I heard about the Taiji Boxing of the Wudang school when I was young, but I had not yet met anyone who knew the stuff. In 1915, I traveled to Hebei and got to meet Sun Lutang of Wan county, and I learned Xingyi and Bagua from him.
I heard my colleagues say that a Mr. Yang of Guangping inherited Taiji, and so in the autumn of 1917, I visited Yang Luchan’s grandson, Chengfu, meeting him informally, and I asked him, “People say the Yang family’s Taiji is the best but that you don’t lightly teach it to people. Is that the case?”
Yang smiled and said, “It’s not that I don’t teach it to people. I teach it to people who want it. My grandfather received it from the Chen family of Henan, and now it is about to be returned to a Chen. If you want it, I will not keep it from you.”
Thereupon I learned from him (Chengfu) for seven years, and his oral instruction in the postures of the Taiji Boxing solo set, as well as the large and small rollback, I have committed to writing in order to transmit it to the world.
Trip wrote: Yang smiled and said, “It’s not that I don’t teach it to people. I teach it to people who want it. ...If you want it, I will not keep it from you
Bao wrote:Weiming wrote: Yang smiled and said, “It’s not that I don’t teach it to people. I teach it to people who want it. ...If you want it, I will not keep it from you
I've read the book, I but didn't remember this quote. It's sort of funny, YCF had hundreds of people in his groups, but even he had a hard time finding good students who wanted "the real deal" or were dedicated enough to learn the whole art.
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