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An introduction video on standing meditation in Sam Tam's tradition: https://vimeo.com/226122186?ref=fb-share&1

A clip from '94 of Torben and his late Chen style teacher, He Gong De, practicing form:

https://vimeo.com/228947806

Clips of Torben and his teachers trying to pass on the art feature in the ExploreTaiji program.

The first exercise is called a Plie in ballet.

I am pretty sure one of the first books I had on Chen style was this teacher
I remember the wall behind hin because of the small bricks
His journey from Chen to yang would be interesting
The form looks very yang style

Wayne: He never wrote any books - he was just one of those under the radar guys who just practiced the art sincerely for his own sake, and was lucky to meet some of the greats on his journey. He didn't really teach either, except Torben and some few other people.

Something completely different now from '05, when Torben was practicing Huang style taiji: https://vimeo.com/228944900

You are right I just found the book defiantly a different guy

Just adding a couple videos from another one of Torben's youtube channels, I stumbled acrosss.

Published on Apr 5, 2014

Jeppe and Torben during a training session with master Wu for some years ago in Taipei, Taiwan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh1YaP9sWLM

Published on Mar 23, 2014

Jeppe and Torben during a teaching session in Taiwan. Master Wu is teaching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTllwIt5OI

Thanks Marvin - Torben may get Master Wu to do a workshop in Denmark in the near future. He is soft, soft, soft like piece of cloth at all times according to Torben

Torben has just posted an article on standing meditation with som impressions of it from both the Master Huang system og Taiji and with Sam Tam: https://exploringtaiji.com/standing-med ... an-zhuang/

marvin8 wrote:Published on Mar 23, 2014

Jeppe and Torben during a teaching session in Taiwan. Master Wu is teaching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTllwIt5OI

do you know the guy translating (with the glasses)?
he looks and sounds just like one of my kung fu brothers I have't seen in years..
he doesn't by any chance live in Los Angeles? (or used to?)


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Towards the end of his life Huang was talking about starting a white crane school in New Zealand
I think he went back to his first love

Appledog wrote:This is not really Taijiquan though, it's coming from Huang's other work. You can tell because of how he talks about the intention of the frame. It's similar to other recent discussions of those sorts of frames on here.

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Wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole truth is, I can't.

That’s an interesting statement; would you care to elaborate? I guess you’re not saying “it isn't Taijiquan” because of the demonstrated technique itself, but rather because of the body mechanics and/or strategy and/or whatever. So what’s your objection? Is it the feet-to-hands wave mechanic that you see as being part of White Crane and not compatible with Taijiquan? Or other things?

(My questions are certainly not meant ironically or sarcastically – I’m sincerely curious )

http://munthe-kaas.dk/taiji-with-master-sam-tam-december-2017/

Blog post from a fellow student about his 1 month stay with Sam Tam. It contains 3 videos with Sam "playing" a little with him - few videos of Sam exist in public, so it is interesting to read for those alone.

A rare video of Sam Tam playing around

EDIT: More videos

[youtube]https://youtu.be/cP3uAnKtiEg[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=2xOGdRQganY[/youtube]

xian89 wrote:

A rare video of Sam Tam playing around

Playing around being the operative word