This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
How is your practise for the year 2009? Let see how a 12 year old been doing. According to the note posted on Youtube, she is doing Chen Style Taijiquan from Ma Hong school. She is the daughter of a prominent student of Ma Hong.
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This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan
I was about to feature yet another master level personality but was told to delay that to take a separate focus, as variety.
Well, I am sure we have been guilty of, or have encountered other players, slagging off each others styles, lineages or teachers; and the possibilities why we react that way must be a handful.
Now, Fist in hand with a Stamp is the signature of Buddha Warrior Pounds the Mortar. It …

This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
Known as the “King of Wrestling” in Chen village, you would not suspect that He Guo-Yin is a blind man. Although blind in one eye since birth, He Guo-Yin was an active boy in Chen village. He started learning from Chen De-Yi after being thrown successively to the ground, when he tried mischievously to disrupt Chen’s farming activities.
Due to his surname, He Guo-Yin was considered an outsider and for a long time …

Commonly known as the GuanDao, the weapon of General Yu of the Three Kingdoms fame，the Spring And Autumn Falchion is classified as a long weapon. Traditionally very heavy,there are now lighter versions that weight less than 2 kg.
The Chen Taiji routine is made up of thirty phrases that run like a poem. The main applications of this weapons They are chop, cut, pierce, parry, thrust, intercept, press, push, slice, block and swing in figure-8 form. Here is a clip by Ni ShiQing ( 倪世清）, a disciple of Chen Zhenglei. Ni …

This 2 sectioned staff is actually a farming device and evolved into a weapon used by the common folks. The bigger size is known as shaokan (梢杆) while the smaller size is known as shaogun (梢棍).  The shorter section is attached to the longer section via chain of rings. At the other end of the longer section is usually a pointed tip.
This weapon routine is not commonly taught beyond China. In the Chen village,  Chen XiaoXing’s school teaches them. Let look at the 2 routines here and you will see …