Formosa Neijia

Here’s a comment a while back by reader Orz. He had a very good commnet on the history of huleijia that I’d like to bring to your attention.
Zhaobao taiji lineage：
張三丰→雲遊道人→王宗岳→蔣發→邢喜懷→張褚臣→陳敬伯→張仲禹→張彥→陳清萍(Chen Qingping)→和兆元(He Zhaoyuan)→和慶喜→鄭梧卿→宋蘊華→關榮光
│　　　　　　　　　　　└→紀昌秀→張萬珠／張萬強
└→張敬芝→陳英明→王慶升
Li Jingyan(李景延) was a student of Chen Qingping(陳清萍), junior fellow apprentice of He Zhaoyuan(和兆元) - the inventor of He Style Taiji.
Although Chen Qingping(陳清萍) married [...]

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I think Bob must have excellent typing skills. He typed up this excerpt from Adam Hsu’s latest book over at ChenWired, but I want to archive it here. I’m about to order the book (available here) and I’ll review it after I read it. This excerpt has some great information about what Hsu [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write a review of Adam Hsu’s Chen vdeos for some time. So here goes.
He has four Chen style DVDs out, one each on the following topics: a short form, laojia yilu, laoji paochui, and huleijia taiji.
All of the videos follow the same format. He gives an intro, basics are shown, the [...]

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…is the same problem as with all Chen style taiji: too many forms. My teacher teaches the laojia yilu, five different versions of huleijia, and then the paochui. One of the best Chen teachers here teaches in this order: 13 form, 48 form, laojia yilu, paochui short form, xiaojia yilu, laojia paochui, huleijia, and xiaojia [...]

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I’ve been learning the huleijia material for a whole month now and these are my impressions.
Many people have trouble understanding huleijia, especially the first time they see it, because huleijia explicitly starts with a type of external training. Now let’s be clear here: I’m not talking about external training as in karate or something like [...]

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This video is an example of Taiwan Chen style through the Wang Meng-bi line. Thanks to aboroth for making it available and drawing my attention to it.
I also need to be honest by saying that the performer in the clip above is also one of my teachers.
This version of Taiwan Chen has some interesting features [...]

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I’m going to stick my neck out on this one and say that this is probably the Taiwan version of huleijia as opposed to the mainland verison. But I could be wrong. Wherever it’s from, it’s the strongest performance of huleijia I’ve ever seen. This guy is seriously good. But a word of warning to [...]

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I attended class last night for the first time in about six weeks with my main Chen style instructor. I was waiting for the next module to open up (I don’t really care for the modular teaching system).
So after class, he asked me if I had any questions. Hehe. After all this discussion of the [...]

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I know there is a lot of confusion as to what is and isn’t huleijia. One of the main complications in all of this is the fact that huleijia uses 10 different frames to express their taiji. The following is my brief introduction to the frames according to different people. Please set your encoding to [...]

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I wasn’t planning a post on this, but it came up on this thread at Empty Flower (EF) and it’s been buggin’ me for quite a while. Here’s the info I have gathered regarding the six men that brought Chen style taiji to Taiwan. I was a bit surprised at what I found. Take a [...]

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