You can click on the image to go the Virtual Class page to view and practice Basic Exercises, the Thirteen Postures and Part One (The First Duan) of the Long Form. There may be a visit by Saphire, the lovely cat… Enjoy!
Illana, Tom and Arnold with students in our recent Introductory Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan class at the West Side YMCA in New York City.
Some of the New York Contingent takes a break with Master Wang Yen-nien
Front Row: Illana, Master Wang. Back Row: Charlotte, Robert, Unknown, John, Henry, Tom, Gretchen, George.
Again, Legend 72 is the right place to be. Thanks to Richard for this one…
Arnold C. Baker II, Robert Politzer, Thomas W. Campbell
I found the color image of the cover of the 2004 journal celebrating 20 years of the Taiji Organization. The characters on the fan are Master Wang Yen-nien’s name and also mean “long life”.
AYMTA (The American Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan Association) was founded in 1992 to help pass along and keep alive the teaching of Master Wang Yen-nien and Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan. I was involved with the organization and the journal for a number of years and will continue to post excerpts from the journal.
There are a number of articles related to the New York school in the Winter 2001 issue. Below is one, which is based on a workshop that the NY School, led by Robert Politzer, was blessed to hold – two weeks with Master Wang and Julia Fairchild in the summer of 1996.
A few notes about the classes at the YMCA and Taiji in general. And a small movie note…
The YMT classes at the West Side YMCA are Saturday mornings beginning at 9:00 AM. We are teaching basic exercises and the 13 postures in the beginner’s class. In the Intermediate class, which runs from 10:00 to 10:45, we are doing the First Duan, part three of the 13 postures, introducing the Second Duan and also introducing the Fan form. We have added a beginner’s class on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 2:00 PM, beginning in April of 2024. It’s a lot and, with the strange weather, we won’t be going outside after the second class. Currently we are alternating Second Duan and Fan each week.
There will be no class on Labor Day Weekend.
I’ve been asked about Yangjia Michuan videos and other learning materials. For learning and to document history I will continue to post images, links and text about Yangjia Michuan on this site. Unlike when we began in the early 1990’s with Robert’s first class at the YMCA, there is now a great deal of information about our Taiji School on the web. You can search any or all of the following for useful links that teachers and students have posted for the benefit of all: Wang Yen-nien, Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan, Yang Family Hidden Tradition, Yen-nien fan form, etc. You’ll find a wealth of text, video, images etc.
Lastly, I have just finished a film I shot in 2006 about the The Movie Place, a fixture of the video and DVD rental community on the Upper West Side. It took a while to get to – feel free to check it out at this link: Watch Movie Place Film.
New York City Yang Family Hidden Tradition 