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Emphasis on correct foot placement, relation between knee and foot, transition moves, energy intent
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Forms corrected
2. Block Touching the Coat (Lan Zha Yi)
3. Six Sealing and Four Closing (Liu Feng Si Bi)
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The Taoists believe that there is no right or wrong. Everything is flawless. Nothing ever changes; everything stays the same. It is only our perspective that changes. Time is always immediately present. Another way of putting it is that time expires instantaneously, and therefore it never expires. The present is called the moment because it has momentum. Still, yet moving like the river. This relates to taiji as well.
You might wonder why I bring the 1930’s into the equation. Well, to my mind, the 1930’s is where all the trouble started for a lot of students. So what happened in the 1930’s you may ask.
Zhu Dongsheng, Hu and Chu of Lin Yi came to visit last night. They left this morning to Rizhao. I taught about the taiji movement of “moving without movement” using two tea cups. Zhu took the cups as a souvenir.
When Master Chen demonstrates push hands and he “pushes me out”, I sometimes feel subjected to an overwhelming push or pull. More often I feel subjected to a combination of a force and a strong twist. This combination seems to be even more difficult to counter act. Read more
New buzz words in China compared to the old terms:
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Wu Shaozhi of Linyi and Chen Xu of Zibo came to visit. They stayed for two days. Watched Wu’s form, made corrections and comments. He made progress again. Chen Xu came to Daqingshan through the Zibo Taijiquan Competition held in Yiyuan that the Daqingshan team attended. His push hands was quite good. He noticed that the feeling of push hands is not what he expected from observing my students at the competition.
The front must be full and the back must be stable. You can push from the back but not the front.
Here are videos of push hand competition and weapon form.
Grandmaster Li Qingjia of Xuzhou at the 4th Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Conference on Daqingshan, Rizhao in 2010.
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Master Xu Guicheng recalls that Grandmaster Hong Junsheng did not like the saying “Entice into emptiness” as it denotes two actions. He preferred “Withdraw is to issue.”
Master Chen has stated that any similarities between Taijiquan and other martial arts are superficial. To be unaware of this point is to risk wandering off-course on the Taiji path.
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.
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I was having a conversation over dinner with my Taiji brother Nicholas Fung about the frustrations of learning Taiji. He was wondering aloud about the method for learning. Read more
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Review and part two of the 12-form Hunyuan Qigong. Practice was conducted in front of Yulange Hotel in the clouds this morning at 5:30.
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First three of the 12-form Hunyuan Qigong were taught this morning.
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I was recently looking through some old notes and came across Master Chen Zhonghua’s “New Theory on the Eight Methods.” It is also known as the eight techniques. I thought this might be of interest due to the recent discussion of the Eight Methods mentioned in Rion’s notes from the Cannon Fist workshop. Read more
Below are my notes from all the remaining days of the seminar:
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Notes:
-Talking about stretching to attain proper structure: Chemicals/toxins deposit in your ‘corners’. Eliminate all corners/creases and create the arch. No power. Structure! Read more
July 26, 27. Cannon Fist Workshop.
Thank you Master Chen and Allan for your time and excellent teaching so far. The first two days have been great! Read more
The relation between Taiji and the Taoist concept of time is a topic which Master Chen has emphasized as extremely important, Read more
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