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Master Chen Zhonghua’s 1999 seminar in Toronto for the Canadian Taijiquan Federation members. The seminar touches upon qigong, taiji theory and push hands. The video and sound results are less than desirable in this historical video.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 327 min. In: English Year: 1999 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Tons of taiji applications, especially qinna techniques by Master Wang Jinxuan at the first annual Daqingshan Hong Junsheng International Taijiquan Conference and Competition.
Author: Wang Jinxuan Length: 43 min. In: Mandarin Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Two movies on students at Daqingshan interacting with high level champions, as another way to learn taiji.
Author: Liu Ni, etc. Length: 35 min. In: English & Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
In this mini lesson held at a Toronto workshop, Master Chen Zhonghua started by explaining the intricate 360 degree rotation of the shoulder in a positive circle and went on the explain many important taiji movement concepts including how two points link, how many points work together, etc.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 32 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
In these videos, you will learn how to use taiji energy in push hands situations. Both Chen Zhonghua and Steven Chan are highly accomplished in taiji push hands.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5, 6 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:4/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
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1. beginning. 2. Full time on Daqingshan. 3. Coordination of the two halves of the circle. 4. Gino Nasato Yilu. 5. Blake Norman Yilu parts. 6. Competition judges arriving on Daqingshan. 7. Practice at 6:30 am. 8. Chen Zhonghua making corrections. 9. Foundations with Hong Sen. 10. Cannon to the Gate and applications. 11. Hands on with K.T. Lin. 12. Lunch at Daqingshan. 13. Demonstration of how “Fetch Water” works. 14. Straight places must curve; curved places must open. 15. Circle in reality and in action. 16. Contacting point and power point. 17. Movement rhythm. 18. In and out movement sequence. 19. Two energies causing one movement. 20. Movement perimeters. 21. Steven Chan and Sun Jian pushing.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 77 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 29 min. In: Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Actual footage of Master Chen Zhonghua’s teachings at the 2011 Daqingshan Full time Taijiquan session.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
In this video, Master Chen teaches an advanced method of Yilu training.
In each move there should be torque power, and it is generated by separating each movement to horizontal and vertical portions.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 12 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:4/5 At:Maple Ridge
2011 edition of Master Chen Zhonghua’s corrections of student Yilus. This is collection of 18 correction videos from Daqingshan full time student year of 2011.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10-20 min each. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort, etc.
Correction videos hosted on Youtube
Author: Li Enjiu Length: 73 min. In: Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
During an evening of art and calligraphy demonstration, Master Cai Shengye started showing some yilu moves and their applications in the multipurpose room of the Yulange Hotel on Daqingshan in May, 2011. Students involved are Nicholas Fung and Daniel Mroz.
Author: Cai Shengye Length: 18 min. In: Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Author: Li Enjiu Length: 70 min. In: Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Demonstration of distinct move Yilu. Correction of initial closing. Explanation of intention in redirecting opponent energy.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 18 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan
A continuation on push hand lesson, how to add after matching the opponent’s force. In this clip Master Chen Zhonghua demonstrated adding force toward the opponent while maintaining the balance of matching power.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 12 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Maple Ridge
Master Chen corrected circles of 12 students. Good video to see if you have the same mistakes.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 27 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan
A basic principle of push hand is first to match opponent’s force. In these two videos Master Chen Zhonghua shows different ways to match the opponent’s force, e.g: stepping back, changing the angle, switching weight, etc. Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3:56 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Maple Ridge
In this video, Master Chen Zhonghua points out some finer details of Erlu to Steve Chan.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:4/5 At:Daqingshan
Master Chen Zhonghua’s teaching recording on the principle of not moving the body while doing taiji. This is part of his lectures to the full time students on Daqingshan during the 2011 Daqingshan Hong Junsheng Taijiquan International Conference and Competition. Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 52 min. In: Chinese Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Montreal Workshop Nov. 2009 by Chen Zhonghua on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. There are 4 DVDs in this set. The following youtube video clips are from the four DVDs.
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Two Sticks: refers to the two part alignment of the body, which is part of the three-direction energy alignment of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system.
In this video, there are 15 Minutes of explanations and applications of the two sticks in the body in tai chi chuan practice by Master Chen Zhonghua Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 15 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:4/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
Chen Zhonghua. 15 minutes. English.
