You might be right about the Tao sign, but I would say that Tao isn't just in his hands, but in his whole body. I suppose you've been talked about inverse breathing, well then if you'd think - for a moment - to how and whee your breath is moving I reckon you might find where the boy is "getting himself empty so that he can fill himself back in".
I am afraid you're focusing way too much on the external movement. Have you ever seen the master of this boy practicing? Live, if you thin
fluid movements flows through meridian like water. .. poetry. wushu artist moves energy from the center of the heart and through the body. sharing power and never allowing it to accumulate. simply SUblime.
Thats pretty interesting. I practice Yang style Tai Chi. Chen looks like it has many Bagua like movements, and it looks like its practiced faster, or is it that its practiced slowly and done quickly as combat application?
@Devinity05 You could actually practice Yang fast. You could practice any art slow also. Practicing slow builds up internal strength among many other things. For instance if you ever practiced Karate or Tae Kwon Do or Hung Ga try going through the form slowly as you do in tai chi. You will see what I am talking about. Remember Yang style was a combat style initially. Keep practicing.
@Jamesuni So true. I'm a karate man, but I major in fitness and wellness, so I love experimenting with slower movement and deep stances with my forms and techniques, as a way to develop core and inner strength. I have many older classmates who are 40+, 50+ that have limited range of motion, so one of my pet projects is finding ways to lengthen and work the body thru slower, unstable movement that develops the kinetic chain. Tai chi's been doing that for centuries, so it's a proven principle.
@wengchunuk What about Wudang Taijiquan? Taiji is an internal training method that was created by the great Daoist priest and immortal, Zhang San Feng at Wudang Mountain. Missed that one eh?
@sniperdoc8404 Actually, tai chi originated from an art called Tai Tzu Chang Chaun, which was founded by the Emperor Chao Kaung Yin. but if you really want to trace it back even more, you should go to india, or farther back, Africa. Where everything orignated for us humans.
@justinvengeance As far as the origin of Taijiquan is concerned, Zhang San Feng is listed as the father of Taijiquan. Whether it was influenced by Tai Tzu Chang Chuan, that may very well be. But, most if not all literature regarding Taijiquan consider Zhang San Feng as its creator.
I'm thinking of taking this in the new yr. and I was wondering.... if it's only good as an alternet forum of exersize(lol) and or more for show then use in real life? I mean is this better in tourments and as a forum of exersize then anything else? yes I know it looked good in TLA show but again more for show then anything else or something with substance to it? thax 4 any and or all help. ( smart ass remarks not counted, lol)
@IrishKagura It's different than your typical Western-style-gym-membership-pumping-iron exercise. Rather than build muscles in your biceps, triceps, and any kind of -ceps, Tai Chi on the other hand is very slow, and builds endurance rather than strength. Tai Chi also builds strength in your joints. Most importantly, it is a form of mediation and a martial art; you learn about breathing, relaxing, rooting, balancing, and all those wonderful stuff that you never thought of learning.
@mamba109 thax 4 replying but u didn;t answer my question. I mean if I was att. on the street could Tai Chi Chen save my life? could I use it in a bar fight if I ever got into 1? or is this more of an alternet form of exercise then somthing I could use 2 defend myslef w/?
@IrishKagura Well that all depends what kind of class you're going to take. Does it stress Tai Chi "for health"? Perhaps the teacher may not even teach the applications, but rather focus on the health benefits. As for how useful is Tai Chi in street combat, I can't say for myself. Each teacher has different applications, each interpreting the art differently. This also depends on the practitioner, not the martial art form itself. Bar fights? Just keep it simple and do boxing lol.
He's PERFECT in his form...PERFECT...Dance? He's just 10 years old. He's not using internal dan tien manipulations but hey go ahead and perform as he does. SO we can laugh at you, go ahead. Dare you call perfection just dance...jealousy rules, eh? Come on show us how to do it, Hee Haw.
@theangelrules007 First of all, not preforming it doesn't mean they don't understand it, get that to your head. I know if music sounds good, doesn't mean I should know how to sing it.
Secondly, it's not perfect. In his opening movement, his hands are completely dead coming up.
@mamba109 They are supposed to be like, Mamba: you pull arms up as if you were a puppet and puppeteer was pulling strings tied to your wrist, then with a swift of fthe arm back and down you get in position.
Or at least that's how Master Wang Xian teaches it. How would you expect them to be, anyway?
