Shot at DaQingShan Mountain by Paul Janssens during full time 2010. Notice the precise way Master Chen performed the transition moves.
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Master Chen:
I have been following your on-line for about a year now and started trying to learn the Yilu form from your videos about 6 months ago. About 2 months ago I was able to contact Alex Renwick here in Houston and he has been kind enough to offer assistance in helping me learn the Yilu form.
The Upper Midwest Hunyuan Taijiquan Academy Association is inviting you to join some of our members in participating at the AAU-CMA Columbia Midwest Super Regional on April 9th in Columbia, MO. In order to enter you must first join the AAU. Info is available here: http://aauchinesemartialarts.org/Home.aspx. It costs $40 to join. The event costs $45 to enter for 3 events, if you want more they are $5 per event extra. Here is a link to the Facebook page for the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135502086509556. Any questions you can contact me at tduehring@gmail.com or The organizer at shifugregb1@gmail.com, or call at 573-489-9150
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In this clip, Master Chen shows the intricacies of the transition moves between 12 (The Fist of Covering Hand) and 13 (Buddha’s Warrior Attendant Pounds Mortar).
In this clip, Master Chen corrected a common mistake in yilu practice. Normally, people use one part of the body to accomplish two tasks. This causes the use of local power, which means you are using your hand to grab but also use it to make moves. This is an error in taijiquan practice. On the other hand, you should use global power (heli), which means that if you use your hand to grab, you have to use your elbow to pull or push.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s 2011 New York Workshop Unedited video recording. This video contains 115 minutes of the workshop.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 115 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:2/5 At:New York
Another clip below
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In taijiquan, there are only two basic movements: pull and push. When pushing, one needs to make the body behave like a stick so that the energy transmits through. When pulling, one needs to make the body act like a rope in order to transmit power. Different actions require different body shape and movements.
1. Step up to Kao (Whole Body Hit). 2. Step up to Squeeze. 3. Flash the Back. 4. Rubbing Exercise. 5.Direct Block and Enter. 6. The fourth move of Brush the Knee in Oblique Stance. 7. Same side (with Foot) Elbow Strike.
Author: Chen Zhonghua; Gavin Sandeman Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:1/5 At:Ottawa, Canada
Arrived in Vancouver in the evening. Had supper with Gary, Jody and Wilkin. It was cold outside. We came to Wilkin’s for a practice. Showed how to create a “Stick” in the torso. This is a vertical stick that must be present at all times. It “awaits” the opportunity to act. It is half of the applications puzzle. The other half a similar “stick” in the arms. The arm stick works in the open while the torso stick works in the background. Read more
17 chapters of instruction on taiji push hands and applications. This is part of the 2010 Daqingshan full time course taught by Master Chen Zhonghua. While there are many applications and techniques taught in this video, the focus was on the differentiation of movement and tranquility (Don’t move) on corresponding parts of the body. Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 48 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan Mountain Resort for Taiji
This is the private section of Chen Zhonghua’s Feb. 2011 Workshop in New York. It was meant to be a private teaching session for Michael Calandra and Dean Mayo. This video showed some higher level taiji skills and techniques and lots of training tips for students.
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 30 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:4/5 At:New York
Gerry (left) and Ron (right)
When Master Chen visited Phoenix from Jan 31 to Feb 3, 2011, he introduced this new exercise to me. When you do the circles, put a yoga block between your knee and the wall, and use your knee to push very hard against the block. So, when you start to do circles, your knee is stationary. Your kua opens! Try it with the block, try it without. Eventually, you can do the circles without moving your front knee.The function of this block is that it allows free push of the body and kua forward and yet, the force transmits to the ground from the knee. Without it, the force applied forward will go out from the knee and not into the ground. Read more
Push Hands practice, the meaning of “Don’t Move”
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5 At: Maple Ridge
During this last weekend Feb 12-13 we were honored to have in San Juan, Puerto Rico an awesome Chen Style Practical Method Tai Chi Chuan seminar conducted by Master Chen Zhonghua and assisted by his disciple Todd Elihu. Read more
Hi, just some thoughts here i actually wanted to post on the specific category, but that is not possible anymore. It deals with shoulder and Kua and the connections between the trigrams. Read more
- Some talk of “qi,” others talk of “internal energy,” in the Practical Method we talk about separation of yin and yang. Read more
Corrections given to me were to do my movements bigger. Small movements at the beginning will cause you to make many mistakes in your movements. Read more
1. Beginning. 2. Circle Corrections. 3. The Stretch. 4. The Replacement Stretch. 5. Dont’ Move Your Hand!
Author: Chen Zhonghua Length: 38 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton
As master Chen requested, I am posting my raw notes from the Bentonville workshop. This was 4 days worth of notes. Read more
Fill it in, then add one.
- Get in – Loose – get into position, set it up, dissipate the opponent’s force. Two ways: Receive (a push from) the opponent. OR, Move into the opponent without pushing. (large circle) Read more
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
Old analogies – Taiji is like a rolling log (in water).
Theory Method
Back silk knot Silk reeling Read more
- Hinge
Chest must move like a hinge in order to link. (Shifu Chen puts the ends of two bottle together and shows them bending and sliding off each other in various ways.) - Split
Do the form with a center split. Then learn to split at any point in the body. This is the same as the demarcation line discussed earlier.
