Gun, stick, staff, energy is a special method of power in Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. It is to poke with a long staff. This energy can only be used when the body possesses a stick through training.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
During a private instructor’s lesson, Master Chen Zhonghua teaches how to train the shoulder to add move movements and correct movements to the shoulder.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
In Practical Method, the knee is not allowed to move and point downwards. In this video, Master Chen Zhonghua shows what this means in the form and how to do it.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 73 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
The movements, foundational movements, choreographed movements (routines) are all composed of body part configuration and reconfigurations. These are basic building blocks of taijiquan. In this video, master Chen Zhonghua shows one exercise to illustrate this point. When you regard the kua crease line to the shoulder as one non-divisive block, movements are changed to suit it and therefore cause changes to our physical behavior.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
During a private instructor’s lesson, Master Chen Zhonghua teaches how to train the shoulder to add move movements and correct movements to the shoulder.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
The third move of “Change Palm Three Times” can be trained individually as a separate drill. This drill was discover by Hong Junsheng when observing a habit of Chen Fake…
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
During the class I was training the following exercise. I stopped now and then to write down what Master Chen was saying.
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Importance of practicing yilu diligently – only then will you understand what Master Chen is saying – and your yilu will improve.
One principle 分陰陽 (Splitting Yin Yang). Example: Left vs Right. You need a vertical central axis to distinguish L from R. (You need 3.) Same with top and bottom.
六字真言: 不動 旋轉 開胯 (Don’t Move; Rotate; Open Kua)
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 30 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: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Hold a rod not by grabing it with the whole palm, but split the span into two dots. One dot on the index finger underneath the rod acts as the pivot, and another one at the root of the palm placed above the rod acts as the balancing arm. We can tilt the rod the other end of the rod this way without lifting the rod itself.
This is what allows the power to go along the rod to the other end, and it is said to go over.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
– Today we worked on Pole Shaking (Positive and Negative Circle).
-Pole shaking. Circles. Hand do not come back/reverse. At the beginning when done right, the move is small. Through training, we increase the range. The move overall is synthesized, but each part/move is individual. Arm has no up and down movement. (Arm is in and out). Do the circle horizontally, and the shoulder will get caught, which will be exercised. (tie a knot, then untie). Elbows come in, lock the upper body, bend the knees to go down, then hands go out. Add stepping to increase the range. Later on the moves will merge, and people see the circles. The overall effect is an illusion.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
This is part two of the private lesson for David Haro. It contains the most basic elements of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. Fundamental concepts and idea, even before foundational exercises.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 57 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 74 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
During training (when we are not yet successful), we use extra effort and focus to get it. It is tiring.
Once you are successful, the body gets used to it and will not be tiring anymore. The hair has been combed. The effort has gone through a filter. Read more
This lesson is about staying on topic, and then categorization within a topic.
There are only 3 types of movements in Practical Method:
The axis in real usage exists only functionally. 滚珠轴承 Ball Bearing.
We create a shell (restriction) on the outside, then the axis inside must exist, but you can’t touch it unlike a real rod in a globe.
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Free class to public. Introduction.
-Taiji. Yin and yang. Horizontal and vertical-cross-stable. The limbs are tied to the rod. Yin yang relationship is 90 degrees/connected (180 is too distract). How to place two credit cards supporting each other and stable? http://practicalmethod.com/2012/06/space-and-time-online-video/ Vertical is top-bottom line, horizontal is 90 degrees.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 20 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Key things, e.g.
We must remember the key things even if we don’t understand it. Read more
The positive circle is made up of three straight lines inside. Each line is attached to the opponent at 90 degrees. This is a basic concept of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:1/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 76 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 67 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Kelvin Ho Length: 67 min. In: English Year: 2021 Difficulty:3/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2011 Difficulty:1/5
The Taijiquan Practical Method instructor team in Berlin, Germany, organised an online workshop on 6 December 2020, marking their 10th anniversary. The workshop took place under the lead of the head instructor, Sven Gusowski, in cooperation with the instructors Carlotta Viviani, Kerstin Kummle and Lutz Liese. The workshop focused on basic Taiji Principles and their application in the foundational exercises and the Yilu Form. Read more
I’m humbly posting here my practice.
3 month into the online classes with Master chen and I feel that finally, maybe? some small shift is happening….
please feel free to criticise
