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Connections is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Chinese. We are very grateful for our translators who volunteered to translate: Rubén Coirini, Daniela Famulari, Gennaro Ripa, Françoise Desagnat, Jean-Claude Miremont, Thilo Krienke, Davi Garritano, Huang Gang, Zhao Ruiyuan, and Yao Tiebin. Thank you very much! Here are the links to the other languages:
Welcome to Our New Members
I would like to welcome all new members who have recently joined Yang Family Tai Chi. Thank you for joining us and welcome to our tai chi family! I am happy you have chosen to join us and hope that you feel welcome and receive great value from your membership.
I hope that all members will have a long and fulfilling relationship with our association. For those members who have been with us through the years, I appreciate that you have chosen to stay with us as we continue to spread tai chi chuan worldwide to help humankind.
Sincerely,
Yang Jun
President
Happy Birthday Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo!
Yang Family Tai Chi's Virtual Classroom
Yang Family Tai Chi's Virtual Classroom continues to offer live-streamed webinars on a variety of special topics. Our instructors will help you deepen your understanding of tai chi and encourage you to continue practicing. We have many instructors around the world.
Add some variety to your practice and experience the fun of learning from a different teacher! Visit our website for a list of upcoming courses.
Training Standards Department
Online Course Accreditation
For the purpose of continuing education requirements for Instructor Certification Renewal (Associate and Certified levels), as well as for Associate Instructor application for certification, five (5) hours of on-line courses taught by Master Yang Jun or by Academy Instructors or higher-level instructor qualify as one seminar and may be attended at different times.
TTM-1 Online
The U.S. Teachers Academy is holding its Fall program online. Master Yang Jun taught the first portion September 4-6 in live stream training that focused on tai chi theory, fundamental exercises, and the Essential Form. Academic courses by other faculty members will be held in October and November.
YFTC International Junzheng Online Cup
SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO BETWEEN AUGUST 21 - SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association (YFTC) is pleased to present the Yang Family Tai Chi International Junzheng Online Cup (YFTC iJOC) in collaboration with the “Junzheng Cup” Global Tai Chi Online Competition.
The “Junzheng Cup” Global Tai Chi Online Competition is an event created through a partnership of wushu and cultural organizations in China to promote the special role tai chi chuan has in improving health to help defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not a tai chi chuan competition or tournament in the conventional sense. Participants are to submit videos of themselves performing specified tai chi forms which are first scored by a panel of judges and then voted on by the public. The goal is to have a fun event that lifts peoples' spirits, keeps them involved with tai chi chuan, and celebrates different styles of Yang style tai chi. Yang Family Tai Chi is a co-organizer of this competition.
More information about this event, including rules & regulations, and how to submit your video, can be found on our web page.
Reason for the Name: Junzheng Online Cup
The scenic area of Pu Zhehei is located in Yunnan Province, about 300 km southeast of Kunming. Pu Zhehei is a popular tourist destination and attracts thousands of tourists each year who are attracted to its beautiful natural scenery. "Pu Zhehei" in the Yi language, means "a place abundant with fish and shrimp". The area is known for its green karst landforms, mountains, and lakes.
The Junzheng Tai Chi Garden is a 21-acre site that is currently being renovated. It will include a hotel, restaurants, a training space (gym), soccer field, tai chi plaza, and more. Junzheng Tai Chi Garden will also be the site of a future Yang Family Tai Chi education training base. Our online tai chi cup event is named after this location.
The following video will give you an overview of the beautiful area of Pu Zhehei and the Junzheng Tai Chi Garden, home of our future training base!
Students from the Yang Family Tai Chi Center in Kunming went on a field trip to Pu Zheihei to see the area and the Junzheng Tai Chi Garden.
Master Yang Jun's Seminar Schedule
Upcoming Seminar (October 2020) with Master Yang Jun!
Due to COVID-19, Master Yang Jun has not been traveling for seminars. He has been teaching online for organizations in China. Beginning in October, he is planning to teach (in English) an online 10-class live stream seminar over 5 weeks which will focus on tai chi theory and fundamental methods. More information will be posted on our website when it becomes available.
Footwork Resource
Klaus Kaysers (Associate Instructor from Germany) has drawn and described the ending positions for footwork in our Senior (26 Movement) Form and our Tai Chi Kung (10 Movement) Form. He kindly offered to share links to these summaries for our readers.
Inspiration!
Jean Cauchon, an association member from Shawinigan, Quebec in Canada, has been practicing tai chi since 1989 and Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan since 2000. In January, he could no longer stand on his right leg because his hip was damaged from osteoarthritis. He needed hip replacement surgery, but because of COVID-19 the surgery was delayed until July. He wanted to be in good health for his surgery and to recover more easily from it. To keep active, he began practicing the 16 Form and 103 Form sitting on a chair. With time, he found seated tai chi a pleasure to do and felt that he continued to receive health benefits from the practice. The upper body movements helped stimulate his heart, lungs, and other organs and improve blood flow. Seated tai chi practice also helped keep his mind calm when he felt nervous about his upcoming surgery.
Two weeks after his operation in July, Jean was able to start gradually resuming his seated tai chi practice. It will be about 6 months until he will be able to practice standing tai chi again and he appreciates that seated tai chi helps keep his body active and mind calm. He wants everyone to know that even with physical limitation, you can still practice tai chi and receive its health benefits.
Thank you for sharing your story, Jean! We wish you a quick recovery and good health!
La Tigre e L'Acqua - Italy
Nino Tirelli and Serena Masi from Velletri, Italy are happy to share that they recently became Associate Instructors in our International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association. Visit their Facebook page, LA TIGRE E L'ACQUA.
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Journal Gem
"Introduction to Saber Form" by Rubén Coirini. Issue #38 (2016), pages 26 - 33.
This article can be found in our Members-Only Area on our website.
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Next Issue of Connections
Carolyn Fung, Editor
Connections is published in March, June, September, and December. We publish association news and school news (upcoming events, recent past events, awards, other news) but not general school advertisements.
The next issue of Connections will be published in December 2020. Please send any announcements to me at carolyn@yangfamilytaichi.com by November 21, 2020.
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