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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
Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo's Birthday
During the week of Grandmaster Yang Zhenduo's birthday in July, Yang Family Tai Chi practitioners all over the world prepared special videos performing the 49 Movement Form, a form which he created. The videos were a tribute to the Grandmaster for his lifelong dedication to tai chi chuan and his contribution to the development of Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan worldwide. Thank you to everyone who participated. Video clips from around the world were put together in a beautiful commemorative video, including an introduction by Master Yang Jun.
Full performance videos of the tai chi groups in the video can be viewed on Yang Family Tai Chi's YouTube channel.
Volunteer Opportunities
Yang Family Tai Chi depends on volunteers who donate their time and talent to make our association a success. We currently need more volunteers to help our association as we move forward into the future. We have an immediate need for people with skills such as website updating and management, writing, translating, video editing, social media, and assisting our department heads and executive with various tasks. We also welcome volunteers in other areas.
Do you have any skills or knowledge you would like to share? If you would like to volunteer but aren't sure how you can help, please just send an email telling us you would like to help in some way and we will suggest some ways you could volunteer.
We are very grateful to all our volunteers who have helped make our association and its events successful. Building a strong group of new volunteers will help us improve our service to our members and also reach more people around the world! Please contact Pam Boyde (pamboyde@yangfamilytaichi.com) if you would like to volunteer.
Training Standards Department
The Training Standards Department welcomes two new Associate Instructors, Michele Cappannari and Fabio Guadalupi. We would also like to announce a change of instructor status for Francesco Belli from Certified Instructor to Academy Instructor. All three are from Italy (Rome area). Congratulations and welcome!
Upcoming TTM-1 Seminar
Join us in person in September 2022 for a TTM-1 seminar with Master Yang Jun! (Organized by Teacher Academy USA)
September 16: Saber
September 17-18: Methods & Techniques in Senior Form
Registration information
Registration form
Grand Opening in Brazil
Yang Family Tai Chi will open its first international branch in Brazil in November, 2022.
Master Yang Jun will be in Brazil for the Grand Opening and will offer two seminars: Essential Form and an Instructor's Seminar. Don't miss the opportunity to attend a seminar by Master Yang Jun and celebrate at the Grand Opening!
Registration for the seminars is now open. Seminars will be conducted in English and Portuguese, are certified by Yang Family Tai Chi and are eligible for Teacher Academy credits. Everyone is welcome!
The event will be held at Yang Family Tai Chi Center, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
November 11th - Grand Opening
November 12 and 13th – Essential Form Seminar
November 14 and 15th – Instructor Seminar
Instructor Seminar in Italy - October 2022
After a long break due to the pandemic, Master Yang Jun will finally be back in Italy to teach an international seminar for tai chi chuan instructors from October 7-9. He will talk about how to teach tai chi and will also present theoretical and practical applications.
The seminar is open to all IYFTCCA Officers, Center Directors, Instructors and Teacher’s Academy Members. It will be held at the Monastery of San Vincenzo in Bassano Romano, a very large and comfortable structure surrounded by nature. The monastery is located about 50 kilometers from Rome and offers all the necessary amenities. It is also possible to stay in full or half board.
This event is organized by Claudio Mingarini, Italy Teacher Academy Head Director.
More information available on YFTC website.
Ranking Exam Schedule
The Yang Family Tai Chi website publishes a list of upcoming ranking events around the world. We encourage members to visit our ranking events page on our website under the heading "Events" for more information, including links to study material for the written exams.
Master Yang Jun's Seminar Schedule
Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Sept 16: TTM Saber Form
Sept 17-18: TTM Senior Form
Bothell, WA, USA
Sept 24-25: Senior Form
Siegen, Germany
Oct 1-3: Traditional Form
Oct 4: Push Hands
Rome, Italy
Oct 7-9: Instructor Seminar
Lugo, Spain
Oct 15-16: Traditional Form
San Jose, CA, USA
Oct 29-30: Traditional Form
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Nov 12-13: Essential Form
Nov 14-15: Instructor Seminar
Please visit our association's website for more information as it becomes available.
Seminar in Michigan
In June, after a three-year break, Michigan YFTC Center gratefully welcomed Master Yang Jun and Master Fang Hong for the first 2022 seminar in North America. Together, with over 100 tai chi enthusiasts from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, we trained hard and ate well. We met many old friends again and made many new ones. Master Yang's invaluable teaching provided a happy learning experience that made us look forward to meeting again in the near future.
