi school they are taught the form, usually very early on, and then begin a process of corrections that can last years. During this time they become indebted to and learn to rely on their teacher for everything. The position of the back foot, the way the arm opens up in single whip, the way peng is performed, the application of opening of tai chi, the way in which the hand is held in repulse monkey, whether or not to turn or weight the front leg and by how much in brush knee -- I can go on. The point of all this is that the student never learns to own their own form. They are given an endless set of corrections by the teacher. Most of which the teacher just makes up because he doesn't really know (he doesn't have the informer on his side).


I do agree that many don't get to the point where they own their form or their Tai Chi. Some people reach it earlier, some people later. But I do believe that the practitioner must take responsible as well, be critical, think and explore by themselves the truth or non-truth in what they are taught. I stopped to respect most of my old teachers a long time ago. At least the ones who speak a lot of BS regardless how good they are...

But I don't teach the same way as many others. I've taught forms earlier, but I don't really believe in it anymore. Not as a main part or early part at least. IMO, it's better to teach individual postures, drills and transitions and to explore the possibilities of movement first.

Interesting answer. Thank you for elaborating your thoughts, I appreciate it. 8-)
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Steve James on Mon Aug 07, 2017 4:33 pm

There's a difference between individual expression and creating a new style. Two people can say they are doing the same style, but they will express it in their own way. It's the same for driving.
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby windwalker on Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:30 pm

Right now I am working on chin to toe, splits, and the bridge as being core requirements at the white belt level. Do you think this is too extreme?


Can you do any of this?
Is it a requirement in order to do some other type of skill.
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Re: New style of Tai Chi

Postby Appledog on Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:48 pm

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