Interesting video on Yang family neijin and Qi

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for Yang Taichi nerds
 

Did a little research on the style, form and approach reflected in this teacher in the video’s teaching. As the story goes Laoliulu (old six roads or old six routines Yang form) was transmitted from Yang Jianhou (son of the Yang founder Yang Luchan) to a steward of the emperor named Wong Lu and to his son Wang Yongquan under a secrecy oath (with serious consequences if broken). The son Wang, while assigned to Yang Cheng Fu officially in the Yang family hierarchy taught YCF’s large frame form, he continued to also practice this original Yang Jianhou form that was not part of YCF’s transmission. Wang in his old age decided to break his oath  and taught the form and its associated Yang family Neigong . One of his students he taught this to was a middle aged Ch’en taichi master  by the name of Wei Shuren who in turn adjusted the original long form to create two shorter forms, a 22 and a 37. Interestingly enough after this Wang ended up in wheelchair. There are some videos of Wei Shuren practicing these forms on YouTube and Wang doing fa Jin from a wheelchair when he was very aged..

 

this approach has its own neigong that seems quite interesting (use of 3 circles, use of external qi and yi)  you don’t see everyday, certainly not on videos on the internet. These are presented as part of the original Yang legacy of Yang Jianhou not filtered through YCF. I am not sure what the relationship of this teacher in the video  is to Wei Shuren but I read some translations of excerpts from Wei’s writings and they appear to reflect what this teacher is sharing. 
 

I also read some of Wang’s writings. I was particularly impressed with one quote from Wang. “ To mobilize Qi, you create an empty space, by Soong and a light Yi to empty the area. The
differentiation of yin and yang is what makes Qi flow.“ People talk about Yi leading the qi but I think this is a much more correct and clear explanation of what really takes place. Not only in taichi but in bagua as well.

 

 Wei Shuren has some books on Yang family Nei gong in Chinese that I would probably read if I had that capability.

 

Interesting story.