This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
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Watch the above clip, featuring Master Jiang Jiajun performing Yilu perhaps in the 1990s. Jiang, a top student of Grand Master Hong Junshen, trained initially under Chen Zhaopei prior to 1964. Through that experience, Jiang found good ties …

This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
Although many would know that chansijing or silkreeling energy is the main element that makes up Chen Style Taiji, those who understand and can apply it is few and far in between. There are those that think silkreeling as spiral force. If that is the case, their often point of view that follows would be correct -  Don’t have to bother as other Taiji styles dwell on spiral and circular energies too. …

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 …