Surprisingly, re. open vs closed stance, it actually doesn’t matter with regards to severing the root. And once you’ve done that, you have a time in which you can act during which your opponent can’t respond. So the exact line the opponent gets taken on may vary, but the method still works.

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Yao Zongxun (姚宗勋) should be the lineage since Yao was the official inheritor. Wang Xiangzhai wanted the teaching of the art to be open and complete. This seems to hold true among the grand students I know and have heard of. So specific lineage may matter less for Yiquan than most other Chinese arts.

I believe he said Cui Rui Bin. I trained with Master Cui over 20 years ago at his wuguan near Beijing. Also brought him over to London for seminars. Top master!

Other than being a snap shot of Yao Zongxun's Yiquan in the early 1930's there may not be much difference.

use both hand for sticking is a very stupid idea of Yi Quan. A "Pak Sao+Punch" can finish this very easy.

Wang Xiangzhai at one time was an instructor for the military. He spent several years traveling China and comparing skills. When he started a school, he took on challenges, but usually they had to go through his students first. The Han Brothers had wrestling experience before they met WXZ, and Han Xing Yuan actually beat one of WXZ's students before Mr. Wang knocked him out on a return visit. Yao Zongxun, father of the Yao Brothers, also participated in these challenges. There was 1 other student among the 4 who regularly participated in these challenges, but I forget his name. I mostly only know Yao Zongxun's students (his sons and Cui Ruibin) and the Hans because I studied Han Xing Yuan lineage, and I know someone who trained with students of both Han Brothers in Hong Kong. From what I've heard, some of the really old 2nd generation Yiquan guys in China can do some really scary stuff that I wouldn't believe if I didn't know about the stuff Sam Chin doesn't demonstrate openly.

For Taijiquan that’s correct. You need a partner to practice Fa with because you can’t practice Taijiquan Fa against equipment. Pushing is fine for Taijiquan also because the requirements to properly push are not too far removed from the requirements to do an application. The applications for Yiquan are mostly hitting someone. So you don’t want to Fa someone to a position where you can’t get your free hit in. The video below shows a Fa to float/offset and an implied Fa to hit. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibWjdJdzxqjdlqs.html As an aside, for Yiquan and Xingyi, there are definitely some Fa that are better practiced on equipment.