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Recently, Lukas did start to practice …

For students who have done a thousand yilu and want to go more into push hand, it is a good idea to pick up weapon form. Steve also practices with a heavy Guan Dao. Master Chen wrote “My experience is that students become much more coordinated when they get a chance to work with something in their hands.”

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From World Taiji and Qiqong Day 2013, please post other videos and photos for students performing that day, thanks

Master Ge ChunYan(戈春艳) was involved in the production of a Hong Kong movie “The GrandMaster”, “一代宗师”. She taught the leading actress Ms Zhang ZiYi “BaGuaZhang” for her role. Master Chen has invited Master Ge to DaQingShan from 25th to 31st May to teach BaGuaZhang.

Hello everyone,

after the birth of my son I like to begin slowly to practise again. But the midwife said, that I have to avoid any type of sport for the next 6 – 8 weeks. Any force which affect the pelvic floor should be avoided (lifting thinks for instance). But I think, that doing the yilu hasn`t any affection on the pelvic floor at all. But being not sure, I like to have your estimation.

Thanks a lot

Sarah

Master Chen talked about warping as the basis of creating power from unmoving structure. I heard this several times before, only now starting to feel it in my body.

Learning Practical Method on Daqingshan (3)

My Fourth Visit to Daqingshan

If you want to be strong, do Taiji! If you want to be healthy, do Taiji！If you want to be smart, do Taiji!

–         From ancient Greek adage

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There will be an Upper Midwest Get Together on March 2 and 3, 2013 in Milwaukee, WI. Levi Sowers and John Upshaw will lead. Erwin Ramthun of the  Milwaukee-Hunyuan Taiji Academy will be the host. Levi and John are disciples of Master Chen Zhonghua. Tentatively, we will run the class from 10am until 12:30 and break for lunch. Then continue until 5pm. Topics to include, Chen Practical method foundations, yilu form sections 1 and 2, theory, and a lot of applications. For more information contact Erwin, John or Levi. Read more

1. Look: Use your eyes to observe and remember.

1. Do not move your body. Do not copy. If you copy at this stage, your brain will link what you see to what you can copy. This may give a false impression that you’ve understood the movement. This is how bad habits are formed.
2. Just focus on whether you’ve seen clearly. You can see it repeatedly. You can change your angle and point of observation.
3. Do not analyse. Do not judge the quality of the movement. At this stage, right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. Read more

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One part of the body always likes to follow the direction of movements of other parts of the body. This will cause tossing and collapsing. If you observe people practice Taijiquan, you will notice that this is a very prevalent problem.

When one’s own body parts follow each other, there will be no possibility for rotation in the body.

The cloud-like moves usually are the result of the mistake. It is something to be circumvented, not something to be desired.

Originally published Nov 2007

Chen Yu Xia 陈豫侠  is Chen Fake daughter

Paramount in human behavior is habit. Habit is the hidden addiction that controls every human. The human learning curve is a downward line as we age.

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Happy Chinese New Year to Master Chen and everyone!

The hidden energy alignment in the form “Six Sealing and Four Closing”.

This exercise has nothing to do with the demonstration by some masters being pushed by a line of people, mostly more than ten, to demonstrate how strong and rooted they are. This is an exercise Master Chen Zhonghua used at a workshop in Victoria, B.C. Canada in 2006 to train the pusher to get used to the experience of pushing into something very strong but is human. An exercise before this one is to push the wall, which provides static resistance. The pusher has to deal with: Read more

This is a part translation of a section from Lin Ketong’s Chinese Blog. Any errors, omission and mistakes are from the mistranslation.  Read more

大青山学拳记

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O Mestre Chen Zhonghua deu um seminário no Brasil em Guaratinguetá, SP em Novembro de 2012. Ele solicitou a mim que postasse minhas anotações, então aqui estão elas. Eu estou postando uma versão resumida agora, e postarei mais detalhes com o tempo.

O Seminário foi incrível, nossos professores e alunos tiveram a sorte de não só receberem aulas de taiji, mas também lições de vida.

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To start off I thank Master Chen for inviting me to write this an article comparing juggling and Taiji.

I am both a juggler and a taijiquan practitioner.  This doesn’t mean that I am good at either of these activities, rather that I persist in doing them.  I have noticed several common points between juggling and taiji, though even in they differ even in these commonalities. Read More

The staff here at Daqingshan have finished the form, now they begin the process of refining and correcting and practicing, lots of practicing.

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The way of learning and training Tai Chi is different by different people. I am a kind of slow learner. Realizing that, it actually helped me overall. Read more

I did publish a gallery with screenshots of Master Chen’s Yilu 2009 on my webpage as a tool for learning the choreography. I also want to privode all the form names in English & Chinese (Characters plus pinyin with tones).

So I like to ask everybody to have a look and leave some comments in order to correct mistakes, esp. with the Chinese names. Also they are not complete yet. Read more