Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 10, 2020 Online Lesson on Yilu Corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 65 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Wed Sept 9, Edmonton, Alberta; approx 8 PM local time
Impromptu training with GM…how to move…
Chen Zhonghua corrected Brennan Toh’s Cannon Fist form in this video.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 24 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Six Sealing Four Closing 六封四闭
Grandmaster Hong Junsheng studied the names of each move. He looked into the origin of these names, and how the pronounciation might have changed when the information was passed down based on the dialect of the region. The dialects in China can be so different that people from one region might not understand people from another region at all.
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Chen Zhonghua talks and demonstrates the weight distribution of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 7th, 2020 Online Lesson on Foundations.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s basic single person push hand drill series.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen demonstrated the foundation exercise Moving-Step Shake the pole, which is the positive and negative circle. He held a real pole to begin with to show the idea behind the foundation exercise. He locked his fron hand, which was holding the pole as a pivot. The rear hand moved the pole. Read more
Chen Zhonghua corrected John Dahms’ first 13 moves of Yilu in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Sept. 1, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s Online Lesson on Sept. 2, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Foundations. This episode is on the Pole-shaking exercise, which is a left-hand negative circle, right hand positive circle moving step combination. The exercise is designed for training without the pole.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen corrected a few people’s partial yilu today. Each person should remember himself/herself the stopping point, and so it can be continued from that point in future lessons when it is that person’s turn for correction again.
To stretch, we need to so find anchors on the two ends.
Empty means solid, it means power.
We need to find a line in ourselves. Master Chen showed Tinh Thai a version of fetch water that line up her rear elbow with the front hand. We need to make sure that the front shoulder is not in the way.
If we want to have grip in the hands, we need to have grip in the teeth and in the toes.
Chen Zhonghua taught the important concept of the frontal vertical line in Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. This is a must to have. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 67 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
This is Master Chen Zhonghua’s official teaching version of the relationship between the two hands in all taiji moves. This mini video was taped on August 25, 2020 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Read more
Six Sealing Four Closing
- Hands don’t move. Create a line between the front hand and rear foot. Read more
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Online lesson on August 27, 2020. This lesson focused on the following topics:
1. The rear foot, rear kua, front kua, front elbow, front hand will form a straight line 45 degrees upwards. This line does not connect to the upper body. This is an essential part of body postural change.
2. The shoulder cannot move forward with the arm.
3. The front kua pushed the front vertical line up all the way to the head, while the front shoulder pushes downward to form two opposite vertical lines: one up and one down.
This lesson also corrected many students online.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 71 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
In this video, Master Chen Zhonghua mainly focused on establishing a relationship between the front hand and the shoulder. This relationship is an invisible line. Once the two points line up, there will be power and the arm movement will become a stretch.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 61 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method on August 25, 2020. This one hour lesson involved teaching some theory, with a focus on the idea of Daoshou, how to switch grip so that the movement can be continous, and student practice corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Moving Step Positive Circle
- Hold your head up, tuck the chin.
- Each body part performs its own duty. Don’t merge together.
- Factory workers work, not everyone does the same job, but at the same time.
- Example: Move the feet back and forth by themselves, keep the central axis upright, move your hand out and elbow in.
- The waist must go backward while the hand goes forward.
Master Chen Zhonghua taught and corrected the Double Negative Circle. 陈中华老师讲解和改正了学生的双反圈。
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 61 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains the concept of “In With Elbow, No Hand; Out With Hand, No Elbow”. This is the famous ten-word adage by Grandmaster Hong Junsheng. Master Chen shows how this adage can be translated into actions in our Practical Method system.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 6 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
This is a short video with detailed explanations of the concept, actions and training methods of In With Elbow.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy. Please note that there is static with the sound in this video.
Morning Session
1-2-3 in general means that we must have a method, and there is a procedure.
We have to listen with our eyes. We can’t just close our eyes and say that we are listening.
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Chen Zhonghua’s Practical Method Online Lesson Morning Session on August 18, 2020.
Negative Circle procedure.
Many explanations and individual corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 54 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua shows how to move and use the Kua to make a solid line against the opponent.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s Absolute Beginners Online Lesson on August 17, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 36 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s Absolute Beginners Online Lesson on August 17, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 34 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s Absolute Beginners Online Lesson on August 17, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 35 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Dixian，底线，bottom line, is the most basic of the Practical Method. It refers to things that cannot be questioned, discussed or researched. They are things that must be accepted in whole. Read more
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Online Lesson on Dixian (Bottom Line) on August 14, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 56 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Toronto Workshop March 2020-1
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At: Toronto, Canada
In this video, Master Chen explained what it meant to have a tiger’s back and a bear’s waist, and how to practice it correctly. The close-up view allowed us to see his body movements, and how he corrected the students’ mistakes. It allows the body to be more structured, and the arms to move more freely, and not affect the body by mistake.
We will practice cave in the chest and round the back in the Power Hour Class on Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 8 am ET. http://voov.practicalmethod.ca
These are my notes from Master Chen’s zoom lesson on Re-calibration, on August 11, 2020
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We need to tune a thermometer. First we find the zero. We set a standard then we can use it to measure Read more
