Practiced the two lines of positive circle all day! I think everybody is getting it by the evening! Are you now eels, snakes, or sticks?
Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
My flight to Vancouver is rescheduled. I will be missing an hour of practice this morning in Maple Ridge! What's in store for us this weekend? More push hands or more forms?
Master Hong Sen is the grandson of Grandmaster Hong Junsheng. This video is from his demonstration in 2003 at Grandmaster Li Enjiu’s Standard Bearer ceremony in Jinan, Shandong, China. He demonstrated on behalf of the Hong family.
Taped part one of the series on taiji preparations: Hand, Elbow and Shoulder. Thanks Alex and Mat for helping with the video production. It should be ready online next week. Read more
Han Yigong was born in 1967. He studied Xinyi Liuhe when he was young. In 1993 he started Hunyuan Taiji with Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang. In 2006 he became a disciple of Grandmaster Feng. Currently he is the head of the China People’s University Hunyuan Taiji Center. He has the designation of 4th Dan in Chinese Martial Arts. Read more
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
This term refers to the attempt to engage in rotation without the ability to maintain one’s center. This flaw results in destabilization of structure and balance, and loss of power as a consequence. In Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method “tossing” is considered one of the ills of the practice, a weakness to be overcome if progress is to occur.
http://practicalmethod.com/2010/11/tossing-online-video-trailer/
Some from Tim; some from Xu Jing. Wangting refers to the founder of Chen Style Taijiquan Chen Wangting. Read more
This afternoon we managed to taped a 25-minute session on the error of Tossing. In this mini lesson, I had to integrate the concepts of tossing, moving and rotation into one. Really, I could not talk about Tossing in isolation. An exercise called 3-count stepping was introduced to combat Tossing.
Thank you very much Allan, Mat, Alex and Andy for being part of this. The video will be available on Monday, if not sooner. Click here to see the video.
Thank you very much Allan, Mat, Alex and Andy for being part of this. The video will be available on Monday, if not sooner. Click here to see the video.
This is Lee’s Yilu after three months on Daqingshan. Video was made at his participation at the Yiyuan Taiji Competition.
This is Paul fter three months on Daqingshan at the full time taiji training program.
Movement: move that does not cause your opponent to feel the impact.
Action: movement that causes the opponent to feel the impact.
Overall method should be: movement to get in (squeeze) and then action (one of the eight techniques).
All moves in taiji are repeatations of this: movement, action, movement, action, …
When you move, don’t push; when you push, don’t move.
Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Yilu by Michael Winkler on Oct. 11, 2010
Fist round of corrections for Matt, Alex and Yao Lixun this afternoon. I hope to correct their form 4 times during their full time stay in Edmonton this fall. Videos to follow later.
4 hours of flight, 2 hours of private lessons and 3 more hours of public class. A busy day. A good day. It’s good to be back to Ottawa/Gatineau to see friends and students.
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I will be in Ottawa Friday for some private lessons and then two full days on the weekend.
This workshop will be on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method foundations, Yilu and push hands.
This workshop will be on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method foundations, Yilu and push hands.
At the full time class in Edmonton this afternoon, I taught the concept of in and out. The general principle is: “The inside must stay inside; the outside must stay outside”. Translating this into taiji movement terms, it is “In with elbow; out with hand”.
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Zhu Dongsheng, Hu and Chu of Lin Yi came to visit last night. They left this morning to Rizhao. I taught about the taiji movement of “moving without movement” using two tea cups. Zhu took the cups as a souvenir.
Wu Shaozhi of Linyi and Chen Xu of Zibo came to visit. They stayed for two days. Watched Wu’s form, made corrections and comments. He made progress again. Chen Xu came to Daqingshan through the Zibo Taijiquan Competition held in Yiyuan that the Daqingshan team attended. His push hands was quite good. He noticed that the feeling of push hands is not what he expected from observing my students at the competition.
The students left for Rizhao at 4:45 this morning to perform a demonstration at the Rizhao National Water Games on the Wan Pingkou Beach. They will spend the day in Rizhao after the demonstration.
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赤日高挂，晴空如洗，嵩山逶迤，春树勃发。那少林古寺，危簷大院，鳞次栉比，随山就势，气象庄严，真无愧禅宗祖庭之誉。寺内香烟缭绕，磬钵鸣奏，梵唱悠扬，原来正在作法事。 Read more
The front must be full and the back must be stable. You can push from the back but not the front.
Master Xu Guicheng recalls that Grandmaster Hong Junsheng did not like the saying “Entice into emptiness” as it denotes two actions. He preferred “Withdraw is to issue.”
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