Thank you Master Hai Yang! Your answer once again was really helpful and clarifiing! And amusing too :-) btw. You pronounced my name perfectly! Phantastic new series about the Dao De Jing. I´m looking forward to your future videos. Thomas Hudecsek
Master Hai Yang appreciated n thanks for your answer wish u a happy, healthy n prosperous New Year. Your guidance , lessons n instruction assist the internal martial art practitioner achieving the true art. Thanks again.
So interesting to learn that Xingyi was designed for empty hand fighting. In that case is hand/fist conditioning a traditional part of Xingyi training? I’m referring to striking sand bags etc. Thanks.
Thank you for answers! I would like to answer a question about 8 powers in taichichuan. My teacher told me that 8 powers trough practice must transform to 4 powers, 4 powers transform to 2, finally 2 powers will be formed to 1 power. And if practitioner could master it, he would be able to use small force, but get much more result in fighting and not only. What do you think about this concept? And what does it mean “transform 8 powers to 1 power”? Thank you!🙏
Hello Master Yang. Thanks for the interesting video. The comments on Dao De Jing are very helpful. Happy New Year of the Black Rabbit! I have this question. In my study of 18th century China, I encountered one ambiguity in Nian Geng Yao's biography. I did not come across a definite answer as to who he is by nationality Manchu, Han, or a half-breed. His sister was Yongzheng's concubine, could an ethnic Chinese reach such career heights, after all, Yue Zhongqi was considered the highest-ranking Han in those days?
I live in Toronto and am looking for a tai chi practice/ teacher, would you have any recommendations? As a fourth generation Canadian born Chinese it means so much to me to be able to learn about my cultural heritage from you, 感谢你！
Sorry, I am not that familiar to Tai Chi teachers in Toronto. I will let a student of mine to answer it for you. Good to know you have interest in Chinese cultural heritage!
Hi, I hope it is OK that I answer as well (I am a student of master Yang who lives in Toronto). Currently there are many opportunities to study taiji with Chinese teachers here. Two popular schools are: - Ji Hong Taiji - T and T Martial Arts. Both teach Chen style. There are other teachers in Yang Style, Wu Style etc.. I don't know every master, but if you want to look for a specific style maybe i can send you in the right direction. This year in thornhill there will be a big taiji competition held in the chinese community, it may be a good place to look.
@@kongjie74 Thank you so much! In terms of style, I'm thinking of starting focusing on qigong -- I'm mainly concerned with basic mobility and coordination, and hopefully a historically and philosophically informed approach. If that gives you any ideas I greatly appreciate it :)
@@kailee4056 ok, in that case you can talk to the Ji Hong School first, but also there are other opportunities, especially in North york and Richmond Hill.
@26:50 I don't want to continue the poor comment and questionable place the commenter decided to put the question: I think there is a very interesting and big gap in knowledge acquisition around traditional arts and some of the other various things that have been learned ever since the opening of martial arts in the western world. My father in the 1970s got some of those early English translation books, such as Robert w Smith Xingyi and bagua and actually studied with a Hebei stylist, from mainland China, in Oklahoma City. Later he connected with folks that trained with Wangshi jin in Taiwan. In that early era of the '70s and '80s China was very closed and very few foreigners were able to make their way to the mainland. As a way to continue his own education the late '90s I went and studied in northern China when the internet was so so. My study of Baji/pigua and Chen Taichi (and of course the compulsory 24 and 42 yang style lol) opened up my eyes to the more "folk" and traditional vs the monolith of Sport Wushu. In that era "pre internet" you ran into so many misconceptions but you also ran into so many false truths and things told by a propaganda heavy government. An easy example was the first time I went to Dengfung (Shaolin Temple) in 1999 there was a fair number of people and a fair number of schools and some tourism. When I went back in 2001 it felt like they had more of a Disneyland feel. Everything culturally that had been part of Shaolin Temple had plastic cartoon versions available. Or at the Beijing wushu association such a heavy emphasis on learning flips and butterfly kicks for the "lien gong" of Taichi and Bagua; left me very confused. Not only from the Western world are there confusing things being taught but also in mainland various narratives for various reasons lead people to viewing your content with misconceptions and odd ideas. We also don't have to look very far back in China's history to look at the wholesale change of the martial art world and that of the Qing dynasty and the Bannerman system. 250 plus years of once every 3-year hardstyle testing thrown away because of a change of government. We're the only jobs that professional military were getting was rickshaw drivers because of their physical ability. In 2000 when I took pictures with a couple of those lifting stones: the people that had them had no idea what they were used for but that their family had them how to disused part of their home. I was literally told if I can lift it I can have it and I have paid the most outrageous price for a taxi ever. When I had an English student over at my house they ratted me out to police saying that I was stealing cultural artifacts... That it took four police to get out of my six story apartment. Even though I had a letter from the family saying it was fine. The irony of that story was that it was a police training Stone. But I digress. There is a more nuanced conversation to have around access to what is traditional and the other streams pulling people away from traditional arts. Such as modernly how many mainland folks are not taking up these traditional styles versus doing something like taekwondo. Or foreigners being very interested in the internal arts, willing to spend the time to learn the cultural stuff, linguistic stuff and still not being able to get access to indoor training to a level to bring up the collective consciousness of what traditional arts are. There is most definitely a privilege of getting the right training the first time and access to teachers to help mold the right kind of ideas. And while I appreciate how openly you talk about these topics I also appreciate the person with bad information because there is a lot of it. I spent multiple years with crappy teachers because they had lineage but not deep levels of skill literally because of the prohibition of teaching during the cultural revolution. I don't mean disrespect to you just that it's a more complicated story for others of us who have not had an easy path.
