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Toronto Push Hands Workshop on April 24, 2022 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2022/04/09

Push hands is an exercise that examines your understanding of the Taiji principle: Separation of Yin and Yang. While form training transforms your body, push hands provides an opportunity for you to apply your Taiji knowledge and skill. It has also become a popular sporting event both in China and abroad. This workshop is suitable for beginners as well as people at different levels of their training. If you have never tried it before, this is a great opportunity for you to do it in a friendly and safe environment.

推手是一种让人检查对太极原理（分阴阳）理解的练习。套路训练可以改变人的身体结构，而推手则提供了运用太极拳知识和技能的机会。它已成为国内外流行的体育赛事。这训练班适合推手初学者及不同程度培训的太极爱好者。如果您以前从未尝试过推手，那么这是个让你在友好与安全的环境中初次尝试的绝佳机会。

Master Chen Zhonghua Online Lesson on Dec. 31, 2021 – Kelvin Ho i

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/12/31

Increase speed in the same direction.

Six Sealing Four Closing – First break the elbow, if that fails, yank the whole arm off the shoulder.

Machine gun exercise – Twisting the towel

Do first 13 with speed, one move at a time.

When you practice intensively, don’t go overboard. Take a break before continuing.

Introduction to Kelvin Ho 2021 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/12/06

Lock the top, stretch to rotate i

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/09/19

Tai Chi @ Richmond Green (Free Event) on Sep 11, 2021 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/07/02

This is a new free community event to be hosted on the three selected Saturdays of July, August and September in 2021. It introduces tai chi as a morning exercise to start the day off. It also celebrates the re-opening of our cities in Ontario.
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Taiji Kids Martial Art Class i

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/06/26

Starting on July 7, 2021 – 8 classes
Wednesdays: 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm
Saturdays: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Location: Near Markham Civic Centre
Content: Taiji foundations and the Practical Method 13-form
For more information, please see https://5lovehd.com/wap/hwtemp.asp?id=616

Kelvin Ho reached 35,000 yilus on Apr 2, 2021 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/05/10

Kelvin Ho’s 2020 Review and 2021 Plan 5

by Kelvin Ho on 2021/01/10

2020 was a very different year. The world suffered from covid-19, everyone had to experience a lot of changes. Master Chen Zhonghua used to hold workshops all over the world non-stop throughout the year, which was inevitably halted, but Practical Method seeked to adapt and developed an online teaching platform with the latest technology. From a set of random classes to regularly scheduled classes by the beginning of 2021, the participating students made rapid progress and benefited a lot from them. This was largely due to being able to have more timely access to Master Chen Zhonghua and his instructors for guidance. The pandemic created an opportunity to allow a new level of Practical Method to soar to a higher level in the new year. Read more

PM Friday Night Practice on Dec. 4, 2020 1

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/12/04

Fetch water with the rubber cord

Step on one end of the cord to lock it on the ground, pull it with the rear hand.
Train opening of the front kua.
Find the appropriate strength in the rubber cord to be strong enough that we cannot use the hands/arms to stretch it, but weak enough that we can use the kua to stretch it. Read more

Locking the two ends and moving the middle with sword i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/11/11

The video showed 3 moves of the Practical Method Straight Sword form, namely, Left cut wrist, Right cut wrist and Sweep down one thousand soldiers. Read more

Master Chen’s Online Lesson on Sep 10, 2020 – Kelvin Ho 1

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/09/10

Today, Master Chen corrected the following students’ partial yilu:

Karen Mattox
Gerry Gebhart
Albert Chung

Single Whip

Master Chen used the foot shovelling out in single whip as an example to talk about the concept of using a stick to pry open something. We shove the stick into a crack, then the front end of the stick cannot move anymore and stays in the same place. We can then make the crack bigger by prying with the stick. The key is that the one of the stick is not moving. As we pry, we may meet resistence, we can add a longitudinal rotation as we pry, it will allow the stick to go over the resistence. Regarding the single whip, we want to make sure that the toes do not point up as we shovel so that we can apply the longitudinal rotation on the entire left leg. As we shovel the left foot, the weight must stay on the right foot. As we shift over to half horse stance, the longitudinal rotation on the left leg occurs at the same time. Read more

Master Chen’s Online Lesson on Sep 8, 2020 – Kelvin Ho 2

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/09/08

Six Sealing Four Closing 六封四闭

Grandmaster Hong Junsheng studied the names of each move. He looked into the origin of these names, and how the pronounciation might have changed when the information was passed down based on the dialect of the region. The dialects in China can be so different that people from one region might not understand people from another region at all.
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Master Chen’s Online Lesson on Sep 3, 2020 – Kelvin Ho 1

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/09/03

Master Chen demonstrated the foundation exercise Moving-Step Shake the pole, which is the positive and negative circle. He held a real pole to begin with to show the idea behind the foundation exercise. He locked his fron hand, which was holding the pole as a pivot. The rear hand moved the pole. Read more

Master Chen’s Online Lesson on Sep 2, 2020 – Kelvin Ho i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/09/02

Master Chen corrected a few people’s partial yilu today. Each person should remember himself/herself the stopping point, and so it can be continued from that point in future lessons when it is that person’s turn for correction again.

