Push Hands practice, the meaning of “Don’t Move”
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At: Maple Ridge
Knowledge : Application
Just one brief observation i made sunday during PH with Martin – i think he will attend the WS in Freising too, since he is starting to appreciate your Taiji-wisdom. First, i led him push with both hands my pelvis-bones and i could resist his push by cennecting both contact-spots to my feet. Read more
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 36 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty: 3/5 At: Maple Ridge, Canada
1. Beginning. 2. Structure of the Dang. 3. Movement vs tranquility. 4. Principles of energy alignment. 5. Where is your center? 6. How does this relate to the circle? 7. What is front and what is back? 8. Foundation drills. 9. Cut the corner off. 10. Direction of energy. 11. Practice with variations. 12. Hold the body and move the finger. 13. The vertical line in turning the body.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson with Qi Yucheng group. Master Qi is a disciple of Grandmaster Ni Yuanhai. He was a gold medalist for the 65 kg class at the Chen Village push hands competition.
1. Positive and Negative Circles hands on corrections. 2. Adding space. 3. Foot is faster than the hand. 4. Demarcation line. 5. Don’t leak out.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: Mixed English & Chinese Year: 2010 Difficulty: 3/5 At: Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
Here is a short clip on the importance of mastering the concept of Zhuan Guan.
Training video on Zhuan Guan Zhuan Guan Online Video Trailer
Master Chen description on Zhuan Guan ( point 19 )
Every move must have three steps: contact, fill up and release. If this procedure is followed, a push is not a push instead, it is to release the opponent. Therefore, no effort. In this video taken at a workshop in Victoria, B.C. Canada, Master Chen demonstrated the procedure on Trevor Juuti of Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada.
Master Chen:
I was reading through some of the student/user posts and came across a submittal by Wilkin Ng regarding the Maple Ridge workshop last year. In it he was talking about the concept of not “pushing” in doing push hands. Your reply confirmed that there is no pushing in push hands, but went on to say that “every push must be a pull”. Can you elaborate on this last statement. Read more
These are some photos and a video of a practice session at the Ottawa October 2010 workshop. Care to guess what they are trying to practice? Read more
Here are videos of push hand competition and weapon form.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Language: Mandarin Length:20:47 min. In this lecture, Master Chen Zhonghua talked about five elements in Push Hands with hands on instructions.
In August 2010, full time taiji students on Daqingshan were invited to a competition in Weifang, China by Master Ai Shenghua. At the competition, Steven Chan and Kham Serk Yawynren demonstrated Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method push hands.
Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYo8Av60r4
By: Chen Zhonghua陈中华. Language: English英文. Length: 19 minutes分钟. Year: 2008年
Audio problem only on trailer. Read more
By: Chen Zhonghua陈中华. Length: 50 minutes分钟. Language: English英文. Year: 2004年
Shot during trip to Jinan China. There are several informative interviews at the end of the movie with Master Chen and his students.
Neutralizing is taking up the space before your opponent can and adding slightly more. I’m not sure, but maybe is the same as when Master says that there is one line with two sides to it: you follow the opponents line back and then step in on the same line.
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 Jiang form, push hand and some application. 蒋家俊1987年在南京。
Lu Chun Hunyuan Tuishou and Sanda
YouTube – Chen and Calandra Taiji Applications. Master Chen Zhonghua and Michael Calandra explained some of the Cannon Fist techniques in this video clip. The setting was in Master Calandra’s dojo in Queen, NY in 2003 at a workshop on Cannon Fist of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
YouTube – What is Push Hands? Chen style taijiquan tui shou.
By Master Peter Wu.
