Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 51 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2026 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Year: 2026 Location: Edmonton, Canada
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida.
Thanks to Fabio Leite for these photos.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 52 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2026 Location: Edmonton, Canada
In Memory of Dina Kerr 2026. If you have a photo of her, you can send it to practicalmethod@qq.com
We are in fact, no more than a peck of dusk in the vastness of space and split second in the eternity of time. We come and go. We don’t know where we come from and don’t know where we will go.
Dina Kerr, is different. She came but is leaving her memory for eternity. Her smiles and joke, especially her charismatic personality will stay with us.
纪念Dina Kerr 2026。如果你有她的照片，你可以把它发到practicalmethod@qq.com
事实上，我们无非是浩瀚空间中的一吻黄昏，也不过是永恒中的一秒。我们来来去去。我们不知道我们来自哪里，也不知道我们会去哪里。
Dina Kerr，是不同的。她来了，但永远留在了她的记忆中。她的微笑和笑话，尤其是她富有魅力的个性，将一直陪着我们。
What a send-off for Mom yesterday! She would have been surprised and delighted to see such a showing of love for her and support for our family. For those of you who were unable to attend, you won’t be surprised to learn that she wrote her own eulogy. (That is SO who she was!) I will paste that below for all to read. And please enjoy the last “Song and Dance” video as well.
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Ciao family and friends.
You probably wonder why
Since I did die
I would want to still be talking
Although no longer walking….well, some of you won’t wonder
I thought you might struggle
to find nice things to say about me,…since nice wasn’t my strong suit
and end up with
“She did a whole lot of tai chi”
I would like my last expression on earth to be
One of gratitude to God for the life I had here
Unlike so many other souls on this planet
I never knew war, hunger or fear
I never felt the cold
I had the privilege of being old;
I had great parents who did the best they could under their circumstances
I never had to bury a child
I was never homeless or friendless,
I married the love of my life and stayed with him
I got to be a wife, a mom, a grandmom
I had a nice sister and we were friends
My children raised their hell, grew up and turned into friends
I did what I chose, was where I needed to be
My misfortunes were my fault. They came as teachers
But I got more than I deserved.
I loved my family, my work, my friends and my home…..I was about eight different people during my lifetime. Some of them were unbelievably stupid. I spent time in five different places and had five different sets of friends and associates…and it kept getting better…old age was wonderful, the best. If there was an open door, I just walked in. You get weirdly strange with age and I loved that part the best. I got to play with amazing people and they tolerated me. I had great friends when I got old….. you know who you are.
By the way, death did not improve me. Some people become saintly in death Well that’s not me, so don’t struggle with it. I am still the same irritating person I was before. Never got time to fix everything. Don’t be sad for me, be merry
Can we call this obituary?
Richard be happy,
Stay out of your cave
Watch your diet, don’t drink and eat margarine
I love you still and always will, but if you get mopey things will fly in the night.
Kelly, Kevin, Charlene, I’m ok
next door … you can’t visit and I wont cook for you
So remember me, but not everything
because I was wrong a lot of the time
You taught me a special kind of love
And each of you taught me different things
Hania, you were my reward from God, for keeping my children.
You are my only grandchild, so I got that experience
Were often told what’s next in death
By those who think they know
I can only dream
to have such self esteem
Still I have the confidence to
Hope that there is still a chance
To see you all again somewhere,
To resume the dance.
When tomorrow starts without me,
Make two toasts in your mind for me
One to REMEMBER
and one TO FORGET
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 67 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2026 Location: Edmonton, Canada
- There’s never a right or wrong, there is only relevance
- Direction – is the dao
- Structure, alignment – mundane
- Direction lines up – alignment
- Align and lock
- Lock – need a 90 degree angle, a floor
- Initiation into taiji state – 开拳 – to make it the core
- Double heavy – parallel 井 locked
- 送开 – open (universal action) split 分开 pull open 拉开 (level 3) rotate so it opens 转开
- Hammer and nail, at the end it must go straight into the nail
- The opponent touches the barrel and the power shoots out into them. Don’t move the barrel, the power is the differential between the touch not moving and the power (tip of the finger)
- Deboning – separation between skin and the stretch.
- Rivet on the hands
- Chicken exercise – rivet the hands, the power is at the tip of the elbow. Stretch, down with elbow, up with kua. Kua hits the elbow.
- Jingang dao dui
- 1- elbow and kua, chicken exercise
- 2- left elbow and back of right kua pull to dantian. Then rotate when solid.
- 3- don’t move dantian and pull in foot.
- 4- poke; heel and elbow hit stretch away from each other. Don’t move dantian.
- 5- as you shift to left foot, rotate don’t move hands,
- Show you short give you long. Grip and lever
- Tapping to create reaction but not overcommitting. Soft – hit
- On the shirt – only enough to peel off the shirt
- Zhuo – handle
- Example: picking up a cup
- Something that will create an opposite, a resistance. Creates a hold on the object. Adherence, sticky, traction, friction.
- Bie is only one of the possible actions
- Hook, handle
- Chan – wrap (spiral) until it is held
- Look for universal applicability
- (2nd move of pound mortar) Don’t move the center. Turn and stretch the other side to adjust to the turn. First stretch the rear shoulder, then the rear kua, then the rear foot.
