
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5

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It is not opening/closing but rather coiling/uncoiling and compressing/releasing.
It is not about using no force but using enormous amount of forces to maintain the rigidity of the structure, the integrity of the core and the efficiency of the move.
It is not about balance but balanced forces.
It is not about flexibility but the ability to stretch to produce a split or separation

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
Hi,
I wonder if someone can help me out: all the videos carry a classification “x/5”
what exactly does “level x” mean?
I asked once but I forgot all except the first … grumble.
level 1 = structure (meaning the clip is mostly about structural issues)
Thanks in advance!

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5
About learning
1. Give it enough time. The secret is time.
2. Give yourself enough time to find the shortcuts.
3. Progress comes from holding yourself. Don’t overshoot yourself. Don’t use power.
4. Train the rail – first, you will not get the line. 3-months later, the trajectory is imprinted on the body [with practice]. You’ll see the line.
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Today, I trained with John Dahms. We discussed about creating a shell around ourselves to prevent ourselves from moving. Creating such a shell is only half of the equation, the other half is that we must stretch/expand the inside as much as possible. This is like a fight between containment and breakout. It is a conflict that we must find a resolution. I think of it as building up a bomb, and then doing a controlled release of the energy through a narrow tube aimed at the target. For this to work, the person doing the containment should be different from the person trying to break out, so that each person is not affected by the other person when performing the desired function. The difficulty comes when in reality there are no two people, but just myself. Ideally, I would be required to split myself into two. In actual practice, we need to use different body parts to perform these separate functions, so they don’t interfere with each other. These actions must be clear. Read more
During practice on Dec. 23, 2018, we were practicing how to move in after making contact with the opponent. The particular exercise involved the two right forearms touching at one point. One person attempted his best to prevent the opponent from coming in, including moving his arm around. Everyone did this exercise against the others one by one. One student observed that when I showed how to move in, the opponent always appeared to have stopped his arm movement as soon as I started to move in. Others would struggle to fight at the upper body or the arm with the opponent. I found that being an interesting observation. Another student commented that he didn’t react or do any subsequent action when I moved in because there was no feedback/trigger to tell him to do anything, and he would just “watch” me coming in. I further demonstrated what they tended to do, which was to push his hand/arm forwarded as they moved the body forward, in which case, the opponent would respond immediately and stop me from coming in possibly using different methods. There should be no push at any time. Read more
About learning
1. “The teacher teaches the principle. You go home and practice.”
2. Follow the principle. Don’t deviate.
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Tinh Thai and disciple Brian Chung (June 2018)
Isn’t it incredible how life gives you the things that you need when you need it?
I wanted to learn Chinese martial arts since I was a little girl. Read more

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5

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2018.12.16 Sydney Workshop Day Two Notes – Brian Chung Read more
2018.12.15 Sydney Workshop Day One Notes – Brian Chung Read more

Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2018 Difficulty:1/5

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Hi everyone,
I’ve been looking up and down the webpage to find out what the following abbreviations mean. In words, at least :))
LFSB – ?????
SWPE – sink waist press elbow
SYYZ (?) -?????
All come up in the New York 2018 workshop and the vid doesn’t talk about the remaining two. I GUESS SYY means “seperate yin and yang” but I am clueless about the “Z”
Can anyone help me out? And yeah, I am aware that the mere wording means nothing and I’ll probably not be closer to being able to do it than before but I am CURIOUS 🙂
Thanks in advance!
Barbara
2018 China Sport-Tourism Exhibition Special Sport Event:
Shandong Daqingshan International Taiji Competition
Issued by:
Sport and Cultural Development Center of the
National Sport Bureau
Dates for 2019: May 18-19, 2019
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Recently, I had a dream where I used my thigh to push down the opponent at his thigh. Shifu came over and mentioned something that I didn’t quite understand. I then practiced that move with another student named Benz, and I got that move in the dream. When I woke up, I realized that I learned something.
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Attendees: Alex, OngWM, Flo, Chandra, Jojo
1. Twisting Towel train the Elbow to be in the Middle
2. Six Sealing 4 Closing train the Shoulder to
be in the Middle
3. Fetch Water train the Kua to be in the Middle
I was having a discussion with my disciple brother Brennan Toh about what I have been working on with my long term students Gerry and Emily, with specific attention to Lie , one of the 8 techniques of Taiji. At the North American Practical Method Training Camp last year Brennan was taking me down with this same technique, except his upper/lower body separation was crazily effective….he took out significant space from below without his top moving (his top continued to match my upper body). This lead to him suggesting the following drill: Read more
Master Chen has stated before fajin is everything is in the correct place, add speed. How do we add speed?
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You are looking at the aftermath of the Hong Kong workshop. Apparently, Master sent Wu (the guy fixing the wall) flying into the wall I hope the action is captured in the video: