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Chen Tai Chi Video Links

Below are some video samples of Chen Style Tai Chi

     

Master Wang practicing Chen Style LaoJia Yi Lu

 

Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei and Master Wang Hai Jun [1992 push hands video]

 

Master Wang and Niall O'Floinn demonstrate Push Hands

Master Wang demonstrates the Competition Form

56 step competition form.The official Chen style form used in international competitions in China to rate a practitioners skill.The 56 step is a combination of movements taken from Xin jia yi lu and er lu.This dvd is an excellent aid to learning this form with clear instructions in English and demonstrations of each movement by 3 time all champion of China Wang Hai Jun

Video below is Xinjia Yi Lu


Exercept of about half of the first routine of the New Frame created by Chen
Fake after he moved to Bejing to teach after being invited from Chen
village by his nephew Chen Zhaopi.
It is worth mentioning that most of the leading Masters studied the Old
Frame [Lao Jia ] routines for a minimum of 10-12 years before studying the
New Frame [Xin Jia] routines .The New Frame contains more potential qin-na
,intense and smaller chan si jin and more fa-jin than the Old Frame.
Although Chen Fake taught these forms in the later stage of his teaching in
Beijing it must be understood that his students already had many years
experience of other martial arts and even were masters of other arts .
While teh New Frame routines can considerably enhance ones practice they
are not absolutely essential to reach higher levels of gong fu.
Chen Xiao Xun just practices Old Frame and has reputedly the 4th highest
level skill of Taijiquan and of course Chen Changxing and Yang Lu Chan would
have just practiced the Old Frame and their level of Gong Fu is legendary in
the martial arts world.
So it is not important how many forms one knows but rather how deeply one
understands the main training form and how hard one practices to reach the
highest levels.
Many people can "know" the external choreography of many forms but not have
much skill after even 20 years because they never had a teacher to show them
the way to deepen their practice and they themselves did not practice
enough.

Below is Xinjia Er Lu [Pao Chui] The second routine of the New Frame

created by Chen Fake,uncle of Chen Zhaopi.

Guan Dao [Spring/Autumn Broadsword]
The modern guan dao as adopted by martial artists today usually weighs
between 2 kg and 10 kg, while it is said that Guan Yu's original guan dao
weighed between 50 and 100 kg. During the Qing dynasty some
extraordinarily
heavy versions of guan dao were made for use in military examinations: a
candidate had to be able to wield a weapon weighing 80, 100, or 120 jin
(48, 60 or 72 kg) in order to pass. The weight of Guan Yu's weapon was probably
mis-estimated based on some of these examples

Double Dao [Sabre ]

Double Sword Form This form was created between 1930-1938 by Chen Zhaopi who is the Master responsible for bringing Tai Chi back to Chen Village[it's place of origin] and without his monumental efforts at training the next generation Tai Chi today would not have such a high level among its top practitioners, Chen Xiao Wang ,Chen Zheng Lei, Wang Xian and Chen Xiao Xun are examples of those most accomplished in the Gong Fu of Taijiquan who studied with the renowned Master Chen Zhaopi.

Chen Spear Form

 

Chen Long Pole Form

Single double edge straight sword and sabre forms by Senior Irish coach Niall O'Floinn.