In today’s class, the following students received partial Yilu corrections.
- Sergey Schepin
- Paul Carson
- Carlotta Viviani
- Paddy Hanratty
- James Tam
- Vincent den Hengst
- Lutz Liese
- Dina Kerr
- Ardarsh Khalsa
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Day one group photo of the first Zhu Ma Dian Practical Method Seminar on Nov. 28, 2020.
I started learning Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method in 2005. I learned a rough version of the yilu within nine months. I am a persistent person that continuously seeks progress. As the years have gone by I have missed essential details that are in the form, even though many people would not recognize those missing pieces. Let face it, a form with 81 postures in which each posture has several movements/stretches/rotations in it is a huge undertaking!
Fetch Water
- Lock the front knee
- Lock the rear shoulder
- Push the front kua into the line between the front knee and rear shoulder
- Make sure that train the full range of motion
- At the tail end, nudge a little attempting to go beyond the current maximum Read more
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Three examples of Master Chen`s clarity of hands on explanation of certain types of dealing with energy taught me invaluable lessons. If the students follow instructions then all will be able to do things that will be amazing to themselves. By practice you build up not only martial skill but also health. From the beginning when we start to learn Practical Method we are trying to apply the most fundamental principle of taiji in partner exercises and push hands: the separation of yin and yang. Taijiquan is in my words in this context an effect on the opponent or partner by using taiji principles that spring from our understanding of the exact teachings of Master Chen Zhonghua and is defined by the stage of our practice.
What is the seam (缝 feng)?
- The place between two actions where it needs to change direction (such as, go back).
- Grandmaster Hong said that we needed to get to 天衣无缝 tian yi wu feng. Heavenly clothes have no seam.
- However, we can’t pretend that there is no seam in the first place, and hide it.
– Positive Circle.
There are three sections. In each section, the lead needs to be clear. 1. In with elbow. Once the arm is in position, it does not move anymore. 2. Turn with the kua/waist. Only rotate the shoulder-kua line, do not move the arm on its own. Shoulder need stay in position without any displacement, no popping, no swaying sideways. 3. Out with hand. The power is on the back foot/kua. The kicking of the back foot into the ground propels the rest part of the body to go forward. Get onto your tippy toes to push, there will be a stretch through the inner thigh. The torso opens up. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
No lifting – Don’t carry weight in your hand when moving.
When the hand is moving, it is inefficient.
Turn every push into a pull
- If we push with the hand, that is a push.
- If we use the elbow to pull the hand, that is a pull.
- The demarcation is how we consider if the elbow is behind the hand (push) or in front of the hand (pull). Read more
Positive circle – must stretch from rear side. Must open the inside. Has to be from crotch and back leg.
Feet look like tip-toe, but actually power is going down. This is the strongest.
3-part circle: 3 body parts: arm, torso (rotate from kua), foot (kua to rear foot)
The movement comes from 3 different sections – the opponent cannot catch or stop you. Read more
We raised 10,000 chickens in 2011. They are truly free-range. We had to look for their eggs in the hills.
Through the years, in Practical Method I‘ve heard the word power associated, as different aspects of the same power, to words like: Structure, length, space, accuracy, rhythm.
The Lesson today was about Rhythm or Sequence of movements: there are very few people who cannot remember the choreography. But we all are at different levels of managing the rhythm. When your movement are totally disconnected, you will be very efficient in applications and push hands Read more
Yilu corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 74 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Suppose you have only a 4 liter container and a 9 liter container. The containers have no measurement lines on either of them. How could you measure exactly 6 liters of water using only those containers assuming you can have as much extra water as you need?
After I solved the above puzzle, I had a realization on the statement “taiji is 3”.
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Rhythm/Sequence of movements
We need modify our bahaviour to cause a real change.
In-with-elbow must cause out-with-hand. Withdraw is to issue.
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– Front trick and rear trick.
When you have movement, you have no power. Fight without movements. Arms are placed in position and locked. The waist causes horizontal movements and the knees cause up and down movements. Power from the waist and the feet.
The middle does not move, so the arms are powered by (react with) the back foot kicking into the ground. Same as the power points of White Crane Spreads Its Wings. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 65 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Rhythm
Shifu: You need to get the rhythm/counting of the form.
After you learn it, then it becomes music. But this cannot be thought. Everyone „hears“ his/her own music. And this is only after a long time of learning the correct rhythm. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 62 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
John Upshaw
- Fist Protecting Heart to Tornado Kick. Too big. Before the turn, you have to come back into the core
- Small Catching and Hitting. Rotating from the core (in and out)
- Drop the Hands (before Embrace the Head to push the Mountain). This move is a cross between Six Sealing and Four Closing and Punch Covering Hand Read more
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
The Daqingshan Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy teaches Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method of GM Hong Junsheng and Hunyuan Taiji of GM Feng Zhiqiang. The Academy was original established in 2006 as Daqingshan International Taiji Training Center. In 2017 it was re-named Daqingshan Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy (DCTA). Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
We covered the following tonight:
Negative circle
- Do it in a way that the arm triangle does not change shape externally.
- Focus on the opening of the shoulder and the elbow
- Think of the forearm and the upperarm rotating longitudinally and independently.
- When doing elbow in, make sure that the shoulder is down. This is like instead of getting the elbow to go over on its own, make the shoulder contribute half the effort by going down, so that the elbow can go over by completing the other half. Read more
Daqingshan 2013 Push Hands Training Photos 2。
The Daqingshan Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy teaches Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method of GM Hong Junsheng and Hunyuan Taiji of GM Feng Zhiqiang. The Academy was original established in 2006 as Daqingshan International Taiji Training Center. In 2017 it was re-named Daqingshan Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy (DCTA). Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
– Clarity. At the beginning we learn the moves like following a printed instructional book. So we only learn the fixed posture, and the transition does not matter. This is called to trace the movements. No flow and as big as possible. Each move we pause like someone is taking a picture of your posture. Through years of practice the flow comes, without losing the frame.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 51 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Flash the back- the left hand cannot move.
Once you know the choreography, you will be corrected in terms of applications. The applications will help you with the choreography.
Step forward to hand covering punch – imagine as if your hands while you are punching are tearing something. The left hand holds hard and the right hand tears it. It is not like what we normally understand as a punch.
Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Ma An Shan Workshop by Chen Xu and Han Rui on Nov. 14, 2020. Read more
These are some photos of Kelvin Ho performing the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Sword and Broadsword form in Marham, Ontario, Canada in Nov. 2020. Read more
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
