Just a quick quip YouknowWho. This was what I meant when I mentioned that the push hands I train in was criticized by some as being too much like...
I was severely overweight (technically morbidly obese, but I hate that word) and into my mid thirties when I began my training in Chen style. To...
To him, the form is simply a basis tool for training the principles of tai chi. Push hands is then needed to learn how those principles would...
My teacher's take on this question was refreshingly direct. He simply said, if you trained to fight and defend yourself, then you will be able to...
To be honest, very few people opt to learn tai chi for the martial application anyway. Of the students in my class, there's not a single one below...
Depends on what u mean by staged. If you think what u see in the videos is rehearsed compliance, then I we can stop the discussion here; I can...
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太極拳_大å‹æ“Šæ•—_ 截拳é“JKD - YouTube Friendly sparring between Chen style tai chi guy with JKD/Escrima (1st guy), Various Northern...
Check out Nick Osipczak Get to know... "Slick" Nick Osipczak - YouTube He claims to represent Tai Chi in MMA and just won his comeback match in...
I used to train in Judo prior to my involvement with Chen Tai Chi. My experience is that I found a lot of commonalities with Judo, but from a very...
I would love to hear your reasoning behind that comment.
All movements in a form are in a cycle of yin (contraction) and yang (expansion), which correlates to your inhalation and exhalation respectively....
Integration is not achieved by having different parts of your body 'dragging' other parts along during movements. Integration is the idea of...
So after the bit of rambling, was I not simply saying that Qi is nothing more than an Idea, visualization tool? Well yes, and no.... This is from...
Not so much an idea in a technical scientific sense, but a linguistic construct. Among chinese (mandarin or otherwise) speakers there is hardly a...
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Well the founder of my style has been dead for almost 350 years, too bad for me I guess...
Here's one, another Southern Chinese Style: Fujian White Crane, the founder was supposedly a woman by the name of Fang Qiniang. Not sure if she is...
Yep, it's definitely a tai chi technique, something we practice frequently in push hands, but of course similar, if not almost identical...
O'yer, pray tell what weird stuff do Chen guys get up to?
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