Terry Dunn's Tai Chi For Health

Terrific Chen style form demo's by prodigious boy in Chen village. He does Ward-Off Right, Roll-back, Press, Push, and then Single Whip, followed by 3 cannon fist postures with fajin. and he also does a nice fajin between his Press and the Push. With level of skill at such a young age, this boy is going places if he stays on the Tai Chi Path.

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º My Tai Chi practice 30 years ago was that of an advanced beginner. This is the Yang style Tai Chi sword (jian) form taught by my first Tai Chi teacher, the late Master and General Abraham Liu, with whom I studied from 1980 to 1992. He lived to age 102.
Although my lower back was still not quite "there"--i.e., fully "cultivated" and flat, I had a certain verve and a few forgotten nuances in this sword demo that I've just reincorporated. That's how Tai Chi works--you get better with age and diligent practice. (This practice footage was shot at my student Jay Sadofsky's warehouse in L.A. in 1996, staged for production of my Chi Kung For Health videos.)
These days, my practice is quite advanced, but I don't call myself a Tai Chi "master" (although others do) because I can't do what my present teacher, Grandmaster William C.C. Chen, can do--not by a long shot. Being a Tai Chi "adept" is fine for now. Next year, I will begin production of my final wave of instructional Tai Chi videos on DVD, which I hope will work for generations

My grand-teacher in Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, Prof. Cheng Man-ching teaching the essential fine points of the bow stance at his Shr Jung studio in NYC in the early 1970's. Since 1980, I have studied with three of Prof. Cheng's senior students from Taiwan: the late Master and General Abraham Liu (from 1980 to 1992), the late Master Benjamin Lo (13 consecutive summer retreats at La Honda, CA) during the same period; from 2013 to the present I have been studying with the great Grandmaster William C.C. Chen in NYC. It is so interesting to see in this film footage how dynamic and perfect the Professor's stances are as demonstrated, where you can see the integrated Soft Power from his toes to fingertips when he does the "Brush Knee" position, for example. I compare the Professor's perfected body mechanics to my years as a beginner in the early 1980's trying to follow Master Ben Lo's severe instructions in Form: "sitting low like in a chair--yet comfortable" in every bow stance, which required more than 8 years of his summer workshops (plus year-round homework) to begin to manifest energy "like steel wrapped in cotton"--by following 5 cardinal principles beginning with "COMPLETE BODILY RELAXATION." So intensive was Mr. Lo's form classes that NO ONE could ever prepare for them--as first forewarned by his top senior student, Master Lenzee Williams in Berkeley, CA-- where throughout Ben's week-long Tai Chi camps, the only time when one's leg muscles were not screaming-sore was when we were doing the Form.

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Master Grizzly here demonstrates the secret application of the Yang style techniques of "Shoulder Stroke" and "Brush Right Knee."
Yes, its AI, but I turn every lemon I find into Tai Chi lemonade and some fun. So carefully study the "Shoulder Stroke" and "Brush right Knee" in this video and practice hard, Tai Chi acolytes!:

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One of my best finds on the internet since I went online in 1990: A rare and wonderful record of outstanding traditional Yang style Tai Chi Chuan by Master Master Yang Zhen Duo, the son of Yang Cheng Fu, demonstrating a section of the 108-posture Long Form: Wave Hands Like Clouds, Single Whip, Fist Under Elbow, White Crane Spreads Wings, Brush Knee and Twist Step, Play Guitar (Piba), White Snake Darts Its Tongue, Turn and Chop With Fist, Intercept and Punch, Step Forward and Ward-off Right, Press, Push, Closing Step.

Yes, Tai Chi Chuan is subtle and profound, and "levelistic" for all practitioners. That is to say, more advanced practitioners of Tai Chi Chuan who have mastered basic principles of form and are doing lots of Tui-shou (fixed-step sparring) will see that this demonstration is loaded with open secrets in martial art.

THANK YOU, Senam Tai Chi & Martial Arts for posting this historic footage of cultural treasure.

• To learn more about T'ai Chi Ch'uan, see my article "The Spirit and Practice of Tai Chi Chuan" published in the Nov/Dec. 1987 issue of The Yoga Journal, which my friend Master Lenzee Williams (senior student of Master Benjamin Lo) said was "the best article on Tai Chi of its length": https://taichimania.com/what-is-tai-chi-qigong/

And my all-time best-selling instructional DVDs in the English-speaking world are available on my website: https://taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html

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