To stretch, we need to so find anchors on the two ends.

Empty means solid, it means power.

We need to find a line in ourselves. Master Chen showed Tinh Thai a version of fetch water that line up her rear elbow with the front hand. We need to make sure that the front shoulder is not in the way.

If we want to have grip in the hands, we need to have grip in the teeth and in the toes.

Toronto Area Cannon Fist Class i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/08/29

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Master Chen’s Online Lesson on Aug 25, 2020 – Kelvin Ho i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/08/25

Moving Step Positive Circle

Hold your head up, tuck the chin.
Each body part performs its own duty. Don’t merge together.
Factory workers work, not everyone does the same job, but at the same time.
Example: Move the feet back and forth by themselves, keep the central axis upright, move your hand out and elbow in.
The waist must go backward while the hand goes forward.

“Tiger’s Back and Bear’s Waist” Online Video Purchase 6

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/08/13

Master Chen Zhonghua’s Toronto Workshop March 2020-1
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At: Toronto, Canada

In this video, Master Chen explained what it meant to have a tiger’s back and a bear’s waist, and how to practice it correctly. The close-up view allowed us to see his body movements, and how he corrected the students’ mistakes. It allows the body to be more structured, and the arms to move more freely, and not affect the body by mistake.

We will practice cave in the chest and round the back in the Power Hour Class on Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 8 am ET. http://voov.practicalmethod.ca

Toronto Workshop Sep 12-15, 2020 (Cancelled) i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/08/07

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We are sorry to announce that this workshop will be cancelled due to covid-19.
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PM Power Hour Classes（3 classes per week) 13

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/08/01

Switching in the Positive Circle Online Video Class 1

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/04/05

In this video, Master Chen covered the 3 main axes in the body, and how we could switch among them without tossing in the positive circle, and the analogy of a lever with different pivots. We discussed about the shoulder last week at Shoulder Movements in Positive Circle, we will continue this week regarding switching with the lower half of the body.

See you at 10 am ET on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at http://practicalmethod.com/2014/06/switching-in-the-positive-circle-online-video-trailer/

Master Chen Workshop notes March 7-11 2020 1

by Mark Hanley on 2020/03/12

Summary

Basically, once again I will combine the 4-day seminar into a summary by grouping what I call related items. It was a great environment to get corrections from others or better understanding of push hand drills. Great bunch of people.
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Energy Alignment 2

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/01/13

Energy path is the pathway that energy travels on. There are both a physical path and a virtual path for a given setup. For any three points in the body, they can form a triangle (unless they all fall into one straight line). For this discussion, let’s use right hand, left kua and left foot as the three points. As similarly discussed in this previous article, while the right hand and left kua form one physical (solid) line, and the left kua and left foot form another physical (solid) line, the right hand and left foot form a virtual (invisible) line. While the actual energy travels along the two physical lines, it can be viewed as if it travels on the virtual line.
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Kelvin Ho Yilu on Jan 5, 2020 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/01/06

Kelvin Ho’s 2019 Review and 2020 Goals i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/01/04

Toronto Practical Method Experience Class i

by Kelvin Ho on 2020/01/04

A number of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners and patients attended Practical Method experience class on Dec. 20, 2019, and some of them tried taiji for the very first time. Among the participants, there was Rachel Yi, who started studying Practical Method in 2016 in China. She is now attending university in Canada, and is continuing to study PM under my taiji brother Si Chan in Winnipeg. We covered some foundation exercises, the first 13 moves of yilu, and some demonstration of applications.

Angelo Gee’s Foundation Correction Purchase 3

by Shopmaster on 2019/12/25

Instructor: Kelvin Ho Length: 23 min Language: English Year: 2019 Difficulty: 1/5 At: Toronto

This video covers:
Twisting the Towel
Fetch Water
Positive Circle
Negative Circle

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Chen Style Taiji Experience Class 陈式太极体验班 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/12/20

Do you have a New Year resolution to become healthier in 2020? Taiji may be your answer. On Dec. 29, 2019 at 10 am, you will have a chance to experience what taiji is like and what health benefits it may bring you at the Chen Style Taiji Experience Class to be held at Channels of Wellness Centre. Come try it out for free!

