On this and other pages I will be updating and adding links to videos and other material that will help as you study and learn Yang Family Hidden Tradition Taiji. Also useful for those who teach and wish to review their practice. I’ll update this page as we go along. If you are studying in a class or with a teacher these links will be especially useful for you to review what you have learned so far.
Here is a link to the learning page I posted a while ago on this blog: Taiji Study aids.
Below is a list of the upper and lower body movements and positions and the basic movements of the Thirteen Postures:
Click on the image below for a video of Teacher Hervé Marest demonstrating the movements of the Thirteen Postures.
Below is a link to Nicole Henriod’s teaching video about the 13 postures.
Below is a video of Hervé Marest demonstrating the First Duan (Part one of the long form). Click on the image to watch the video.
Before practicing the taiji form (or weapon’s forms) we always do leg massages and a number of the basic exercises. The YMT form is challenging and being loose and limber before practicing is always the best way to go.
Below is a link to Master Wang Yen-nien, who taught for over fifty years, demonstrating the exercise “Bend forward from the waist”, one of the core basic exercises that we practice.
Click here for Bend Forward from the Waist video.
The Long Form of Yangjia Michuan is an hour long and is in three parts. Traditionally, after learning the Thirteen Postures, known as the Introductory Form, students will begin to learn part one (the first duan) of the long from. Part one takes about 10 minutes to do from start to finish.
Click on the picture of Master Wang to watch a video of him demonstrating the First Duan.
Click below to watch Wang Yen-nien Demonstrating the Second Duan of the Yangjia Michuan Taiji Form.
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