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News and other exciting events happening in the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system in the world.
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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
During Master Chen Zhonghua’s Nov. 2012 Phoenix workshop, local students and the organizer Master Ping Wei accompanied everybody on a tour of the Grand Canyon and Sedona. Here are some photos of their Grand Canyon visit.
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Thank you to everyone who attended the intro to Practical Method event this past Sunday. We had a very good turnout. Taiji classes will continue at Bend Yoga and Movement Studio after Thanksgiving, Read more
Michael Koh was accepted as Master Chen Zhonghua’s disciple in the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system. The ceremony was attended by Master Hong Sen and Master Xu Jinge. Other disciples present at the event: Tim Duehring and Nicholas Fung.
My disciple Michael Calandra will be in London from November 23 to the 28, 2012. Anyone interested in learning the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method, please contact him. oikddojo@aol.com He will be officially teaching Karate on this tour. His website: http://www.seishinkanonline.com/
1. positive circle: elbow in.
2. Yin yang separation in push hands.
3. The concept of “settle” (sink).
4. The use of primitive language.
5. How to stretch. Front must move forward. Back must move backward. Middle must stay “non moving”.
6. Separated movements. Incremental movements. Read more
Wang Long, Su Lei of Rizhao, Shandong Province, and Chen Xu of Yiyuan, Shandong Province, became master Chen Zhonghua’s disciples at a simple ceremony on Daqingshan on Oct. 4, 2012. The ceremony was chaired by master Hong Sen and attended by all participants of the 7th Daqingshan International Taijiquan Seminar. Read more
In this workshop many deep Taiji concepts were explained and practically demonstrated by Shifu, Chen Zhonghua. Videos recorded during this workshop include the following: “Body Structure”, “Differential 2”, “Space and Time”, and “Rotation 1.” Shifu, please correct any incorrect statement that may be found in my notes. As time allows, I will continue to transcribe and publish the rest of my notes: Read more
Recorded from Italy workshop 2011
Recorded during full time student visit to Master Li Enjiu school in 2010
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Filmed by Michael Winkler
The government of Wulian sponsored its first Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Seminar on Daqingshan. The seminar runs from August 10 to 16, 2012. The government of Wulian has joined efforts with Grandmaster Chen Zhonghua to work towards making Wulian a county of Taiji.
This seminar is made up of 50 students from the government, educational sector, industry, commerce and the rural area. It is a special training course to certify the 50 people to be level one instructors to promote Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method in Wulian.
The government has plans to host the first Daqingshan International Taiji and Culture Festival from May 26 to 30 in 2013. A series of plans have been made to widen the roads, enhance hotel capacity, indoor training size, etc.
James Tam from Ottawa left after two weeks. We have students arrived from Germany, Singapore and UK. Master Chen is stepping up the training sessions in preparation for competition at ZiTongShan next week.
The construction for the dam to form a small lake is almost finished, and we enjoyed some rainy days here so there are waters flowing down. Photos and video by Tim Duehring
Mr. Du Jianguo, Dean of the physical education college of the Weifang Institute came to visit the Daqingshan International Taiji Training Center with teachers in his department (Wang Dongsheng, Yin Honglan and Qin Zhihua). They spent two day on Daqingshan on this visit. They toured the facilities and participated in the center’s classes.
They invited Master Chen Zhonghua to give a lecture on July 6, 2012 to the students, teachers of their college and martial artists of Weifang.
This is my 603rd repetition of the form in 2012.
I would like to remind everyone (and invite those interested) that on September 24, 2012 Edmonton Full Time training will start and continue until December 21. This would be an excellent time for those who would relish this type of training and a North American location to visit Edmonton. Edmonton has few distractions to interrupt training so is ideal for learning.
On learning process and emotions
A few weeks ago Master Chen Zhonghua mentioned a lot of important issues according Taijiquan and the learning process, and this was the time when he was about to leave the mountain. Meanwhile he is back again.
One out of many important things he pointed out was that we need to become “a-emotional”, or lets say emotionally very stable, if we want to create peng energy and learn Taijiquan. Read more
Today was Suhels last day, now he is heading back to Berlin. We had a great time together, thanks to everybody for all support. I felt like everybody was supporting each other very much, so although Master Chen Zhonghua was not here on the mountain we did train and learn a lot. Here’s todays grouppicture:
Another set of videos on the new video server
 Toronto Workshop 4-1 |
 Toronto Workshop 4-2 |
 Toronto Workshop 4-3 Taiji Applications |
 “Toronto Workshop 11-09-26-5” |
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Every workshops has a different flavor depending on the student groups. In Toronto, Master Chen usually talk more about theory and has lively discussion with the small group of students.
 “Toronto Workshop 11-09-26-1” |
 “Toronto Workshop 11-09-26-2” |
 “Toronto Workshop 11-09-26-3” |
 “Toronto Workshop 11-09-26-4” |
Massimo Neresini of Italy is accepted as Master Chen Zhonghua’s 91th disciple. The ceremony was witnessed by disciples Giuseppe Bon from Italy,Pavel Codl from Prague, and Steven Chan from Canada
“Don’t Move!” was joined by Carmen Farruggia of Sacramento, CA, USA.
Did Yilu on the ship while cruising on St Lawrence River. The deck was rocking, the wind was blowing. The condition for Tai Chi was very difficult. I lost balance in the very first a few moves in the first try.
