My teacher Chen Yun-ching is in the June edition of Inside Kung-fu. If you hurry, you can catch the article, which is excerpted from Jess O’Brien’s book Nei Jia Quan, 2nd edition: Internal Martial Arts.
In the article, Chen laoshi brings up some interesting points. One of them is that push hands should be thought of […]
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Chen Yun-ching in Inside Kung-fu
June 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · CPL taiji
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Master your taiji postures
April 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments · CPL taiji, Taijiquan
One of the main things to work on in taiji IMO is mastering the individual postures. This forms the bulk of my practice with form work coming in second. I take each one of the moves from my Chen Pan-ling form and do them individually as straight line drills. This is perhaps a unique feature […]
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Thoughts on translation
April 24th, 2008 · 29 Comments · CPL taiji
After translating the Chen Pan-ling form names, I was left puzzled by a few of the quirks I encountered. Here they are:
1. 撇身pie shen — what exactly does “pie” mean here? This is a fairly rare verb.
2. 如封似閉 rufeng sibi — seal and close. This one seems a little odd, too. What is being sealed […]
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Chen Pan-ling camp 2009
April 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · CPL taiji
So many posts to write, so little time.
Before I forget, the 2009 Chen Pan-ling camp details have been released here. This will be 10 days of training and assorted sightseeing in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. The dates are 16-26 January, 2009. The location will be interesting — it’s to be held at the Kaoshiung Confucius […]
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Chen Pan-ling taiji list
April 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · CPL taiji
Here’s a little translation project I did while I was on my recent “break.” This is a list of all the Chen Pan-ling taiji moves in Chinese and in English. Some of these names are slightly different from what you may have seen in the translation of CPL’s taiji book because I felt a new […]
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Chen Pan-ling’s baguazhang
March 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · CPL taiji
This is Taipei teacher Huang Lien-shun doing the Chen Pan-ling baguazhang. As you can perhaps tell, this spot in Canada is pretty popular. Huang isn’t a baguazhang specialist BTW. He’s someone that grew up in Taizhong and loved training all of the material from Gao Fang-xian and Chen Pan-ling as a child. He never […]
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About Chen Yun-ching’s bagua DVD
March 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · CPL taiji
I’ve gotten several complaints about Chen Yun-ching’s baguazhang DVD and I’ve recently had the chance to review it. I want to offer a response but first I want to say clearly that I don’t represent anyone in any way and this response is just my own thoughts.
I’ve seen Chen laoshi demo the bagua several times […]
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Chen Pan-ling taiji and shuangbian taiji
February 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · CPL taiji
I planned a longer, more in-depth post than this today, but I’m felling really under the weather. So a short note will have to suffice.
In Japan, Chen Pan-ling’s taiji is called shuangbian taiji — meaning “double-sided” taijiquan. His books all list it in the materials that he taught. It’s last on the list under taichichuan.
I […]
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First meeting with Chen Yun-ching
January 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments · CPL taiji
This past Saturday, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with one of Taiwan’s top teachers — Chen Yun-ching. I met him near his home in Taizhong and we chatted and compared practices for a couple of hours.
One of the main things that I got from the conversation is that his father’s martial arts were […]
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Chen Yun-ching
December 27th, 2007 · 11 Comments · CPL taiji
Here is Chen Yun-ching showing some mixed movements from his father’s martial arts. I contiue to be impressed by these clips and I hope that James Sumarac continues to put more of them out.
Chen starts with a shaolin movement similar to taiji’s press (ji). Notice the blending of vertical with horizontal movement. This is […]
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