Yang cheng fu biography templates
Yang cheng fu biography templates
Yang Chengfu 楊澄甫 - OpenMindSpace!
Grandmaster Yang Cheng Fu
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Yang Cheng Fu was born into the famous Yang Taijiquan family, the son of Yang Chien Hou and grandson of Yang Lu Chan.
With his older brother Yang Shao Hou (楊少侯) and colleagues Wu Jianquan (吳鑑泉) and Sun Lutang (孫錄堂), he was among the first teachers to offer T&#;ai chi ch&#;uan instruction to the general public at the Beijing Physical Culture Research Institute from until He moved to Shanghai in
Cheng Fu is known for having &#;smoothed&#; out the somewhat more vigorous training routine he learned from his family as well as emphasizing a &#;large frame&#; or &#;Da Jia (大架)&#; with expansive movements in stepping and using large circular motions with the arms.
His smooth, evenly paced large frame form and its hundreds of offshoots has been the standard for Yang-style T&#;ai Chi Ch&#;uan (and overwhelmingly in the public imagination for T&#;ai Chi Ch&#;uan in general) ever since.
Chengfu is the official author of two books on th