Sorry to know that you have experienced some unfortunate personal events in your training process. Actually, in my video, I just gave feedback to both comments contributed by that person. (1) It's not mud walking, it's a low kick practice. (2) The mainland regime killed all the traditional boxers so now they are trying to re-create the arts from books and they don't know the applications. That's what I did in my video. I have no idea how difficult/easy for others to reach out to good training materials or sources since it's not the main objective for my feedback to his comments. Anyway, thank you for your input.
Actually weight training can hinder internal training. As weights tighten the muscles and doesn't allow the elasticity in the ligaments. Light weight training is okay. But better is to train with weapons that use the same movements as hand form.
Thank you for providing timestamps! Missing the tea, learned so much.
Great questions, as always.
Thank you Master Hai Yang! Your answer once again was really helpful and clarifiing! And amusing too :-) btw. You pronounced my name perfectly! Phantastic new series about the Dao De Jing. I´m looking forward to your future videos. Thomas Hudecsek
Thanks,
Always a pleasure to hear your teaching. Happy New Year!
Thank You very much and happy new year.
You too.
Master Hai Yang appreciated n thanks for your answer wish u a happy, healthy n prosperous New Year. Your guidance , lessons n instruction assist the internal martial art practitioner achieving the true art. Thanks again.
You are welcome.
So interesting to learn that Xingyi was designed for empty hand fighting. In that case is hand/fist conditioning a traditional part of Xingyi training? I’m referring to striking sand bags etc. Thanks.
I will answer it next time.
@@HaiYangChannel Thank you.
Thank you master for your answers, and thanks to those who asked such interesting questions 🙏🏼
You are very welcome.
Thank you for answers! I would like to answer a question about 8 powers in taichichuan. My teacher told me that 8 powers trough practice must transform to 4 powers, 4 powers transform to 2, finally 2 powers will be formed to 1 power. And if practitioner could master it, he would be able to use small force, but get much more result in fighting and not only. What do you think about this concept? And what does it mean “transform 8 powers to 1 power”?
Thank you!🙏
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Hello Master Yang. Thanks for the interesting video. The comments on Dao De Jing are very helpful. Happy New Year of the Black Rabbit! I have this question. In my study of 18th century China, I encountered one ambiguity in Nian Geng Yao's biography. I did not come across a definite answer as to who he is by nationality Manchu, Han, or a half-breed. His sister was Yongzheng's concubine, could an ethnic Chinese reach such career heights, after all, Yue Zhongqi was considered the highest-ranking Han in those days?
Many people kept a higher rank than Nian Gengyao. For example, Zhang Tingyu, an official around the same time.
@@HaiYangChannel Thank you very much for the answer. Does this mean that Nian Genyao was a Manchu? And did not think to overthrow the Qing Dynasty?
I live in Toronto and am looking for a tai chi practice/ teacher, would you have any recommendations?
As a fourth generation Canadian born Chinese it means so much to me to be able to learn about my cultural heritage from you, 感谢你！
Sorry, I am not that familiar to Tai Chi teachers in Toronto. I will let a student of mine to answer it for you. Good to know you have interest in Chinese cultural heritage!
Hi, I hope it is OK that I answer as well (I am a student of master Yang who lives in Toronto).
Currently there are many opportunities to study taiji with Chinese teachers here.