Taiji Push Hands Workshop in Toronto on Dec. 8, 2019 1

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/12/14

Push Hands Only Version

Full Version

On Dec. 8, 2019, a Practical Method Taiji Push Hands Workshop was held in Toronto. We had 10 participants, and 4 of them were new to Practical Method. Bert Desjardins drove 4.5 hours from Windsor to Toronto to attended this workshop. We also had the pleasure of having Master Liu Xuwei, who teaches Chen Style Taijiquan Small Frame, in attendance. We covered foundations:

Twisting the Towel – Don’t move the hand, and only use the foot the squeeze out the hand.
Fetch Water – Don’t move anything, only focus on opening the kua
Six Sealing Four Closing – Lock the front hand and rear shoulder, push the front shoulder into the line formed by the front hand and rear shoulder.
Positive Circle – In with elbow, turn with waist, out with hand. No other body part should be moving except the specific leader.
Negative Circle – In with elbow, drop the hand on the outside, out with hand.

2019 Fountain of Youth Qi Taiji Event on Nov. 23, 2019 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/12/01

I was invited along with a number of taiji teachers in Toronto to perform at the 2019 Fountain of Youth Qi Event on Nov. 23, 2019. Each teacher first performed a routine of his choice on stage. In the 2nd part of the event, each teacher demonstrated Cloud Hands, Single Whip and White Crane (Goose) Spread Its Wings of his style. Over generations of transmission, there are many variants of these moves. Many thanks to Sharon Liu, Founder of Fountain of Youth Qi for the invitation and organization of such event.

Official Page: http://www.dyysg123.com/206593211320581365232424739178236373103426371.html
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Toronto Taiji Push Hands Workshop on Dec. 8, 2019 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/11/25

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Intent i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/11/20

Today, there was a discussion among some of the North American disciples on intent. What is it? What does it mean?

The discussion allowed me to solidfy a couple of things.
In 2019 Iowa Camp, shifu mentioned:

Spencer’s notes:
The camp’s lessons this time were pervaded by the idea of “intention”. Intention in PM is what we call “to lead”. For example, in the positive circle, the elbow in is the “lead” Intention has no meaning in itself, but it changes everything. I am starting to realize this is one of the reasons Master Chen’s form looks so much different than mine and I can never figure out why. Your eyes can only see movement. The act of leading translates to intention, and when intention is used, the action is different. In with elbow, turn at waist, out with hand… You have to be clear about those intentions. Say them aloud! When the intention is clear, you produce a very thin line. From one large thing, you pull out one dot. This is the concept of silk reeling. Read more

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by Rick Pietila on 2019/10/12

Master Chen showing Rick Pietila how to align the rear elbow with the front hand

Recently at a 2019 Toronto CA workshop hosted by Kevin Ho, Master Chen Zhonghua demonstrated and taught the participants a training drill that requires the starting position to have the rear heel off the floor and both hands in a double push position, chest high. While going over this drill and teaching to the finer more precise details, he offered that we students feel his back leg starting positions with our hands. One hand was to be placed on the ankle while the other on the inside thigh to feel the active tendons and muscles. He suggested that students pull or rake across these two areas to gain a better understanding of the physical requirements for the drill. When I took my turn, pulling across these areas, something registered with me to the feeling of the amount of tension in the leg as well as what precisely for this move was being used to generate such great power, and speed.
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Notes for Toronto Workshop Sep 7-10, 2019 – By Mark Hanley i

by Mark Hanley on 2019/09/30

Gears on either side of spine move in opposite direction

The gears twist on either side of the spine and your intention along with where you are looking can send power in any direction you want. You can also add better control by also changing the percentage of each lever. with straight spine hold with front left kua use right hand across. them Opening kua to right

Power comes from restrictions, stretch to point of rotation, Movement is muscle., no movement is a lever
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Notes for Toronto Workshop Sep 7-10, 2019 – Kelvin Ho 2

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/09/20

When practicing yilu:

Put myself inside a fixed sized box.
Pull against the sides of the box coming into dantian.
Push against the sides of the box going out of dantian.

Toronto Workshop Mar 7-10, 2020 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/09/12

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Instructor:	Master Chen Zhonghua
Date:	Mar 7-10, 2020

Initial General Thoughts of PM 1

by Huy Huynh on 2019/09/08

I was asked to write a post about my overall experience with Practical Method up to this point, so I’ll try my best to put those experiences into words. My first live experience with Practical Method was during the Toronto seminar with Master Chen Zhonghua in March of 2019. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to train on and off with both Kelvin Ho and Hugo Cascoduro (depending on my work schedule), with most of this post addressing the live push hands and applications portion of the training.

Practical Method Toronto Open House on Sep 7, 2019 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/07/31

Turn Left and Pound Mortar on July 21, 2019 i

by Kelvin Ho on 2019/07/21

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