+unvital Spark A closed mind will lead you NOWHERE also. Don't jump to conclusion to quickly. Lack of balance can be also you lack of stretching exercise since you pick up taichi as an adult. Doing taichi 15 years or 50 years don't mean a thing, really. It is about how fit the body frame that you consider as your body! Range of Motion is relative. Most Non-Asians have short range of motion while doing the taichi routine. They follow their old masters whom had deteriorated in their physical movements themselves and the students copy their styles to their detriment. What is the goal of practicing Taichi? For martial arts? For health reasons? For competition? SInce U mention about getting rid of stress, I guess you practice taichi as a martial art is out the window; In that case, leg extension, longer strides, bend the knees lower but not beyond the toes is important and beneficial for health and your daily life activities. You will become useful at home and wife will NOT complain too much :-) A troller wishing U Good luck.

wonderful, thank you!

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Intention and Sung. And nothing else. (Sung kind of is that: just enough to realise your intention, and nothing more.) The loosening exercises and form are studies in intention and sung, much as a musician's etude is a study in playing technique.

You can't be told like that, you can only be told few things, you really need to learn from a proper instructor!.

Sifu Adam Mizner has a great free video on KZfaq explaining the first part in detail with Neigong. I'm probably going to join his online class to learn the full thing and much more. Haha just saw this comment is 12 years ago! Tai Chi is timeless haha. Blessings brother!

Keep practicing and all is coming. It's all about moving the chi. It doesn't have to be perfect.

Eslam Aboukaid turn volume off

Justin Howell: The teacher's name is in the title. The location is the terrace of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. The building on the right is the National Concert Hall.

Master Huang original style was White Crane... later he studied Yang style Tai Chi

Interesting thing is his Tai Chi Chuan was better than his teacher's Master Cheng Man Ching. I mean Yang Luchan studied other wushu styles first before learning Chen which also incorporated other wushu styles. Of course you don't think none of the original Yang style Tai Chi came from other wushu? The original Yang Style had sweeps, multiple jump kicks including a spinning flying one, they practiced fast forms, two partner fighting forms, free sparring knocking each other out, etc... Yang Ban Hou and Yang Shao Hou didn't have many students who could withstand the physical abuse of practicing real fighting skills. I think it's great Master Huang incorporated his Fujian White Crane into Tai Chi Chuan improving the lack of Neigong taught by his Tai Chi Master. Some Okinawan Karate Masters (with White Crane as one of the main sources of Karate) have been asked what their art should look like at the higher level and respond Tai Chi Chuan! I'm sure you're aware of all of this and that Yang Luchan's art incorporated a lot more than Chen family wushu. Heck, just the Yang style has Ba Dua Jin gives an example of the overlap. It inspires me that even not receiving the full transmission this great teacher became a true Tai Chi Master with honest skills on how to use the various Jins and teach it to his students. And that student's that never met him life Sifu Adam Mizner seem to have achieved the same skills. Inspiring as they demonstrate much mire true Tai Chi according to the classics then many so called modern Tai Chi Masters.

@@greg6509 Not uncommon in the history of Chinese martial styles/traditions. Important names, politically or for some other reasons had "students" that were better and more experienced than them. Yang Chenfu is a solid example.

@@TaijiquanExplained No real Yang Style teachers in my area I live in. Debating currently between lineage holder Liang Dehua taijiacademy online who teaches authentic Neigong and forms from Yang Shao Hou as well as the Yang Cheng Fu's fast form or enrolling in Sifu Adam Mizner's discover Tai Chi program as he seems through to have developed absolutely amazing internal kung fu on his own picking up from Huang lineage students and more. Which Sifu do you like better?

@@greg6509 Is over 20 years that I live in Asia and I've spent most of it in mainland China. Over 30 years that I do Chinese martial aamazing internal kung furts, including Taijiquan. YCF never learned a fast-form, nor any of his direct students. People that u r quoting have no interesany kind. What you call "amazing internal kung fu" is of no relationship with actual Taijiquan.