Autumn River Tai Chi - Cheng Man-ching DVD

An excerpt of the Cheng Man-ching Form demonstrated by Jan Kauskas. The DVD contains front and back views of the Cheng Man-ching Form with audio instructions. It also contains front and back views of the sword form as taught by Cheng Man-ching. Full DVD available from www.AutumnRiverTaiChi.com.
Autumn River Tai Chi, based in Glasgow, Scotland, offers teaching in the principles of Tai Chi through practice of the Cheng Man-ching Form, Da Liu, Push Hands, Sabre Form, Sword Form and Fencing.

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• Jan Kauskas
• Autumn River Tai Chi
• Glasgow
• Scotland
• UK
• Cheng Man-ching Form
• Yang style
• Chuan
• Immediate Arts
• jian
• push hands
• da lu
• fencing

[AutumnRiverTaiChi]

I am glad you only have one criticism! I do appear to be leaning back. When this film was shot, 2003, I was working on dropping the lower spine to root more precisely into the foot. My teacher emphasised a forward rotation of the hips to correct what he called a false root which I seemed to have. In my experience there is disagreement as to what a straight spine actually means. I try to have the crown of the head (ni wan) above the tan tien. Hopefully, my Form is better now than it was.

[ssbreon]

You do a nice form. The one criticism I have though, is it appears as if you are leaning backwards in some of the postures, although it may just be the camera angle playing tricks.