Lean with Back (背折靠)
Right fist and rear kua line up.
Elbow as a handle goes around that line.
Shoulder goes down to the kua.
Kua comes up to the shoulder.
The two lines must be maintained, and they must interact with each other.
The freer the rest of the body with those two lines maintained, the more power there is.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 64 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Stepping, White Crane Spreads Its Wings with locking, Heavy arm training
Flash the back (Shan Tong Bei)
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Pattern of practice
We focus on training one part (X). When we get that X right, Y may become wrong. We fix Y, X may become wrong again. We go and back forth until both X and Y are correct. Then we add Z on top of them.
3 parts: Fix two parts, move one part.
In the exercise of rotating horizontal, we must fix the middle (dantian). How to fix the dantian?
Use two parts (head and rear foot) to fix the dantian, move the front foot which is free to a new position.
Use head and front foot to fix the dantian, move the rear foot to a new position.
Switch between the two feet repeatedly.
The rotation is made of a series of little increments.
If we make the two side of a chest like two touching gears, we are using the central axis as the gap/space between them. it is the one of the 3 major choices for the gap. The other 2 choices will be the two shoulder-kua axes. The chest/torso can be one piece or two pieces.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Lazy fun with first part of Block Touching Coat, Don’t power up but only open.
Adjust and don’t move contact point (pivot) after lock.
This should be of value to new people, I know it was for me!
The Art of Asking a Question
Master Chen Zhonghua always talks about the method of learning. The interaction of us asking and him answering is part of it. You have probably heard him say before, “Don’t ask that question”, but yet at a different time, he would ask students to ask questions. What kind of questions are indeed proper to ask? The questions that are on topic, something that does not interrupt or distract the learning of the very subject at the time. The format of an appropriate question itself should be about HOW, e.g. Could you please show me that move again?
This type of questions allows Master Chen to provide the correct information.
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Closed circuit. Ball bearing. Body part, passive/inactive like a sandbag not a basketball. Being charged.
Six sealing and four closing can explain everything. Training model (small element): kua drives the arm. Lock the shape of the arm, arm parallel to the floow, use kua to propel the elbow transferring to the hand. Push into the front foot or back foot, the arm is positive circle or negative circle. Hand elbow shoulder is on a table, no turning of the hand. Arm is like the bifolding door. Clear one on one transmission. Kua pumps upward to the shoulder, shoulder stays down, it goes to the elbow. T, vertical to horizontal. By passing the shoulder, kua is connected directly to the elbow then to the hand. Elbow is a dot. Hong chopped his shoulders off. Upper dantian needs be clear and light. Like a bridge, from a square, chop the corners off, form an arc. Transfer of energy, cannot get stuck on the shoulders. When done right, you are always with the flow and the opponent is always against the flow.
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Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang
Remembering my Shifu Feng Zhiqiang on the 9th anniversary of his passing. Read more
Lock the right elbow-shoulder-kua triangle, but place it horizontally.
Rotate to the right horizontally using the kuas.
First make the line between the right elbow and left foot. The left foot is supported by the floor.
Later make the line between the right elbow and left knee, but we need to keep the knee up (i.e. the left knee cannot point to the floor).
As we rotate to the right, the right elbow and left knee must continue to expan
My name is Paweł Maciejny. I work as a teacher, I am also a player and a trainer at the rugby club
in Bielsko-Biała and a volunteer firefighter at the Volunteer Fire Department Żywiec – Sporysz. Read more
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 78 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
In taijiquan, there is a phrase that causes a lot of confusion. It is “Don’t use force”.
What this really says is that in taijiquan movements, we do not use direct power, instead, we use indirect power. Or in other words, the point of contact cannot issue power. Power comes from another place that reaches the point of contact. This means the point of contact only has passive power.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5
Neigong refers to the internal energy. It is the part of Taiji that is difficult to teach, to learn and to explain.
In this mini lesson, Master Chen Zhonghua tries to teach the most basic elements of Neigong training. He focuses on three basic physical ways of attaining internal strength. 1. Create compressed power. 2. Create twisting power. 3. Create rotational power while maintaining compression and twisting power.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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The Tile Hand is a specialty of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system. However, the index finger and the middle finger are the two most prominent fingers in the yin and yang of things.
In this mini lesson, Master Chen Zhonghua focuses his teachings on the direction and function of the index finger.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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The Second Shanhaitian Taiji Competition was held at the Simart Center in Rizhao, Shandong Province on May 1, 2021. Rizhao Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy students participated at the event. Pang Chaoli and Leo Song organized our team in this event.
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One of the basic foundations of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system is to treat the entire forearm, from the elbow to the finger tips as one piece. This piece is the basic building block for most of the upper body actions. In this mini instructional video, Master Chen Zhonghua shows how to do a spiral with the forearm as one piece. This seemingly simple act, will fundamentally change the way you use your body!
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Implosion
New Exercise
Wind up the clock. Lock one end to create spiral. 1.use body strength 2.body has the shape/structure of half pipe or spiral.
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