mixing Yang style with white crane improves the taiji in nearly every way.
Yang is simply too wimpy as done by most people
and the crane gives it some needed backbone.
Bao wrote:Compensating bad Tai Chi or lack of understanding by adding hard elements from other styles makes sense for some people I guess. Usually for people who lack real understanding of tai chi. However, the Tai Chi will still suck and the understanding will still lack regardless what you try to shovel into bad tai chi.
wayne hansen wrote:My teacher had a name for those that try to bolster bad tai chi with hard style
Half assed hard stylists
Formosa Neijia wrote:Bao wrote:Compensating bad Tai Chi or lack of understanding by adding hard elements from other styles makes sense for some people I guess. Usually for people who lack real understanding of tai chi. However, the Tai Chi will still suck and the understanding will still lack regardless what you try to shovel into bad tai chi.
Ahh, RSF please never change. I miss the good 'ole days with naked passive aggressiveness like this. Thanks to Bao for retaining the old spirit.
You can do things like the fast form or study Chen style to find a harder edge to your taiji
wayne hansen wrote:My teacher had a name for those that try to bolster bad tai chi with hard style
Half assed hard stylists
Giles wrote: it’s your job to keep relaxing, keep accepting and hence to transform. Without wiggling out, without leaning, without collapsing, all of which will paint you into a corner in both the short and long term. The ‘hard edge’ will start to grow from this kind of relaxation, and when it manifests it can sometimes surprise you as much as it surprises the other person. Because it comes from a clear mind focus while the body remains soft. Or ‘soft’, however you view this term.
Giles wrote:By the by, I don’t hear Bao being ‘passive aggressive’ here
Giles wrote:Does anybody here practice a form where the movements are matched by a fixed breathing pattern? In some kinds of qigong, sure, but in tai chi chuan? I mean, when you practice your form more slowly or faster, what happens then? Do you try to slow down your inhales/exhales radically if you do the form much slower, or speed them as the form gets faster, or in applications? That’s pretty obviously creating strain and seems downright unhealthy. Also goes against all I’ve learned from various good teachers and my own experience.
Giles wrote:And as regards breathing in the form, I was going to post about that but didn’t get round to it in time. Does anybody here practice a form where the movements are matched by a fixed breathing pattern? In some kinds of qigong, sure, but in tai chi chuan? I mean, when you practice your form more slowly or faster, what happens then? Do you try to slow down your inhales/exhales radically if you do the form much slower, or speed them as the form gets faster, or in applications? That’s pretty obviously creating strain and seems downright unhealthy. Also goes against all I’ve learned from various good teachers and my own experience. But if I’m missing a valuable and deep approach, then I’m open to feedback...
Bao wrote:I wrote about breathing in Tai Chi just recently on my blog. One of my points there, which I think is worth repeating, is that one of the keywords in Tai Chi is "ziran", or "natural". Forcing or trying to fix the breath in patterns goes against what is natural for your own body, so it really goes against one of the core principles in all Tai Chi. When the mind and body is calm and relaxed, the breath will become deep and full and it will take care of itself.
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