Formosa Neijia

This is what the Chen Pan-ling competition form looks like. It has 42 movements that are just sequences taken right out to the tradtitional form. There are fewer repititions, as well. I love this form and I think this is a perfect example of how a competition form should be done. No fancy moves that [...]

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The following is a long quote by Darius on the CPL taiji as a middle frame form. I’m putting it here due to its length, it’s also easier to read as a post.
Interesting post. I think it’s important though not to conflate whole body power (what is known as zhengjin) development in taiji with the [...]

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The CPL taiji is interesting for a number of reasons. One is the fact that it’s a middle frame, as opposed to large or small frames. Most people probably aren’t familiar with middle frames or how CPL uses large and small frame training, so this post aims to address some of that.
The CPL form was [...]

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This is footage of Huang Yu-cheng laoshi (黃裕盛), the president of the largest Chen Pan-ling association in Taiwan, doing his version of the 99, as the CPL taiji is commonly referred to. As you can see, it is done in flash, so I can’t put it on youtube. But it’s from his recently recorded VCDs. [...]

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The following is a great recent comment by zhongnanmen, who studied the CPL and Wang Shu-jin traditions in Taizhong. I was surprised that the structure of the form itself is more based on Wu’s interpretation of the old Yang. I assumed it was more from Yang himself, but at that point in time, there may [...]

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I didn’t really want to start discussing the Chen Pan-ling form until I had a visual representation of it. Thanks to Bob, I do now. Here’s the entire form in four parts. I’ve put these clips on one page for my and others convenience. I’ll be referring back to these in future posts. Here’s the [...]

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