Thank you so much Master Dunn. This is extraordinarily beautiful. I have been practicing and teaching this form for 21 years, ever since our Shotokan Sensei taught it to us as a requirement for good martial arts awareness, and am so grateful to have this video to share now with my friends and fellow practitioners! I bought your dvds long ago, but they're hard to share around. What a gift for us all to see what it looks like when a true master performs the form! You're amazing. Best wishes, good health and a long life to you. Thank you so much.
hello sifu Dunn, so nice have not seen this form in a long time (VHS) bought 20 years ago. You Must be on the east coast. I remember a different dog fm Calif. I am still doing the long form flying phoenix I bought 11 years ago, now 80 yo ...
I have both your short and long form DVD and really enjoy practicing the short form. I loved the outdoor setting of this video. I hope one day to travel and meet you.
Great video. Have practiced Yang form (Ching Man Ching) for many years. Watched many of Your videos back in the early ‘90s. Also attended Chris Luth’s retreats. Was that You doing the Video? Think your approach to the form is the best! Thanks Bill
Thanks for your kind compliment! Just saw your post now(!!) Dont know how I missed it. I've known Chris Luth since 1980--we were classmates under Master and General Abraham Liu, Say hello if you still work with him, I made the Tai Chi For Health videos on VHS in 1989. Then in DVDs starting 2003. Are you talking about these vids?: www.taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html ?
Yes, this 37-posture Short Form is taught on my first Tai Chi For Health video that I produced in 1989 (originally on VHS cassette, re-authored onto DVD in 2004 with convenient "menu map" and hands-free repetitive practice of any part of the form!): Info is here at top of this webpage: www.taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html
@@zenbear008 It was your video, which I purchased around 1994, which inspired me to learn Tai Chi. I still have the original tape and think it still stands to this day as one of the best instructional videos I've seen. I was a student of Sifu Louis Gabriele, himself a student of GM William C.C. Chen, whom I had the honor to meet once when he came to visit Lou. Thank you very much for posting this.
Why is the Tai chi ruler form on your vhs different from the form I learned from Share K Lew in 1993 ? My video is from 1985 and is two hours . I see you have a newer dvd ant it’s only one hour. What is different about it? 🙏
Just saw your comment/question now. Sorry I didn't follow my own page more closely. Answer to your Q: the TC Ruler DVD (2004) is the same footage as the VHS program that I released way back in 1985. In it, I demo the version of TC Ruler that Share Lew had taught his senior-most student, the ven. John Davidson at the L.A. Taoist Sanctuary, who then taught everybody else at the Sanctuary. We all practiced the version on my DVD from 1975 to 1990. It wasn't until 1991 that Share Lew taught me a more advanced or refined version, which is more circular and organic, where the oral teachings are, for example, "Lower the ruler to the middle of the front shin as you knee forward an and then "pull" it up to the tan tien as you rock back to the rear foot and straight both legs." And in the latter version where the thumb is touching the index finger on both hands while holding the wooden ruler throughout the entire practice of the 8 exercises. Share Lew did not teach that nuance at the Taoist Sanctuary of L.A. Only in San Diego did I see that version, starting in 1991. So the answer to your question is: "It's a master's prerogative to teach different versions of any his arts at different times.
