Yang Uses

Yang energy, while of equal importance to Yin energy, tends to be the type of energy that students are first taught to use in actual implementation, because it is used for some of the simpler techniques.

• Protecting against an attack
• hardening fist/foot for an attack
• increasing power of a punch
• Brick Breaking (esp. Selective Brick Breaking)
• Healing
• Telekinesis (yes, yin or yang can be used for this)
  
• Ice Walk (different than Walks On Ice)
  
• Iron Palm/Iron Body

It is mainly because the first 5 items mentioned here are typically among the first practical uses of chi taught that makes yang so much more sought after than yin.

It is also important to mention that there are many skills which require a combination of yin and yang energy together to perform (and so thy are typically considered much more advanced)