Steve James wrote:. Yang Jun is (afaik) currently the head of the YCF family style, but I don't think he takes challenges.
Ya know, many people argue that the YCF line didn't fight as much as his uncles' styles, who did medium and small "frame." That was the knock on YCF.
Steve James wrote:No idea, but I know the story from the family. And, I don't know who fights for the family now, if anyone.
GrahamB wrote:China has never had a free press. When considering the reason why things appear, or don't appear, in books you should have that in mind at all times.
Steve James wrote:Afa Yang Jun, it was the PRC that officially recognized tjq family representatives in the 80s. Yang Zhenduo was chosen and promoted by the government. Yang family members who were not in the PRC weren't. It's a story that goes back to the Nanjing Academy
While retaining his position as chairman of the International Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association until his death, Yang Zhenduo retired from his regular teaching activities, his position as president of the association, and appointed his student Yang Jun, his grandson, as its new president to continue his work.
In July 2009, at the First International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium,[13] Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo announced that Master Yang Jun is the fifth lineage-holder of the Traditional Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan.
GrahamB wrote:China has never had a free press. When considering the reason why things appear, or don't appear, in books you should have that in mind at all times.
Rhen wrote:Yang Zhenduo became head of the Chinese Yang style because his older brother Yang zhenji would not denounce his half-brother Yang Shouzhong who fled to Hong Kong. Yang Zhenjie ended up doing factory work. This was the opportunity for Yang Zhenduo to rise as the leader of Yang family in China. Yang Jun, from what I've heard from several sources is not Yang Zhenduo's grandson in blood, but is the grandson of his second wife. This did not go well with many of the senior disciples of Yang Zhenduo and that is how the information got out about bloodline. You can look at other Yang family members and they are tall and robust, Yang Jun is not. Also his form is not good and the ranking is a joke. Many think that since they have a ranking in the Yang family association is that they are good and can talk down to others of lesser rank or no rank. The ranking consists of a written test, doing long form, a weapon, and some push hands patterns (apparently Sam Masich had to teach Yang Jun the patterns (heard from 2 sources)) and getting graded on it. There is no free style pushing like a competition nor free sparring like many schools normally have with inside school comeptition for ranking.
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