23rd:
Three iron hat. Head(fixed), shoulder/waist/kua(can be flexible), knee. Make sure the power is not leaked out. Big inside moves, outside is locked, so the power is contained, compressed and trapped, and it goes back to the floor. Move with pressure is the training.
Kua and elbow. When the kua is indented/short, we tend to overdo the elbow(too straight). The buttock should be hidden under by filling the kua. Read more
Online Classes
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 64 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 62 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 80 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 81 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 70 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This lesson covers:
1) How to lock?
2) What does it mean to add?
3) Lever action with two sticks
4) Drilling Block Touch Coat
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 70 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Cannon Fist Correction
9th
Exercise: open triangle model with head, buttock and knee. Head and knees have to be in the same vertical line, can place on the wall as reference, and only pull the buttock back. The whole back has to be straight like one line of the triangle, mingmen is pulled out. Chest, torso and thigh have to stretch to go over a threshold. Common mistake, sway back, head leaves the line. Read more
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 74 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Focused on an exercise coordinating two gears in the body.
1) Arm/shoulder is one gear
2) Leg/kua is another gear
3 ways of doing Six Sealing Four Closing (related to two gears of different sizes)
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 68 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 67 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 90 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 72 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Cannon Fist Correction:
Jojo Juarsa
Yhossie Suananda
Sooyeon Zacharias
Gerry Gebhart
Yuxin Liu
Kerstin Frotscher-Kummle
Jacek Wolochowski
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 62 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Cannon Fist Correction:
Sven Gusowski
Gerry Gebhart
Raymond Dickey
Kerstin Frotscher-Kummle
Alex Wu Navarro
Chris Martinez
Jacek Wolochowski
Sergey Schepin
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Master showed a short video in one of his workshops in Xi’an China in 2018. The topic is to open from inside.
Open triangle model, which only exists in theory, in reality, the angle of the shoulder is 45 degree opening downwards, and the kua is 45 degree opening upwards from the crest line. A typical move in the forms is the armpit opening in double downward squeeze.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 0 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
"Sinking" is a major concept/action in Taijiquan. In Practical Method "sinking" is regarded as a result of stretching. It is associated with the idea of a downward direction. It is totally different from our general concept of sinking.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
There are two kinds of power in Practical Method. One is structural which is also called static; the other is momentum which is also called dynamic.
In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains how structure can be viewed and used as power.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
This is part two of the Shoulder Down Two-Part video. Part one in on the website as a free video.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 71 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
When you are going over, you are actually pulling instead of pushing. In Practical Method, we require that you can only pull, you cannot push. So we have to turn every push into a pull.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Internal Martial Arts require that movements must come from inside, instead of outside. In Practical Method, this means all movements must be generated from joints then expanded to outer limbs.
A good question is alreday the answer. A bad question is unrelated.
Question: how to fight a big guy without using muscles?
Don’t use muscles. The problem is you don’t know how to. 1.you need to fight,2.you cannot use muscles,3.there is sth you can use but you don’t know yet. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Circular movements are in some ways movements that go over something. The concept of Going Over is an important one in Practical Method. In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains and demonstrates this concept.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Taiji moves are either led by one end or the middle. In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains how to lead movements with the Kua. Kua is considered the middle of the whole body, therefore, the most important body part in terms of leading.
The final thing of learning, one piece of puzzle making the difference. 99% leaving on your own to learn, one piece from the teacher. Master Chen went through everyone to find one thing to improve.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Taiji moves are either led by one end or the middle. In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains how to lead movements with the Kua. Kua is considered the middle of the whole body, therefore, the most important body part in terms of leading.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 76 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
This a a short video of the "Chen Zhonghua Online Lesson 20210805". In this video Master Chen Zhonghua gives some instructions on the form "Wild Horse Parts Its Mane".
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 67 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This class was taught by Chen Zhonghua on general Practical Method contents.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 6 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
This a a short video of the "Chen Zhonghua Online Lesson 20210805".
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
The form "Lean With Back" in Yilu is in fact a back-fist. There are several times the back-first is used in Yilu. This method of producing a punch is more widely used in Cannon Fist, the second routine of the Chen Style taijiquan practical Method system.
Train the shoulders to disappear. Target training with exaggerated moves. Positive circle, make sure the front shoulder does not pop. In with elbow, rear shoulder goes up;out with hand, sink the front shoulder and cave in the chest. Eventually, in with elbow is connected to the kua/dantian/foot, not the shoulders.When your mind is not on the shoulder, when you forget about it, it is relaxed.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Every move in taiji is made up of two parts: action and adjustment. Master Chen Zhonghua discussed ADJUSTMENT in this video.
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 32 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 70 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
56. Right change posture to pole stance
57. Right turn back and hit with cannon to the head
58. The fist of covering the body
59. Elbow strike with left foot
60. Elbow strike with right foot
61. Cannon comes out of the bottom
62. Block and enter head-on
63. Wind blow the plum flowers
64. Buddha’s warrior attendants pounds the mortar
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 65 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
56. Right change posture to pole stance
57. Right turn back and hit with cannon to the head
58. The fist of covering the body
59. Elbow strike with left foot
60. Elbow strike with right foot
61. Cannon comes out of the bottom
62. Block and enter head-on
63. Wind blow the plum flowers
64. Buddha’s warrior attendants pounds the mortar
