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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
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Lever: one side goes down, but it actually needs to move, so the pivot keeps moving backward within the rod.
Book exercise: Not allowing the book to fall down with your hand and opponent’s hand on it. One person pushs and pulls, the opponent matches the action with the elbow, shoulder, kua, feet.
Leader in 3-count circle
Six Sealing Four Closing: While the two knees are going up and down, they are restricted within a cylinder.
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 64 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
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 66 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Master Chen gave online students corrections on the form.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 70 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
A major characteristic of the Hong Junsheng Practical Method system of Chen Style Taijiquan is its concave circles. Other styles of taiji mainly utilize convex circles.
Another trailer of concave circle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXPmj0N6LU
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 62 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
A major characteristic of the Hong Junsheng Practical Method system of Chen Style Taijiquan is its concave circles. Other styles of taiji mainly utilize convex circles.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 80 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
When you want to open a joint such as the Kua, you need to catch part of it and then twist the rest.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Master Chen Zhonghua shows how to create a fist hit by locking the torso and stretching/grinding the armpit. This is part of the system that requires the power to be generated from within through rubbing, grinding, twisting and opening.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
First step in the first move:
After the right turn, my left hand is on the opponent’s elbow not moving, while my right hand holds the opponent’s wrist. Lock my outside, shrink the distance between my right elbow and right kua. This is to fali 发力.
3-count positive circle:
- Imagine a fixed point beyond the right hand on the straight line between the right hand and right elbow. Pull in the elbow along this line.
- Imagine a fixed point behind the right kua on the straight line between the right kua and right elbow. Open the kua to stretch and extend the distance along this line.
- Imagine a fixed point behind the right elbow on the straight line between the right elbow and the right hand. Stretch the right hand out along this line.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Agility is a special taiji quality that one must possess in order to make taiji push hands work.
This quality involves ability to bear heavy weight while being totally mobile. An object that shows this quality is a ball-bearing. This is a clip of Master Chen Zhonghua's online class covering for Kelvin Ho.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
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One of the actions of taiji is to scoop/carve. It is like when you use a spoon to pick up soft/jello-like yogurt. You can put the spoon on the surface and rotate under it to pick up what the spoon can hold. By tossing it in the yogurt will on disturb and destroy the yogurt.
A static version of this is a half-pipe/concave circle. When an object hits it, the object will travel on it and return.
In this video clip, Master Chen Zhonghua shows how to lock the rear kua as the stable support while moving the front kua. This will create a trajectory that will return the opponent’s oncoming force.
Chinese version/中文版：https://www.zhenbudong.cn/archives/144877
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 65 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Movement, Lever, and Stretching!
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 81 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Agility is a special taiji quality that one must possess in order to make taiji push hands work.
This quality involves ability to bear heavy weight while being totally mobile. An object that shows this quality is a ball-bearing.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Elbow In-Chen Zhonghua Online 20210915. This is a clip from Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 15, 2021 online lesson. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 65 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Master Chen Zhonghua shows 3 Solids contacts: feet must be solid on the ground; head must be solid in the air (as if pushed solid against the ceiling); and the hand (or any other part that catches the opponent) must be solid against the opponent. When this is done, make sure all three remain solid while make a move of pull or push with joints against the opponent.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
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GM Hong Junsheng clearly stated that the body height is adjusted by the knee moving up and down. However, this has been very difficult to understand, to do and to use in applications.
In this short video clip, Master Chen Zhonghua shows how it is achieved.
Chinese version/中文版：https://www.zhenbudong.cn/archives/144946
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