General theory of practical method: door hinge and the vertical axis. Lever and the pivoting point. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 17 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At: Oakland, CA. USA
- Left hand
- Right hand
- Left foot
- Right foot
- Head
These are considered the five points of the outside of the body. Everything else is considered the inside of the body.
Gransmaster Hong Junsheng Portrait(Sketch)
A challenger show up in Daqingshan to test the school. Watch closely, he sneaked an illegal move in, intending bodily harm.
Knee action, how it relate to body movement. An exercise how to train the taiji way to use kua instead of the knee.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8:53 In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:Oakland
It is considered a good thing to hurt the muscles. Muscles are not afraid of pain. In the Practical Method system, we do not train the muscles. Train muscles means to bulk up the muscles to make them strong. We elongate muscles. This requires a different method of training.
It is a bad thing to hurt ligaments and bones. Ligaments and bones are afraid of being shortened, not elongated. Postures should be large and low so as to allow the elongation of ligaments and the skeletal structure.
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Footage from New York workshop, Peel Off technique, talk on what does training the body mean, In and out two persons drill
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 22 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:New York
I believe that what happens to a connected person’s body when being pushed can be understood by understanding how a trampoline works. Read more
Oakland Lawn Bowling Club. Nathan and I went to check the hall before and seminar and pushed hands outside in the park for about an hour.
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It’s a honor to have you in Phoenix, and thank you for teaching us. Everybody learned a lot. Come back soon.
Ping Wei
Yin Yang separation movements. Movement vs rotation.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 47 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:2/5 At:Daqingshan
Hi everybody,
When I recorded this form I was going through my recent Yilu Correction Video by Master Chen only for the first part of Yilu. Actually I wanted to wait for some 100 yilus more before uploading a rec again, but I didn’t have much time to practice recently and the weather was too nice to miss it ;-).
Please feel free to comment, all feedback is welcome.
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Detailed demonstrations on the different ways each move can be used depending on how the opponent reacts
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 29 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:4/5 At:New York
Iowa Workshop on October 12, 2013.
- The body is not ready as any material.
- The body is ready for something else, not taiji material.
An effective move in push hand competition, Master Chen teach in Chinese and English how to train for this mo
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English & Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:5/5 At:Daqingshan
Performed for students in New Hampshire with emphasis (slow down and stopping) in places where students frequently make mistakes.
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Zhuo, to adhere is the flip side of indirect power principle, it is how to deal with incoming force by maintaining contact all the time.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 16 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:4/5 At:Vancouver
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Hosted by University, very inexpensive and good for beginners:
by Michael Winkler, contact: mail@practicalmethod.de
1. new weekly class, starts Jan, 1st., Wed 8:00 am to 9:30 pm
Info & sighn up … here (german site of TU Berlin)
2. Workshop Okt 12.-13. (Sat-Sun) 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Infos & sighn up … here
Recording of Daqingshan session for Basic Foundation and Moving Foundation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 38 min. In: English & Chinese Year: 2013 Difficulty:1/5 At:Daqingshan
Lecture and demonstration of the working of the Three Joints principle. Arm is an example of three joints which is made of three points with only the middle point that is moving. This basic principle applies to many configuration, for example leg – torso – arm can also work as the three joints as demonstrated in the video
Due to camera error, this video is out of focus, you can tilt your display backward to improve the viewing experience. Audio sync problem only in trailer video
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 28 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton
Chen Xu of Daqingshan is the new 2013 First Annual Global Health Care Cup Hong Junsheng Taijiquan Exchange Competition held in Jinan, Shandong, China from Oct. 1-2, 2013.
Zili Ling of Daqingshan won second place. Both of them won the push hands division.
Any serious Taijiquan practitioner should develop the ability to listen and observe. Read more
Practiced with Fleming on Sunday. he started 6 months ago uses his upper body too much. I told him to do more moving foundation to get the feel of generating power from the leg. His legs are weaker proportionally, so this is something he has to work on, to even out his body power potential.
Generating power from the leg is an elusive feeling, especially when pushing another person. My light bulb moment happen when pushing the big fridge and realizing the mistakes I was doing
In order to reach the level of taiji practice that integrates body and mind connection, you need to declare war against your own body. A dialogue between the mind and your own body must be initiated. After that, most of the work must be done by the body, not the mind.
—Master Chen Zhonghua at the New Hampshire workshop in Sept. 2013.
Do not believe your body does what you think it is doing! Your body has a mind of its own and is quite independent of you. It does what it wants and what it is used to.
Photos of the workshop can be found on Facebook.
The following are my raw notes from the workshop:
- Create the arch in different segments of the body from hand to foot
- Don’t move the hand, stretch the elbow from the hand.
- Always aim at the largest part of the body since we shoot all over the place, and it’s useless. For now, the torso, later the spine, even later something smaller. Read more
Just arrived last night. Ready for the workshop today. Here are some photos taken this morning:
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Shot during private session in Germany, this video goes through several basic principles in generating different forces to unbalance opponent during push hand.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:2/5 At:Germany
In this video Master Chen went through detailed nuances of the circle via student corrections. This is the definite video for details in circle, the mother move for Chen Style Taijiquan. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 41 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Vancouver
Bruce Schaub Push Hands Learning with Chen Zhonghua 2013 in Toronto, Canada.
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