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Originally Posted by Astralogic
Hi, I'm going to learn the Yang Cheng-fu Tai Chi Form from youtube by Erle Montaigue.
Could someone answer a few questions for a beginner please? I'd like to know if this form has other names so I can see more videos and resources about it online.
Also, could you recommend me more resources (paid and free) that teach this form or give more information about this form or tai chi in general (that would be useful for learning this form). I'd like videos, sites, articles, books anything will do.
Thank you for you time.
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Erle is an advanced and very knowledgeable tai chi practitioner, and is a good teacher too, in person.
There are hundreds of different types of Yang style tai chi, but they all have similar movements.
You should know that it is almost impossible to learn tai chi from videos. This is because they are not good observers or imitators, so they develop bad habits. It is essential to have in person feedback from a good teacher in order to really get the principles of movement down well. This is because an in person teacher can spot mistakes and correct those.
I've seen people who learned from videos do tai chi and it is terrible. it actually is NOT tai chi that they are doing. The person know the sequence of moves but was completely missing all the internal aspects required in real tai chi.
it looks like your mind is made up already, but consider this. Do you want to learn tai chi for health? if so, then it IS possible to learn a good chi kung from videos. If you want to learn tai chi for self defense then that requires a live in person teacher even more than just learning the form, because it relies a lot on feeling, yielding, and sensitivity training.