Chen Zhonghua’s Private Lesson for Roy Croucher on Oct. 21, 2020. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 43 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Positive circle and beyond. Sound was captured by camera, not wireless mic. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 64 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Read moreBy the time I first met Master Chen at a Phoenix workshop in 2015, I had already studied martial arts for a long time, since 1963 to be precise. So, I had strong opinions about what was correct and what wasn’t. I thought (and still do) that tai chi is called a martial art for a reason. It’s not called a health, meditative or energy art. Martial means it can be used to kill, but at the same time the killing has to be done artfully. Just clubbing someone to death doesn’t qualify. Read more
Chinese Class
Negative Circle
- In-with-elbow, Zhuan Guan, Out-with-hand
- We have get the proper ideal image in our mind, even though we can’t do it properly at this point.
- We must be expressive in our movement during training, so the teacher/instructor can see your intent.
Rotation is when there is movement without displacement.
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Twisting towel
- Must be clear with “in with elbow”. Appear to be going back and forth with the squeezing of the elbow.
Fetch water
- Same thing, two squeezes on both elbows.
To grind
- 搓 cuō, to grind. Pole, rubbing on both sides like starting a fire.
- Other way, stretching. You force the two elbows in to prevent the stretch from forcing them out. Can also say the rubbing of the elbows creates the rotation.
- And the rotation of the rod separates the two hands.
- For this practice, minimize the size of the stretch to emphasize the rubbing.
In today’s class, the following students received Foundation corrections while the class had the benefit of watching.
- Sven Gusowski – Fetch Water
- Raymond Dickey – Six Sealing Four Closing
- Tomasz Raganowicz – Six Sealing Four Closing
- Fung Chern Hwei – Positive Circle
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method on Oct. 20, 2020. Today’s lesson is on foundations. Master Chen Zhonghua corrected many students on typical errors while Kelvin Ho is leading the training.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 67 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghu’s Private lesson for Roy Croucher on Oct. 20, 2020. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 56 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Master Chen Zhonghua’s Private Lesson for Anton Phipps on Oct. 20, 2020. This is the last (6) section of the Yilu.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 40 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Private Lesson for Anton Phipps on Oct. 19, 2020. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 47 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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- Figure out one thing and do it right. As an anchor point for further learning. Can’t say you are walking up stairs but never found the stairs.
- Once you have the method, then you can repeat the same until the method exhausts you.
Find one point does not move to create the stretch.
In learning we have to find one thing as an anchor point. Repeat and exhaust yourself until you can move to the next anchor point. Read more
Remember to lock one body part to do stretching. Find one thing and do it right. Once you have the method, you can repeat it until it exhausts you. Read more
Chen Zhonghua’s Online Lesson on Practical Method on Oct. 19, 2020. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 66 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 19 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At: Toronto and Iowa
5th Juxian Practical Method Seminar from Oct. 17th to 18th, 2020.
Instructor: Chen Xu.
Wang Kai, Qiu Yingdong. Read more
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At: Toronto and Iowa
A simple drill to train “In with Elbow”. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
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A few simple “in with elbow” applications. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 1 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
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Please note: The video was recorded without external microphone. The sound was from normal camera sound capture. It is audible. This is Master Chen Zhonghua’s correction for Anton Phipps for section four of the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method Yilu.
At the end of the correction, Master taught a method/concept of how to create a line with elbow/shoulder, and knee/kua. This is a fundamental aspect of the way Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method uses the body.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 50 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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Our movements must have a horizontal one and a vertical one intersecting/interacting at the same time.
Three parallel planes
- Top plane at the shoulder (including extending the arms)
- Middle plane at the waist
- Bottom plane at the knees
The integrity of each plane must be maintained. There is a vertical rod that goes through the middle to connect all three planes to fix them in a particular way, but yet they are free to move any other way. Each plane is like a trampoline. This is how we convert opponent’s incoming kinetic energy into potential energy stored in the trampoline, and eventually back to kinetic energy aimed at the opponent. You can also lock any of the planes, and move a different one to create a vertical stretch. With these 3 planes, you can create a lot of variations and configurations.
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Cloud hands
- Need to rotate torso to give the appearance of the hands moving.
Getting stuck
- Issue is that you were able to “do” things since the beginning. Able to mix instructions with something you were already able to do.
- Need to be stuck unable to do it, so that it forces you to do something totally new. Never went through a time where you couldn’t do it. If there is no difficulty why would there be change?
Knowing
- Daoist idea, Humans made correctly but the abilities we have deter us from learning.
- Gained the ability to make things up in our heads.
- Everything Master Chen learned are afterthoughts / accidental.
- Don’t know when you get it, and when you think you get it, you don’t.
- A dog is just what it is, but we make up this view of what they should look like.
- Whatever it is, you don’t know it. And whatever you know it isn’t what it is.
This is the section 3 of the Yilu corrections for Anton Phipps by Master Chen Zhonghua.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 38 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
Master Chen Zhonghua’s online lesson on Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method on Oct. 15, 2020.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 77 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
Inflection points in differential geometry are the points of the curve where the curvature changes its sign. In the illustration below, it is when the tangent turns red or when the curve intersects with the X axis in this case.
Whatever it is that you know, the truth is not like that. Whatever you don’t realize, accidentally it is the correct thing.
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Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 17 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At: Toronto and Iowa
Going over
- Going over the shoulder: have to go around the shoulder.
- Like the gear shifter, has to actually change gear.
- One movement that continues to the other side (normal).
- Go halfway and change to the other side to go down (switching).
- (腰裆转换 Yao dang zhuan huan). Waist and dang (half circle, horseshoe) switching. That half circle has to be locked – the shape locks.
Positive Circle
- Focus on the use of front kua in Positive Circle to increase the size of the circle.
- When going down, step the rear foot backward.
- When coming up, step the rear foot forward.
- Do the same on both sides.
Chen Zhonghua’s Online Lesson on 20201014. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 85 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy 埃德蒙顿陈中华太极馆
Read more“Rotation is changing direction without changing direction”
What kind of confusing statement is that?
Learning taijiquan is a feat in resolving conflicts.
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Foundations on line notes ~ October 13th 2020 by John Upshaw
Kelvin Ho lead us through a positive circle stepping back drill. With our front hand out, we would step back with a rear foot causing us to go lower, we rotated/shifted from our front kua to our rear kua, rotating the elbow in on the same line with hand staying fixed on that same line…like a spear, tip pointed at the opponent. By using my kuas in this manner, my range increased.