@TheEewee72 As I've read and understood from various texts, there's supposed to be a constant flowing from yin to yang. His hands should be constantly relaxing on the way up, and be fully relaxed at the top. He released all his energy while his hands are still at his waist, therefore has no 'work' or 'power' coming up, a dead movement. Imagine flicking your wrist out as a strike, it's fast, has power - but if your wrist is fully out, there is no flick, you're simply swinging your arm to strike.
@mamba109 Hands are heading down when you are in rest position, and when you swing arms up they stay down.
At least, as I said, that's what Master Wang Xian teaches in Italy.
I easily agree with the "concept" you express, but I believe books don't say it all.
I'm not saying this kid knows - for sure - more, and besides that I'm sure far less proficient in martial arts than he is to say what is and what is not perfect. In fact I always tend to say "I think", "it looks to me", instead.
OK, GRANDMASTER, OOPS< GREAT GRANDMASTER HAI DING, they cal call you??? Anyone on here sees you for what you are, a DING? YES!!! A Dong? Yes, so why critique, just show us on video, LMFAO.
@theangelrules007 Childish reply. One can read and appreciate Hamlet, but it doesn't mean they should write like Shakespeare. His hands are completely dead coming up. Where in the Yin and Yang symbol do you see a completely black or a completely white area? No where. Read up some Wiki, then maybe I'll have a meaningful conversation with you.
You keep saying "show us video!11!!" which makes me wonder if all your Tai Chi knowledge comes from just watching Youtube? Don't waste my time. Thanks.
The bigger question is why wasn't there an Asian acting in the movie!
Well, when you have stupid directors that do not train in Chinese martial arts or know of the history of the Chinese culture, you end up with lame fight scenes like Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Karate is a hard style martial art, unlike Tai Chi which were very similar to the moves in the movie.
@munchichi8 and you would think since all the fire benders have japanese names they wouldnt be indian. they also mispronounced EVERY chinese word in the movie
@YinGuoDao the director's also indian, and he even said when he first saw that actor, he wanted to put that specific indian guy in a movie. then he saw avatar on nick and decided to destroy it by making a movie.
Don't be jealos fellow adults. All children have an easier time doing this because 1)Their brains will soak up anything. 2)Their joints are fully developed so therefore they arent stiff like average adults
just because the pattern is different from what you may have seen as chen style doesn't mean that it isn't chen style, all patterns have the same philosophies although they may look different.
This kid's teacher is his dad who is also a judge of Jiaozuo or a province near there. Do a search for "Opening ceremony in Jiaozuo."
His dad performed in the opening ceremony at the end but unfortunately no video have him in it but his dad was the one who was wearing a white beard and mustache. His dad is badass himself. His dad is a very close friend of Cheng Jin Cai. We did dinner with his dad with Grandmaster Cheng Jin Cai during our stay at this tournament.
Without a doubt, that boy has exceptional flexibility and leg strength, among other virtues... but the way that the soles of his feet roll onto their edges is a very serious flaw in the doing of Taiji. The boy has no root. Whoever is training him needs to put an end to that flaw immediately. That should be the next priority. This isn't a just a matter of making the appearance a little better, like getting a gymnast to point her toes a little more. Root is very important functionally.
Hey! Most kids in this country his age would be vegging out in front of the Wi or what ever--this puts our country to shame!!!! The way we cut psy ed when we need more money of school is disgraceful! No wonder there is so much violence and boredome in schools. If we got our kids out doing this like they do in China, there would be a lot less 'childhood obesity" and "ADD".
"In the West he'd be diagnosed as having ADHD and put on prescription medication for the rest of his life."..? What on earth ever led you to that misguided conclusion..?
But how does that, in any way shape or form, relate to a 10-year-old kid doing tai chi? If you want to voice your opinion of ADHD being complete BS, go ahead, but at LEAST do it in a way that makes it sound plausible rather than just plain stupid.
No one would diagnose a kid as having ADHD simply because he does tai chi. In fact, people, unlike yourself, who believe ADHD is real would probably rather argue that he -doesn't- have it for that exact reason; his devotion to tai chi.
I understand your point completely but we're looking from a different point of view to psychiatrists.
A young couple brought their 7 YO son to our MMA gym because he'd been diagnosed with ADHD and they just needed to find some way to express himself physically.
He took to the bags once we put gloves on him like a tiger!
He was a perfectly healthy young boy who had simply been so misunderstaood by "professionals".
Happily he's off drugs and is rapidly becoming a wicked kick boxer.
From your response, it rather seems that you've missed my point by miles.
While ADHD truly -is- grossly over-diagnosed, it doesn't mean that the West automatically believes that every single person on earth has it, which is what can be inferred from your statement.
You can't just look at a kid doing tai chi and then go "in the West, he would've been diagnosed with ADHD". It's a stupid, narrow-minded, and illogical statement which is counter-productive.
@smudge6699 Seconded. ADHD is bs. Statistics show it is far more prevalent in boys than girls... I wonder why that is? Just maybe because males tend to be more physically driven? We're hardwired from birth to express ourselves physically, and in the past several decades the male gender has been feminized since early childhood. Children are not allowed to rough house and wrestle, protective parents don't want them doing anything physically intensive or aggressive.
and to your longer post, I couldn't agree more. Love is love, and should be the top priority, but we need to understand that as a rule, males are driven by male instincts, and females by female instincts, while at the same time not restricting childrens' identity to what we believe it must be. Let the child be the child, and let them grow into their natural self. Above all, love beyond measure.
Just simply that males are males, females are females. We have different souls and different energies, and are two parts of one whole. All things come in twos. Men are more hardwired toward things like aggression (healthy or otherwise depending on their lifestyle and experience), intellectual thinking, visual stimuli, etc, and women by nature usually tend to be more maternal, emotionally driven, abstract in nature, etc. Men's brains tend to be larger than women's, but women's...
tend to be roughly 30% more active. Each gender has its strengths and weaknesses, and it is the realization of this and the union of masculine and feminine energies that brings balance. Yin and yang. A man is no more a woman than a hawk is an owl.
and what has it led to but a nation in which one in five children are medically considered obese, an even higher percentage overweight, and an astonishing number of cases in which children show signs of "ADHD." Stop caging your children and let them be themselves, not without boundaries, but if your child likes to run, buy them running shoes, not Ritalin, and smudge, good work with the kickboxing kid. Have you thought of contacting child psychologists with these results?
There is so much this child is doing right, so much detail! I can forgive his feet not always rooted when expressing, his fajin not completely expressed. This child is a prodigy. Like a child prodigy in music, time will tell if they reach full potential. None the less, this is superb.
i have been in a class with 50 "instructors" or long time players, being taught by Chen Xiao Wang, less than a handful had more than this child in substance, one or two the stance skills, detail and expression.
Nope, you wouldn't be 'wrong' (how can you ever be wrong in a regular question?), but this wasn't what you were asking the first time around, now was it? 8D
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It's not a good idea for young kid like him to learn Tai Chi now. Tai Chi is great for people over 20 years to learn, but for a kid likes him; I would suggest him to start with Sho Lin's kung fu, not Tai Chi.
In the past, when martial ability was a matter of life and death, people trained like their lives depended on it(they did) and so many masters kept their training methods and theories secret. Today, with modern technology, we have access to dvd's, books, etc. that give us access to info that was once secret. Now, the only "secret" to true ability is practice. Most people in the west are too lazy to gain true martial ability. We have everything we need to become masters except the dedication.
-_- I guess only someone who really knows Chen style taiji is going to understand what I say. He's moving his arms and knees too much. Plus his wrist is way too stiff. That's all I have to say :)
This kid's form is excellent! beautiful to watch! I'm practicing Shaolin Kung-fu and soon i'll be starting Chen Tajichuan...I like the soundtrack in this video.Does anyone know the artist?
Though Chen style is the most external of them all, it is ovbious that this kid has Wu Shu training. Despite that, it is possible to see more chi flowing than muscle strengh, he is already there. I wish to lern from this Xiao Shifu.
they dont have to show secrets we hold as much as they do the question is can u see the alinement of body in the moving the concentration refined the ebb and flow taking its form through the movements these things r seen only misunderstood
umm.. what are some of yous talking about? this is chen style taijiquan. all of it. yes even the last 40 secs. only things i don't know about are those elbow moves at 3:55 but that must just something i haven't learnt yet. also it clearly says in the beginning "Taiji (Chen Style)", hard to miss. it looks very much the same chen style form i study, not mantis, but maybe mantis has some same moves?
Mantis chuan demands lots of flexibility. When I was a kid at Tsindau we used to practise Lohan(Buddha) chuan with Mantis. Lots of these need to start early. What this kid does is a combination of martial art and Tai chi. If the "chi" has to follow the movement circulating from Dantien to the finger tips, then his movements are too rapid and I say this is not great Taichi. Yes, I practise this for years but still feel like an outsider.
