Yang Tai Chi Chuan - Choy Family System

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
  • This rare video shows three generations of the Choy family as they demonstrate the Yang Style as taught to Choy Hak Pang by Yang Chen Fu. The first part is Hak Pang moving through the 108 Long Form. This is followed by the Sword Form, and finally the Saber Form. The next section is the 108 Long Form demonstrated by Master Choy Kam Man. Then, the 54 Short Form is demonstrated by Frank Choy. The last section is Master Choy working with students in San Francisco in the early 1970's. I hope you appreciate seeing how forms change as they get passed from generation to generation. The video is narrated by Frank Choy.

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  • @kimlincoln2497
    @kimlincoln2497 3 роки тому +11

    I studied with Master Choy in the 70's in China Town, a treasure I carry with me to this day. I feel fortunate to have been in his presence. The flow state in the room was so magnetic! I still smile remembering him! And beautiful to see his son carry this on~xo~my gratitude to the Choy family for their dedication and thank you for sharing!

  • @kevinburke6095
    @kevinburke6095 10 місяців тому +1

    Hi Michael, I remember watching you practicing Tai Chi in the Gazebo at Chetzemoka Park in Port Townsend back in the 1980s. I had the great good fortune to study the Yang Style Meditation Tai Chi Form, Choy Family system, beginnig in 1998 with Kenn Chase, at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. I believe you knew each other from studying with Master Choy, back in the day!? After studying with Kenn for four years, I began to assist his trainings and teach on my own. I've been teaching ever since in Big Sur, Santa Cruz, and now, North Carolina. What a beautiful form, and what a blessing it's been for me to learn, practice, and teach! Thank you for these amazing videos of the lineage. Wonderful to see how the form has evolved over time! I hope you are well! Are you still in Port Townsend?

  • @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574
    @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 3 роки тому +3

    I so enjoy watching this video. I study under Bluhm Sensei (Darrell Bluhm) here in Ashland, OR at Siskiyou Aikikai. Bluhm Sensei began study with Master Choy in 1970-71 @ Kam Man’s Tai Chi Chuan Academy Academy of San Francisco. If I could "like" this a thousand times, I would!

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  3 роки тому +1

      I'm sorry I don't remember my Tai Chi brother Darrell. I also lived and taught in Asland at one point. Small world. Thanks for the comment. Best wishes.

  • @biancachoy4451
    @biancachoy4451 6 років тому +26

    thats my great-grandfather, my grandfather, and my uncle

    • @unclesam3136
      @unclesam3136 4 роки тому +2

      We are honored!

    • @ninabellak2896
      @ninabellak2896 3 роки тому +6

      Please give my greetings and best regards to your uncle. I studied with your grandfather starting in 1974 and received my certification to teach from him in 1980. Tai Chi has been an intrinsic part of my life ever since, and I am eternally grateful to him for his teaching.

    • @robroymacgregor7279
      @robroymacgregor7279 3 місяці тому

      Blessings, I learned this form over 54 years ago from Liang Ting Shook in San Diego California,... Was instrumental in my martial arts... I bow in respect and honor to Master Choy and family...

  • @dorothyfreeman4168
    @dorothyfreeman4168 4 роки тому +5

    love this so much. what a great honor it was to study with Master Choy. Thank you Michael Gilman.

  • @artmoss6889
    @artmoss6889 4 роки тому +4

    I'm speechless. Such a graceful, powerful demonstration of the Yang style. He moves in a way I always hoped to, but rarely achieved.

    • @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574
      @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 3 роки тому

      I know the feeling! It's so graceful yet powerful. I get goosebumps sometimes when I watch this video. I'm so grateful that it exists.

  • @marksmall1
    @marksmall1 7 років тому +6

    I lived for attending those Saturday Club Meetings in the YMCA courtyard in San Francisco, as seen in the last section of this wonderful video. Good to see Frankie and hear his story in his own voice. Master Choy could answer two or three student's questions at once, the ways he put principles into his and our actions, as we circled round him. He was formal --insisting you asked to see the proceeding movement, the movement you wanted to see followed by the subsequent movement: Three movements and two transitions.

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  7 років тому +1

      Thanks for adding to the Master Choy class information. He was a true inspiration.

  • @SandDancing
    @SandDancing 6 років тому +4

    Thank you so much for posting this video. I studied with Master Choy in Berkeley in 1965 or 1966. I remember doing the long form. It was worth it! Master Choy has stuck with me as an inspiration all these years. Your video is very moving.

