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Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan)
The heart and substance of Tai Chi is found in the original form as taught by it's founder Yang Lu’Ch’an. This form was known as H’ao Ch’uan (roughly translated as loose boxing/fighting). Today we refer to this as the“Old Yang” or “Yang Lu-ch’an” (YLC) form.
Eli Montaigue has prepared an exceptionally informative video series on the complete YLC form. The first ten lessons are absolutely FREE and can be viewed below.
Here Eli Montaigue teaches the Old Yang style, of Yang Lu Ch'an. In a series of lessons. There are 10 free lessons on here to learn from. After lesson 10 you should contact Eli Montaigue for the on going lessons to take you through to the end of the whole form.
Eli performs the complete first third of the YLC form at a basic level:
This is Eli Montaigue performing the first third of Yang Lu Ch'an's form at it's beginners level Search our channel for 10 free lessons on this form taught by Eli. Please note: The first videos state not to share or post else where.
Tai Chi has many components to training besides it's YLC form. Some of these are Medical Taiji, Push Hands, Chee Sau (taiji's sticky hands), Small and Large San-Sau/Pauchui (two person fighting drills), Da-Lu (the great repulse), Har-Ch'uan, Fa-jing (explosive striking), Dim-Mak (death touch), Weapons, etc.
Push Hands Basics
Here Eli teaches the basics of single Push Hands, no sill big pushes. Push Hands teaches you how to fight, not how to push someone over!
Tai Chi and Bagua basic striking methods
Here Eli shows the basics in the way we strike in the internals arts, prior to learning Fa-jing