Actually my friend corrected me he practices I think its plumb lotus northern mantis or that is what he uses combined with practical chen tai chi something like that it is like a more complex version of Paochoy or is it paochui. Sorry I am a Capoeira practitioner not a kung fu practitioner so forgive me if I am not being specific enough.
You know there are many different schools even in Taiji. Chinese monks who lived in the wild mountains used to watch serpents, birds, animals fight and record the actions. This is the orgin of martial art. This kid definitely does mantis since I still remember some postures but they often mix them up.
tai chi forms often do look like dances but within each form there are many applications which us inthe west couldnt even comprehend..the chinese are unwilling to show us their secrets...
Super cool
Beybladerock2453 2 weeks ago
Awe inspsiring. He is truly gifted and a credit to his master.
maggie2327 3 months ago
Awesome too OO
Vincentipus 4 months ago
AMAZING! HE'S AWESOME
suistt 5 months ago
I've never seen such a young kid move so precisely..great video
wengchunuk 6 months ago
@mamba109
You might be right about the Tao sign, but I would say that Tao isn't just in his hands, but in his whole body. I suppose you've been talked about inverse breathing, well then if you'd think - for a moment - to how and whee your breath is moving I reckon you might find where the boy is "getting himself empty so that he can fill himself back in".
I am afraid you're focusing way too much on the external movement. Have you ever seen the master of this boy practicing? Live, if you thin
TheEewee72 7 months ago
fluid movements flows through meridian like water. .. poetry. wushu artist moves energy from the center of the heart and through the body. sharing power and never allowing it to accumulate. simply SUblime.
phoenixstar333 8 months ago
I have this insane urge to paint a blue arrow on his head. O.O
GaladedridDamodred 9 months ago 4
Which form of the Chen style is he doing?
Jamesuni 11 months ago
OMFG!!!!! AANG! :D
1331havoc 1 year ago
Супер!
orfeyyy 1 year ago
Thats pretty interesting. I practice Yang style Tai Chi. Chen looks like it has many Bagua like movements, and it looks like its practiced faster, or is it that its practiced slowly and done quickly as combat application?
Devinity05 1 year ago
@Devinity05 You could actually practice Yang fast. You could practice any art slow also. Practicing slow builds up internal strength among many other things. For instance if you ever practiced Karate or Tae Kwon Do or Hung Ga try going through the form slowly as you do in tai chi. You will see what I am talking about. Remember Yang style was a combat style initially. Keep practicing.
Jamesuni 11 months ago
@Jamesuni So true. I'm a karate man, but I major in fitness and wellness, so I love experimenting with slower movement and deep stances with my forms and techniques, as a way to develop core and inner strength. I have many older classmates who are 40+, 50+ that have limited range of motion, so one of my pet projects is finding ways to lengthen and work the body thru slower, unstable movement that develops the kinetic chain. Tai chi's been doing that for centuries, so it's a proven principle.
deek77 6 months ago
@Devinity05 Chen was the first Tai Chi style..It's hard and soft..slow and explosive
wengchunuk 6 months ago
@wengchunuk What about Wudang Taijiquan? Taiji is an internal training method that was created by the great Daoist priest and immortal, Zhang San Feng at Wudang Mountain. Missed that one eh?
sniperdoc8404 6 months ago
@sniperdoc8404 Actually, tai chi originated from an art called Tai Tzu Chang Chaun, which was founded by the Emperor Chao Kaung Yin. but if you really want to trace it back even more, you should go to india, or farther back, Africa. Where everything orignated for us humans.
justinvengeance 2 months ago
@justinvengeance As far as the origin of Taijiquan is concerned, Zhang San Feng is listed as the father of Taijiquan. Whether it was influenced by Tai Tzu Chang Chuan, that may very well be. But, most if not all literature regarding Taijiquan consider Zhang San Feng as its creator.
sniperdoc8404 2 months ago
f'n amazing kid
blugularis 1 year ago
I'm thinking of taking this in the new yr. and I was wondering.... if it's only good as an alternet forum of exersize(lol) and or more for show then use in real life? I mean is this better in tourments and as a forum of exersize then anything else? yes I know it looked good in TLA show but again more for show then anything else or something with substance to it? thax 4 any and or all help. ( smart ass remarks not counted, lol)
IrishKagura 1 year ago
@IrishKagura It's different than your typical Western-style-gym-membership-pumping-iron exercise. Rather than build muscles in your biceps, triceps, and any kind of -ceps, Tai Chi on the other hand is very slow, and builds endurance rather than strength. Tai Chi also builds strength in your joints. Most importantly, it is a form of mediation and a martial art; you learn about breathing, relaxing, rooting, balancing, and all those wonderful stuff that you never thought of learning.
mamba109 1 year ago
@mamba109 thax 4 replying but u didn;t answer my question. I mean if I was att. on the street could Tai Chi Chen save my life? could I use it in a bar fight if I ever got into 1? or is this more of an alternet form of exercise then somthing I could use 2 defend myslef w/?
P.S. thax again 4 the responce ^_^
IrishKagura 1 year ago
@IrishKagura Well that all depends what kind of class you're going to take. Does it stress Tai Chi "for health"? Perhaps the teacher may not even teach the applications, but rather focus on the health benefits. As for how useful is Tai Chi in street combat, I can't say for myself. Each teacher has different applications, each interpreting the art differently. This also depends on the practitioner, not the martial art form itself. Bar fights? Just keep it simple and do boxing lol.
mamba109 1 year ago
Muy bien, felicidades.
majms09 1 year ago
i need the music, any1 knows the title and artist?
timpuget 1 year ago
Very elegant !!!I need this!!!
indigo4fox 1 year ago
whens the last time you saw a ten year old with a gaze like that?
Modernfieldrecording 1 year ago
machine
Drezon4 1 year ago 7
excellent! you know when he grows up he'll be able to kick some arse!
cottonfistman1 1 year ago
That was totally cool (and goes quite well with the track "Energy Flash" by Joey Beltram).
simozonelayer 1 year ago
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HE LOOKS LIKE AANG!
timpuget 1 year ago
HE LOOKS LIKE ANG!
timpuget 1 year ago 2
He's PERFECT in his form...PERFECT...Dance? He's just 10 years old. He's not using internal dan tien manipulations but hey go ahead and perform as he does. SO we can laugh at you, go ahead. Dare you call perfection just dance...jealousy rules, eh? Come on show us how to do it, Hee Haw.
theangelrules007 1 year ago
@theangelrules007 First of all, not preforming it doesn't mean they don't understand it, get that to your head. I know if music sounds good, doesn't mean I should know how to sing it.
Secondly, it's not perfect. In his opening movement, his hands are completely dead coming up.
mamba109 1 year ago
@mamba109 They are supposed to be like, Mamba: you pull arms up as if you were a puppet and puppeteer was pulling strings tied to your wrist, then with a swift of fthe arm back and down you get in position.
Or at least that's how Master Wang Xian teaches it. How would you expect them to be, anyway?
TheEewee72 1 year ago
@TheEewee72 As I've read and understood from various texts, there's supposed to be a constant flowing from yin to yang. His hands should be constantly relaxing on the way up, and be fully relaxed at the top. He released all his energy while his hands are still at his waist, therefore has no 'work' or 'power' coming up, a dead movement. Imagine flicking your wrist out as a strike, it's fast, has power - but if your wrist is fully out, there is no flick, you're simply swinging your arm to strike.
mamba109 1 year ago
@mamba109 Hands are heading down when you are in rest position, and when you swing arms up they stay down.
At least, as I said, that's what Master Wang Xian teaches in Italy.
I easily agree with the "concept" you express, but I believe books don't say it all.
I'm not saying this kid knows - for sure - more, and besides that I'm sure far less proficient in martial arts than he is to say what is and what is not perfect. In fact I always tend to say "I think", "it looks to me", instead.
TheEewee72 1 year ago
@mamba109
OK, GRANDMASTER, OOPS< GREAT GRANDMASTER HAI DING, they cal call you??? Anyone on here sees you for what you are, a DING? YES!!! A Dong? Yes, so why critique, just show us on video, LMFAO.
theangelrules007 1 year ago
@theangelrules007 Childish reply. One can read and appreciate Hamlet, but it doesn't mean they should write like Shakespeare. His hands are completely dead coming up. Where in the Yin and Yang symbol do you see a completely black or a completely white area? No where. Read up some Wiki, then maybe I'll have a meaningful conversation with you.
