It was in the mid 1980s when I discovered the books of Dr. Yang Jwing Ming. I was already practicing the Yang Long Fist T'ai Chi Chaun. But I was just taught the form and not is use for combat. At the time that was not my interest. However Dr Yang began to write about the uses of T'ai Chi for self defense and I took note.
When his books started showing his chin na I found much of it similar to what Tristan Sutrisno was showing me as the applications of his art.
When I showed him the book, he immediately began flipping pages and picking various applications then showing his version. He was most impressed at how much it was what his father taught him.
Then when I got Dr. Yang's two books on Advanced Tai Chi I was most impressed at the description of how Chin Na was categorized by him.
1. How that movement could be used to down an enemy.
2. How that movement could be used to strike in a cavity (I understood that as a vital point)
3. How that movement contained chin na control over an opponent’s attack.
I bought many of his VHS tapes on Chin Na as well as other topics.
Here is his Tai C'hi ChinNa video, it has a lot of valuable information demonstrated.
Tai Chi ChinNa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWbaEEEEcVQ
The original YouTube video was deleted but here is a foreign version of the video.
Of course there is much more to the story. See the following older posts on that.
https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/2019/10/dr-yang-jwing-ming-memory-of-man.html
https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/2014/11/further-clinic-memories.html
https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/2020/03/another-look-at-potential-use-of-chin.html
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