Tag Archives: Thomas W. Campbell
Taiji Fan at the Westside Y – December 2004
Robert Politzer taught the Yangjia Michuan Taiji Fan Form a number of times in class. Here are some images from a session on December 29, 2004. You can click through them using the arrows on the side of the images.
World Taiji Day in NYC, Central Park – April, 2004
For a number of years Robert Politzer’s West Side Y Taiji class joined other Taiji schools and classes in a celebration of World Taiji Day, the idea being that people were practicing at the same time around the world. There … Continue reading
Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan Applications – Internal Martial Arts Magazine – 2002
In the summer of 2002 a group of New York City Yangjia Michuan Taiji students, led by Robert Politzer, went to Madison, Wisconsin to participate in a workshop taught by Wang Yen-nien. When Robert began the Taiji Class at the … Continue reading
1996 – Wang Yen-nien Lecture (Three Parts)
In 1996 Master Wang Yen-nien and Julia Fairchild visited New York City for an extensive workshop that covered The First Duan, Meditation, and The 15 Basic Tuishou exercises.On Friday evening, the day before the start of the workshops, Master Wang … Continue reading
An Excerpt from the Winter 2001 AYMTA Journal
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 … Continue reading
Three Yangjia Michuan Amigos
Arnold C. Baker II, Robert Politzer, Thomas W. Campbell
A Yang Family Hidden Tradition Gathering
We gathered on June 7 for a festive tradition of good food, good talk, and good company. We were even blessed with a visit from the baby buddha (back to the left). Robert Politzer, who founded the school in 1994, … Continue reading
2000 – Wang Yen-nien, Fifty Years of Teaching
In 2000 I wrote an editorial for AYMTA (American Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan Association) on the occasion of Master Wang Yen-nien’s fiftieth year of teaching Taiji. The article is reprinted below. In 1996 the New York School of Yangjia Michuan were the hosts of his first … Continue reading
1995 Article – Yangjia Michuan Taiji Quan, Wang Yen-nien, and the 1995 YMT World Festival
Here is an article I wrote after returning from the First International YMT Festival in Strasbourg, France in the summer of 1995. Included are some photos from the festival and a couple of moments from the NYC Taiji Group having … Continue reading
Baker Camp – Harriman State Park – Taiji Workshop, June 1995
Robert Politzer led a two day taiji workshop at Baker Camp, in Harriman State Park, on June 24 and 25, 1995. Arnold Baker took and supplied a number of great pictures – with a film camera – so here is … Continue reading