Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 minutes Language: Enlgish Chapters: 1 Year: 2010 Location: Edmonton
This is a video suited for the general public, with a view to specifically help those who are familiar with a taiji form choreography. In 60 minutes, Master Chen Zhonghua clearly demonstrated the hand-foot relationships in every move of the entire Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Yilu routine.
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This video is a must have item. It clearly shows for all the moves in the form the necessary Hand and Foot connections to achieve alignment and to make your Taiji an internal martial art. Great examples showing ligament versus bone usage. A huge depth of knowledge is revealed for all levels of practitioner. An excellent companion piece for the Energy Alignment series.
This video is such an excellent source for explaining what other instructor’s can’t explain. Master Chen has again revealed his great depth of knowledge and shares it with us. A must have video!
Great demonstration of gears, rotation, leverage, displacement, separation and connection. I see them in Master Chen’s movement.
Very good video. I have learned Yang style and another Chen style in the past and will try and learn the Practical Method Yilu from the resource material you have available. This really helped explain the concept of double weighting which I was never clear about. The concept of pivot points was enlightening as well. The Practical Method really makes sense to me and I am so glad I have found your site and thank you for being so open to sharing your information.
Hong’s own writing on Double Heavy will give you a clear idea.
http://practicalmethod.com/lang/en/1986/10/problems-in-learning-taiji-by-hong-junsheng/
Another valuable mini-lesson by Shifu Chen Zhonghua. In my personal training, one of the concepts that has given me the most difficulty in putting to practice is how to connect the hand to the foot. I previously tried it in many ways but found that I was actually causing the opposite effect and would end up using upper body power in my practice. This video’s simple format has allowed me to see clearly where I was wrong and how to fix my circles in order to have true lower body power with the hand/foot connection. I highly recommend this video lesson.
Really very helpful to see his use of the kua & how he switches power to one side or the other! Clearly demonstrated, useful analogies, helpful discussion…
Overall a fantastic video (not recommended for the beginner). Thank you Master Chen!
Again, this is a very valuable video! When already learned the coreograohy of the yilu, with this video one can go through the whole form again, following Master Chen’s clear instructions according to the connection of hand and foot.
Following these instructions I have the feeling to gain lots of more content into my yilu. I’m really looking forward to see Master Chen the next time for hands on instructions, and meanwhile I just feel perfect support through these videos (I did also appreciate “Yilu-Detailled Instructions”, “Energy Alignment”, the “Tossing Online Video” and much more of all the online videos).
One can get a very good and close idea what and how to train with this video.
Thanks to Master Chen “Josef” Zhonghua very much for all this support!
Do you have Chinese subtitles for this video? I want to buy this video but cannot understand the language.
Sorry we don’t have Chinese subtitiles for this videos. We are planning to make videos in Chinese language in the summer of 2012.
Fantastic video!!! Thank you Master Chen. This clearly shows how to utilize the lines established between hand and foot to generate Taiji power….and how important our attention to them really are. The step by step guidance through the Yilu of where all those connections should be generated seems so absolutely essential. Not to mention all the other important pieces of information on switching using kua, anchor points and anchor lines, the track, etc. Really incredible how much great taiji instruction is packed into this 1 hour lesson!