1. 13 moves in numbered moves front view.
2. 13 moves in numbered moves side view.
3. 13 moves with key points.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 15 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At:Helsinki, Finland
1. Upper And Lower Body Coordination 2. Rhythm In Yilu 3. How To Do A Proportional Movement
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 26 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:Maple Ridge
1. Beginning. 2. Private lesson with James Tam. 3. Details of “Turn Left to Pound Mortar”. 4. Wild Horse Parts its mane. 5. Stay on line. 6. How to stay on line in movements. 7. Stay on line. 8. No protrusion, no indentation. 9. Student practices. 10. Explanation and correction of “Fetch Water”. 11. Principles for body parts. 12. Rachelle Bergeron. 13. How to deal with protrusions. 14. Basic foundations for beginners.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 35 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:3/5 At:Ottawa, Canada
http://practicalmethod.com/2011/03/ottawa-workshop-march-11-13-2011-summary/
Master Chen Zhonghua’s 2011 New York Workshop Unedited video recording. This video contains 115 minutes of the workshop.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 115 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:New York
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Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 57 min. In: Mixed English & Chinese Year: 2010 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan, China Read more
1. Step up to Kao (Whole Body Hit). 2. Step up to Squeeze. 3. Flash the Back. 4. Rubbing Exercise. 5.Direct Block and Enter. 6. The fourth move of Brush the Knee in Oblique Stance. 7. Same side (with Foot) Elbow Strike.
Author: Chen Zhonghua; Gavin Sandeman Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:1/5 At:Ottawa, Canada
17 chapters of instruction on taiji push hands and applications. This is part of the 2010 Daqingshan full time course taught by Master Chen Zhonghua. While there are many applications and techniques taught in this video, the focus was on the differentiation of movement and tranquility (Don’t move) on corresponding parts of the body. Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 48 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
This is the private section of Chen Zhonghua’s Feb. 2011 Workshop in New York. It was meant to be a private teaching session for Michael Calandra and Dean Mayo. This video showed some higher level taiji skills and techniques and lots of training tips for students.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 30 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:4/5 At:New York
Push Hands practice, the meaning of “Don’t Move”
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At: Maple Ridge
1. Beginning. 2. Push Hands Demonstration with Massimo. 3. Push Hands Demonstration with Master Bon. 4. Push Hands Demonstration with Bruno. 5. Partial Yilu Demonstration. 6. Bang exercise. 7. Positive Circle. 8. Kua Movement. 9. Shoulder and Kua Relationship. 10. Head. 11. Two Shoulders. 12. Thigh.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 19 min. In: English and Italian Year: 2010 Difficulty:2/5 At:Italy
1. Beginning. 2. Circle Corrections. 3. The Stretch. 4. The Replacement Stretch. 5. Dont’ Move Your Hand!
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 38 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton
Length: 56 min. In: Chinese Year: 2010 Difficulty:3/5 At:Weifang, China
1. Beginning. 2. Introduction. 3. A demonstrative explanation. 4. Relation to other concepts. 5. Application of Contact. 6. Student experiment. 7. Summary. 8. Describing “Contact”. 9. “Contact” drills.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 32 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton
In this video, Master Chen Zhonghua taught a few applications and push hands moves. Master Chen also allowed himself to be a practice dummy for students.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 29 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:2/5 At:Maple Ridge, B.C. Canada
1. beginning. 2. Where is the energy in the body? 3. Points of reference. 4. Primary stance. 5/6. Moving drill. 7. Stepping drill. 8. How to borrow power? 9/10 Friction help with energy. 11. Method for sensitivity. 12. Hips. 13. Open the kua. 14. Structure as power. 15. Cut the shoulder off: no shoulder. 16. Touch with many spots. 17. Body part requirements. 18. “Relax”. 19. Focus on one stationery spot. 20. Open. 21. Negative Circle.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 86 min. In: English Year: 2009 Difficulty:2/5 At:Puerto Rico
85 minutes of private workshop in Langford, Victoria, B.C. Canada on theory and applications of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 82 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:2/5 At:Victoria, Canada
1. beginning. 2. Hunyuan Qigong training. 3. Hunyuan Qigong lecture. 4. Size of internal movements. Read more
