the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Here is the next episode of the preservation project. Its pretty hard work doing this. This episode features Taiji Quan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYEOUXjcKT0

Thanks for posting and translating! Has some footage of my first Taiji teachers father/teacher in there (Xiao Qinglin) that I hadn´t seen before.

I like that Yang guy - never seen him before. Very different to what you see from the official YCF line these days.

I really like that Yang guy too. I looked him up and apparently he is the grandson of Cui Yi Shi.

Great footage, nice to see teachers like Xiao Qinglin (Chen style), Zhang Yongtao (Yang) and Ma Changxun (Wu) who are/were lesser-known abroad but known for their high skill level within China. Thanks for doing this Byron, v valuable work!

Glad you are enjoying them!

I'm a big fan of Cui Yishi's Yang style. I particularly like how in his version of twin fists strike the ears, there's first a strike to the throat with the fingers before circling the fists up and around to the ears. I haven't seen that in other versions of Yang style.
You can see it at around the 6:58 mark