The subject of the lesson was corrections of yilu. Four students performed parts of yilu and received corrections. Read more
There were many corrections and a number of important conceptual points on how to learn.
-We have 2 general types of movements
Action movements are what the particular form is about in order to execute a particular application on an opponent. Must be accurate.
Adjustment movements are to position body parts to be in place to execute the action movement. Accuracy in getting there is less important.
We must know the difference. We tend to not know or show the difference.
-Master Chen repeated the instruction, as he has many, many times, to listen and watch as he explains. Do not attempt to copy while he is explaining. We miss much of the instruction while we attempt to copy. I have heard this so many times, yet I was copying while he spoke in the class this morning.
-Not one move in PM Taiji is like any other in life or sports. We must see that the moves are unique to PM Taiji. MC does not move like an average person, but the average person, as in we his students, THINK we move like MC. He has said to me specifically in other zoom classes that I make a good copy of the moves, but he can see that I do not really do the essence of the moves. We tend to compare to other movements and other sports, but PM is different from those moves. I must say that I make many of these comparisons. I would say my whole education has been based on building on comparisons and it is a very difficult thing for me to not compare PM to other human activities. I can see now that recalibration must happen without these comparisons.
Action vs adaptation
- Only worry about that particular action. We don’t care much about the adaptation. Once the screwdriver fits with the screw, there is only one thing you can do. You can get away with whatever for the adaptation, but the action must be what it is to have power. Must identify that action.
The actions need to be precise/ accurate. There is only one way to do it right. The adaptation you can get away with it. Read more
A leader is someone or something that others follow. If a number of people have to go through a tunnel that is only large enough to fit a person through at a time, the first person who goes through it is the leader, whom the rest of the people just follow. If multiple people try to go through the tunnel at the same time, there will be a jam, and no one can come out the other end. Read more
- Smart phone
- Tripod
- Notebook
The first two items allow your camera to be set at the appropriate height, distance and angle for the teacher/instructor to have an optimal view to provide feedback to the student. These items can be replaced with other equipment that can provide equivalent adjustment of the camera. The 3rd item facilitates note taking (don’t forget to post your notes too at the website).
Bevel gears are gears where the rod or the rotating shafts intersect.
The shafts are often mounted 90 degrees apart, but can be designed to work at other angles as well.
They are used for power transmission between intersecting shafts.
This allows a vertical rotation to be converted to a horizontal rotation.
- movement by doing or pretending vs movement as result of physical structure & rotation
- if you think you are executing correctly, you are not
- get into position>lock & rotate
- rotation does not normally create displacement in space
- core must be totally independent from other body parts
- when moving body must be locked
- reorientation is not considered movement
- initially all body part move together
- two body parts can move if they are independent
- ultimately there are 18 body parts
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson of Practical Method on Oct. 8, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 64 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Private lesson with Anton Phipps on Oct. 8, 2020.
In this lesson Master Chen Zhonghua taught Phipps how to isolate power from the kua and use it like a hammer to power the forearm in Twisting the Towel.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 57 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Private lesson for Roy Croucher on Oct. 8, 2020. He started with the theory of taiji movements being tying knots and untying knots. Then he corrected Croucher’s third part of Yilu.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 48 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 2019 Toronto Workshop.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2019 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
On 7. Oct 2020’s online class, Master Chen talked about the first 2 layers of the positive circle.
The 1. layer is horizontal, with only the hand going back and forth.
The position of the hand should be slightly higher than the shoulder, and much higher than the elbow. ← →
The 2. layer adds a vertical dimension to the circle (to the above action), by moving up and down.
This up-and-down-movement can only come from the shoulder & kua.
The dropping of the front kua takes the front hand elbow with it (downwards), the dropping of the rear kua takes the front arm with it (sideways).
The rear foot pushes into the dantian. The power is from the dantian. ↓↑
Combined, the horizontal ← → and vertical ↓↑ action will display these two layers and the hand will appear to be moving, although it is not.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Practical Method on Oct. 7, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson for Roy Croucher on Oct. 7, 2020.
The first 18 minutes of the video has no sound. But we think it is important so we did not cut it out. Purchase this video if you don’t mind this clip.
Section two of yilu corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 34 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson with Anton Phipps on applications.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 52 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Niko’s Private Lesson at the Sept. 2019 Toronto Practical Method Workshop with Master Chen Zhonghua
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 45 min. In: English Year: 2019 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
Today, shifu emphasized on how to learn. The first thing about learning is to listen to instructions and then to copy. Some people tried to copy without listening to the full instructions, and that won’t be a success copy either.
To copy, it’s to do everything exactly the same by definition.
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The subject of the lesson continued working on six sealing four closing.
Master Chen said that people can train for many years but never make the change that will help them improve. They keep doing the same thing that they always have done. We often say old bottle with new wine but in China it is turned around, old wine in new bottle.
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October 6th 2020 foundations On-line Class
Today we worked on staying on the line, which exists between the front shoulder and the front hand, and beyond with the same trajectory . The elbow pushes into that line, Which is activating the elbow, thus forcing the handout. The elbow withdraws in a way that integrity of the line between the shoulder and the hand remains intact.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lessons on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method on Oct. 6, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
Private lesson for Anton Phipps. On the basic contact, move in and stretch.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 42 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
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Today Master Chen provides instructions and corrections on Six Sealing Four Closing.
– The shoulder has to totally disappear.
– The move is a rotation from the central vertical rod.
– Only rotate from the shoulder. The hand, elbow and shoulder is one piece.
34th Daiqngshan Practical Method Seminar Early Morning training on Oct. 5, 2020.
This drill trains: 1) touch hands. 2) become full. 3) going over.
The energy used: stretching.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Che
n Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
On Monday, Sep 28, 2020, Master Chen Zhonghua instructed on the move “Turning Flowers and Playing with Sleeves” from Cannon Fist during the online class. The requirement was to jump off the left foot, rotate 360 degrees in the air, and land on the right foot. I had so much difficulty doing it during class. I was tossing all over the place. Master Chen said he would check on us again a week later. This was the benefit of having such a regular class. Read more
…GM gives Roy opportunities to try to use PM to move him in push hands…very focused session…
…I am seeing PM, everywhere…making lunch today and…