- Pull is with rope, push is with stick.
- Distinguish between power and angle. Don’t fight through, adjust and find the angle instead.
- Need 3 pts to line up. E.g. finger, elbow, rear elbow. 2 points already form a line – 3 need to have real alignment.
- Aim at the nose. First with the finger then the elbow. Don’t move the contact point and don’t fight it either. It is a distraction.
- Make the finger to elbow a stick and aim it with the body at the nose.
- Once aimed lock the body and only move the feet.
- Every move has to catch the opponent. Don’t just turn around in place; carve. Rotation is useless without a poke / a catch.
- Lock the whole leg structure and go over like a board falling. 碾 nian (grind). Don’t take the shortcut, go all the way over.
- Put the foot in without pushing (use the kua)
- Pull with your toe
- Don’t push!!
- Step in front foot
- Pull in back foot
- Open the back to connect to rear kua
- Sink shoulder to poke finger
- Open rear kua / knee
- (Additional notes: keep the stick, don’t let your wrist go, control its aim with your body
- Aim at the tanzhong or nose
- Don’t raise the shoulder or move the shoulder forward, it only goes down
- Get under the opponent without collapsing or fighting
- Closer the rear foot is, the deeper underneath the opponent you are)
- Need to get engagement with the touch and never lose it. Have to catch the opponent with every adjustment. Needs to have a poke at their center
- Make the body like a chair. Can support the force without strength. Bone connects to the floor, allows other movements around the structure.
- Always engaged, never neutral. Changes between legs by turning the gears.
- Solid – Move inward (in with elbow no hand, out with hand no elbow). In first then out.
- Torque accumulates until the size can’t take it. Many micro rotations until it breaks. Not moving allows it to accumulate.
- Don’t say its mysterious, identify something even if you are wrong. You can adjust it to be more correct.
- If its not contained the power / the stretch has no meaning, it is lost. Needs a ceiling and a floor. The neck must not lose power. It must be straight to transmit power. 5 necks: neck, wrist, ankle.
- Necks are like chains in a way. Certain ways of moving, they are loose, other ways they are stiff. String of 9 pearls: Tighten the string the beads are on, it is stiff like a spear. Loosen it and it is flexible to change shape.
- Power on the elbow.
- Work on being able to separate the axis (core) and the lock.
- Initiate with small counterweight then add the big counterweight (dantian) to flip the scale.
- Rubbing when making fist. Can increase power by giving yourself resistance. Rub against yourself. Like rubbing your fingers against each other. Now the fist rubs, and the armpit rubs, and elbow and kua rub.
- Upper dantian – keep the point locked on to the opponent.
- Line it up to the arm, the 7 in knife.
- Stretch the tanzhong point back, keeping the body parallel.
- Magnet (dipole) no matter how it’s divided, there are two poles in each magnetic part.
- Kua and elbow evenly stretch to/away from center.
- Back arch, butt arch.
- Inward move. It all tightens up so you are a compressed cannonball. It does not change shape, it wedges in with the feet. If you overextend, your structure loses integrity.
- The fight is for strategic points. The points are like voids that you stretch from / to. I saw them as black holes. Closing space is like getting sucked into a point near the opponent.
- One such point is the midpoint between the elbow and the kua. If you occupy the opponent’s space they have nowhere to escape to. Stretch towards like a parachute.
- Stretch away from the point by arching. Stretch towards also by arching. The arch lets the tension even out.
- Stretch and rotation without combining create area (pressure). Need to carve space with rotation. Otherwise you are just spinning in space.
- Switch foot kick to step without popping.
- Create a wedge and move it forward without changing the wedge.
- Fall to wedge in. (Go with the opponent’s push but gain more on the foot)
- Fall lets foot come forward.
- 顶天立地 head stretch creates crowbar.
- Rubber cord exercises: lean and get distance, then go into horse stance (straight vertical) to get used to the feeling of being brought over the edge.
- Pay attention to elbow leading. Kua and elbow pull to center point.
It turns out that pushing the front kua forward without other movement in the torso and arms is the best way to lift someone from a hospital bed while also being bent over them. It’s saving my back these days.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 59 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2026 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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The practical application of the Three Rings Theory dictates that effective force generation relies entirely on the correct mediated connection (R1 ↔ R2 ↔ R3), while the forbidden relationship (R3 → R1) is a structural weakness. Master Chen’s demonstrations show that the Middle Ring (R2)—the elbow or major joint—is the indispensable kinetic bridge, neutralizing strong grips and anchoring the body during power transmission. This theory validates that true structural integrity comes not from muscular resistance, but from establishing a full-body structural stretch which generates a multiplicative 45-degree power line. |
| Furthermore, the sequence of ring engagement determines the nature of the power: a fast R2 → R3 sequence yields ‘Quick‘ (hammer-like) power, while the full R3 → R2 → R1 sequence establishes the ‘Heavy‘ (pillar-like) defense, proving that mastery lies in precise, integrated action rather than brute strength. | |
| (This is Part 3 of a five part article based on the Three Rings of Tai Chi filmed in 2010, Edmonton, Canada.) |
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