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 …

Chen village’s 19th generation master, Chen Liqing has passed away on the 7th November 2008 at the age of 90 years old.
She was a teacher for more than 40 years but at the same time is skilled in Chen Xiaojia (small frame) taijiquan.  She started learning Chen taijiquan from the age of 7 from the village elders in Chen village.  Since retirement from her teaching job, she made great contribution to the Chen Taijiquan world by passing on the skills to her many discples all over the world. Her passing on is a great loss …

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This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
Yang NuoBing, a fellow blogger in Beijing, talks to CCTV about Chen style taijiquan and the up-coming Beijing Olympics 2008. The chat is filled with jokes and it is good to see light-heartedness and enjoyment.
Yang learns with Tian XiuMao, whose uncle, Tian XiuChen is one of Chen Fake’s disciple. With such a background, somehow it came as a surprise when Yang said Tian had not asked for any tuition fees. In fact, …

This is a post by our guest blogger, Silkreeling who is also a keen player of Chen Style Taijiquan.
“I have to share this with someone”, I said to myself, looking at the dim sum dumplings packed in the styrofoam box that had just been distributed. The portion resembles more like a main meal rather than mid-afternoon refreshment. If anything, it is an indication of how well the event had been managed. “Taiji for Osteoporosis” is a public forum organised by the Osteoporosis Society of Singapore, which is backed by the …

Just when I thought all about Chen taiji have been written (at least the chinese books), I saw a few new books on the shelves when I visited the bookstores recently.  I usually try to buy them as they are relatively affordable compared to English books and their printing quality has improved a lot over the past few years.
One of the new book is by Ma Hong, titled 陈式太极拳劲道释秘-拆拳讲劲 . Roughly translated as Chen Style Taijiquan Secrets Explained – Dissecting the Routine to Explain the Jing.
I have not read it but …

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

Introduction
 
The morning park scene here consists of Taiji players, joggers, badminton players, qigong enthusiast, dancing fans and general health maintainers. This reminds me of the bustle of Singapore’s morning rush hour, yet it is pleasantly unfamiliar. It was the last day of my 7-day trip, and as I was determined to have one last highlight, I decided to check out the Taiji scene on the island. I was up by half past …

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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 …