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The richness of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method struck me in 2013 when I had my first encounter with Master Chen and his explanations. There is so much to learn for me. Master Chen told on several occasions, that if you think you know how to do practical method, you can stop to practice, cause you stop learning. There is always something that you don’t know, you can do better, you can improve, that takes time, that someone else knows or knows better … and so on.
At first, I was a bit disappointed. Read more
Taizhou Workshop on April 6, 2018
My bitter / sweet story is something many of us can relate to and maybe it is somewhat relevant to Master Chen – at least now I can empathize to some degree. The bitter aspect I am about to impart relates to frustrations that we may have all experienced in one way or another at some time in our practice. Perhaps the sweet part is that we are all in it together.
加拿大渥太华实用拳法讲座2018.03.24
Thank you very much for Rachelle and Emile’s hospitality for hosting the Toronto group attending the Ottawa workshop. It was such a pleasure meeting both the old and new faces. The following are my notes.
This is a report written by Massimo Giorgianni from Toulouse, France. He is a full time martial arts teacher and will also host a Practical Method Workshop with Master Chen this year in Toulouse.
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In March I attended the annual Practical Method European Gathering held in Berlin. This workshop was my first time involvement with Chen Taiji Practical Method. I am a professional Wing Chun teacher and have 18 years practice in Wing Chun and 5 in Yang Taiji Quan.
Since I discovered Practical Method only two months before this event, I had to prepare intensively, and once there I had the great opportunity to receive first hand explanations and clarification from expert teachers. I could have an insight of the organized structure of the art, which successfully conveyed a basic understanding of the principles of Chen Taiji Practical Method.
This training involved the techniques of foundations, Yilu, practical applications and push hands.
Also this gathering is an opportunity for the European Practical Method community to build strong relationships in an intensive training environment. Definitively a must do! Next meeting will be held in Toulouse (south of France) beginning 2019, see you soon!
After becoming a disciple last year I solidified my plans about my future with Practical Method. One result is the foundation of an official association in Austria. After some back and forth with the responsible officials regarding the association rules we, Fabian K. and Pawel M. got the permission to begin our association activities.
Our association is registered as acting globally and not only in Austria. This opens new possibilities for the European community which is emerging now, since people from other countries can become members, too, benefiting from our services.
An association allows us to act as an official entity, like a company. We can now easily access public training space and be official partners for schools, companies and other projects.
It’s exciting. We are eager to begin our work and establish our association in Austria and abroad. It’s a long way, but so is learning Practical Method which equipped us with the right set of tools already through our training: continuous work and time.
We are preparing materials for marketing new events now. There will be new courses in and around Vienna and we’re planing events to promote Practical Method.
Who wants to be part of it? Just send us an email to pawel.mueller@gmail.com.
And the name of our association
Practical Method Taijiquan Österreich
Verein zur Förderung der traditionellen chinesischen Kampfkunst „Practical Method Taijiquan“ in Österreich
In English, please
Practical Method Taijiquan Austria
Association for promoting the traditional Chinese martial art “Practical Method Taijiquan” in Austria.
I have just joined this site after 12 years of practicing chen style Taiji. I have been following shifu Chen Zhonghua for the past year on youtube but now would like to download some of the most informative videos but there are so many of them. Can someone recommend the best videos for me to download.
Many thanks guys
Katharine
Please be notified that we added wilkin.ng@gmail.com
as one of our paypal accounts for www.practicalmethod.com
Thanks for your continued support of our online videos!
Chen Zhonghua
Personal Review of the Chen Taiji Practical Method Workshop in Phoenix AZ (20-21 January 2018) Part II 3
Author: James M. Riviera Read more
Author: James M. Riviera Read more
over the turn of the year, we found new rooms for our friday evening training, and we are contineously exercising ourselves in free and half free push hands sessions each fortnight on monday evenings!
People drop in regularly to get an idea of what the practical method is about, which motivates both me and the Berlin team (Carlotta, Kerstin and Lutz) to keep up the work and spread news about the system. Also, people from other european countries come by from time to time, and we hope we can assist.
Here’s some photos of this years training so far… Read more
I attended Master Chen’s 2017 Sydney workshop for both days and Master Chen said in the 1st day that attendee can get the workshop video. I wrote an email to the workshop organizer last week but no reply. Does the Admin know how to get the video? Cheers!
During Phoenix Practical Method workshop on January 21, 2018, Master Chen Zhonghua accepted Winston Wang and Benjamin Benefiel as his indoor disciples. Read more
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Master Chen’s SEA Tour 2017 was an informative and well attended event. This annual event was organized by Disciple Nicholas Fung (馮嘉傑) from the Hong Kong Practical Methods. Participants from the region and Canada attended three nights of intensive training on the theory and applications of the Practical Method of Chen Style Taijiquan. The lucky few also had private one-on-one training with Master Chen. A special thanks to guest instructors Pang Zhao Li (庞朝立; Rizhao City, Shandong Province; 山东省日照市) and Brenon Toh (Canada) for helping out during the seminar. The following is some of my notes and impressions of the seminar. |
Daqingshan 2017 Year-End Party Group Photo
Daqingshan 2017 Year-end Hunyuan and Practical Method Celebration was held on Daqingshan on Jan. 6, 2018. It was organized by Han Rui. Over 50 people participated at the event.
There were demonstrations of Hunyuan 24, Practical Method Yilu, Cannon Fist and Hunyuan Sword form.
There were also entertainments. The party ended with a dinner.
Form Performances 15668
Practical Method Group Form 15673 Read more
2018 Hunyuan Taiji Day and 3rd Daqingshan Annual Year-End Push Hands Competition is held at the Rizhao Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy on Dec. 31, 2017
2018 Hunyuan Taiji Day and 3rd Daqingshan Annual Year-End Push Hands Competition is held at the Rizhao Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy on Dec. 31, 2017.
Here are some photos: 
山东省侨办学生团在大青山学拳。
120 Overseas Chinese teenagers with 20 parents are on Daqingshan to learn Taiji. The course is taught by Han Rui, one of the instructors on Daqingshan. The content is Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. This is part of their Chinese culture experience in during their visit to China.
These youngsters come from Mauritius, Indonesia, New Zealand and Australia. This is part of a program through the Shandong Provincial Overseas Chinese Office. Daqingshan is one of their training sites. Read more
http://practicalmethod.com/2017/08/master-chens-phoenix-practical-method-workshop-120-212018/
Discounted early registration closes on January 10. A workshop T-shirt will be awarded to people who register early.
 Rizhao China |
Congratulations to Master Chen and the Daqingshan students on the outstanding success of the 5th Daqingshan International Taiji Competition (大青山第五届国际太极拳大赛开赛) in Rizhao (日照), Shandong province (山东省), China.
This prestigious event brought together participants from over 32 countries and regions, with 130 teams fielding a total of 1,170 contestants—including more than 70 international representatives. Notably, for the first time, real-time YouTube broadcasts of some push-hands competitions allowed an international audience to experience the event as it unfolded. More information about the competition is available here (in Chinese). I look forward to hearing from Practical Methods members who participated—please share your experiences in this thread! |
Master Chen in Ottawa 2017
Ping Wei will teach a private workshop in Las Vegas on December 5, Tuesday from 10am to 5pm.
The workshop will be on foundations and Yilu. It will prepare people for Master Chen’s workshop in Phoenix in January.
http://practicalmethod.com/2017/08/master-chens-phoenix-practical-method-workshop-120-212018/
Ping Wei will teach a workshop in Irvine California on December 3, Sunday, from 10am to 5pm.
The workshop will be on Cannon Fist.
“…You also need
To have good friends
With friends
You can help each other…”
– Hong Junsheng, from Learning
We are glad to announce that the second European Practical Method Meet-up will take place in
Berlin on the first weekend of March 2018 (3rd & 4th).
Please let us know if you’re coming, as soon as possible (deadline January the 8th), so we can book
an appropriate training hall and organize a daily schedule.
The event is free, but there will be costs to share for the hall. The sooner you register the sooner we
can book, the cheaper it gets.
