New Instructors
Mar 2012 Congratulations to new Affiliated Schools: Everyday Taiji Cooperative, Affiliated Instructors: Jim Showalter, Bob Ashmore, Nancy Thoman and Judith Rew. … Continue reading
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New “Judges and Ranking Handbook”
Feb 2012 The new Judges and Ranking Handbook is available in the Download area. Thanks to Pat Rice, Carl Meeks and Ray Tom for their hard work. … Continue reading
Happy Chinese New Year and DVD Sale
Jan 2012 May the Chinese New Year bring you happiness, good luck, and wealth. Don’t miss our Chinese New Year BOGO DVD sale. When you buy one DVD, get a second one of equal or lesser value FREE. This sale … Continue reading
Lengthening And Peng
The Third Rep: 2004-08-31 by Jerry Karin We publish here a translation of the second section of the first chapter of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan, a seminal 1963 work by Shen Jiazhen and Gu Liuxin (this part was written … Continue reading
Empty and Full
The Third Rep: 2004-01-02 by Jerry Karin We have been having an interesting discussion on the discussion forum regarding the meaning of the fourth of Yang Chengfu’s Ten Essentials: distinguish full and empty. To shed more light on this subject, … Continue reading
Snippets
The Third Rep: 2003-05-06 by Jerry Karin I’ve been reading a great deal in Chinese and have had a lot of luck in finding things I wanted to read, chiefly due to the kind offices of Louis Swaim. I am … Continue reading
Silk Reeling
The Third Rep: 2002-08-26 by Jerry Karin Much of the literature available in English about the topic of silk reeling is of the puff piece sort, leaving one with the impression that silk reeling is important but failing to provide … Continue reading
Yang Zhenduo’s Disciples
Master Yang Zhenduo is proud to announce and acknowledge the following people as his Disciples. These individuals have studied and promoted tai chi for many years. List edited 5/11/2015 Disciples Name List, 杨振铎传承弟子 Yang, Jun 杨军 Yang, Bin 杨斌 Hu, … Continue reading
Secrets
The Third Rep: 2001-02-12 by Jerry Karin Well, time to whip out the old notepad and scribble a new third rep column. Having had my posterior flamed from here to Yongnian over a previous column entitled Some Other Stuff and … Continue reading
Palm Methods (Zhang Fa)
From Yang Zhenduo’s1997 Zhong Guo Yang Shi Taiji, pp. 33-36Translation by Louis Swaim The palm methods are a sub-category of the hand methods. The palm methods can be broadly divided into two classes, comprising approximately nine types. The first class, … Continue reading