Classical Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan of NY

Jesse Bross Hello Dimitry Vesensky, Dimitri was a powerhouse senior when I was just a Tai Chi tot. Hope everything is well.

He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate will not believe... What they do not see and distinctly feel. Inexperience, I believe, Will give little credence to my song. from "Journey to the East", by Herman Hesse

Jesse Brossa Push hands as we commonly see it is a competitive sport where two opponents try to unblance each other with a variety of techniques. This is seen by most Tai Chi practioners as the epitome of Tai Chi Chaun as a martial art. When we examine the forms, you can see that there is more to it then just pushing and shoving. So why do we practice push hands? In Classical Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan there are power push hands, single joint, double joint and free style train...ing excercises where the practioners can use a variety techniques. The point of the latter push hands training is so that the practioners, while moving, attacking and defending, don't break the internal connection. If you take a rubber band and flick it, it will just flop around, but if we take that same rubber band and stretch it, when it is struck the force reverberates. Through proper training and understanding of the internal principles, one builds great tenacious strength. So when you see students bounce or spasm that is just the rubber band being plucked. In a self defense situation this tenacious strength can be used to attack or defend. But for the practice of push hands (free style), it is to learn to keep that internal connection at all times in various speeds and stress levels. (Like when Sifu Gim throws an elbow at my head). See more

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Tai Chi Chuan is known for its effortless power, especially when you hear about the feats of the Yang Family. I started studying Tai Chi at a local school in New Jersey. There was the form and push hands but it lacked the legendary power that I heard so much about. Eventually I started to think the stories were just that: stories. Then I heard about Sifu Gim in New City. After some research and watching a couple of videos of dynamic power push hands, I decided to visit the sc...hool. When I visited I watched Sifu effortlessly push the student across the room with little movement, I couldn't wrap my head around it. Did I find the real thing?! Afterwards he talked to me about the lineage of his teacher Chu Sifu, who was the 2nd disciple of Yang Sau Chung, son of Yang Cheng Fu. I wanted to feel the power behind these stories so I asked Sifu to push me, and thankfully he obliged. Just like the student I was tossed effortlessly across the room. Its been many years later and one thing is abundantly clear: to gain this effortless power one has to train with maximum effort. When thinking of Chu Sifu and Sifu Gim power, even among their peers, their effort must have been monstrous. Based on my first had experience of the power passed down to Sifu Gim, and from his own accounts, Chu Sifu is the only one that possesses the true power and understanding of Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan. This is why I know Chu Gin Soon is the one who truly deserves to to be the 5th generation successor of Yang sau Chung. Jesse Brossa

**Revision Today marks my 5 year anniversary of studying @ Classical Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan of NY. In reflection:... I inadvertently stumbled upon Tai Chi when I was 17 years old, whilst studying at a rabbinical college in Australia. I knew right away that it was a discipline/art-form that I could really get into. My curiosity was piqued. As life winded through twists and turns over the next 10 years I found myself studying this incredible art with a few teachers along the way. Each teacher provided new insights and I'm grateful for their guidance. When I moved to NYC for my career just over 5 years ago, I knew it was time to dedicate myself more thoroughly to this art. Thanks to the recommendation from Sifu Dimitri, who was my previous teacher in Florida @ Internal Arts Institute, I enrolled at my current school, to study with Sifu Gim, the 2nd Disciple of Chu Sigong, who is the 2nd disciple of Yang Sau Chung. Come to find out, the only person given permission to teach outside of Hong Kong by YSC was Chu Sigong, the 5th generation successor of the Yang Family. This puts me in direct contact with the transmission of the legendary power and energy the Yang family became famous for. Little did I realize what I was getting into. Tai Chi Chuan has since become my primary tool for fine-tuning my mind and body. The visceral and sensory awareness it brings forth is profound, not to mention the health benefits. Yet I feel like I've only begun to scratch the surface of this art, as there is 'something' so deep at it's core, inexplicable, that awaits the perpetual discovery in an eternal quest. And so the journey continues... Thank you firstly to Sifu Gim, for putting up with my stubbornness and guiding me thus far, and infinite gratitude to Chu Sigong for carrying on and transmitting the Yang Family lineage. It is through all his tireless work for 40+ years, that he truly deserves the title of the 5th generation successor. - Ari R.

A BULLET WRAPPED IN COTTON How do I begin to describe what can only be experienced, and then only experienced after countless hours, sweat, pain and precise instructions that can only be transmitted verbally from Teacher to Student. What can not be observed with One's own vision or from a video or read from a book or a volume of books. How do I describe the insanity of this soft energy that when delivered appropriately, can feel like being hit by a truck and delivered at the ...speed of a bullet without notice or warning. This is not a fabrication or a hypnotic trance or an illusion. This is the invincible power of the famous Yang Lu Chan, handed down to his son Yang Jian Hou to his son Yang Cheng Fu to his son Yang Sau Chung to his 2nd Disciple Chu Si Gong and to his 2nd Disciple Sifu Kim, who is my Teacher. I can only speak from my personal experience with my teacher in the 10 years I have trained under his guidance. There is no doubt he possesses the Soft Peng Jeng or power that the Yang Family was famously known for. I have personally been tossed many feet with this effortless power and felt it "bubble" out of my teacher as we have trained the Dynamic power push hands, to also feel the absolute heaviness as it literally rips through my internal skeleton or ligamentous joint structure. I have felt his arm/shoulder go from the hardness of steel to the softness of cotton where he seems to disappear. Not literally in the sense that he is not there but no matter where or how I push it just seems to go nowhere, basically into emptiness. If you are reading this and you have not experienced this feeling you can not even begin to comment, for you hold no vantage point of understanding and only speak from your non qualified intellect or diminutive experience or system of training and skill or lack there of. If you are reading this and have not experienced this I invite you to come and see for yourself, although I warn you that you will face your nemesis of your weak and feeble mind. The craziest thing in all of this is that my Teacher talks of the skill and knowledge of his Teacher, that being Chu Si Gong and how much more he possesses in comparison; I can only fathom for I have only scratched the surface of the great ones, if even that. This, in my opinion, is the start of a strong argument for who should be the true Successor of the famous grandmaster Yang Sau Chung. He who holds the greatest skill and knowledge and thus the greatest power should be named the next. If you disagree then you should show yourself and state your case or better yet show us your skill, knowledge and power. By Brian Mungeer

Campaign to promote SIGONG Gin Soon Chu as the 5th generation successor of Classical Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan. Below is the article by SIFU Kim -- posted by Daniel Ortiz http://www.nytaichi.com/successor.htm... Please like and share.

In efforts to clear the air about the genuine lineage of the Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan and to preserve it's most accurate and complete teachings: http://nytaichi.com/successor.htm