Sun Style Taiji

[nianfong]

graham, white crane is a kicking or defensive technique. the hands block high and low/fwd. the empty leg blocks kicks or delivers one.

[GrahamB]

graham, white crane is a kicking or defensive technique. the hands block high and low/fwd. the empty leg blocks kicks or delivers one.

Sounds more like Yang style.

[nianfong]

hm. I need to see a video of this technique. doc's explanation doesn't match the pictures....

[nianfong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P62j_rWG ... re=related

ah I see. it's opens up someone's arms and moves in for double push. kinda like the yang style splitting heel kick right after the high pat on horse, combined with a double push instead.

[GrahamB]

Could be. I can also see a possibility for an arm lock like Michael describes.



It's at 0.25-ish in this clip - I quite like this old guy

[nianfong]

it could easily be a double under elbow arm-lock as well. we do something similar in SC.

[nianfong]

I really wanna learn me some sun taiji... I have to post something in the request a teacher about sun taiji in the bay area....

[ppscat]

Is there some kind of fast form in Sun Style?

Look at 2:12




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[Felipe Bidó]

I really wanna learn me some sun taiji... I have to post something in the request a teacher about sun taiji in the bay area....

Ohhh, me too.

But if you can't find a good Sun taiji teacher, get a good Zhaobao taiji teacher. You'll love it.

[Bao]

Is there some kind of fast form in Sun Style?
Look at 2:12

No

[Michael Babin]

I have never seen anyone else play the Sun-style 97 Posture that way and I prefer the more common approach ... but, I also like the way the old fella moved, for the most part. He had obviously invested a lot of time in the way he did that form and was very smooth within the context of his approach.

The speed wasn't excessive though it was faster than the normal 6-8 minute range advocated for the execution of the traditional set.

[Bao]

. He had obviously invested a lot of time in the way he did that form and was very smooth within the context of his approach.

You can play with a taiji form any way you want. There is nothing wrong with that. But a set of movements, certain movements in a certain order, does not make a "style". Every "style" has it's own focus, it's own way to deal with balance, structure, rythm etc. I see nothing even close to Sun style here.

But to be frank, there are actually two different Sun styles out there. One is Sun Lutang style and one is Sun Jianyun style. Sun Lutang always kept the structural integrity (and to it's rules) of Wu/Hao. Sun Jianyun didn't...

Rgds,
Bao

[Bhassler]

I really wanna learn me some sun taiji... I have to post something in the request a teacher about sun taiji in the bay area....

You can always study with Wing Lam (uh-oh, I think I hear JAB growling in the background).

No way, dude-- just buy Paul Lam's Tai Chi for Arthritis DVD!

[Doc Stier]

"Internal style boxing strives to control the center. Accordingly, Tai-Chi Chuan empties the center, Pa-Kua Chuan transforms the center, and Hsing-Yi Chuan straightly directs the center."
Sun Lu-Tang

[Doc Stier]

"Toughen my sinews, harden my bones, make my blood flow freely, and I will then be young forever. In touch with the realm of gods."
Canon of the Great Void