maartenm wrote:I don't think he calls it that in the book. I suppose the fajin he shows on the dvd is what he talks about in the book when discussing jin and the jin of soft internal styles (whip-like hitting).
I'll have to get the dvd then.
This I'd like to know too... Maybe it's another way of saying it's an old traditional form, and not a historicaly verifiable fact?
He had a few students. I don't know anything at all about all this, but apparently he wasn't an easy man and there's not much known about his teaching or students who went on to teach his form.
Make that a sadistic old so-and-so. The same as Yang Shao Hou, which is unfortunate, because his fast form is what Tai Chi could really do with to counterbalance all the New Age, Hippy stuff.
Just to meander off topic, Chen Pan Ling's style is supposed to be derived from Yang Shao Hou's Tai Chi, or at least according to Erle Montaigue.
Also, according to Wang Pei Sheng's book on the Wu style, Wu Tunan personally learned from Yang Shao Hou.
Does anyone have a list of official students of Yang Ban Hou and Yang Shao Hou, or even better, some official lineage of their fast forms?
Check out the blurb on Yang Shao Hou at the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Shao-hou