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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 64 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
A perfect stick or ball is conducive to a rotation but there are no handles to start the power. When you create the handle, the power produced by the handle destroys the ball or stick.
View the video to see how Master Chen Zhonghua resolves this paradox.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 61 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This lesson covered footwork, stepping 1-2-3, shovel out, pull up, squeezing in.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
When you training to rotate one part of the body, it is more like a template, or a model. The body does not have anything like that.
The smallest meaningful unit/action on the body is a two-disk gear set.
Master Chen Zhonghua shows how to train the first gear in this video.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Thanks to Instructors Chen Xu and Qiu Yingdong, and host Zhuang Yan. The 11th Practical Metod Seminar in Quanzhou, Fujian, China was a big success! Read more
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 63 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This lesson covered the negative circle and double negative circle.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
In training, we must use a lot of power and imagine it is real. Then in push hands, things will become easy.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Sooyeon Zacharias is the new record holder for doing the most number of yilus in single day. She did 180 yilus on Dec. 18, 2021 from 6:00 am to 11:59 pm with an actual effort of 18 hours. She has so far performed a lifetime total of 12579 yilus.
The previous record was held by Han Rui and Wang Kai for 172 yilus back on Aug. 31, 2017.
For more information, please see: https://practicalmethod.com/2014/07/the-yilu-challenge/
A: Hey Sooyeon, are you on vacation?
S: Yes, I am.
A: What do you do then?
S: Yilu
A: Don’t you do that everyday already?
S: Yep, just more of it, about 9 times more to be exact.
A: That’s not a vacation.
S: It’s an yilucation, and I love it.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
All body parts must contribute to squeezing energy towards to front hands, which are aimed at the opponent.
There are many aspects and considerations in doing so. Master Chen Zhonghua gave a good treatment of this concept with demonstrations and explanations.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 0 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: Chinese
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
清晰动作。初学时一定要像模仿定势照片一样一帧一帧地把动作放出幻灯片来。 这样能确保动作到位。 有的人可以这样做一次就可以了，有的人则需要几个月或者几年。这像写楷书。什么时候连起来打，要因人而异。 我个人准备这样打一辈子。不在乎行云流水那样的状态。 #陈式太极拳 #陈中华 #五莲大青山旅游风景区 #真不动太极 #陈中华太极 #青山太极 #太极青山 #陈中华太极馆 #单一动作
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 61 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
To clear something is in the sense of separation. When you separate two things, you shouldn't allow them to have any form of connection. This is a higher level technique in Practical Method.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 0 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Once you are full, you can add one or subtract one to cause the opponent to lose balance.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
When stepping, the torso cannot bend. Step forward with the front foot, using shoveling out method.
When stepping backward, use the rear foot. Also use the shoveling step with the rear toes on the floor and heel up.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Though difficult to do, rotation is not a hard concept to understand.
Rotating a rod, especially when it comes to an odd shaped rod such as and arm or leg, it IS difficult.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 59 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This lesson covered the positive circle.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 6 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Xing is the natural disposition of something. In Practical Method, we assume, some of the Xing is desirable while others are not.
In training we must rid our body of the Xing that is undesirable.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 79 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This lesson covered six sealing four closing (large and small).
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
How to harmonize the vertical and the horizontal? Can we synchronize them? In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains that movements in two planes must happen at the same time, but they must not be synchronized.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
ATNI Webinar #29 – Ling Zili Taiji Push Hands Journey from Da Qing Shan to the World (YouTube Recording) i
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Master Chen Zhonghua explain Peng from the angle of energy position. When energy moves from inside to the outside, it is a type of Peng.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
“White Crane Applications-Chen Zhonghua English Instructor Private Class 20211119” Online Video Purchase i
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
More White Crane applications.
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