Why Yang Style

We are going to introduce Yang style Tai Chi to you, because it is the most ancient style, it is soft, graceful and effective, so everyone can practise it.

From outside look it is a none stop gentle soft flow, but the practitioners’ inside is fully awake, every cell is alert, listen carefully. So if there is a component tries to attack, every cell in the practitioner is ready to response.

If you are wondering how to stay outside soft and inside alert, here are the 3-word answer: 松静通/loose, quiet and through: whole body is loose; mind is quiet; let anything that is in the body wants to come through let it through. The body needs to be engaged in a natural way, the way how the body was designed: The body should not only stand upright and comfortable, but also stretch and rotate freely.

All Tai Chi movements or natural body movement are relying on the operation of the main joints of the whole body, coordination of muscles, the mind leads the whole being’s ‘the body form and the spirit’ movement. It requires all bodily parts: the neck to be naturally upright, the shoulders to be loose and heavy, the elbows to be drooped, the chest to be loose and relaxed, the back to be stretched and straight, the waist to be naturally loose and straight, and the spine to be straight. To maintain uprightness, the bottom cheeks should be restrained; the hips should be loose, and the knees should bend naturally and softly. Your whole body is pushing upward by the earth below your feet.

Tai Chi is an art that emphasises saving effort when hitting people, so sensing and following the component’s force to use for oneself is the essence of Tai Chi fighting, such comes the saying “moving a thousand catties with four ounces”. We need to get to know the lightness and agility in body movements, the body movements can be corrected one by one, light and free, and achieve one place moves all parts move along, and one part doesn’t move so is the whole body. Up and down, left and right follow each other, and you are all powerful in front, back, left and right. And you can achieve perfection.

In short, when the practitioner sees the opportunity and decides to strike, the whole body must be completely unified: the traction is on the top, the transportation is on the chest, the storage is on the legs, and the control is on the waist, all is released.

The energy originates from the heels, from the feet to the legs, and from the waist to the fingers. It must be a complete movement without any interruption.

One must possess five bows in order to be able to accumulate energy like a bow and release energy like an arrow.

Strength is accumulated by bending, and the strength of the whole body lies in the whole body. And to exert strength, you must focus on one area, identify the right point, and be targeted.