Great Tips And Hints On Uncovering T'ai Chi On Youtube

There are some outstanding resources about Tai Chi on YouTube. Sadly, for students beginning T'ai chi, there are many sub-standard and deceptive products also. To help newcomers and those interested in following up on T'ai chi ch'uan, I've chosen the 3 best YouTube videos I was able to find for T'ai chi learners and researchers; in addition to my explanation of precisely why these videos are well worth watching and studying. I have listed them as Basic, Advanced, and Applications.

1. BASIC: "Internal Discipline in Tai Chi Walk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbdKSUus3U

This short video by Master Stephen Hwa illustrates a fundamental T'ai chi exercise which incorporates a quantity of fundamental skills, physical awareness, appropriate back alignment, rooting, sinking and also balance skills, and the differentiation of substantial & insubstantial. It's actually a whole range of T'ai chi exercises. T'ai chi walking works in a different way to standard walking, for the reason that you avoid briefly losing balance when you fractionally throw the upper body forward, and prevent falling by putting the foot forward, so each step of conventional walking carries the risk of losing balance. T'ai chi walking teaches walking powered from the hip joints (pelvis) and taking advantage of the lower abdominal and lower back muscles, in a stable regulated stance, therefore avoiding the short-term imbalance result.

2. ADVANCED: "YouTube videos of Cheng Man-Ching"

http://softanswertaichi.com/youtube-vid … man-ching/

There are many videos of Master Cheng on this website. The very first is of him performing the 37 Posture Form which he pioneered. It was most likely filmed during the early 50s, and it offers an interesting contrast with the movies of him doing exactly the same form in the 70s when Master Cheng was in his seventies. His actions in the later movies tend to be smaller and less defined. They appear natural. It's a completely natural effect of training the Form over a long time. Over time your form becomes softer, natural, more compact, a lot less defined and more internalized. In reality, in the later films Master Cheng's movements and stances are even more relaxed and incorporate great power and internal energy. Anyone who played pushing hands with Master Cheng in the 1960s and seventies can confirm this energy.

3. APPLICATIONS: "Tai Chi Master Fu Wing-fei: Applications"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_luDzL03vw

This particular well known Master, Fu Wing-fei (Cantonese) aka Fu Yong-hui (Mandarin), goes through some fundamental programs of Tai Chi on YouTube and explains which positions within the Form and which principles to use. He speeds through a good deal, therefore the newcomer will battle to find the different elements employed. They involve merely raising the hands at the Beginning of the form, Double handed push, Parting the Wild Horsed Mane (Diagonal Flying), Ward Off, Toe Kick, Brush Knee Twist Step, Strum the Lute, Cloud Hands and Single Whip - these latter being used in working with combination punches. Furthermore the movie has a short Pushing Hands sequence where his scholars demonstrate the usage of Ward Off, Rollback, Press and Push in application.