The top is the top, the bottom is the bottom, the left is not the right, the right is not the left, the middle is right in the center. Same for outside and inside.
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Application is not fighting, it is the meaning.
Stories.1996 in Shaolin Temple.The show performed by the personal team of the abbot.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Three ways of talking about our actions:
- Separation of Yin and Yang
- In and Out
- Lead
Other analogies:
- Thread, fabric, needle
- Needle is outside leading.
- Fabric is the barrier.
- Thread is inside being pulled.
- Leading thing must be hard, what is being led is soft.
- Head must be hard, arm must be soft.
- Bone is hard, skin/muscle is soft.
- Top of the head must be hard, whatever below must be soft.
- This is the training for reversal of yin and yang.
- Soft means always going around.
- Stiff is strong.
3 focuses on training yilu:
- Heavy cloak on the shoulder to focus on stretching the head up.
- Tie rubber band at the elbow to keep them from going out.
- Put a spring-loaded rod between the two knees to keep from collapsing.
Any thing free is a catalyst.
Your existing things are 2-dimensional. Our taiji trains us to be 3-dimensional.
Hand is 3-dimensional while the torso is 2-dimensional.
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 71 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Going down – It needs to be led by the bottom.
Going left – It needs to be led by the left side
Going right – It needs to be led by the right side.
Going up – It needs to be led by the top.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 90 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
This is a video capture of the Zoom online session of the 2021 Iowa Practical Method workshop.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 65 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
What is the internal aspect of Taiji?
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Human is the relationship.
Chinese emphasizes on relationship.
Taiji is being the catalyst, and create a relationship between two things.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 77 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: 59 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
35. Tame the tiger
36. Brush the eyebrow
37. Right single cloud hand
38. Cut hand
39. Left single cloud hand
40. Left forward thrust
41. Double fist hit downward
42. Right forward thrust
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Liu Baojun how to teach kids Taiji.Education sell people. Master Chen Zhonghua’s high school, changed from an art school to academic school in three years. Take the risk. Master did demonstrations at schools twice every year for ten years. Be consistent. Some of them might come to Taiji when they grow up. It is a hard thing to invest in culture. Master Chen taught 500,000 people and now he has about 200 students. Appreciate and value your students. At least someone keeps going, so the style does not die out.
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 65 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
35. Tame the tiger
36. Brush the eyebrow
37. Right single cloud hand
38. Cut hand
39. Left single cloud hand
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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
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
This is a personal video from one of his students. Taken on a street at an impromptu demonstration in the early 1980s.
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 71 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
This class covers:
- Initial Closing's different variations:
- Lock the back, in with elbow, pull in left foot
- In with elbow, fill the kua
- In with elbow, out with foot
- Lock the top, move the bottom (rear foot backwards)
- How to train the front kua in fetch water?
- How to switch the direction of the half horse stance?
- How to rotate with a vertical rod?
- How to maintain a vertical and horizontal dimention?
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 45 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
Rotation. Connection. Active and passive. Movements are from the rotation of the core, the shoulders are coordinating, not adding or losing, transferring the power to the arms. The rotation of the core is the glue in Taiji, it ties with the 5 threads. As it rotates, the lines adapt and change, silk reeling, functions with different directions are the eight techniques. Examples: Front trick and rear trick. Part the wild horse mane. The core, from a vertical rod to dantian, a ball. It is easier to manipulate to pull the rope. Once you are able to maneuver, the body is integral, instead of scattered or loose. Master Chen showed the difference between rotation and tossing. Example: Cloud hands. Moving the rod and the bar in a T bar are different. At the beginning the integrity is visual but later it is power. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 62 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
I met with John Upshaw on Friday and Saturday mornings, July 9 and 10 in Estes Park, Colorado while he and his family were vacationing there. Read more
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 60 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
31. The posture of hand and elbow
32. The posture of the splitting power
33. Turning flowers and playing with sleeves
34. The fist of covering the hand
35. Tame the tiger
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 77 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: 71 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Toronto, Canada
31. The posture of hand and elbow
32. The posture of the splitting power
33. Turning flowers and playing with sleeves
34. The fist of covering the hand
35. Tame the tiger
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 81 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2021 Location: Edmonton, Canada
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