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 …

I have been wearing either the Feiyue or Warrior brand shoes for the past 6-7 years since I start doing taijiquan. The most common shoe model is a canvas shoe with a hard rubber sole.  On the canvas shoe, there is usually a few strips of either white, red or blue color. The amount of padding is minimum compared to running track shoes. The canvas cover and lack or padding make it easier for  us to do some stances compared to a running or x-training shoes.

In the report, it mentioned …

This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
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http://www.chiflow.com/html/Taijiquan_Chen3.html
When it comes to Taiji practice, have you ever felt like you are in a maze running in circles, almost with no hope of seeing light at the end of the tunnel? You can be sure you are not alone, and going online in search for new perspectives might just be the way to cheer you up! These two websites stated above caught my eye, with the contents bearing the hallmark that …

How many editions are they available for this Chen taiji classic, Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taijiquan 陈氏太极拳图说 by Chen Xin (陈鑫) Quite a lot apparently.  Here are 5. I think the best quality is the one that has 4 volumes (the dark blue cover set ).
The Illustrated Canon of Chen Family Taijiquan was written by Chen Xin from 1908. In 1919, the manuscript was sent off to Nanjing to try to get it published. That did not work out and the manuscript was lost.  in 1929, at his deathbed, …

Well I was hoping someone will do it someday and they did. The National College of Physical Education and Sports of Taiwan digitized together a collection of 46 Taijiquan classics. A few of them are even handwritten copies, while others are printed in the 1930s.
Well the scanned images may not be of high resolution but it is good enough for research or personal use.

So here it is The Tai-chi Martial Art Digital Archive.
One of the manual in this archive is  by 17th generation xiaojia master, Chen Ziming. His work, The …