This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.

A lesser known figure outside of China, Li Jingwu (1912-1997)probably is one of the most accomplished Chen style Taiji master of his generation. Listed below are some quick references to his achievements:

One of Chen Fake’s top disciples, who could neutralise up to 4 of Chen’s successive fajings.
 Known for his upright character, mild mannerism and integrity, especially when exchanging pointers with opponents.
Respected Grand Master of both Chen and Wu style Taiji.
He is Wang …

This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan
Chen Family Small Frame Taiji seems to most to be the lesser cousin of the Large Frame. This is not surprising as there have been much more written and discussed about the latter in the last 70 years or so due to its popularity. Some of the factors that could have contributed to this scenario are of course Chen Fake’s efforts and distinction that shook Beijing from the 1930s; and also Chen …

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 …

Finally someone by the name of Alex Golstein translated the Chen Taiji classic 陈氏太极拳图说 by Chen Xin (陈鑫）.  This book is quoted in almost all Chen Style TaijiQuan books. It was a delight finding this book in the bookstore.However this book is written in classical Chinese with no punctuation marks. It is not easy to understand if even if you know Chinese. The topics that he covered are YingYang Theory, silk reeling theory, meridian theory and notes on the various postures. 
Now with the English translation, non Chinese readers may attempt …

Here is a 11 sec video segment of a young Chen ZhaoKui (陈照奎)((1928-1981), son of the 17th generation taijiquan master, Chen FaKe(陈发科).  it was amazing that a video recording of him still existed til these days. Hopefully someday we will get to see a whole routine segment performed by him or his father.
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here is a side by side comparison of Chen ZhaoKui in the video and a line drawing of …

Since a visitor asked, so maybe i just write about it. Chen taijiquan was first taught by Master Zhu Tiancai in the early 1980s.
Many people have since been taught by him. Most of the current Chen taijiquan instructors are either his students or students of his students. Of course with globlization, we start to see some instructors from China teaching here too.
Here are some of the local instructors of Chen style taijiquan in no particular order. 

Mr Xu JinKe
Mr Peng Xiuwan teaching in Toa Payoh
Mr Liao WenJian  in Jurong area if i …