Xue Sheng
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陳式 太極拳 (Chén shì tàijí quán) aka Chen Style (or family) Taijiquan
After 30 years of Traditional Yang Style Taijiquan, I am officially retired from Yang style, I just can't get myself to do it anymore. I have toyed with Sun 73 form and was working with the Beijing 24 form again. But I can't even get myself to do the 24 form these days and I have had it with the Sun 73. There is a Sun short form I know and I still do, but that is all for Sun at the moment.
But I did decide to start Chen again, it was actually my first choice as far as taijiquan goes when I started looking for a teacher 30 years ago, but there was no internet to help me, at least I did not have access to it, and there were no teachers close. So long story short, I ended up traditional Yang. It was good training, my teacher was, and is, rather skilled, but I just do not want to do it anymore it just is not me. Of course I figured this out now that I have fake joints and arthritis in many of the rest
I leaned Silk Reeling, Chen 18, Laojia Yilu and puh hands before and I am going to get back to Laojia yilu, but at the moment I am working on the Chen 19 and I truly enjoy training again. Note my 18 form and silk reeling all come from Chen Zhenglei, either directly or from a student of his. But my laojia Yilu and Chen push hands come from my first Shifu. The 19 form I am currently working on comes from Chen Xiaowang, via one of is students.
After the 19 I will likely contact a Chen guy who lives a bit north of me, and is in the Chen Zhenglei lineage, and see if I can work on Laojia Yilu with him. I have done puh hands with him, pre pandemic, and he is very good. I had a few sessions of looking up at him from the floor actually I got knocked down.
Been training about 45 minutes to an hour every night, and I only have the first few postures. of the 19 that I repeat and I'm only working on some of the silk reeling at the moment
The forms I mentioned above
Chen 19 (Chen Xiaowang)
Chen 18 (Chen Zhenglei)
Laojia Yilu (Chen Zhenglei)
After 30 years of Traditional Yang Style Taijiquan, I am officially retired from Yang style, I just can't get myself to do it anymore. I have toyed with Sun 73 form and was working with the Beijing 24 form again. But I can't even get myself to do the 24 form these days and I have had it with the Sun 73. There is a Sun short form I know and I still do, but that is all for Sun at the moment.
But I did decide to start Chen again, it was actually my first choice as far as taijiquan goes when I started looking for a teacher 30 years ago, but there was no internet to help me, at least I did not have access to it, and there were no teachers close. So long story short, I ended up traditional Yang. It was good training, my teacher was, and is, rather skilled, but I just do not want to do it anymore it just is not me. Of course I figured this out now that I have fake joints and arthritis in many of the rest
I leaned Silk Reeling, Chen 18, Laojia Yilu and puh hands before and I am going to get back to Laojia yilu, but at the moment I am working on the Chen 19 and I truly enjoy training again. Note my 18 form and silk reeling all come from Chen Zhenglei, either directly or from a student of his. But my laojia Yilu and Chen push hands come from my first Shifu. The 19 form I am currently working on comes from Chen Xiaowang, via one of is students.
After the 19 I will likely contact a Chen guy who lives a bit north of me, and is in the Chen Zhenglei lineage, and see if I can work on Laojia Yilu with him. I have done puh hands with him, pre pandemic, and he is very good. I had a few sessions of looking up at him from the floor actually
I got knocked down.Been training about 45 minutes to an hour every night, and I only have the first few postures. of the 19 that I repeat and I'm only working on some of the silk reeling at the moment
The forms I mentioned above
Chen 19 (Chen Xiaowang)
Chen 18 (Chen Zhenglei)
Laojia Yilu (Chen Zhenglei)
