Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Dear All!
Close to the completion of my 43rd year in life, Master Chen Zhonghua kindly accepted me as one of his disciples, during the 6th Berlin workshop on 17./18. June 2017.
I am very grateful and like to say thank you especially to Michael Winkler, who encouraged me to keep up the training and who handed over the Berlin/Germany business to me in 2016.
I’d also like to thank Brennan and Pawel, as well as the Berlin Team Carlotta, Kerstin and Lutz. I am looking forward to promote the practical method system in Berlin, Germany and Europe.
Kind regards,
Sven
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
First part is on Daqingshan mountain, second part is in the new Rizhao Practical Method center near the beach.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 20 min. In: English Year: 2016 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Looking for experienced English as a second language teacher for the 2017-2018 school year.
School: Qingshan High School. Wulian, Shandong, China.
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Application Demonstration
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 20 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10+10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Brennan Toh at the Vienna Workshop 2017
Within Chen Style Taijiquan, an important aspect is that all our movements must be our own movements. We never move as a result of an external stimuli. This requires we bring extreme awareness to every body part – those which are moving and especially those which are non-moving. When we go out with the hand, we must not forget about the elbow; as the torso closes the distance, the hands can’t also be moving forward, etc. As soon as we engage with our opponent, we naturally want to fight power with power. This immediate response is something we must eliminate through our training. Learning to create a stretch within our body in the form and foundations, is to learn how to move past the point of contact.
To never lose control of our body, even when engaging with an opponent, is to change our responses from a reactionary response to an active response.
A reactionary response is to retreat back, and then move in; or to match their push directly with your own push. A push from the opponent does not result in a fight, or a retreat backwards. An active response it to decide where to move, and to go their of your own choice – not from the initiation of the opponent. If we are pushed and the shoulder moves back, we move not because we are pushed, but because we decide to move there.
Brennan Toh with Shawn Lee
We must change from following the pace of the opponent, to leading our own movements. Within the rhythm of a fight, when you are able to dictate your own moves, the opponent will then follow (fall into rhythm). Movement is not a non-pressured release, but a pressured release like a hydraulic press where it must be evenly matched and paced (led). The intent of the movement is therefore only indirectly related to the opponent, and the decided movement is not at all resultant from what the opponent chooses to do – they are only an obstacle in place to overcome. This is a change from passive control over our body to active movement.
To train this, we must train to never close, and to continue to stretch and expand in every movement of the form. As our understanding of Yilu deepens, body mechanics and details that we were previously unaware of become more and more important. But before we can focus on the small details, our understanding of positioning of the ‘big pieces’ must be precise – which is why consistent training of the full form is required. As we continue to train to open our joints, positions and movements that we were previously incapable of will allow us to improve our structure and power.
Video references:
http://practicalmethod.com/2011/07/shoulder-movements-in-positive-circle-online-video-trailer/
http://practicalmethod.com/2014/11/pressure-and-release-indirect-power-online-video-trailer/
Vienna Workshop Group Photo 2017 Day One
Vienna, June 3-4, 2017
Host: Pawel Muller.
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Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
The Fist of Covering Hand (Yan Shou Gong Chui) Toronto North York Taiji Class April 27, 2017
Double half negative circle open stretch. Over the top full double negative
Left hand palm up stretch forward. Right palm protect face
Right hand fist. Slide on top of left arm while pulling left arm in a fist position on side of torso
Buddha’s Warrior Attendant Pounds Mortar (Jin Gang Dao Dui) Toronto North York Taiji Class on April 20, 2017 i
Buddha’s Warrior Attendant Pounds Mortar (Jin Gang Dao Dui) Toronto North York Taiji Class on April 20, 2017
Right turn palm motor. Positive and negative circle at the same time. Close left feet. Finish with left turn palm motor
Wade Forward in Twist Steps (Qian Tang Ao Bu) Toronto North York Taiji Class on April 13, 2017
Open left leg stretch arms open as if going through a canal. Left arm cross the right arm while left leg pull up.
Lean left leg on toes and rest ->
Land left leg on the heel with toes up. Rotate the left fixed knee-heel-toes triangle on the heel to land the toes.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Aim at the floor
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Move Separation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:2/5
City Date More Details contact Organizer Vienna June 3,4 pawel.mueller@gmail.com Prague June 10,11 pavel@practicalmethod.cz http://practicalmethod.cz Berlin June 17,18 http://www.practicalmethod.de/angebote/anmeldung-czh-in-berlin/ Gdynia June 24,25 chentaiji@wp.pl http://www.practicalmethod.pl/
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:2/5
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Helly everybody, 
here my notes of our class today. There was no title, so I would name it: Sequence to complete an action.
Step 1
– is totally free; there is no system
– ex.: go upstairs: one can step with the left foot our right foot first, any position thinkable
– taiji example: making contact with the hand, however and wherever
– learning this step normally takes 3 years
Step 2
– is free, as long as step no. 1 is not affected
– ex.: foot on the steps has to stay, cannot move anymore, but how you are getting the rest of the body on the stairs too, is totally free
– taiji ex.: you can move every point of the body, to come in as long as no. 1 is not moving
– learning this step normally takes 10 years
Step 3
– is free, as long as the centre of no. 2 is not destroyed
– centre can be everywhere
– centre results from size, weight, angles, speed, power etc.
– to learn this step takes normally 30 years
Chen Laoshi: “You have to put this into your yilu”, what for me is very difficult, as I am not sure about the no. 2 in every position, before going to the next one. I hope this knowledge will come to me 😉
Redirect Opponent Power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Inside / Outside separation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5
Foundation practice and correction
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 20 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:1/5 At:Italy