Beautiful tribute! I hope you don't mind me asking, but what is the difference between this and the Yang 40 form that David Dorian Ross teaches in his Mastering Tai Chi program produced by The Great Courses series? I am really confused by the various Yang short forms that seem to have different movements or at least different amounts of movements. Thanks again for sharing the above video!☯️☀️
Thanks for the compliment on my friend's dog. Her name is Cola Pulitizer. I studied 13 years with Gen. Abraham Liu in L.A. and San Diego (from 1980 to 1992) and i attended 13 consecutive week-long summer retreats with Master Ben Lo during those same years. (During those 13 summer retreats with Ben Lo, he never once corrected me for tilting the torso too much or at all! ) Each one of Cheng Man-Ching's sr. students Taiwan performed the 37 and 108 forms with their own nuances. Master & Gen. Abraham Liu leans subtly and unleans in every movement he makes (see this video on TH-cam when he was 92 yrs old): th-cam.com/video/LEZ3gYtnFiA/w-d-xo.html --at 10:30 as he does "Gentle Bear" (Wave Hands Like Clouds" in bow stances) and then (at 11:30) the "Brush Knee" inward circling pattern, you see that he is leaning and straightening back to vertical in every movement. Gen. Liu passed away in 2012 at the age of 102 years--so he was doing something right. From 1992 onward, I practiced and taught Prof. Cheng's 37 and 108 forms and push-hands for 20 solid years before I met my current teacher, GM William C.C. Chen in 2012, who is one of the few remaining sr. students of Prof. Cheng. I continue to study with GM Chen to this day. In every public class and private lesson that I have had with GM Chen, he has taught a subtle "tilt" and "un-tilt" in every single movement of the form. In fact, in the very first opening movement of the Form (where both arms float upoward to shoulder level, etc.), GM Chen teaches 2 cycles of tilting/untilting the torso coordinated with emptying and opening the chest. His advanced body mechanics coordinates the sinking the ribs into the arches, the crunching of the toes, activation of the 2 particular fingertips, relaxation keyed on the little fingers, and dropping of the tailbone in the "filling" of every posture. So unless you learned directly from Prof. Cheng Man-Ching in Taiwan or later in NYC (and I know a few of the American students who did study directly with him) and he taught you very differently from all the other Chinese masters-to-be in Taiwan, you are VERY INCORRECT when you say that the Professor "certainly didn't lean." Btw, when I mentioned to GM Chen that I was going to perform the 37 CMC Form at 5PM EST (2PM PST) in memory of Ben Lo, Master Chen said, "You are doing the right thing."
Thank you so much Master Dunn. This is extraordinarily beautiful. I have been practicing and teaching this form for 21 years, ever since our Shotokan Sensei taught it to us as a requirement for good martial arts awareness, and am so grateful to have this video to share now with my friends and fellow practitioners! I bought your dvds long ago, but they're hard to share around. What a gift for us all to see what it looks like when a true master performs the form! You're amazing. Best wishes, good health and a long life to you. Thank you so much.
Wonderful
hello sifu Dunn, so nice have not seen this form in a long time (VHS) bought 20 years ago. You
Must be on the east coast. I remember a different dog fm Calif. I am still doing the long form flying phoenix I bought 11 years ago, now 80 yo ...
I have both your short and long form DVD and really enjoy practicing the short form. I loved the outdoor setting of this video. I hope one day to travel and meet you.
This is a powerfully touching tribute. How beautiful. (Love the Doors song, too!)
Thank you... good morning routine...
Wow!
Great video. Have practiced Yang form (Ching Man Ching) for many years. Watched many of Your videos back in the early ‘90s.
Also attended Chris Luth’s retreats. Was that You doing the Video? Think your approach to the form is the best! Thanks Bill
Thanks for your kind compliment! Just saw your post now(!!) Dont know how I missed it. I've known Chris Luth since 1980--we were classmates under Master and General Abraham Liu, Say hello if you still work with him, I made the Tai Chi For Health videos on VHS in 1989. Then in DVDs starting 2003. Are you talking about these vids?: www.taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html ?
Awesome Sifu Dunn. Is there an instructional DVD from you for this form?
Yes, this 37-posture Short Form is taught on my first Tai Chi For Health video that I produced in 1989 (originally on VHS cassette, re-authored onto DVD in 2004 with convenient "menu map" and hands-free repetitive practice of any part of the form!): Info is here at top of this webpage: www.taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html
@@zenbear008 It was your video, which I purchased around 1994, which inspired me to learn Tai Chi. I still have the original tape and think it still stands to this day as one of the best instructional videos I've seen. I was a student of Sifu Louis Gabriele, himself a student of GM William C.C. Chen, whom I had the honor to meet once when he came to visit Lou. Thank you very much for posting this.
@@zenbear008 -Thanks a million! Also very kind of you to post the link here, I am looking forward to learning that form. :)
@@zenbear008 Nice
Why is the Tai chi ruler form on your vhs different from the form I learned from Share K Lew in 1993 ? My video is from 1985 and is two hours . I see you have a newer dvd ant it’s only one hour. What is different about it? 🙏
Just saw your comment/question now. Sorry I didn't follow my own page more closely. Answer to your Q: the TC Ruler DVD (2004) is the same footage as the VHS program that I released way back in 1985. In it, I demo the version of TC Ruler that Share Lew had taught his senior-most student, the ven. John Davidson at the L.A. Taoist Sanctuary, who then taught everybody else at the Sanctuary. We all practiced the version on my DVD from 1975 to 1990. It wasn't until 1991 that Share Lew taught me a more advanced or refined version, which is more circular and organic, where the oral teachings are, for example, "Lower the ruler to the middle of the front shin as you knee forward an and then "pull" it up to the tan tien as you rock back to the rear foot and straight both legs." And in the latter version where the thumb is touching the index finger on both hands while holding the wooden ruler throughout the entire practice of the 8 exercises. Share Lew did not teach that nuance at the Taoist Sanctuary of L.A. Only in San Diego did I see that version, starting in 1991. So the answer to your question is: "It's a master's prerogative to teach different versions of any his arts at different times.
Beautiful tribute!
I hope you don't mind me asking, but what is the difference between this and the Yang 40 form that David Dorian Ross teaches in his Mastering Tai Chi program produced by The Great Courses series?
I am really confused by the various Yang short forms that seem to have different movements or at least different amounts of movements.
Thanks again for sharing the above video!☯️☀️
So sorry to take so long to answer. I must have missed your post back then. Answer: yes this is different from the form that DDR dopes.
Cute dog, too. : ) Why do you keep leaning over on every other posture? Ben didn't do that, and certainly Prof. Cheng didn't.
Thanks for the compliment on my friend's dog. Her name is Cola Pulitizer.
I studied 13 years with Gen. Abraham Liu in L.A. and San Diego (from 1980 to 1992) and i attended 13 consecutive week-long summer retreats with Master Ben Lo during those same years. (During those 13 summer retreats with Ben Lo, he never once corrected me for tilting the torso too much or at all! ) Each one of Cheng Man-Ching's sr. students Taiwan performed the 37 and 108 forms with their own nuances. Master & Gen. Abraham Liu leans subtly and unleans in every movement he makes (see this video on TH-cam when he was 92 yrs old):
th-cam.com/video/LEZ3gYtnFiA/w-d-xo.html
--at 10:30 as he does "Gentle Bear" (Wave Hands Like Clouds" in bow stances) and then (at 11:30) the "Brush Knee" inward circling pattern, you see that he is leaning and straightening back to vertical in every movement. Gen. Liu passed away in 2012 at the age of 102 years--so he was doing something right.
From 1992 onward, I practiced and taught Prof. Cheng's 37 and 108 forms and push-hands for 20 solid years before I met my current teacher, GM William C.C. Chen in 2012, who is one of the few remaining sr. students of Prof. Cheng. I continue to study with GM Chen to this day. In every public class and private lesson that I have had with GM Chen, he has taught a subtle "tilt" and "un-tilt" in every single movement of the form. In fact, in the very first opening movement of the Form (where both arms float upoward to shoulder level, etc.), GM Chen teaches 2 cycles of tilting/untilting the torso coordinated with emptying and opening the chest. His advanced body mechanics coordinates the sinking the ribs into the arches, the crunching of the toes, activation of the 2 particular fingertips, relaxation keyed on the little fingers, and dropping of the tailbone in the "filling" of every posture. So unless you learned directly from Prof. Cheng Man-Ching in Taiwan or later in NYC (and I know a few of the American students who did study directly with him) and he taught you very differently from all the other Chinese masters-to-be in Taiwan, you are VERY INCORRECT when you say that the Professor "certainly didn't lean."
Btw, when I mentioned to GM Chen that I was going to perform the 37 CMC Form at 5PM EST (2PM PST) in memory of Ben Lo, Master Chen said, "You are doing the right thing."