Online Classes

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 83 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:4/5  At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 73 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

-Pole shaking. Circles. Hand do not come back/reverse. At the beginning when done right, the move is small. Through training, we increase the range. The move overall is synthesized, but each part/move is individual. Arm has no up and down movement. (Arm is in and out). Do the circle horizontally, and the shoulder will get caught, which will be exercised. (tie a knot, then untie). Elbows come in, lock the upper body, bend the knees to go down, then hands go out. Add stepping to increase the range. Later on the moves will merge, and people see the circles. The overall effect is an illusion.
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Free class to public. Introduction.

-Taiji. Yin and yang. Horizontal and vertical-cross-stable. The limbs are tied to the rod. Yin yang relationship is 90 degrees/connected (180 is too distract). How to place two credit cards supporting each other and stable? http://practicalmethod.com/2012/06/space-and-time-online-video/ Vertical is top-bottom line, horizontal is 90 degrees.
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Key words: horizontal and vertical, zig zag

– Block touching coat.

Elbow position. Elbow is too high/out. Moving horizontally is because you are double heavy, is because there is no yin yang separation. Moves only led by fingers are not horizontal. Arms go length wise. The horizontal move has to be a result of the vertical move. All the moves must go over. By pass, go over, curve (no confrontation). The core is always the same, so we do not deviate and we make progress.
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 67 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 82 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 75 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:3/5  At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Key words: six sealing four closing, generation and transmission of power.

-When we see Master demonstrates moves using tools such as sticks, rubber cord, tables etc. we should act it out, replicate it word for word. It is not just a teaching method; it is how we should actually do it.

-To experience what not moving is. Block touching coat, arm out, chest not responding, the inside never moved.

-Six sealing four closing. Someone holds two sides of your armpit, stretch the armpit to open, only use the armpit. The chest does not move with the arm, power bypass the chest. 1. two hands find the track, have the overall movement. 2. what is fajin. Find the zone. On a certain point, one part accelerates, one part does not follow/move (it is locked/still). We practiced torso staying still, only use the elbow to drive the hand with fajin (shoulder does not get involved either), hands stay on the track. Only when we can rotate the torso, we can add the rotation. Movements make you lose power, rotation is not a movement.
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 91 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 68 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Key words: Elbow kua position. Thresholds. Fire schedule.

-Ground dragon is bow and arrow move. There is no up and down movements. Anchor the L foot, pull so hard and large the body gets low, split left and right so wide that the body goes down. Twist from kua to go forward without getting up.

-Movements need stay large for a long time until everything inside is all exercised. Find the edge and every move you stretch a little bit more to increase the quality. It will appear you are pretending at the beginning. Training becomes more insubstantial.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 77 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:3/5  At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 70 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:3/5  At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Lean with back. Turn to the left, stretch the R armpit and R elbow. Keeping that stretch, R elbow does not come close to the body, but draw a circle outwards, R fist is locked to the temple/forehead. Turn and create the stretch from R elbow to L toes, straight line. 6 o’clock to 12 o’clock is the longest line. It is easy to over turn here, losing the line of stretch. (center of the body feels expanding). Pivot on L toes, turn L heel out, without dropping L knee. R kua does not fold or close, it is open, twisted and stretched. Look towards L toes.
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 81 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:1/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 70 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

-Learning method. Learning is like you have a size 24 bike chain and try to fit on a size 24.5 bike. When you fit the front, the back will not fit; when you fit the back, the front will fall. It is never complete. We have to keep going back and forth until real physical changes happen, until the body is stretched out. Making both sides right is the training. Master has talked about this a few times, such as, we have to learn to advance with flaws, the process of forge, how to get the head and the chest position right, learn to compromise.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 53 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:3/5  At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua   Length: 65 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:3/5  At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy

-Lever

First class. Second closing. Fulcrum is central axis. Power on the back heel. Load is on the front hand.

Second class. Brush the knee. Closing the gap, L forearm and L thigh, L shoulder and L kua compressing to each other. The fulcrum is the hand.
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho   Length: 77 min.   In: English   Year: 2021  Difficulty:2/5  At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy