robert wrote: Laojia is very close to Xiaojia, which has nothing to do with Chen Fake.
nicklinjm wrote: ... there are other laojia lines in Chen village which do not go through Chen Fake at all - for example Zhu Laohu's line (Chen Yanxi -> Wang Yan -> Zhu) or Chen Shitong's line, which comes through Chen Changhui (i.e. not Chen Changxing's line at all!).
Bao wrote:Wonderful tip Sal, this will be the very first book about Chen style I have bought.
salcanzonieri wrote:BP had said that this Chen form actually is in the same postural sequence as the Yang family Taijiquan.
it even has the same names for postures.
charles wrote:I'm not sure what insights He Hongcai's book, with its static pictures of He's - rather than Du's - postures, will provide.
HotSoup wrote:Also, if you are genuinely interested in some hints to what Chen Yanxi's TJQ might look like, there is a video of his student, Du Yuze:
But to be honest, trying to find connections by comparing the external expressions might be fruitless. People are different and their memory is not the best knowledge repository to allow for doing exactly same things over generations.
Yeung wrote:Chen style Taijiquan meets the norms of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was developed in the Chen’s family and has nothing to do with the Daoist religion and it is simply doing any martial art movements slowly that can easily train any practitioners of physical exercise to coach Taijiquan in a short period of time to promote the national exercise scheme. And it sort of retains the image of martial art like any other martial arts. Maybe this is why it was promoted during the Cultural Revolution with the blessing of the Chinese Communist Party and become more commercialized in later years. Any martial arts have advantages over the people doing soft exercise in terms of physical strengths but not necessary over other martial arts. This is very clear in the development of Chens family martial arts and competitive Wushu Taijiquan in China before 2008. This is why the contradictions between modern development and classical theory become more appearances in China. The other extreme in China is to water down Taijiquan as a kind of soft exercise or Qigong with some meditative benefits which can no longer strengthening the tendons of the practitioners. Maybe further research in sciences will verify and revive the traditional arts of Taijiquan.
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