Die Yang-Familie, so erklärt Meister Yang Zhenduo legt viel Wert auf ein Motto, das sich auf die Schulter, Ellbogen, Handgelenke und Finger bezieht. Demzufolge soll man die Ellbogen nach außen strecken und eine Höhlung in den Achseln herstellen. Die Ellbogen ziehen dabei die Schultern nach unten. Dies wiederum erleichtert die beim Tai Chi geforderte Verbindung mit den Handgelenken und den Fingern.

Mit dieser peniblen Vorbereitung können sich die anderen Körperteile leichter verketten und die im Tai Chi geforderte Einheit im Körper herstellen.

his connection is not just mental, but you can actually feel that precisely this movement of the upper limbs causes you to 'hold the chest in', which in turn induces 'pulling up the back', leading to 'relaxation of waist and hips' and ultimately bringing about '(movement proceeds) from feet to legs to waist', so 'all the joints are working interconnectedly as a whole'. You can get an internal sensation of the integration of all these principles and how they support each other. The sense of energy (jing4 gan3) created by this, and the sensation of the whole-body working together are things which every player must work toward and actually experience. This is crucial to successfully learning taiji. From this we can see that the Twenty-Character motto separately relates to every individual posture of taiji and as a whole determines the connected completion of the entire form. I hope that students will diligently seek to understand this, and experience the 'sensation of energy' induced by this 'extend','hollow','pull down', and 'connect'.

This will aid your overall level of training as well as the practice of connecting the internal and external