  • @Bishop3015
    @Bishop3015 6 років тому +9

    Thank you very much for this video. I started learning this form in 1976 from a student of Master Choy Kam Man. I was told by other tai chi players that I was wrong when I did "grasp the birds tail" and "brush knee and twist step" to the corners. Also other differences made me wonder if I was doing the set "correctly". The video of Master Choy Hak Pang in his tie was shown by a friend's instructor at Mills College in the late 70's, and the students started laughing, so the instructor cut the video short. I didn't know who the performer was, but I was excited to see that he was performing almost exactly what I had learned. Here I am 40 years later, back with my original instructor practicing push-hands, and doing the long and short set with some changes incorporated from experience over the years. However this video is invaluable in restoring my confidence and helping me to see and appreciate more the living art of Tai Chi Chuan.

    • @unclesam3136
      @unclesam3136 4 роки тому +1

      I also studied with a student of Master Choy in the mid seventies, Professor Jean Larue, in Buffalo, NY and remember well the first movements to the diagonals, Grasp Bird's Hand to the SE and then Single Whip to the SW. Of course, we did go through some changes through the years, but we got the real Tai Chi Chuan. Is Jean Larue still kickin?

  • @paulburg8639
    @paulburg8639 7 років тому +5

    Thank you for the video. I took a course from Master Choy in 1965 (I think it was) at the Berkeley Co-op on University Ave. I came across my notes a few years ago listing the 54 steps and wished I had continued the discipline. I remember the boy who accompanied his father to the lessons whom the narrator very much resembles.

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  7 років тому +4

      You're right. It is Frank Choy who accompanied his Dad at most classes and he is the person who put this DVD together. He still teaches in San Francisco.

    • @cliffbarney3946
      @cliffbarney3946 3 роки тому +1

      @@mdgilman i tried to connect with frank choy several years ago and he told me that he had quit teaching because his wife had died and he was raising his two daughters. has he resumed teachnig? if so, can you tell me how to reach him? = thanks, cliff barney

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  3 роки тому

      @@cliffbarney3946 Sorry Cliff. I have lost touch with him a few years ago. Best wishes.

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  3 роки тому

      It is never too late. Lots of good reference videos out there. Go get um.

  • @markdonovan1540
    @markdonovan1540 4 роки тому +2

    Excellent archive footage of some very interesting Yang style Tai Chi performances. I've never seen the movement of "turn body and sweep the lotus root" performed like that at minute 18:17; the speed, control & balance was immaculate.

  • @kenpogodan
    @kenpogodan Рік тому +2

    The way Hak Pang performed the form is so powerful and moving. His speed and his circular patterns are what I aspire to. Originally I was taught the form at a much lower speed which was a challenge for me. I think the reason I felt this was because Prior to learning the form I studied and taught Chinese Kenpo which is a form of Karate . In my opinion The speed and the way that Master Pang did the form is much more fluid and powerful than the way currently taught by many current Teachers/Masters.

  • @theo9845
    @theo9845 3 роки тому +1

    Master Choy Cams flow of movement its impeccably uninterrupted and masterfully executed.

  • @raypeinke7187
    @raypeinke7187 7 років тому +4

    Thanks for sharing this, I really like how the masters own their form, real understanding.

  • @dsrussell
    @dsrussell 11 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing. It was a real treat to watch.

  • @recklessroges
    @recklessroges 7 років тому

    A valuable piece of history. Thank you for preserving and sharing it.

  • @anamariasaavedra1
    @anamariasaavedra1 2 роки тому +1

    Esto mismo estoy aprendiendo con mi Maestro de Taichi.

  • @stephena1196
    @stephena1196 3 роки тому

    This is great, thank you.

  • @TaiChiGhost
    @TaiChiGhost 9 місяців тому

    This gentleman is GOOD!

  • @blacktoothgriner
    @blacktoothgriner 4 роки тому

    Stunning.

  • @marlondiaz7722
    @marlondiaz7722 6 років тому

    Una maravilla. Gracias!

  • @grrmtthgrrmtth3000
    @grrmtthgrrmtth3000 2 роки тому

    Awesome

  • @trodriguez362
    @trodriguez362 7 років тому +4

    wow looks like the form Dr Yang Wing Ming teaches I know it's the yang form but Ive seen the yang form performed by others I can recognize it but it looks so different Dr Yang Wing Ming teaches almost the same format

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges 7 років тому +1

      The form is a template. You have to grind it to match your body.

