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A leader is someone or something that others follow. If a number of people have to go through a tunnel that is only large enough to fit a person through at a time, the first person who goes through it is the leader, whom the rest of the people just follow. If multiple people try to go through the tunnel at the same time, there will be a jam, and no one can come out the other end. Read more
- Smart phone
- Tripod
- Notebook
The first two items allow your camera to be set at the appropriate height, distance and angle for the teacher/instructor to have an optimal view to provide feedback to the student. These items can be replaced with other equipment that can provide equivalent adjustment of the camera. The 3rd item facilitates note taking (don’t forget to post your notes too at the website).
Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 2019 Toronto Workshop.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2019 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Private lesson for Roy Croucher on Oct. 8, 2020. He started with the theory of taiji movements being tying knots and untying knots. Then he corrected Croucher’s third part of Yilu.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 48 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Private lesson with Anton Phipps on Oct. 8, 2020.
In this lesson Master Chen Zhonghua taught Phipps how to isolate power from the kua and use it like a hammer to power the forearm in Twisting the Towel.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 57 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson of Practical Method on Oct. 8, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 64 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson with Anton Phipps on applications.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 52 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson for Roy Croucher on Oct. 7, 2020.
The first 18 minutes of the video has no sound. But we think it is important so we did not cut it out. Purchase this video if you don’t mind this clip.
Section two of yilu corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 34 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Practical Method on Oct. 7, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Today, shifu emphasized on how to learn. The first thing about learning is to listen to instructions and then to copy. Some people tried to copy without listening to the full instructions, and that won’t be a success copy either.
To copy, it’s to do everything exactly the same by definition.
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The subject of the lesson continued working on six sealing four closing.
Master Chen said that people can train for many years but never make the change that will help them improve. They keep doing the same thing that they always have done. We often say old bottle with new wine but in China it is turned around, old wine in new bottle.
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October 6th 2020 foundations On-line Class
Today we worked on staying on the line, which exists between the front shoulder and the front hand, and beyond with the same trajectory . The elbow pushes into that line, Which is activating the elbow, thus forcing the handout. The elbow withdraws in a way that integrity of the line between the shoulder and the hand remains intact.
Private lesson for Anton Phipps. On the basic contact, move in and stretch.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 42 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lessons on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method on Oct. 6, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
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Today Master Chen provides instructions and corrections on Six Sealing Four Closing.
– The shoulder has to totally disappear.
– The move is a rotation from the central vertical rod.
– Only rotate from the shoulder. The hand, elbow and shoulder is one piece.
34th Daiqngshan Practical Method Seminar Early Morning training on Oct. 5, 2020.
This drill trains: 1) touch hands. 2) become full. 3) going over.
The energy used: stretching.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Che
n Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
On Monday, Sep 28, 2020, Master Chen Zhonghua instructed on the move “Turning Flowers and Playing with Sleeves” from Cannon Fist during the online class. The requirement was to jump off the left foot, rotate 360 degrees in the air, and land on the right foot. I had so much difficulty doing it during class. I was tossing all over the place. Master Chen said he would check on us again a week later. This was the benefit of having such a regular class. Read more
…GM gives Roy opportunities to try to use PM to move him in push hands…very focused session…
…I am seeing PM, everywhere…making lunch today and…
Master Chen started today’s class with a story and a method people used to remember things precisely.
The story was about how the Secretary was corrected by an old person on the details of an event. The Secretary referred his speech to a document. However, it turned out that the document was incorrect, and the audio recording had the truth as pointed out by the old person. In today’s society, we rely on a lot of documents instead of trying to remember things in our heads. If the documents were actually recorded in correctly, we would have the facts incorrect.
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Yang Huopo of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, trying to make a tube for the practice of some foundational exercises. This is after he heard at the online lesson that Master Chen Zhonghua used to practice this way.
In Practical Method, we encourage the actualization of ideas into practices.
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Master Chen Zhonghua introduced Wild Horse Parts Its Mane as a foundation exercise. If space is available, we can do it as a line drill.
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We started with the various foundations. Master Chen Zhonghua mentioned that we must be able to copy the external shape first, e.g. he must be able to recognize which foundation we were attempting to do. If we were doing the yilu, others must recognize that we were doing a Chen Style Yilu, and then a Practical Method Yilu.
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Foundations corrections on Sept. 29, 2020. Master Chen Zhonghua used the three primary foundations exercises (Twisting the Towel, Six Sealing and Four Closing, and Fetch Water) to train the closing and opening of the front kua. This action is called Folding and Opening, 折叠， zhe die.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 64 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua corrected Roy Croucher’s first 13 moves of Yilu.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 56 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
