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Berlin 2011 2

by Michael Winkler on 2011/08/22

Hi everybody,

I think now it’s time for a little message from Berlin. Last year in August I did change my Taijiquan classes in Berlin completely to “Practical Method”. Here are some pictures taken this summer.

Meanwhile there is a little group of attendants who got into the practice quite deep in short time, and there are some more who visit my weekly classes regularly.

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We are holding an Open House August 27 (Saturday) and August 28 (Sunday) from 10 am to 1 pm. Our address is 5222 – 86 street and we are giving FREE LESSONS.

Come and see what the Chen Style Practical Method as well as the Chen Style Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan and Qigong are all about and what we can do to to give you the best Taiji experience – ever!

Today, we have two visitors today: James Tam from Ottawa, and Kevin Sun from Winnipeg. Kevin is new to Practical Method, and he is planning to attend the Toronto September workshop.

James Tam, Sherman Lau, Bing Sum Lau, Kelvin Ho

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by Tim Duehring on 2011/05/09

You are invited to join us at several events we will be attending this Summer. The first one is the 4th Chen Style Taijiquan Competition being held in Schaumburg, IL on May 22nd. The 2nd event is the AAU-CMA Nationals being held in Louisville, KY (Derby City) on July 9th. The 3rd event will be a weekend of Taijiquan in Iowa. We haven’t locked down a location for this yet. The 2 we are working on is Pike’s Peak Park on the Mississippi River and Cedar Rapids. We will update this when we settle on a location. For further information contact me via email: tduehring@gmail.com for call me: 414-807-9402.

Hunyuantaiji Academy of Edmonton will hold an Open House this weekend –  May 7 (Saturday) and May 8 (Sunday) from 10 am to 1 pm. Address: 5222 – 86 street  Demonstrations and information both days, with a free lesson for anyone attending on Sunday (Mother’s Day). Plan on attending both days!!

We, from the crisp clean deep snow in the north, feel sorry for you poor souls!

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I will be in Maple Ridge, BC this weekend. It’s going to be another nice gathering of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method people from Vancouver, Seattle, Victoria…

Corrected “Step Up to Ride The Whale”, “Step Back to Mount the Tiger”, “Right Golden Roaster Stands on One Leg”.

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Hunyuan Taiji Academy – Milwaukee is having a Practical Method training session on Saturday July 31st.
The location of the get together is the Prairie du Chien, WI/McGreggor, Iowa area on the beautiful Mississippi River.
Time will be an afternoon and evening session on Saturday and a Sunday morning session.
Hope you can make it, it should be a lot of fun.
More details available on request.

Today Master Chen reinforced a point of Push Hands with me.  All the lessons that have been mentioned in class lately and our last weekend Seminar is to look for a line and Read more

Master Chen gave  some personal instruction during Monday’s class regarding Push Hands. One must be able to  move in without the opponent feeling the move physically. Read more

We of course worked on foundations first.

  1. During the circle, in with elbow, using the frontal muscles. This stretches from the front foot to the front hand, making the line very long.
  2. Out with hand using the back muscles. This stretches from the rear foot to the front hand. Read more
It was good to come to the Edmonton class after a long absence. Thanks to Allan and Yen for taking over classes in my absence. We worked on concept of splitting from the kua, using the “fetch water” as a drill. From the kua and elbow, everything moves down and up with the kua and elbow as the central points. However, the kua must move horizontally forward while the up and down moves are being executed. Here are some photos of the move. Read more


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