Roy Dawson
Date: 12/3/2005 0:00
Title: Nov. 3 and 4 Winnipeg Chen Style Taiji Workshop
Organizer: Roy Dawson
Location: Winnipeg
Comments: Master Chen finally came back to Winnipeg after more than two years. At this workshop we went back to the basics. We reviewed the positive and negative circles and did a stepping exercise.
Testimonials : Workshop Reviews
Guidelines:
No two parts align
Find or create a straight line on the floor. Come standing with your feet hip width apart, your toes just touching the bottom of the line on the floor. Turn your left foot slightly out at the toes.
It makes sense. The circle is the strongest form possible. Connecting circles using interlocking gears means the coordination of parts in order to support and connect the structure. Master Chen gives us yet another analogy of structure. Imagine holding a rock away from your body with a straight arm. It requires muscles and strength and this eventually weakens. Read more
Originally written by: Michael Zimmer
Date: 5/17/2005 0:00 Read more
Gene Hess
Date: 3/16/2005 1:00
Title: Qigong brought back my health
Reviewer: Gene Hess
Organizer: John Brown
Location: Fairfield, IA, USA
Comments: Interestingly enough, as I just finished another appointment with my chiropractor, he asked me what I have been doing differently lately. (I have been seeing him about once every three months, for about ten years, on a regular schedule, after I got stabilized from my car/train accident in 1987. He has always had the same ‘trouble’ spots that need to be realigned.) This time, he says that I am a lot more stabile and need far fewer adjustments. I tell him that I am standing every day for at least 30 minutes, focusing on keeping the curves in my spine minimized and keeping a centered posture. He says “Keep doing it. It is making a big difference!” That tells me that just 6 months of standing is some pretty powerful stuff.
Thanks again, Joseph … Gene Hess
Originally written by: Ian Macrae
Date: 10/23/2004 0:00
Title: Victoria Workshop on Self Defence
Organizer: Gordon Muir
Location: Victoria
Comments:
Whether because it was in a karate dojo, or because quite a few of the participants had martial arts backgrounds, or for some other reason, I felt that the Victoria workshop brought home Chen style taiji’s, and CZH’s, martial roots and purpose. CZH focused on applications and the theory behind them. He presented practical drills and exercises designed to help you understand the theory so you could make the taiji applications work. One of the great things about studying with CZH is that he is very much hands on. Both days, each student got many opportunities to touch him and feel the taiji principals and applications at work. The two person drills weren’t metaphysical exercises, but were actual martial applications. CZH had a wealth of taiji information and knowledge which he shared during breaks from the physical work. A very worthwhile workshop.
Ian Macrae
Seattle
Originally written by: Ted Truscott
Date: 12/8/2004 0:00
Title: Victoria Workshop on Self Defence
Organizer: Gordon Muir
Location: Victoria Link to pictures:
Comments: Master Chen proved to me that his tai chi was different from the tai chi I have experienced in the past. It has obvious combat applications in both the manipulation of your opponent’s balance and with the obvious creation of striking power.
He also proved that it will take a very long time for me to be able to emulate his methodology! 🙂
I found him to be very personable and friendly and very open with his teaching. An A+ for sure.
Ted Truscott Sandan Shorin-Ji Ryu Karate
Dec. 8, 2004
Originally written by: Patrick Yu
Name: Patrick Yu
Location: EDMONTON
Workshop title: 2000 Summer Edmonton Push Hands Workshop
Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2000
Location: EDMONTON
Workshop title: 2000 Summer Edmonton Push Hands Workshop
Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2000
Comments:
Thanks Shifu Chen. He is very generous to give the teaching, only in a short time, I know how to push-hands from hands only to use my waist and legs; from one direction to become a turning ball; from yin or yang only to line up my energy. I have the basis kung-fu for my future training, I will appreciate it all my life.
Name:: Karen Perron
Location:: Edmonton, Alberta
Comments
Every moment with Joseph serves to be a learning experience, however this particular workshop has proved to be very much so in that a number of principles that have eluded me for the past two years suddenly appeared. One in particular; the transfer of energy from the hip to the heel without going through the knee was one concept I have “missed” in earlier training. Never think that any amount of training with Joseph is not productive. Even fifteen minutes can give you that understanding that you have been seeking. You just never know.
Name:: Thomas Yeung
Location:: Edmonton
Location:: Edmonton
Comments
After attending Joseph’s 48-workshop, then I realize what appears to the simplest move contains the deepest philosophy. I came out with much higher respects to Taiji and Joseph.
At the end of March, I attended a Chen Family Taijiquan Weekend seminar that lasted two days. The seminar was conducted by Master Chen Zhonghua. Master Chen is full of energy with eyes beaming with spirit. Read more
Peter Wu led a two-day push-hands workshop in Ottawa, November 11 and 12, 1999. It was the fifth workshop of his North American tour. Other workshops that he held were in Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, and Winnipeg. In the United States, Atlanta and San Francisco were his other stops. Read more
