Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
The three counts of the circle. In with elbow, the elbow must lead and the power jerks the hand. Turn with waist, the kua must lead and pulls the elbow sideways. Out with hand, the hand must lead and pull the line all the way to the rear foot.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
There can only be one dot on the body that moves. That does leads the rest of the body. The way it does so is like a bullet going forward. Everything else (other body parts) cannot compete with the bullet.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Every move is made up of two body parts. When one part moves, the other part cannot move. The movement of the part comes from the hinge between the two parts.
Just back from the 5th Chen Taiji Practical Method Meetup, Poland 2021, tired but happy.
As usual a great weekend in a great friendly atmosphere.This year we had the pleasure of having a collective zoom course with sifu, it was very great .
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 62 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
Cannon Fist Correction: Sven Gusowski Gerry Gebhart Raymond Dickey Kerstin Frotscher-Kummle Alex Wu Navarro Chris Martinez Jacek Wolochowski Sergey Schepin
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 79 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
The online session part of the 2021 European Practical Method workshop consists of two parts. The first part is Q&A, and second part is some basic teaching. This is the teaching part.
Master showed a short video in one of his workshops in Xi’an China in 2018. The topic is to open from inside.
Open triangle model, which only exists in theory, in reality, the angle of the shoulder is 45 degree opening downwards, and the kua is 45 degree opening upwards from the crest line. A typical move in the forms is the armpit opening in double downward squeeze. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 0 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
"Sinking" is a major concept/action in Taijiquan. In Practical Method "sinking" is regarded as a result of stretching. It is associated with the idea of a downward direction. It is totally different from our general concept of sinking.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English   Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
There are two kinds of power in Practical Method. One is structural which is also called static; the other is momentum which is also called dynamic. In this mini video, Master Chen Zhonghua explains how structure can be viewed and used as power.