Let’s do an experiment. Find a stick about a foot long. Put a mark on the center point. Use fingers of one hand to hold one end of the stick in horizontal position. Now, try to rotate the stick horizontally, and make the center point of the stick as the rotation center, and try your best to keep the center point not moving around. Soon you’ll find out that is not a simple task even though it sounds simple. This is not because you don’t have enough strength in your hand/arm to hold steady of the stick. It’s because you only control one end of the stick.
How to set up 45 Degree in Yilu practice
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Master Chen’s disciple Ping Wei will teach a full day workshop in Irvine, California on August 21, 2016 (Sunday).
The workshop will cover foundations and Yilu; and it also prepares us for the upcoming Phoenix Workshop with Master Chen in October. For location and other details, please contact Al Yu, mralyu@yahoo.com, (949) 331-2735; or Ping Wei, peace_defender2003@yahoo.com, (602) 373-3457.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 15 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Master Chen Zhonghua accepted Charlie Wishon as a disciple on July 17, 2016.
On July 17, 2016, Master Chen Zhonghua accepted Charlie Wishon as his 201st disciple at the workshop held in Iowa City. Todd Elihu emceed the ceremony and many other disciples were present including Levi Sowers, John Upshaw, John Dahms, Brennan Toh, Kelvin Ho, Hugo Ramiro, Xavier Santiago, Jeff Clevenger, Bruce Schaub, Erwin Ramthun, and Chris Dusek. At the conclusion of the ceremony, Master Chen briefly spoke about the privileges, responsibilities, and ethics of being one of his disciples.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 5 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
There are some small details in stepping forward and finishing the form that I have been focusing while doing Yilu. I’d like to share here and hopefully generate some discussion.
In Practical Method, we first (1) shuffle one heel out when we step forward. Then (2) we move the knee forward and the body is shifted to center (roughly).
Some people would do (1) and (2) together, so it really looks like stepping and weight shifting are done at the same time. It’s partly due to the weak supporting leg. With more practicing and increased leg strength, it can be easily corrected.
Part I (13 corrections)
- deeper and wider stance in general
- always think of elbows first in general
- Opening move
- Keep the left hand fixed in space
- Turn the left elbow as much as you can
- Keep right hand higher than its elbow
- Imagine holding someone’s arm at two points
- Keep the left hand fixed in space
- Buddha’s warrior attendant pounds mortar
- right-hand comes up straight
- do not move centre or body
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Chen Zhonghua correcting Todd Elihu at the 2016 Iowa Workshop.
When the elbow comes in, the finger must aim onto person. Actually, every move must aim onto person.
- When locked at one or two points, utilize another set of points beyond the initial set of points to go over/break out.
- Isolation exercise #1: partner holds your arm at the wrist and shoulder. You squeeze the muscles on the body-side of the where he has his hand on your shoulder, then extend the fingers. Each move must be independent from one another. Switch back and forth. Read more
Demonstration and training to develop and understand inside structure during rotation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5 At:Poland
You can also see a few pictures here.
Six sealing four closing: Must be like inside a round cylinder. Muscle must rotate around bone. Don’t move. Hand must be like inside tube and body must adjust to be aimed correctly. Hand out, elbow in can only be done if front lat goes down to the rear arch and front kua rotates to curve up to connect to the rear shoulder. Pull elbow back to be in alignment. Step in a little bit with just the lower body to fill space. Don’t push. If one part is off it throws the entire body out of alignment.- 18 posts in the body… they cannot collapse into each other. Read more
Detailed explanation on how to create and use indirect Power, how angle will change the speed.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan
Iowa 2016 day 1;
Align backward , never fight forward… feet are too close together, arms are as well. Shoulder needs to stay in the kua.
Full front kua in the line, align the arm . Then open the rear kua… the front kua,is always the filler, the rear kua is always the stretcher…
The end of every move must be totally straight. ” stay on the line”
Day two.
Inside circle and outside circle
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 11 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan
Many years ago when I was just learning Yilu, I had questions about how the “Second Closing” (the move after fetch water) was done properly. I was just imitating the movement, the hand was waving from one place to another place. I had no idea where was the energy alignment in that particular move. Master Chen explained “Second Closing” with its application and tried on me. He turned and I was on the ground. It was that simple. I didn’t know, I could not figure out how Master Chen did. But I did know how powerful the “Second Closing” was.
How to train with power for martial art training
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 18 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 12 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5
Workshop Practical Method Chen Style Taichi Quan push hands by Grandmaster Joseph Chen Zhonghua
De Glind 26-27april 2014, Netherlands
These notes are partly chronological and based on how I percieved them. I kept as close as I could to Master Chen’s exact words.
Day one
The workshop started with an introduction. Underlying the art of Practical Method Taiji Chen Style are thirteen dimensions. These thirteen dimensions are divided in two levels. Eight dimensions are related to the air; five are related to the floor.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 46 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
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Yilu Correction and application training
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 19 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5
Demonstration and practice for developing vertical stretch in the body
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 18 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:1/5 At:Perth
Correction for a long time student
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 42 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:1/5 At:Phoenix
Private Lesson, some audio noise in the video
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 29 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Consistency to generate peng energy
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:2/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:1/5
Master Chen Zhonghua
Practical Method Workshop in Phoenix
Foundations, Yilu, and Push Hand
October 1 and 2, 2016 (Saturday & Sunday)
Morning: 9 to noon; Afternoon: 2-5
Location: World Martial Arts Academy, 2028 N 16th St., Phoenix, AZ 85006
Private Lesson with detailed instruction on various application
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 49 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:2/5 At:Perth
Most Important: Nobody can see, what Chen Laoshi is doing (except Chen Xu), when he is throwing a stone in the water and waves are appearing, everyone is asking, how to make such waves (form of the waves, etc.), but he just throws the stone- first 13 moves: shovel out, waist cannot go forward, has to be zero, only can go down, to push out
- shovel out means to bypass
- your opponent is strong in different dimensions, you always wrapping around him
- all forward moves you have to lock yourself down
- movements must be led by the piece were I and you don`t touch, move as one piece, like one wall going at you, which part is leading is very different
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