Two popular schools are:
- Ji Hong Taiji
- T and T Martial Arts.
Both teach Chen style.
There are other teachers in Yang Style, Wu Style etc.. I don't know every master, but if you want to look for a specific style maybe i can send you in the right direction.
This year in thornhill there will be a big taiji competition held in the chinese community, it may be a good place to look.
@@kongjie74 Thank you so much!
In terms of style, I'm thinking of starting focusing on qigong -- I'm mainly concerned with basic mobility and coordination, and hopefully a historically and philosophically informed approach.
If that gives you any ideas I greatly appreciate it :)
@@kailee4056 ok, in that case you can talk to the Ji Hong School first, but also there are other opportunities, especially in North york and Richmond Hill.
@@kongjie74 Thanks so much!
@26:50 I don't want to continue the poor comment and questionable place the commenter decided to put the question:
I think there is a very interesting and big gap in knowledge acquisition around traditional arts and some of the other various things that have been learned ever since the opening of martial arts in the western world.
My father in the 1970s got some of those early English translation books, such as Robert w Smith Xingyi and bagua and actually studied with a Hebei stylist, from mainland China, in Oklahoma City. Later he connected with folks that trained with Wangshi jin in Taiwan. In that early era of the '70s and '80s China was very closed and very few foreigners were able to make their way to the mainland.
As a way to continue his own education the late '90s I went and studied in northern China when the internet was so so. My study of Baji/pigua and Chen Taichi (and of course the compulsory 24 and 42 yang style lol) opened up my eyes to the more "folk" and traditional vs the monolith of Sport Wushu. In that era "pre internet" you ran into so many misconceptions but you also ran into so many false truths and things told by a propaganda heavy government.
An easy example was the first time I went to Dengfung (Shaolin Temple) in 1999 there was a fair number of people and a fair number of schools and some tourism. When I went back in 2001 it felt like they had more of a Disneyland feel. Everything culturally that had been part of Shaolin Temple had plastic cartoon versions available. Or at the Beijing wushu association such a heavy emphasis on learning flips and butterfly kicks for the "lien gong" of Taichi and Bagua; left me very confused.
Not only from the Western world are there confusing things being taught but also in mainland various narratives for various reasons lead people to viewing your content with misconceptions and odd ideas. We also don't have to look very far back in China's history to look at the wholesale change of the martial art world and that of the Qing dynasty and the Bannerman system. 250 plus years of once every 3-year hardstyle testing thrown away because of a change of government. We're the only jobs that professional military were getting was rickshaw drivers because of their physical ability.
In 2000 when I took pictures with a couple of those lifting stones: the people that had them had no idea what they were used for but that their family had them how to disused part of their home. I was literally told if I can lift it I can have it and I have paid the most outrageous price for a taxi ever. When I had an English student over at my house they ratted me out to police saying that I was stealing cultural artifacts... That it took four police to get out of my six story apartment. Even though I had a letter from the family saying it was fine. The irony of that story was that it was a police training Stone.
But I digress.
There is a more nuanced conversation to have around access to what is traditional and the other streams pulling people away from traditional arts. Such as modernly how many mainland folks are not taking up these traditional styles versus doing something like taekwondo. Or foreigners being very interested in the internal arts, willing to spend the time to learn the cultural stuff, linguistic stuff and still not being able to get access to indoor training to a level to bring up the collective consciousness of what traditional arts are.
There is most definitely a privilege of getting the right training the first time and access to teachers to help mold the right kind of ideas. And while I appreciate how openly you talk about these topics I also appreciate the person with bad information because there is a lot of it. I spent multiple years with crappy teachers because they had lineage but not deep levels of skill literally because of the prohibition of teaching during the cultural revolution. I don't mean disrespect to you just that it's a more complicated story for others of us who have not had an easy path.
Sorry to know that you have experienced some unfortunate personal events in your training process. Actually, in my video, I just gave feedback to both comments contributed by that person. (1) It's not mud walking, it's a low kick practice. (2) The mainland regime killed all the traditional boxers so now they are trying to re-create the arts from books and they don't know the applications.
That's what I did in my video. I have no idea how difficult/easy for others to reach out to good training materials or sources since it's not the main objective for my feedback to his comments.
Anyway, thank you for your input.
Actually weight training can hinder internal training. As weights tighten the muscles and doesn't allow the elasticity in the ligaments. Light weight training is okay. But better is to train with weapons that use the same movements as hand form.
Looking forward to your answer to my question😊. Thank you in advance Master!