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Mini lesson about finding triangle structure in the body
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 4:50   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Iowa

The Triangles
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Mini lesson on how suspended head make for a stronger structure
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 7 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Iowa

Suspended Head and Structure
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Lining up and Connecting, Learning Process
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 15 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Berlin

Lining up and Connecting
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Explanation on static/stable power and how to train for it.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 7 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Iowa

Stable Power
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Demonstration of Yilu applications
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 6 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:3/5  At:Iowa

Applications - Iowa
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Mini lesson on three steps in circle: in with elbow, turn with the waist, out with hand.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 5 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Iowa

Circles 1,2,3
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Mini lesson on how to apply a lever on the opponent, explaining the steps of setting up an anchor and staying on.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 9 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Iowa

How to apply a lever
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Introduction for new students of Practical Method, how to practice, body orientation, opening the kua, foot placement. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 29 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Perth

Practical Method Introduction Perth
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua  Length: 47 mins  Difficulty: 1/5  Language: English  
Year: 2013  Location: Australia  

Basic Foundations 2013
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1. Beginning
2. Positive circle part one
3. Positive circle part two
4. Positive circle part three
5. Positive circle part four
6. Double positive circle
7. Double positive circle moving step (Big Red Fist)
8. Negative circle
9. Double negative circle
10. Positive-negative circle (Pole shaking)
11. Fetch water
12. Six sealing and four closing
13. Full Yilu demonstration in Perth.

Basic Foundation Video 2009 can be found here.


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Lesson on  foundations (Block Touching Coat 1, BTC1) which train leg and arm stretch, separation and connection.  BTC1 applications were taught exclusively. Read more

Mini Lesson on how to make 1-2-3 relations in the body and training methods. The body is divided into many sections of three-joints. In each section, there is a special way the three joints must work. In many schools, this is also called the three circles of taijiquan.

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 7 min + 12 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Iowa

1,2,3 interactions
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Mini Lesson on how direction of movement is changed through the workings of waist, dang, kua, knee and foot exchanges. The example used for this concept is the circles in the foundation exercises.

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 16 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Berlin

Changing Direction in Positive Circle
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Unedited talks during class session on Daqingshan. Cannon Fist details and indirect power explanation.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 30 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Daqingshan

DQS Class 06-13
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Timing Accuracy Structure, 5 Yes and 5 No, Inside stays inside Outside stays outside, Positive Circle, Positive Circle individual corrections, Positive Circle creating space,
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 42 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Berlin

Berlin Workshop 2013-3
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Mini lesson on how to train by being clear in yilu
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 5 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Iowa

Slow moves to train the core
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Mini lesson on how every movement must pivot on something.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 5 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Iowa

Foot in Ground Dragon
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Some theory, three lines of energy, kua must be open,shoulder-kua-wrist hand must be dead, peng energy, moving step, stepping exercise,pulling exercise
turning of joints, use connection not power, what does it mean to relax.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 70 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Berlin

Berlin Workshop 2013-2
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Concepts covered in this video: 1) Separation of Yin and Yang. 2) The crucial angle of 45 degrees. 3) Creating and maintaining a structure. 4) Separation of bone and muscle. 5) Daoist philosophy. 6) How to line up energy and movement. 7) Positive circle.  Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 70 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty: 1/5  At: Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Workshop 2013-1
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Stepping and the sequence of movements, Take out space, Move the floor not the body, Push without breaking the seal,  Transfer the power from inside to the outside, Read more

1. The human body and machine. 2. Shoulder-torso separation. 3. Upper and lower body separation. 4. Open the power to the outside. 5. How to go down. 6. Stretch out. Read more

1. In with elbow, out with hand. 2. Details of the Positive Circle. 3. Ji: engagement. 4. Loose and Tight. 5. Inside and Outside. 6. Rotations. 7. Move or no move. 8. Sinking: Stable Switching. Read more

The theory of two scales in the body and how to use it to match opponent force. Lesson and demonstration
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Read more

Application of the second half of the positive circle, how each attack has to go over the opponent’s defense. Detailed instruction and corrections.   Read more

The hand will have the ability to issue and withdraw power when it is properly aligned with the elbow. This is a fundamental exercise that will enable future improvements in taiji push hands. Without the hand-elbow alignment and connection, indirect power cannot be developed.

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 38 min.   In: English & Chinese   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Daqingshan

Hand Elbow Alignment
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Lesson on how orientation changes the generated power.  One of the aims of taiji practice is to develop the ability to convert energy. Indirect power is a type of converted power. This video shows how to convert power from horizontal to vertical alignment.  Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 11 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At: Oakland, CA. USA.

Horizontal-vs-Vertical
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Demonstration and application of suspended head saying in Taijiquan
“everything move, the head doesn’t move”
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 5 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Perth

Suspended Head Mini Lesson
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A demonstration and instruction on how to practice with power, to train for evenness in the body
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 17 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:3/5  At:Greater Vancouver

How To Move Without Losing Power
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 A detailed lesson on usage of knee in stepping, how the sections of the leg: hip. knee, feet, toes are related.

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 9 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Toronto

Knee in Stepping
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Three Energies:Which part of the body goes out, which ones goes toward dan tian, and which one don’t move. This clip was rendered by mistake since it is already part of Body Part Functions 2012

Second Video:  Anchor Point and Intention, how the anchor point of your move change the intent of the move.

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 5+5 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Vancouver and Perth

Three Energies of Taiji and Anchor Point
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Note: a new video is added to this post, as clip of Three Energies of Taiji is also part of Body Part Functions 2012 (it was rendered twice by mistake)

Private lesson for new student covering foundation and yilu

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 48 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:New Hampshire

Walther Private
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Highlights from two days workshop covering many important concepts: 1) Relationship moving and unmoving 2) Matching opponent’s force 3) Joint movement as wedge power 4) How to maintain relationship in yilu 5) Matching stretch in several dimensions 6) Changing locking point in circle 7) Elbow position in circle 8) Vertical switch with suspended head.  Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 63 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Greater Vancouver

Maple Ridge Workshop 2013-6
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Private lesson covering yilu correction and application.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 38 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Phoenix

Clevenger Private Lesson
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Theory and demonstration of how to use the triangle structure to generate rotational force

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 36 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:3/5  At:New York

Three Points
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Correction of common basic mistakes in Yilu practice, exercises how to open joint

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 56 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:San Francisco

Patrick Private Lesson
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General theory of practical method: door hinge and the vertical axis. Lever and the pivoting point.  Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 17 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At: Oakland, CA. USA

General theory of practical method
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Knee action, how it relate to body movement. An exercise how to train the taiji way to use kua instead of the knee.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 8:53   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:Oakland

Knee cap and Taiji
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Footage from New York workshop, Peel Off technique, talk on what does training the body mean, In and out two persons drill
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 22 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:1/5  At:New York

New York 2013 Footage
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Yin Yang separation movements. Movement vs rotation.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 47 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:2/5  At:Daqingshan

DQS Lecture 1-2013
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Detailed demonstrations on the different ways each move can be used depending on how the opponent reacts
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 29 min.   In: English   Year: 2013  Difficulty:4/5  At:New York

13 Applications NY 2013
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An effective move in push hand competition, Master Chen teach in Chinese and English how to train for this mo
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 10 min.   In: English & Chinese   Year: 2012  Difficulty:5/5  At:Daqingshan

Sink Waist To Press Elbow
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