I've been enjoying watching these vid but the commentary is difficult for me to understand. I have severe hearing impairment and was wondering if you could add captions to your vids or even just posting a synopsis of what was said? Thank you again for providing these vids.
This guy sucks, i was there last week for subscribe when a little guy show up and politely ask for a match. This master get very angry and start to push the other guy in the corner, after fiew warning from the other part, he finally get easilly beat up, and seperated by his student. Glad i didnt subscribe
Are you serious that you can't understand what he's saying. You realise that is very insulting, however if you truly can't understand, perhaps someone could add annotations. But the only way I could understand you not understanding him is that English is not your first language.
as a long time student of chen taijiquan, I am very thankful to Sifu Yang for this interview and for posting his video footage of push hands and xingyi applications. It seems that some of the people commenting on this video do not understand exactly what they are seeing when Sifu Yang demonstrates his understanding of the internal arts. I hope that one day I may visit him in Montreal. Thank You Kindly!
Thanks for this commentary. However, it is not convincing that performance and fighting were separate before the 20th Century, they were one thing. Rather, the 20th Century produced the separation because modern people are embarrassed about the performance and religious roots of gongfu. See "weakness with a twist" blog.
who said that before 20th century that performance and fighting were separate? religious roots of kung fu? what do you mean about that? if someone knows how to apply the forms very well, for sure he/she will be able to use the forms into fighting. so my suggestion is that before try to apply the forms in fighting, please perfect the forms first. high level martial artiest will know your level of fighting from looking your forms!
Perhaps I misunderstood the history described in this video. I thought I was hearing the party line about martial arts being just a fighting system and not a performing art. Chinese martial arts do have religious origins. I've talked a lot about this on my blog Weakness With a Twist. Youtubes 500 charaters isn't enough to say much. Regards
i can say most of practice or knowledge in our modern time have trace with religion, but you have to know that religion must came later than martial arts. Since martial arts were for survival, it came much earlier than religion.
More important thing is that religion only has had some influence to martial art but it can not replace MA practice at all...
Still, I do not agree with you the point that dancing and Afician music has relation with ICMA.
Thanks for checking out my video and making a thoughtful response. I'm not sure how far back in time to take this discussion, but religious sacrifice before and after hunting and battle clearly pre-date the invention of the sword.
So you are saying that it is best to learn forms first then learn applications? But don't you teach applications early on in your classes? I think that one should learn both forms and applications at the same time?
This is such a tricky question. On the one hand, knowing the application of a component of a form is certainly helpful to the student in that he/she knows what the goal of the technique is. That said, sometimes the point of the technique, as performed in the form, is not to be as accurate to the real application as possible. That's very confusing, but in some martial arts, the technique is exaggerated to bring out a certain principle, or a variety of other reasons.
This video serie is really good and interesting. This is rare opportunity to see a teacher speak openly, clearly and explain about internal MA. This is nice from Yang laoshi to take this time explaining to people about his art and some points we dont hear often. Especially here in Quebec many teachers teach Xingyi, Bagua , baji,taijiquan, yiquan etc.. but few i think really understand the true distinct forces and basic functions of each...honestly i didnt know Yang laoshi knew so much. thanks
I've been enjoying watching these vid but the commentary is difficult for me to understand. I have severe hearing impairment and was wondering if you could add captions to your vids or even just posting a synopsis of what was said? Thank you again for providing these vids.
turboyoshi 10 months ago
next time u do youtube videos, get rid of the echo. because i was going to watch this video, but i am not going to put up with the audio.
dxmakina 1 year ago
@dxmakina
Our loss, I guess... ¬¬
Juan0003 1 year ago
next time u do youtube videos, get rid of the echo.
dxmakina 1 year ago
6:15 air is poppin even with short sleeves! cool!!!
