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Ping Wei detailed correction. Here Master Chen goes to a lot of details and shows higher requirement than usual as Ping has practiced for some years
This is conducted in chinese, although I believe it is clear what is going on and Master Chen use the same word over and over so can pick up some word.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 54 min. In: Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5
Detailed Yilu Correction and Application with Master Bon and Massimo. Foundation Explanations. Use of Staff for alignment
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 93 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:1/5 At:Italy
Body Part Proportion; Movement without losing power; Matching to be full; Use rubber cord to restrain upper body; Michael Koh Yilu parts; Theory and practical advise on learning; Yin yang separation; Relationships; Gears
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 57 min. In: English &Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Singapore
Elbow in exercise;Don’t lose it;Spiral force and kungfu;Exercise no fighting; look for energy; Circle without the hand moving; Harmony; Discusson on theory
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 56 min. In: English & Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Singapore
Correction of Louise (17min) , Spencer (15min), Lutz (15min)
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 40 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5
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A method for a short cut; Changing the focus; Cord exercise detail; Double heavy test;Punch alignment test; How to enhance power. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 46 min. In: English/Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Singapore
Front forward, back backwards; What is stretch; Movement over quality; What is fajin; Common language; Central equilibrium; Relax fang song; Feet dang positions; Touching point cannot move; Positive circle detail
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 42 min. In: English Year: 2009 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
The longer the better;Triangulation, missing line in a triangle;Adhere; Size of stance; One third rule and lever; Push from the feet; How to move, transmission of power;
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 74 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
The shape and actions of the kua in Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
How to produce power in the body. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
Weight shifting or weight switching is an important technical principle of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
The shape of the hand in Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. The hand and fingers are shaped like an ancient Chinese roof tile. This ensures that the base is tight and the fingers span out. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
Daqingshan 2012 summer push hands training evening session trailer.
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A mini lesson showing the Yin/Yang two cylinder rotations and how it relates to Six Sealing Foundation and other moves.
Related: “Kua Function” Mini Lesson
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 6 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
On the way from China to Vancouver workshop, Master Chen has a free day to talk and demonstrate basic principle often misunderstood in Taijiquan. Using “Six Sealing and Four Closing” to show how to split of yin and yang. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Stanley Park Vancouver, Canada
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Master Chen says that separation of yin and yang is rotation in today’s terms. He also mentions that stretching is an instance of separation of yin and yang. Today, I came to a realization that when the circle becomes infinitely small, rotation and stretching are really one and the same. The key is that the setup needs 3 points, and one action, which is the rotation, at the centre or the pivoting point or the fixed point. The rotation at the centre is the only thing I can do to ensure that the other 2 points are opposites but of the exact same size. For example, if I just move the hands in opposite directions, since there is no relationship between them (no 3rd point linking the two together), there is no guarantee that their actions are the same in size. At the beginning, I can visualize how the dantian acts the centre and modulates the other 2 points (hand and foot). Hopefully in the future, I can place the centre/fixed point anywhere inside or outside of the body as desired like Master Chen said.
In order to materialize this theory in practice, more training in foundation and yilu will be the way to go.
http://practicalmethod.com/2012/10/yin-yang-split-online-video-trailer/
A mini lesson on push hand application during workshop. Stretch to match incoming push, then add one to unbalance opponent. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
Which part of the body moves;The right feedback is whent there isn’t any; Eyes fixed on one direction; 3 vertical lines on the body; What is loose; Magic number 3; Procedure: rigid then relaxed; Twist Towel Fetch Water detail; Two-person exercise; Climb and go over
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 76 min. In: English Year: 2009 Difficulty:1/5 At:Toronto
Ketong Lin correction; set the line then split from the center; first ground oncoming power, then act; shoulder rotation; two halves of the circle; power connected to the ground; what is solid
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 33 min. In: English & Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5 At:Hong Kong
Newly uploaded, covering 20 topics among them: Separation of Yin Yang; Aim: alignment, 3-directions in the circle; Sequence of movement; Don’t Follow: separation; What to move, what not to move; Push is a stretch
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 68 min. In: English Year: 2009 Difficulty:2/5
Clip of Master Chen instructing chinese student and explanation of importance of having stretch in yilu
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
Lecture and demonstration of body structure relationship.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 25 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton
Matching Opponent Move Exercise, Creating Pivoting point, Rotation: if you feel it, you are wrong, Yin yang explanation, Stepping exercise: leg, erect torso. Six sealing Four closing application. Read more
1 ‘Block Touching Coat’ Application , 2 ‘Fist Draping Over Body’ Details, 3 ‘Six Sealing and Four Closing’ Drill, 4 Power,rotation and compression, 5 Foundations Training, 6 Converting horizontal to vertical, 7 Movement sequence and usage
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 62 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Prague
Proportional Movement is the key to having an even body. Master Chen show how he can mirror the opponent movement to harmonize and then add one. He goes on to show how to train fine control on all body parts to embody this principle.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
How to generate power, how to break opponent structure. Power is created by body structure, understanding how this principle work allow students to hide their structure while at the same time attack the weak point of opponent structure.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 16 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Master Chen talk in chinese on Daqingshan on various aspect of Taijiquan: 阴阳，训练难度，内部和外部协调，横力转竖力 Yin Yang, Training difficulty, inside & outside coordination, horizontal and vertical conversion.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 32 min. In: Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
Shoulder joint connection is a complicated one, in this mini lesson, Master Chen demonstrate the correct principle and correct student’s shoulder movement
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
How to connect the energy of the waist and dang to the feet. Legs are the support of waist, and waist provide power to arms. Master Chen show a method to train this with partner, and switching this support to either leg depending on situation.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
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Mini Lesson demonstrating the Five Disallowance in Taijiquan. No Hands; No Waist; No Hips/Buttocks; No Shoulders; No Knees
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
In Taijiquan power must be generated from a point removed from the point of action. This clip show the difference of local power vs indirect power and a method to train indirect power with partner
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
In preparation for Push Hand competition, Master Chen taught full time students a technique using Li (Rollback) energy
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
In this mini lesson, Master Chen taught a method to redirect push on the chest to the feet.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
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This short video demonstrate the three requirements for shouder, elbow, kua in Twist Towel. It started in Chinese then instructions repeated in English.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: Chinese+English Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
Student review: Foundation move contains the essence of taijiquan move, knowing the requirement and seeing how it should be done helps in improving my yilu. Twist towel looks simple but doing it correctly requires coordinating different body parts in a strict sequence.
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Training Method
Mini Lesson on body alignment to create sticks in the body. Master Chen also demonstrate a training method to bring out these sticks.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 11 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
Related Video: “Two Sticks in the Body 1” Online Video
1. Beginning. 2. Volume 6. 3. How to get in. 4. Big Red Fist. 5. Teaching part one. 6. Teaching part two. 7. Teaching part three. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 38 min. In: Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:4/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji, China
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Mini Lesson demonstrating the requirement and energy focus of the two moves in positive circle
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan
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Two Person Exercise
Mini Lesson on generating power from waist rotation instead of from the arm. Master Chen then show a two person exercise how to develop the waist to arm connection.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort
1. Beginning. 2. Yin Yang separation. 3. Differential 1. 4. Differential 2. 5. Differential 3. 6. Differential 4. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 43 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton
