Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 14 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 14 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Like one drink sets an alcoholic back after 50 years of abstaining – so it is if we add a move (like move the hand)
Bigger from the kua
If you need to move the knee, fix the hip. If you need to move the hip, fix the knee.
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Hello everybody,
I have a question about the shoulders or more specific the shoulder blades in these exercises.
Fetch water:
When you practice fetch water, does the (front) shoulder blade rotate/move up or down (the back)? As for the other shoulder, does it Always do the reverse?
My experience is that it rotates up and “over the shoulder”
Positive circle:
In the first part, rotates the (front) blade up or down and what about the second part?
My experience is that the blade in the first part rotates up “and over” the shoulder and in de second part it drops/rotates down the back.
Negetive circle:
idem, I can imagine it is the same as the positive circle.
Futher I feel a very distinctive flip when you transfer from the first part of the circle to the second part of the circle. I can remember master Chen talking about it in some videos.
Greetings,
Richard
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 15 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
This week it’s been 2 years, since my magical journey in Practical Method Taiji started on Daqingshan Mountain.
Weather has already gotten warmer here in Greece, so last night I went on the balcony to do some Yilus. There is something special in practicing Yilu under the stars! A light breeze from the north, made the stars to shine bright in the dark night. As soon as I started doing the Yilu, immediately my first thought went to Daqingshan!
Having spent almost 7 moths on the mountain, we passed many nights under the sky, since we had almost every night training sessions at 20:00, which included mostly Yilus, foundations, push-hands from time to time and various events, mostly in the summer. Read more
Intermediate Correction and Lessons for positive circle, twist towel, fetch water, double negative
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 14 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Two ends fixed, move the middle
Last week Kelvin Ho review turning flower out at bottom of sea. he posted a video and the following points
1) Maintain a non-moving vertical rod from head to left heel throughout the action.
2) Hold the right forearm in front of the chest with a fist, while the left fist is on the side of the body.
3) Throw the right fist down to the right side as hard as possible with a raising right knee to create a scissoring effect, while throwing the left fist up to the left ear.
4) There should be no tossing or turning of the body, but there is a spiral stretch along the vertical rod Read more
Practical Method Meetup in Vienna, Europe
17th – 19th February 2017
What a cool experience! On 17th of February 2017 we had the first PM Meetup in Europe. A meetup which was dedicated to meet other groups practicing our art. It was no workshop in that sense, but we were lucky, that Rick Pietila, a disciple of Master Chen was still in Vienna at that time and was leading most of the training. He prepared a training schedule which build up over the course of the meetup. Everybody was exhausted afterwards, but happy to meet other peers and to have learned so much from Rick.
We worked on a few different moves in the form today. The first 3 moves required standing on one leg.
- White Ape Presents Fruit (Drilled 50 times on each side)
- Kick with Right/Left Heel
- Turning Flower out of the Bottom of the Sea
- Punch to the Groin
- Punch to the Ground
- Turn Over Body and Double Kick
Yilu move detail, 5 Elements / Dimension Power, Adherence, Indirect Power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Dinner at Mike’s (Disciple #3) in Abbotsford with Zhang YanPing who moved to Abbotsford from Jinan.
Three new student attended, so Master Chen went over foundation and application of Yilu first move.
Fetch water application is getting in for a strike with shoulder, that’s the purpose of moving the arm down.
After many corrections, I am starting to understand that power should not come from the shoulder, but treat shoulder as a pivot
Encircle opponent and apply 90 degree, Yilu practice lesson.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
1) Maintain a non-moving vertical rod from head to left heel throughout the action.
2) Hold the right forearm in front of the chest with a fist, while the left fist is on the side of the body.
3) Throw the right fist down to the right side as hard as possible with a raising right knee to create a scissoring effect, while throwing the left fist up to the left ear.
4) There should be no tossing or turning of the body, but there is a spiral stretch along the vertical rod.
Application, Joint Positioning, Shoulder and Kua relation in torso.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 21 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5 At:Perth
Master Chen’s disciple Ping Wei will again teach Practical Method foundations and Yilu on March 26 (Sunday, 9:30am-1pm and 2-5pm) in Irvine, California. For location and other details, please contact Al Yu at 949-331-2735, or email: mralyu@yahoo.com.
Another year, another step up to see the grand vista of Tai chi. I was able to once again participate in Master Joseph Chen Zhonghua workshop organized by Nicholas Feng, K.T. Lin, Hong Kong Chen Style Taiji Practical Method (香港陳式太極實用拳法).
On a mild holiday weekend, more than thirty participants from Hong Kong, the Mainland, Canada and India gathered to train with Master Chen. A special thanks to Ling Zili who came from Daqinshan to help with the workshop. For two days, Master Chen started with the foundations, then continued with moving, the first thirteen moves of Yilu and occasional bouts of applications training. Master Chen clearly explain how each type of training is directly related to theory of Chen Taijiquan.
Fetch water – the opposite vectors are at the front kua. Six sealing four closing/seven inch knife – separates at the shoulder.
Theory on how power is created and used. Shun Ni. System of Three
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8+12 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
3 Videos with Theory, Student Practice and Correction on Twist Towel, Fetch Water, Six Sealing Four Closing
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 28 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5 At:Perth
Yesterday I could attend the class of Nicholas Fung, situated in the middle of Hong Kong. We have been five students and trained for two hours, which passed by surprisingly quickly.
1) Content
– First we did fetch water with yoga blocks. We did fifty each side, break and another fifty.
– Then we focused on elbow in and used rubber cords for the feedback. We did again fifty each side, break and another fifty.
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Push hand principle of getting in without conflict
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5 At:Berlin
We continued the topic about the triangle in today’s class. To apply the triangle during push hand or Yilu we need to realize the following keys:
- How many triangles are needed
- The more the better as long as it can contribute the indirect force to the final result.
- My understanding is we need at least two: the first one is formed in upper body. It involves contact points. The triangle can be two hands + one shoulder or one hand + elbow + shoulder or one hand + two shoulders; the second one is formed in lower body. It can be one foot + kua + shoulder or two feet + kua. This perfectly explains the theory of “rooted in the feet, initiated from the legs, controlled by the waist, ended in the fingers”(其根在脚,发于腿,主宰于腰,形于手指).
- Apply one triangle on top of another
- Keep this in mind: fix one and then apply next. This is required by the rule of “Don’t move”.
- Build a solid structure
- A solid structure will be like a rod or chair. Opponent’s power will be directed to ground and bounced back to them easily.
- The solid structure will also support forming triangles.
- We always look for opponent’s weak point in their structure, so we can apply our triangles accordingly.
Stepping in Taiji and how to train to use the correct muscle
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5 At:Berlin
Twisting towel – Ning maogin
Straight torso – spine stretched – legs apart –bend knees a bit just to make upside down U shape … Imagine there is a horizontal bar just below navel area, stretched forward and vertical rod from head to ground
Fingers always stretched and slightly open, except the thumb, thumb touching forefinger. Arms at navel level, stretch forward tucking elbow towards the center of your body- keeping wrist locked (wrist doesn’t movie) elbow straight – shoulders locked (moving only within its socket)
At the moment Master Chen is giving the 21th Practical Method Seminar on Daqinshan. More then 80 peoples are participating and there are both advanced (beneath them many disciples) and beginners.
I want to give you a brief insight of this event.
This is a book on Hunyuan Qigong and Hunyuan Taiji by Master Chen Zhonghua. It is an essential book for anyone practicing Qigong.
Its contents are mainly based on the Hunyuan Qigong of Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang and the personal experiences and explorations of Master Chen Zhonghua.
Asking the difference between external and internal martial arts, today Master Chen Zhonghua put it this way:
“External styles use brute force, internal styles use manipulation.”
