Six Sealing Four Closing 六封四闭
Grandmaster Hong Junsheng studied the names of each move. He looked into the origin of these names, and how the pronounciation might have changed when the information was passed down based on the dialect of the region. The dialects in China can be so different that people from one region might not understand people from another region at all.
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Master Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 7th, 2020 Online Lesson on Foundations.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua talks and demonstrates the weight distribution of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen demonstrated the Positive Circle today.
Monday Tai Chi at Roadrunner Park. Cannon Fist. Yilu warmup, then drills with jumps and first section. It’s quite a cardio workout. Read more
Chen Zhonghua’s basic single person push hand drill series.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 27 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy. This is the last part of Anton’s Yilu correction.
Master Chen demonstrated the foundation exercise Moving-Step Shake the pole, which is the positive and negative circle. He held a real pole to begin with to show the idea behind the foundation exercise. He locked his fron hand, which was holding the pole as a pivot. The rear hand moved the pole. Read more
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Toronto Workshop March 2020-4
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At: Toronto, Canada
Master Chen performed a magic trick. No one saw what he did. Once he told us, we could then see it. Would you like to see it too?
Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Foundations. This episode is on the Pole-shaking exercise, which is a left-hand negative circle, right hand positive circle moving step combination. The exercise is designed for training without the pole.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua’s Online Lesson on Sept. 2, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Chen Zhonghua corrected John Dahms’ first 13 moves of Yilu in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Sept. 1, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen corrected a few people’s partial yilu today. Each person should remember himself/herself the stopping point, and so it can be continued from that point in future lessons when it is that person’s turn for correction again.
To stretch, we need to so find anchors on the two ends.
Empty means solid, it means power.
We need to find a line in ourselves. Master Chen showed Tinh Thai a version of fetch water that line up her rear elbow with the front hand. We need to make sure that the front shoulder is not in the way.
If we want to have grip in the hands, we need to have grip in the teeth and in the toes.
Chen Zhonghua taught the important concept of the frontal vertical line in Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. This is a must to have. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 67 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:4/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Rotation of front shoulder and front kua in positive circle.
Front shoulder and kua is the rotational vertical axis, which does not move. Read more
Rear shoulder hold on the way out (controlled release)
5 points fighting outward, everything else fights inward
Lock shoulders head, only cave in the chest to drive hand out. Put hand on chest and move it down as hand goes out to train the right intent.
Clear – locked part must be locked, moving part must be moving
Front kua needs to rotate in turn with waist. It looks like it comes up towards the shoulder.
Raise of kua up when coming in, chest pushes down when coming out
Rear shoulder must not move when turning waist. Front kua and shoulder has a large move.
Rotate your spine not your head. Don’t move your eyes. Only a rotation, no movement.
Don’t move hand backwards.
Homework, 6 sealing 4 closing, face on to mirror, don’t let rear shoulder move, but it rotates. 1000x.
Dao shou – to change the orientation of the hand. Coming in, it’s pulling from elbow. Going out, the hand pulls the arm.
Every body part has a role, but which ones are primary and which ones are secondary (only getting out of the way).
Knee up knee down. Like a physically solid structure like a bike and the pedals are the knees. Feels like a foot and a half, but it looks like no move.
6 sealing 4 closing. First one is 70 rear, 30 front. Front becomes long back becomes short. Second one switches the pivot to the rear side of body (rear shoulder/kua axis).
This is Master Chen Zhonghua’s official teaching version of the relationship between the two hands in all taiji moves. This mini video was taped on August 25, 2020 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Read more
Zoom lecture with Master Chen and Kelvin Ho covering six sealing four closing.
Master and Kelvin Ho provided instructions and corrections on Six Sealing Four Closing today.
Six Sealing Four Closing – Kelvin Ho
– Hand does not move. Dantian initiates the action. Kua lines up with elbow. Rotate the dantian to push the kua out.
– To connect the rear leg through the kua to the front arm. We don’t want the upper body there.
– Create a line from the front arm to the rear foot.
In this video, Master Chen Zhonghua mainly focused on establishing a relationship between the front hand and the shoulder. This relationship is an invisible line. Once the two points line up, there will be power and the arm movement will become a stretch.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 61 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Online lesson on August 27, 2020. This lesson focused on the following topics:
1. The rear foot, rear kua, front kua, front elbow, front hand will form a straight line 45 degrees upwards. This line does not connect to the upper body. This is an essential part of body postural change.
2. The shoulder cannot move forward with the arm.
3. The front kua pushed the front vertical line up all the way to the head, while the front shoulder pushes downward to form two opposite vertical lines: one up and one down.
This lesson also corrected many students online.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 71 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method on August 25, 2020. This one hour lesson involved teaching some theory, with a focus on the idea of Daoshou, how to switch grip so that the movement can be continous, and student practice corrections.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 60 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
In this mini-video, Master Chen Zhonghua teaches the negative circle with a sword. This is a basic sword foundational exercise. It is in total congruence with the negative circle of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method foundations.
Doing the negative circle with a sword further extends the arm. This in turn helps to show the rules of movement of taijiquan. When done incorrectly, for example, the the hand leading the way back, you will cut yourself with the sword.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Moving Step Positive Circle
Notes from the Zoom class on the concept of dao shou.
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倒手 Dao Shou
Master and Kelvin Ho explained, demonstrated and gave examples of Dao Shou.
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In this mini-video, Master Chen Zhonghua teaches the positive circle with a sword. This is a basic sword foundational exercise. It is in total congruence with the positive circle of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method foundations.
Doing the positive circle with a sword further extends the arm. This in turn helps to show the rules of movement of taijiquan. When done incorrectly, for example, the the hand leading the way back, you will cut yourself with the sword.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Notes from the Zoom class on the double negative circle.
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