Tai She Che student

[Bob]

Very similar curriculum that I learned during my first 8 years with Tony Yang.

There were three steps in the training with regard to forms. 1st, play each posture, stopping holding and checking alignment. 2nd, play 3 or 4 postures together and pause doing a quick check on posture alignment. Similar to what is shown in the clips. 3rd, play the entire form as fast as you can, without stopping, without regard to posture, structure and stance. Repeat cycle two more times for a total of 9 lines. At the end of the training session, hold relaxed horsestance with focus on breathing. We also had a pretty extensive set of warm-ups including a substantial kicking routine---also would take out pieces of the form and practice them up and down a field about the size of a football field with a partner performing a B side.

Training which, if I had my youth back, LOL, I would have taken much more seriously and focused much more on rather than accepting the deluded belief that the mark of mastery was the number of forms in a system you have.

A bit late, but I now get to relearn liuhe duan chui in a similar manner---20 years later, now maybe I will pay more attention to my teacher. LOL Of course, now the basic bagua and baji/pigua training I now learned makes much more sense.

I like this guy's structure and flavor---his next level would be to preserve the structure and power and let it find expression is a smooth flowing execution of the form. I have been told that this type of training will help prevent flowery, noodle like executions.

Sorry about the rant of sorts--this clip just brought back of flood of memories from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s--long before baji was put into play.

Beng Bu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9YQGWb ... re=related



Xiao Hu Yan

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



Li Pi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6fZaK67 ... re=related