Daqingshan Seminars and Competition 2010 3-week package!
Start: Friday, August 6, 2010 at 9:55am
End: Friday, August 27, 2010 at 5:55pm
Location: Daqingshan, Rizhao, Shandong, China
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Posted by Editor on February 22, 2010
Daqingshan Seminars and Competition 2010 3-week package!
Start: Friday, August 6, 2010 at 9:55am
End: Friday, August 27, 2010 at 5:55pm
Location: Daqingshan, Rizhao, Shandong, China
For more details, continue Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Editor on February 11, 2010
Great timing! The following youtube video clip was just posted, by “Practical Method”.
Chen Zhonghua gives a very clear tutorial on fine points of distinction, involved with “how to keep the center” while engaged in
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Posted by Editor on February 9, 2010
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Posted by Editor on February 8, 2010
In Chen Style Practical Method, we always distinguish between movement, which is used for positioning, and action which facilitates rotation. We use the term “movement” in reference to horizontal repositioning of the whole body in its external location in space, forward or backward, left or right.
Rotation involves internal vertical adjustments and repositioning of inner space, engaging in any actions required for directing power outwards, from a stable structure.
Actions for the maintenance of a centered and balanced structure are constantly engaged when there is external pressure from an attacking opponent. We exercise patience. “I allow them to approach my most vulnerable point, then I connect, as they have committed their own central core.
“I engage, then apply energy through my actions and movement. Following attachment, my action/rotation is employed with great effect”.
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Posted by Editor on February 8, 2010
Create points in the feet: Left heel to ball in right foot, right heel to ball in left foot. We always put pressure on a point in each foot, to generate the appropriate spiral through ankle, lower leg, knee and upper legs, kwa, and then waist, torso, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands.
Stance should promote an active coiling energy which separates each part of the legs, upper body, and limbs from its adjacent segment, stretching in the opposite direction. So in a horse stance the feet coil inward from the heel toward the toes. Then the lower leg coils outward from the ankles up towards the knee. Then the upper leg coils inward and upward through the inner thighs and buttocks. Then the kwa coils outwards from the inside, so that the front of the kwa section is opening and stretching outwards. This alternating coiling of adjacent body parts creates a ‘desynchronizing” effect from joint rotation, like gears rotating in place. The result is a fully expanded structure, a Taiji skill conveyed by the term “peng”.
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