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Watch this clip to watch the Chen Style Competition shown on a certain China TV channel. The guy with the red belt is Wang Zhanjun (王战军), son of Wang Xian and he emerged as the final champion. For those who think that taiji fighting involves light and non contact repelling force will be surprised. There is a lot of throws, kicking and shoulder strikes in the matches.
But if you ask me, some of the fight scenes look similar to WWF scenes.
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In 2001, I started learning Chen style taijiquan. Eager to soak up whatever knowledge I can get hold of, I started surfing the Internet for information. Then there are limited websites on Chen Style Taijiquan on the Internet. The most comprehensive then and remains is of the best Chen site is Chen Style Taijiquan Notepad by Christoph David Weinmann.
Another was Chenstyle.com by Herb Rich which unfortunately is no longer available. Apparently he decided not to continue with the web hosting of the site.
6 yrs ago, I also decided to put …