Gieszkanne 1 year ago
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This guy sucks, i was there last week for subscribe when a little guy show up and politely ask for a match. This master get very angry and start to push the other guy in the corner, after fiew warning from the other part, he finally get easilly beat up, and seperated by his student. Glad i didnt subscribe
fculan 1 year ago
楊老師您好，感謝您的視頻。 但是由於英文能力不足，不是很懂您的想法。 想請教您是否在談，形意拳和心意六合的差別呢?
preacherjack19 2 years ago
Wow, this guy has his own sound effects.Not trying to be funny,I been watching you all clips and they are really good.
shengchenfan 2 years ago
From Tianjin :D
Thanks for posting the interview, nice work.
berinjiajia 2 years ago
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anybody got the subs for this^^??
sizzla123 3 years ago
Are you serious that you can't understand what he's saying. You realise that is very insulting, however if you truly can't understand, perhaps someone could add annotations. But the only way I could understand you not understanding him is that English is not your first language.
Daibhidh646 3 years ago
chilling english, but the guy talks sum sense
sizzla123 3 years ago
as a long time student of chen taijiquan, I am very thankful to Sifu Yang for this interview and for posting his video footage of push hands and xingyi applications. It seems that some of the people commenting on this video do not understand exactly what they are seeing when Sifu Yang demonstrates his understanding of the internal arts. I hope that one day I may visit him in Montreal. Thank You Kindly!
natechien 3 years ago
I had some trouble following the discussion in some parts, especially since I know nothing about Xing Yi.
I really liked the latter half of the video, especially the last minute. Now if I just could find that good teacher! :D
Endoperez 3 years ago
Thanks for this commentary. However, it is not convincing that performance and fighting were separate before the 20th Century, they were one thing. Rather, the 20th Century produced the separation because modern people are embarrassed about the performance and religious roots of gongfu. See "weakness with a twist" blog.
ogscott 3 years ago
who said that before 20th century that performance and fighting were separate? religious roots of kung fu? what do you mean about that? if someone knows how to apply the forms very well, for sure he/she will be able to use the forms into fighting. so my suggestion is that before try to apply the forms in fighting, please perfect the forms first. high level martial artiest will know your level of fighting from looking your forms!
whatisyournameya 3 years ago
Perhaps I misunderstood the history described in this video. I thought I was hearing the party line about martial arts being just a fighting system and not a performing art. Chinese martial arts do have religious origins. I've talked a lot about this on my blog Weakness With a Twist. Youtubes 500 charaters isn't enough to say much. Regards
ogscott 3 years ago
i can say most of practice or knowledge in our modern time have trace with religion, but you have to know that religion must came later than martial arts. Since martial arts were for survival, it came much earlier than religion.
More important thing is that religion only has had some influence to martial art but it can not replace MA practice at all...
Still, I do not agree with you the point that dancing and Afician music has relation with ICMA.
i like your dancing but not your martial art...
whatisyournameya 3 years ago
Thanks for checking out my video and making a thoughtful response. I'm not sure how far back in time to take this discussion, but religious sacrifice before and after hunting and battle clearly pre-date the invention of the sword.
ogscott 3 years ago
So you are saying that it is best to learn forms first then learn applications? But don't you teach applications early on in your classes? I think that one should learn both forms and applications at the same time?
ammonite 3 years ago
This is such a tricky question. On the one hand, knowing the application of a component of a form is certainly helpful to the student in that he/she knows what the goal of the technique is. That said, sometimes the point of the technique, as performed in the form, is not to be as accurate to the real application as possible. That's very confusing, but in some martial arts, the technique is exaggerated to bring out a certain principle, or a variety of other reasons.
elenchus 2 years ago
This video serie is really good and interesting. This is rare opportunity to see a teacher speak openly, clearly and explain about internal MA. This is nice from Yang laoshi to take this time explaining to people about his art and some points we dont hear often. Especially here in Quebec many teachers teach Xingyi, Bagua , baji,taijiquan, yiquan etc.. but few i think really understand the true distinct forces and basic functions of each...honestly i didnt know Yang laoshi knew so much. thanks
Foyepolomi 3 years ago
Thank you Mr. Yang!
Cheers,
Pawel
taijitaijiquan 3 years ago