Registration is done simply by emailing us to practicalmethod.europe@gmail.com
If you are not from Europe you can join anyway, of course 🙂
This get-together is for all PM practitioners. It is not a workshop, but rather a training together to
exchange our experiences.
So there will be no teaching for beginners. That means you should know at least
the first 13 moves and the core foundations. You can struggle through the rest of the Yilu with us.
If you need more information feel free to ask us (practicalmethod.europe@gmail.com)
We are pleased to have Master Chen Zhonghua back for another training camp. Again, the taijiquan training, lodging and dining will be at one location with one cost at the same location as last year. This will be an intensive workshop focused on foundations, drills, form, push hands and applications. Disciples will take part in some of the instructions. Other areas of instruction may include Chen Style Jian and Cannon Fist (Erlu).
There are 32 accommodations on-site and 2 single occupancy cottages. If those slots should fill up, we will list hotels near the retreat center and allow those individuals to participate just the same as the other participants.
July 25th 2018 through July 31st 2018
Price:
4 nights 3 days is $550,
5 nights 4 days $700
6 nights 5 days $800
4pm check in and check out is following your last day breakfast.
Prairiewoods Retreat And Conference Hiawatha, Iowa
For more information please contact:
John Upshaw johnnyupshaw@yahoo.com
Levi Sowers lpsowers@gmail.com
My family was visiting Ottawa for the weekend of Oct 21-22, 2017. James Tam, Ming Tam and I got together to train early on Sunday morning. It was a great training session, and we worked on the following:
1) Stretching and how to progressively connect the hand to the rear foot
2) Half horse stance: how to fill the front kua, how to do one knee up and one knee down
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Here are some of my notes from this morning’s training on Daqingshan where Master Chen went over the two different types of movements in push hands:
- An opponent can make “local” or “global” moves against you. Local moves involve only part of the body. Global moves involve the whole body.
- We must learn to match an opponent’s local move with a global move, and vice versa.
- In Practical Method, local and global moves are as follows:
– Local = “rotations” occurring in the upper body
– Global = “revolution” generated through stepping - No matter how large a movement is, if it doesn’t involve stepping, it is still a local move.
Hope these notes make sense without seeing what he was talking about. Happy training!
Gavin
(Australian on the Mountain)
This morning at training on the small square of Daqingshan, Master Chen had us all write down the following points to remember for push hands and when making contact with an opponent:
- Hand must be fixed on opponent
- Elbow must go down and horizontal (towards dantian).
- Elbow cannot be lined up with hand. (Master Chen had to elaborate a little more on this one: “The elbow cannot push towards the hand. It moves inward towards dantian but the force generated lines up with the hand”).
- Shoulder must go straight down
- Front foot steps in, rear foot follows
If there was any more elaboration on these points, I missed it unfortunately, due to my lacking Chinese language skills, but I hope these points can help you in your training!
Gavin
(Australian on the mountain)
Practical Method Workshop in Phoenix, Arizona
By Master Chen Zhonghua
January 20 and 21 (Saturday and Sunday), 2018
Early Bird by Oct 31st, 2017; 2000 HKD, 2200HKD thereafter for all three nights.
三晚學費為港幣二千二百元. 十月三十一日前繳費為港幣二千元.
One night: 1200 HKD
Two nights: 1800 HKD
一晚學費為港幣一千二百元
兩晚學費為港幣一千八百元
Private lesson: 1600 HKD/2hours. Please contact me to arrange a time: nicholasfung@icloud.com
私人課為每兩小時一千六百元. 安排時間請接洽: nicholasfung@icloud.com
Registration: send the following to nicholasfung@icloud.com:
– proof of bank transfer to Stand Chartered Bank account number 33019969831 (foreign students please contact me for an alternate arrangement)
– your t-shirt size
– your name and nights of participation
報名辦法: 電郵以下資料到 nicholasfung@icloud.com
– 傳款至渣打銀行戶口33019969831的證明. (海外學員請跟本人接洽)
– 閣下的T恤尺碼
– 閣下的姓名及參與的日期
Nicholas Fung +85266894296 馮