  • @generalya
    @generalya Місяць тому

    Anyway to reach the Chou family? Any one from the family still teaching in the Bay Area?

  • @indefenceofthetraditionalma
    @indefenceofthetraditionalma 2 роки тому

    Nice

  • @timdezesde
    @timdezesde 7 років тому +1

    Hoi,everything oke?,i am sitting home i have broken my wrist,but i am doing every day your tai chi.....do you have new training videos? Thanks grt Tim from Holland.

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  7 років тому +1

      I have almost 200 videos posted on UA-cam. Some like the Long Form Master Course and short form Master Course are videos one can learn at home from. Good luck with your healing and studies.

  • @back-seat-driver1355
    @back-seat-driver1355 2 роки тому

    A friend of mine recently recommended to learn tai chi online
    with The tai chi academy from Chris Davis,
    with Discover Taiji from Adam Mizner or
    taijiacademy from Liang de Hua
    in the next lock down period
    What do you think? Can you help?

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  2 роки тому

      Sorry. Don’t know those players. Good luck.

    • @riverbelowmountain
      @riverbelowmountain Рік тому

      Learn in person from a qualified instructor preferably with martial arts experience. On line or DVDs are like eating a sandwithch with nothing inside it...

    • @TaiChiGhost
      @TaiChiGhost 9 місяців тому

      @@riverbelowmountain That is correct! You must be in close proximity to a qualified Master in order to have him/her release your energy. It is much like the way one candle is used to light another, or a powerful magnet can magnetize another piece of iron. But I like the analogy of eating a sandwich of eating a sandwich with nothing in it too.

  • @sastiebel
    @sastiebel 6 років тому

    Learned from Jean Larue in Buffalo, NY circa 1976, any info? Yes thank you for posting these origins. I’ve been wondering for years.

    • @mdgilman
      @mdgilman  6 років тому

      Sorry. Can't help you with info on Larue.

  • @mns8732
    @mns8732 7 років тому

    remarkable

  • @Obstsalatissimo
    @Obstsalatissimo 7 років тому

    now that's what I call weight distribution! Nearly 100 % in spite of big frame / long steps.

  • @blacklight7814
    @blacklight7814 7 років тому

    TNX :))

  • @petrsvarctchajti
    @petrsvarctchajti 6 років тому

    Video with historical value. It clearly shows degradation in the quality of taijiquan from one generation to another.

  • @MalaysianViewer
    @MalaysianViewer 7 років тому

    Master Choy Hak Pang name written in Chinese is what? 蔡??

  • @jaugmartins
    @jaugmartins 5 років тому

    This is real Tai Chi. This kind of Tai Chi doesn't exist anymore!

    • @joshpickles9022
      @joshpickles9022 4 роки тому

      What specifically makes it real tai chi?

    • @markdonovan1540
      @markdonovan1540 4 роки тому +1

      @@joshpickles9022 good question. I expect we all have different answers. What's real and unreal is unfortunately a construct of our own minds. Nobody really knows. Those who think they know, good luck to them. Those who admit they don't know, like me, we have to keep practising until we feel it deeply and constantly. Then the question of what is real and unreal will probably become either apparent or irrelevant.

    • @unclesam3136
      @unclesam3136 4 роки тому +1

      Of course it does, just not sponsored by the CCP.

  • @ironcagedragon
    @ironcagedragon 3 роки тому

    If I did the form like that in front of my Masters they would not be pleased.

    • @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574
      @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 3 роки тому +1

      That's too bad.

    • @ironcagedragon
      @ironcagedragon 3 роки тому

      @@sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 For good, thank goodness.

    • @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574
      @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 3 роки тому +1

      @@ironcagedragon I had no CLUE what you were really trying to say to begin with. Passively but still aggressively being disrespectful? You know, the whole, "My style is "better" than that style.", or "My form is "superior" to this form.", kind of thing? But I gave you the benefit of the doubt, thinking surely if "Mr. Froste" has been studying ANY style or form for even a relatively short time, he must know that just because YOU learn something one way, it doesn't mean another's way is not just as valid and valuable as yours. 🙂 I'm sure you know that.

    • @ironcagedragon
      @ironcagedragon 3 роки тому +1

      @@sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 HA HA HA

    • @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574
      @sistertracy-thechurchofroc6574 3 роки тому

      @@ironcagedragon 🙂🙏 Have a blessed day. Good luck.