Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 11 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
After learning the choreography/form, one needs to take each move out and do repeat training. This method ensures proficiency in applications.
In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua took several moves out of the first 3 forms of the Yilu Routine of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method and demonstrated how to fajin (issue power) with them.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Taiji is the art of contradiction, a struggle. The Dantian must always pulls all our body part inwards while our actions are always outward away from the Dantian.
Master Chen Zhonghua shows how this is done.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2017 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Our body parts must always be inside a restricted area like a bullet is inside a gun barrel. The restrictions set up limitations for the body and for our movements. This will create borders and demarcations. With demarcations yin and yang are delineated.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2017 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 67 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
1) 东风衔日 The east peak swallows the sun
2) 仙人指路 The immortal points the way
3) 叶底藏花 The flower hides under the leaves
4) 魁星式 Kuixing pose
5) 哪吒探海 Necha reaches out to the sea
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
The Kua (front kua) must be open (stretch out so that there is less an indentation) in order for the body to have proper balance. An indented kua will make it difficult to maintain balance.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2017 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 74 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
1) 东风衔日 The east peak swallows the sun
2) 仙人指路 The immortal points the way
3) 叶底藏花 The flower hides under the leaves
4) 魁星式 Kuixing pose
5) 哪吒探海 Necha reaches out to the sea
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
The most theoretical scenario for taiji is emptiness, void of anything, for example the space between you on the 33rd floor and the ground.
The most deadly scenario for taiji is to impale at the end of the emptiness.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2017 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Height is proportional with the stance (distance between the two feet). When the feet are close to each other, you are standing high. When your feet are far apart, you are in a low stance. Any other methods will make you lose proper posture.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2017 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2002 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Indirect Power is only next to Yin Yang separation in Practical Method. Master Chen Zhonghua demonstrated a few examples of indirect power in this 2002 Ottawa video clip.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
肩和膝管上下。
肘管上身。
胸中间管中线。
胯管左右。
功夫 – 指哪打哪。要一个部位动，就只有这一个部位动。
功夫 – 对方预测不到的。超出了自然。
两种难：
- 吃苦(累) – 难
- 挑战(不容易) – 难
要进步：强逼（不做就罚你）、自愿（给引诱的）、被欺骗的（自己不知道）
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 92 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
We need to pass it on. We can’t worry about who can really do it or not.
Passing it on means the receiver remembers what you said, and can repeat the saying.
Story Telling
We use stories to pass on information.
Plains of Abraham: This battle was won by British army. From here, Britian eventually gain control of North America when French Revolution took place, and France gave up North America.
Wuji is there is nothing within an area. You draw a circle to mark an area. Wuji is having a restriction.
1+4 = 2+3 = 5 + 0 = 1.1 + 3.9 Wuji is saything that the sum needs to be 5.
Taiji is to say from 0 to 5.
To say 10, it’s because there are 5 on each side.
Yi (intent) is based on a real experience. Yi is not plain imagination without real experience.
We want the core to control the movements, so we can see the limbs but not the dantian itself. Training: Kick with heel as an exercise.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 85 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 85 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 70 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This class covers the following:
1) Cannon Fist Corrections for some students
2) Review of the Large Six Sealing Four Closing foundation exercise
3) Train the Small Six Sealing Four Closing
- Idea of two cylinders (gears)
- Kua initiates the rotation, shoulder and elbow coordinate
- Front hand stays on the track and it is squeezed out
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 63 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
We discussed about Large Six Sealing Four Closing today.
1) Line up the front hand with the rear shoulder. This is our non-moving track of our action.
2) Start with the elbow placed horizontally.
3) Bring the front elbow into the track horizontally.
4) Bring the front shoulder into the track without popping.
5) The front hand must stay on the track.
6) Put a wall in front of the front hand, and a wall behind the rear shoulder. These walls square up with each other. The rear wall absolutely does not move.
7) By bringing in the front elbow, the wall in front of the hand is squeezed out. The wall represents some amount of resistence for the front hand, so the front hand can't move freely by itself.
8) When the hand meets the resistence head on, we rotate the elbow slightly to go over, then we continue with the linear motion. We repeat this process many times over to get the front hand travel along the track.
9) After the hand can't go any further out along the track, we reset to the starting position and repeat the exercise.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
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Three iron hat. Head(fixed), shoulder/waist/kua(can be flexible), knee. Make sure the power is not leaked out. Big inside moves, outside is locked, so the power is contained, compressed and trapped, and it goes back to the floor. Move with pressure is the training.
Kua and elbow. When the kua is indented/short, we tend to overdo the elbow(too straight). The buttock should be hidden under by filling the kua. Read more
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
