Formosa Neijia

I was saving these, but my guess is that most people have seen them already.
Wow. I never thought we’d actually see the man in action. Thanks to James Sumarac for making these available. Here’s Chen Pan-ling doing some single actions from his shaolin system. As you can see, his IMA training colored everything that he [...]

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There seems to be some confusion in certain circles about peng the jin and peng the posture. Both can be translated as “wardoff.”There are eight basic jins (powers, skills) in Yang style taiji, with peng being the first and arguably the most important. Peng jin is a quality that all your moves should have. You [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og2ZfY6sTtk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZd-lbALSYQ
This is the best version of Chen Pan-ling’s taijiquan on the net. None of the other videos that I’ve seen come close to Wang’s performance. If you click on the CPL taiji tab to the left and look at some of WSJ’s descendants, you’ll see that they have re-interpreted his taiji and practice it very [...]

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The following is part of a post over at the Cloud Hands blog. This was apparently written by Brian Bruning in the Taijiquan Journal. I’m putting it here because it’s the only time I’ve seen an attempt to lay out exactly what and where the influences of Chen and Wu taiji, as well as xingyi [...]

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If you learn a mixed style of taiji from a lineage that does TJC, XYQ, and BGZ, then is the taiji possibly redundant?
I think it helps to take into account the style you’re learning and who you’re learning it from.
Styles like the CPL form and Sun style were created by people that had a mixed [...]

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These are more pics of Chen Pan-ling in various xingyiquan poses. Thanks to Darius for making them available. Pt. 1 is here.

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Here are several pics of Chen Pan-ling in various xingyiquan poses. Pics of CPL are a bit too rare. Thanks to Darius for making them available.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWfmQZuNLs
This is teacher Andrew Chung of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (yaah! home!) doing his version of the CPL form that he learned from Col. Y.W. Chang.
One thing that struck me about this performance was how much it looked like the Wang Shu-jin versions that I’ve seen. He only makes it a little over half way through [...]

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So Wang Fu-lai of the Wang Shu-jin school in Taizhong has decided to put down Chen Pan-ling. In case the file goes down, here is some of what he said:
As a result of his connections with Chiang Kai Shek, Chen Pan Ling was appointed as chairman of the Chinese Martial Arts Federation in Taiwan, a [...]

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This is a long comment by Darius in response to the Chen apps. and qinna post. I’m putting it here due to its length, and I don’t want people ruining their eyes with the small font in the comment. Darius has lots of good insights for us to discuss.
I enjoyed the clip a lot. However, [...]

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