We continue on the exercise with one knee up and one knee down from last week.
The torso is like a cylinder that goes down in a free-fall fashion. We can hold up the cylinder, and yet we can’t push down the cylinder. The cylinder is pulled down by gravity, something is outside of our body.
The video showed 3 moves of the Practical Method Straight Sword form, namely, Left cut wrist, Right cut wrist and Sweep down one thousand soldiers. Read more
We have to keep in mind one thing: Master Chen only pick up universal things. He chooses one person and corrects his/her move, but everybody is doing the same mistake
We continued with Knee up and down (Xi Zou Shang Xia)
The move is six sealing four closing like, but the training focus is different. Focusing on converting the power from the torso to the fingertip by rotation. Read more
Open the Kua and rotate the torso to push the elbow and drive the arm foward. The elbow need to stay at the top of the Kua and flatened the shoulder. Do not move the knees so the rotation comes from opening the Kua. The movement of the entire arm is like flat to the board and stay inside the rail. The front shoulder need to have a line to the rear foot.
This is the new definition tossing. The movement comes from compression. Large movement compresed to a smaller movement.
After learning the choreography the next step is to reach the extreme. Stance and size must become very big
We have to learn to lock one place. This will force other parts of the body to continue the move. Restriction is a way to train the entire body Read more
Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson for Anton Phipps and Eric Moore. This one hour lesson is on push hands applications.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 49 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
Master Chen Zhonghua’s private lesson for Sean Rogers on Nov. 9, 2020. This one hour lesson focused on the most basic fundamental elements of the Foundations Exercises of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method system. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 56 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
The stretch of the elbow against the locked hand comes to a stop.
Switch to use the central vertical axis to rotate. When it is done, switch to the rear shoulder-kua axis to continue the rotation in the same direcction.
Switch to the front shoulder-kua axis, power with the rear kua to cause the hand to go out. Read more
Continuation of the Cannon Fist form corrections by Master Chen Zhonghua for Roy Croucher.Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 59 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 Nov. 5, 2020. This lesson is yilu corrections for some students. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 63 min. In: English Year: 2020 Difficulty:2/5 At:Edmonton Chen Zhonghua Taiji Academy
-The learning stage. At the beginning, you trace the picture. That is playing/performing Taiji. Later, we need to implement Taiji principles. We have to actually do and practice Taiji. The moves need to fundamentally change. Read more
Turning around without turning around. This is referring to moving the elbow, while the hand and shoulder are not moving.
Moving the hand will tie a knot in the body. Thinking of how to reel in with the spool to bring in the hose, and how to get the hose out by holding the end and pulling it out.
At the beginning we repeated the move we were training on 2.11.2020: Lock hand and shoulder on the same line. Move the elbow upward toward the hand/shoulder line
This move is the foundation. The power comes indirectly. Only this way we can cause a bounce