The Ten Essentials of Taijiquan by Yang Chengfu

[Xue Sheng]

The Ten Essentials of Taijiquan by Yang Chengfu - another blog entry

 

[East Winds]

Good Post Xue.

It is worth remembering that the first five essences are external, whilst the second five are iinternal. They are also cumulative. You cannot be doing essence 2 without first having essence 1 in place and you cann ot be doing essence 3 without having essences 1 and 2 in place, and so on.

As you rightly say the essences are the key to Yang style Taijiquan.

Very best wishes

Alistair

 

[mograph]

Yep, they're necessary.

However ... is there another way of describing #2? How can one follow it without hunching forward and creating a front/back imbalance?

 

[Xue Sheng]

Easy, don't puff up your chest, like a person standing at attention..... just relax