Locking one spot to generate scissor power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Berlin
Difficulty-3-Trailer
Theory and practice to focus power in the hand and have the connection from hand to feet
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Theory and practice for dealing with opponent push and for pushing through opponent,
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 20 min. In: English Year: 2015 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Theory and how to practice to produce an axis in the body.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Different application demonstrations.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
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
Changing the pivot/fulcrum to manipulate power generation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Separation in term of movement direction from Daqingshan full time course. This is one type of vector force.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 7 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan, China
Energy alignment in Practical Method Cannon Fist form. Part One of Two Cannon Fist Alignment videos.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 42 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phoenix workshop participants, please contact Ping Wei for free access
Second part of the Cannon Fist Alignment video. At the end of the video, there is a complete Cannon Fist demonstration by Master Chen Zhonghua in Italy in 2014.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 27 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Phoenix, AZ, USA
Gaining space training method, and using waist to generate power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 39 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Theory and training to develop engaged power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 44 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Bare the energy out: How structure and movement clarity leads to intention and energy output
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 23 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Training push hand moves using yin yang separation
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 39 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Toronto
Effective applications by creating a cliff in the opponent
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 13 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Berlin
Demonstration and training method for ‘spine to come out’, which produce torque power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 8 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5 At:Berlin
Mini lesson on switching the power leg in circle
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2014 Difficulty:3/5
How to create a line to affect the opponent, how to create a curve to deal with incoming force, how to work with space
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 18 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Oakland
Detailed Yilu correction for intermediate students
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 98 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Berlin
Mini lesson on the importance of not moving the back, training for isolation of the arm by doing spiral movement.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 15 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Oakland
The Drill
In the beginning of the video Master Chen demonstrates a drill that emphasizes separation. This is the primary theme throughout this instructional video. He stands with his back against the wall and has a student push against his torso. Without moving his back, he easily brushes the student’s hand off. He demonstrates this again, the wrong way, moving his back and shoulders, which then is unsuccessful at removing the student’s hands. Master Chen then explains with out separation, there is no yin and yang. “The separation of yin and yang is very important!”
The Lessons to Remember
“Once there is yin and yang, the recombination of what yin and yang can do becomes unlimited!”
“The separation gives you yin and yang. Once it is is separate, the recombined effort is what we call in taiji whole body movement. The body has to work as one unit, not one piece.”
GIF showing no seperation
GIF showing yin and yang seperation
GIF showing differences between no separation and seperation
GIF Master Chen demonstrating the same principle of separation or isolated movements without the wall behind him
GIF showing the difference between the shoulder tossing and the shoulder rotating in it’s socket (open hand represents the socket and fist represents the shoulder joint
GIF demonstrating the drill once more
At the end of the video as Master Chen was doing the drill, he said you must experience this Chuck (Charles Paoletti disciple #19)! I met Chuck in 2013 and I can say with 100% accuracy, he is the biggest person I have met practicing Practical Method Taiji! Master Chen’s point was that if you train this with a more powerful person, and you are able to move their hands off of you while doing the drill, you did it right, achieving yin and yang separation!
Please ask questions or make statements about what you learned from this video.
Demonstration of Yilu applications
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 6 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Iowa
A demonstration and instruction on how to practice with power, to train for evenness in the body
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 17 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Greater Vancouver
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
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
Theory & demonstration of how to create additional dimension to generate a vectored power
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 3:29 In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton
Theory and demonstration on how to extend, how to project force to opponent
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan
Master Chen uses an umbrella to demonstrate structural requirement and power generation for taijiquan.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 9 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan
Private session: Hip and knee alignment in push, whole arm alignment, push hands training
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 56 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Prague
Lesson on the principle of never move contacting point.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 2:30 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Daqingshan
Clip from Daqingshan lesson on primary taiji move which comes from forming a line that has constant tension. Taiji movements are divided into primary movements and secondary movements. Primary movements are actions and secondary moves are the transitional moves that connect one action to another. Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 4 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At: Daqingshan
Lesson and demonstration on how to use elbow, shoulder and kua: how they work together in application.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 10 min. In: English Year: 2013 Difficulty:3/5 At:Greater Vancouver
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 48 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Phoenix, AZ. USA
Adding one power is a technique to transmit power. It is broken to two steps, first to bite or catch opponent, second action is to add power to finish it. Introduction, Explanations, Key Points, Applications, Student Practices
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 42 min. In: English Year: 2010 Difficulty:3/5 At:Edmonton
1. Rotation and movements. 2. Fetch water exercise. 3. Loose and tight. 3. Breathing. 4. Connected spiral. 5. How to touch. 6. Alignment and energy movement. 7. Chen Zhonghua demo of Yilu 13-21. 8. In with elbow. 9. Sinking involves a stretch. 10. Taiji movements are not normal. Read more
When doing the bare-hand form and pushing hands with an opponent, one must keep the power constant. This is one of the characteristics of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method. By keeping to this principle, one will gradually gain more internal abilities.
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 46 min. In: Chinese Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5 At:Singapore
Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 6 min. In: English Year: 2012 Difficulty:3/5.
In and Out is an important principle often overlooked in Taijiquan practice, it has to be clearly expressed in every move in yilu.
