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This really annoys me, and I don't know why.  Thursday's class contained a lengthy exploration of the yin triangles.  We were feeling the triangle from the tantien to the quas, then expanding that out in both directions, so that we went down to the feet and up to the sternum (upper center of mass,) and eventually up to the yin half of the crown point, each successive climb up picking up the more lateral points, such as the shoulder quas, and each triangle running all the way down to the feet.  Each step of the way we were to feel this foot to increasingly distant point as a real connection,

I've been wondering about the relationship between I Liq Chuan and traditional Tai Chi principles.  I am wondering if they are related, strongly related, or exactly one and the same.  I remember Michael Phillip's kai men exercises.  It seems the majority of them were aimed at opening up the ribs in every conceivable direction.  Having seen his form performed on Youtube, the quality of movement seems very serpentine, kind of elastic looking in a way.  There's a very obvious lag between when his hips turn, his chest turns, and his arms follow.  I understand this to be the way the Yang Tai Chi