Volume 53 - Yang Banhou Style Taijiquan - Part 1

[cacciato66]

'real' tai ji ... not just a dance or slow routine, shows internal energy imo

[zero061192]

@cacciato66 Well you can't just say "real" or "fake". This version is actually a modified version of Yang Tai Chi. Yang Ban-hou's brother was killed in a fight, so he had taken a vow that "no Yang could ever been killed once again in a fight", so what he did was to modify his father's form so that the form is extremely vicious.

Well, I'm not saying that's bad. Imo, it's better as a "martial art" than other styles of Yang Tai chi today.

Just FYI, Yang Ban-hou was also called "Invincible Yang"

[cacciato66]

@zero061192 that is why i put real in quotes in my opinion real tai chi no matter the form shows internal energy in the movement not just fluid motion as a dancer tho he / she may be very strong ... have you ever seen Nurjeyev leap? ... does not have internal energy like say George Xu, or Yang Jwing Ming ... among the most commonly viewed. By the way i also do not subscribe to the dualistic or 'fake' fake is not the opposite of 'real ' in my post