http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xhlVnlekTuk
This is Wang Yu-sheng 王玉升 doing the “fast” version of the Yang long form. He is another one of Li Ya-xuan’s excellent students. I’m just so impressed with all of Li’s students. I can’t watch enough of this stuff. Li obviously had some of the cleanest, clearest movement. You can see it in almost all of his students. I really prefer this clean movement style because I find it better for body development and it makes smaller details easier to pick up on.
Look at Wang’s movement in the clip above. Notice his back moving in and out and his slight lean sometimes. Notice the level of detail in his style. In some moves, he even stresses a detail through part of the movement, and then switches the movement to stress another detail. Amazing. I never thought of doing that. His stance work is obviously also very developmental. Look at his “needle at the bottom of the sea” movement around the 4:40 mark. That’s a serious stance. I’ve never seen that move done that way.
There’s a lot of meat here for the trained eye. Wang is showing many things in the form that aren’t so clearly expressed by others. Watch and learn.
5 responses so far ↓
1 silkreeling // Sep 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm
thanks. pleasure to watch.
the leg and dang strength derived from this form i think would be very similar to that of chen old frame first form.
thanks again.
2 Chen.quest.ion // Sep 27, 2007 at 9:40 am
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3 Frank Bellemare // Sep 28, 2007 at 6:52 am
I’m wondering about the half step Wang does right before going into “lu” in the Grasp sparrow’s tail part of the form. Why would one want to do that? Is it just to put additional pressure on your opponent to unroot him some more before throwing him to the side?
Isn`t there some kind of risk to moving forward while your opponent is already into some sort of peng arm lock? Wouldn’t that be like giving him some room to maneuver out of your lock?
Anyway, that’s just a thought based on one application. Regarding the low stances, I really digged those. They reminded me of something that was said in that doctor thesis Dave posted a link to a little while back. The guy in it was training Wu style with the top guys in Shanghai, then one day he starts training with a tougher teacher called Lu, which tells him he’s doing old man tai chi and he needs to train lower if he’s going to accomplish anything. I’d love to know what kind of ability Wang’s students develop from training that way.
4 GrahamB // Sep 28, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Is this the same form that Master He in Taiwan teaches? It looks very similar to me.
5 Dave Chesser // Sep 28, 2007 at 8:03 pm
No, his is through Xiong Yang-he , a student of Yang Jian-hou. This guy is a student of Li Ya-xuan.
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