Traditional Yang Style TaiJi Technique Catalog
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:40 pm
After a multi-year hiatus, I finally have the opportunity to train consistently with a partner again! It's been about a month. I'm super rusty, but really excited to train and explore some aspects of TaiJi that I've been thinking about.
These days, practice of the general skills of Taiji are often neglected in favor of the special, soft, internal skills. As such, I've decided to catalog at least one "practical" application sequence for each posture or series of postures of the traditional Yang style Taiji form. The postures covered in the clips below are: Beginning form, ward off right, ward off left, grasp the sparrow's tail.
Inspired by Ramsey Dewey's dicsussion on TaiJi as "shadow wrestling", I'm approaching the postures primarily with a focus on cataloging throws and takedowns.
Apologies for the shitty camerawork and editing, especially in the first video. The next ones will (hopefully) be better.
If you have any videos demonstrating Yang style TaiJi postures from a throwing and/or takedown perspective, feel free to post them!
These days, practice of the general skills of Taiji are often neglected in favor of the special, soft, internal skills. As such, I've decided to catalog at least one "practical" application sequence for each posture or series of postures of the traditional Yang style Taiji form. The postures covered in the clips below are: Beginning form, ward off right, ward off left, grasp the sparrow's tail.
Inspired by Ramsey Dewey's dicsussion on TaiJi as "shadow wrestling", I'm approaching the postures primarily with a focus on cataloging throws and takedowns.
Apologies for the shitty camerawork and editing, especially in the first video. The next ones will (hopefully) be better.
If you have any videos demonstrating Yang style TaiJi postures from a throwing and/or takedown perspective, feel free to post them!