Ranking Event and Private Training - San Jose, California
On August 20, 2022, IYFTCCA Affiliated School in San Jose, California organized a ranking event. Master Fang Hong presided over the event. Thirty-five candidates took ranking tests. After the event, from August 21 – 24, Master Fang Hong taught a private training (the Traditional 103 Form) to 20 students, divided into two groups – English session and Chinese session.
Photos: Candidates taking written test. Master Fang Hong (far right) at 103 Form test.
Photo: Master Fang Hong and judges surrounded by candidates.
Photos: Master Fang Hong summarizing the ranking event. Master Fang Hong teaching the English session.
Photo: Master Fang Hong and students of the English session. Raymond Tom, Director Emeritus of the Stockton Center, is at the very right of the last row.
New YFTC School in Dortmund, Germany
Associate Instructor Conny Landskröner has recently become the director of a new Yang Family Tai Chi School in Dortmund, Germany. She will begin a 10-week beginner class at her school, Taichido Dortmund starting September 29, 2022. For more information, please visit her website: www.taichi-do.de
Workshop in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Fernando de Lazzari, Director of the YFTC Center in Ribeirão Preto, held a workshop at his center July 23-24. Participants practiced hand form, push hands, and tai chi applications.
News from Colombia
During the month of August 2022, Alexander Gomez (Yang Ya Gen), Director of the YFTC School Bogotá, gave a virtual seminar on Energy Physiology of Traditional Chinese Medicine applied to Tai Chi and Chi Kung. Practitioners from Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, and Colombia received valuable insights on this topic.
In Colombia, Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan can bring new opportunities. Alexander Gomez (Yang Ya Gen) was invited to present Yang Family Tai Chi to the Colombian Martial Arts community on July 10, at the XXXVI National Wu Shu Tournament. This event helps pave the way for new generations of Yang Family Tai Chi practitioners who want to participate in official sporting events in Colombia.
Ranking Event at Manchester New Hampshire YFTC Center
On May 21, 2022, the Manchester New Hampshire YFTC Center held an in-person ranking for Levels 1-4. Eight students tested for and passed the examination.
Students from Inner Works Center for Taijiquan and Qigong (YFTC School in Rockland, Maine)
Copper Eagle: Dean Anderson, Anna Dembska and Mia Kanazawa.
Silver Eagle: William Galloway.
Students from New Hampshire YFTC Center:
Silver Eagle: John Faggiano
Copper Tiger: Jenny Wong and Gary Wong.
Also earning Copper Tiger is Sergio Aguirre from Mexico City, Mexico.
Thank you to the judges at the event: Center Director Michael Coulon, Bill Walsh (Director Emeritus of the New York YFTC Center), Mike Shunney (Director of the Inner Works Center), Jason Timony and Ron Weiss.
News from YFTC Guaymallén School
From September 16-18, the YFTC Guaymallén School in Mendoza province, Argentina will welcome Prof. Angela Soci, who will teach an instructors' seminar and a Traditional 103 Hand Form seminar for instructors. Ranking exams for levels 1-4 will also be taken.
The school also started practicing in a new location, Círculo Policial de Mendoza, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 15:30 hrs.
Summer Camp - YFTC School Lyon, France
From June 30 - July 3, Bamboo Balance (YFTC School Lyon) enjoyed summer camp at St. Antoine l'Abbaye. The theme was "be like a tree" and along with hand form, the program included qi gong, sword, and traditional Chinese painting with painter Jhycheng Wu.
School Director: Edyta Piatkowska-Wu
2022 Summer Seminar in Dordogne, France
We spent six wonderful days in Dordogne, France. This was the 12th time that our love of tai chi brought us together here. Together, coming from the four corners of France, we studied, meditated, rowed, danced, and laughed. A wonderful seminar and beautiful vacation brought many smiles and much happiness!
The seminar was organized by the Yang Family Tai Chi Centers of Toulouse and Paris, and the Yang Family Tai Chi School of Lyon.
Journal Gem
"Moving from External to Internal: A Partner Exercise" by Helen Smeja. Issue 30 (2012), pages 10-11.
This article can be found in our Members-Only Area on our website.
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