Applying principle of separating upper and lower body in push hand.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 24 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
This is mine. What is yours?
- Continue to watch my masters’ original videos and read their original writings.
- Teach sword and broadsword.
- Stay away from the corruption of the society and of the taiji world. This means I will not copy or forward anything from the web. Every word must come from my heart, from my own experiences and from my own hand.
Detail on Six Sealing and Fetch water, and the concept of expanding yet without moving
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 12 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:Sacramento
Special price for Christmas 2014, seasons greetings everyone!
To celebrate the New Year, we are going to gather and practice Yilu and Cannon Fist at North Mountain Park (7th Street and Peoria Ave.) from 8am to 10am on January 1, 2015. Everyone is welcome. Brunch at Ping’s place afterwards. RSVP to Ping (602-373-3457) by December 31.
Theory of three rings, and importance of maintaining a line.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 22 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:Sacramento
Detail on Circle, which part stay inside, which part stay outside
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:2/5 At:Sacramento
1) Foundations and 5 Yilus
2) 2-Person Drill: Find the dot on the opponent, add one to break the dot
3) 2-Person Drill: Step in to get closer to the opponent without him knowing (no change in pressure on the contact point)
4) 1-Person Drill: Similar to 3), but use the column or corner wall as the opponent. Push with one hand against the column, step to the side of the column without changing the pressure on the hand.
Video on Adding One:
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Twisting the towel foundation and how it relate to power generation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:Sacramento
If anyone is interested in training together I moved to Houston Texas earlier this year.
I am a student of Master Chen and have had the privilege of training with him throughout the U.S. and once in Canada. Most of my training has been with Levi Sowers, John Upshaw, Erwin Ramthun, and Tim Duehring in the Upper Midwest group, and I have attended workshops in New York/New Jersey, Phoenix, Milwaukee, and Maple Ridge.
Please contact me at ThirdCoastTaiji@pm.me and we can find a time that works for both of us.
Although there are not really ‘ secrets ‘ in Taiji anymore, there are things that are extremely important, that are not well known or properly emphasized. Generally speaking, students are not shown ‘ leg methods ‘ until they are higher level, if ever. The correct ( and stealth like ) use of the leg is Read more
Using waist and elbow to generate power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2:45 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:Sacramento
We must train to use a lot of power.
If you want to learn how to move a big rock and you just go up to it and use your hands to tip it back and forth, you are wasting your life. You have to get a good grip on it and try to lift it. If you can’t move it then: Read more
Dan Tian and Kua
In a Phoenix Workshop a couple years ago, Master Chen talked about different schools of thought related to the concept of ” Setting Up the Furnace “. This has to do with the formation of a real and working Dantien. One school of thought believes, this is done energetically and when formed causes changes in the Read more
Push Hand practice footage with tournament rule with some correction on application
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 40 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Ottawa
This video illustrate that gears are not always round, as long as there is good connection between two rotating objects, then transfer of power will happen. Having good connection is the key of generating indirect power in the body for taijiquan purpose. Read more
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method has been chosen by Microsoft China for their employee wellness program and for their health related promotions.Recently Master Sun Zhonghua and Ling Ziming of the Practical Method have traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chongqiong to help launch new products.
Practical Method helped launch Microsoft Office 365 in Shenzhen, China on December 4, 2014.
Theory and demonstration of indirect power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 28 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:2/5 At:Ottawa
Workshop participants please contact James Tam for free access
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Dimensional thinking lead to having move in different dimensions
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 20 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:2/5 At:Ottawa
Workshop participants please contact James Tam for free access
Master Chen and students went to Wuhu Anhui province during 2014 Sports Culture & Sports Tourism Expo as delegates of Shandong province.
In with elbow theory and training
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:1/5 At:Ottawa
Workshop participants please contact James Tam for free access
How to apply pressure without pushing, practice routine, stance position
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 32 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:2/5 At:Oakland
I met Alfred Yu and Hannes Richter last year when they came to Phoenix to attend Master Chen’s workshop. They could not come to Master Chen’s workshop this year. So, they invited me to go to Irvine to teach the foundation and Yilu. It’s a short trip for me. I took a morning flight from Phoenix to Orange County, by night I got back home.
There are five people came to the class on Sunday, November 16. Three of them were total new to Practical Method. I taught foundations in the morning. I showed them “twisting towel”, “fetching water”, positive and negative circles, explained the purposes of each exercise, their elements in forms of Yilu, the concepts of “don’t move”, “open kua”, and “rotate”. In the afternoon, I taught the first 13 moves of Yilu, then a little push hand. It was a successful day. One person was going to stay just for an hour. It turned out that he stayed for the whole day.
I will go back to Irvine in late January or early February. If you are in the area, please contact Alfred Yu for more details. His email is mralyu@yahoo.com. His phone number is 949-331-2735.
Theory of dantian and pivoting, talk on learning
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 17 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
Ball in a cradle
Kelvin Ho has added functionality to record student practice on the website. Now practice recording is tied to the website user login. Old records has been migrated to the new system.
Please try this new functionality by clicking the practice button in the top left corner.
Bruce from Denver, Mark from Chicago came to Vancouver for the workshop.
Practice on torso arm separation. The sequence is step in while hand is fixed, adjust so front kua is full, push hand while torso is stillMaster Chen has recorded same exercise while he was on Daqingshan. Video below Read more
Practical Method in Toronto is expanding as Steve Man, Master Chen’s Disciple, introduced Practical Method to the Toronto Oriental Centre Taiji Group. In the opening weekend, the 20 new students learned positive circle and the first move of yilu, and there was a lot of excitement as they were exposed to the Steve’s detailed step-by-step instructions.
For more information, please visit http://taijinuts.wordpress.com/ or contact Steve Man at taijinuts@gmail.com.
More pictures can be found here.
At the workshop in Maple Ridge today, we worked on “Stretching”. It is important to remember that a concept must be understood at it core level. We train the basic core elements of the concept, not its derivatives, deviations, adaptations or variations of the concept. For example, the core elements of a “stretch” is a locked point and a moving point. A variation is two moving points. Read more
Circle, Not moving, Practice according to principle, Q & A
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 30 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:1/5 At:Toronto
Lesson and practice to develop lever, jack knife in the arm
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 33 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:2/5 At:Toronto