You keep saying "show us video!11!!" which makes me wonder if all your Tai Chi knowledge comes from just watching Youtube? Don't waste my time. Thanks.
mamba109 1 year ago
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psbauman 1 year ago
music?
capnfantasmo 1 year ago
i love this, chen style combines the gracefulness and force of taijiquan. awesome!
emsvangoth 1 year ago
y didnt they pick some one like this for aang instead of an american KARATE champion......M. Night shalaman really fucked the pooch on this one
YinGuoDao 1 year ago
@YinGuoDao
I totally agree.
The bigger question is why wasn't there an Asian acting in the movie!
Well, when you have stupid directors that do not train in Chinese martial arts or know of the history of the Chinese culture, you end up with lame fight scenes like Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Karate is a hard style martial art, unlike Tai Chi which were very similar to the moves in the movie.
munchichi8 1 year ago
@munchichi8 and you would think since all the fire benders have japanese names they wouldnt be indian. they also mispronounced EVERY chinese word in the movie
YinGuoDao 1 year ago 15
@YinGuoDao the director's also indian, and he even said when he first saw that actor, he wanted to put that specific indian guy in a movie. then he saw avatar on nick and decided to destroy it by making a movie.
KeybladeKirby374 1 year ago
@YinGuoDao I think it's because the directors wanted more flashy then this it's lame
sdao510 1 year ago
@YinGuoDao Aside from the fact he botched the whole movie, just look at the reviews!
Tinhamodic 1 year ago
He just needs to paint a blue arrow on his forehead and he'd be the Avatar!
Tinhamodic 1 year ago 3
this kid is awesome
duysome1 1 year ago 2
jesus look how low his stance is. gosh he must have such strong legs.
jmangonepro 1 year ago
Why do I feel so creaky now?
goordye 1 year ago
WOW. such a talent and proficiency at such young age. how old was this boy when he started training?
wonderfull
farstar7 1 year ago
what a show-off!! if that was my son i'd give him a good slap. ........just kidding
panacea2010 1 year ago
Don't be jealos fellow adults. All children have an easier time doing this because 1)Their brains will soak up anything. 2)Their joints are fully developed so therefore they arent stiff like average adults
Cryptlord91 1 year ago
Hey This IS Chen Style.
WeisserAdler1976 1 year ago
This isn't Chen form... and the mannerisms are garbage. This is dance, not Tai Chi -_-
psbauman 1 year ago
@psbauman
just because the pattern is different from what you may have seen as chen style doesn't mean that it isn't chen style, all patterns have the same philosophies although they may look different.
transmutationcirc 1 year ago
@psbauman The most dumb comment i've read all day.
jmangonepro 1 year ago
who is the teacher of this man? is there an instructional video of the style he is doing? please advise.
pinoyPhilosopher 1 year ago
@pinoyPhilosopher
This kid's teacher is his dad who is also a judge of Jiaozuo or a province near there. Do a search for "Opening ceremony in Jiaozuo."
His dad performed in the opening ceremony at the end but unfortunately no video have him in it but his dad was the one who was wearing a white beard and mustache. His dad is badass himself. His dad is a very close friend of Cheng Jin Cai. We did dinner with his dad with Grandmaster Cheng Jin Cai during our stay at this tournament.
munchichi8 1 year ago
we may be obese but we still kick your asses.
Cryptlord91 1 year ago
@Cryptlord91
I've competed in Judo against obese judoka, and no, no they do not haha
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
puta merda ... esse muleque é foda !!!!!!
tvdarktv 1 year ago
Brilliant
kravmagiczka 1 year ago
Without a doubt, that boy has exceptional flexibility and leg strength, among other virtues... but the way that the soles of his feet roll onto their edges is a very serious flaw in the doing of Taiji. The boy has no root. Whoever is training him needs to put an end to that flaw immediately. That should be the next priority. This isn't a just a matter of making the appearance a little better, like getting a gymnast to point her toes a little more. Root is very important functionally.
CuriouserNCuriouser 1 year ago
do you have any more of this kid? hes wicked.
akaeon 1 year ago
bravo pour tirer la crinière du cheval, ole magnifique prestation jeune maitre
33marsupilami 1 year ago
Hey! Most kids in this country his age would be vegging out in front of the Wi or what ever--this puts our country to shame!!!! The way we cut psy ed when we need more money of school is disgraceful! No wonder there is so much violence and boredome in schools. If we got our kids out doing this like they do in China, there would be a lot less 'childhood obesity" and "ADD".
something to think about!
TheChiwhiz 1 year ago
This little guy is a very gifted human being.
In the West he'd be diagnosed as having ADHD and put on prescription medication for the rest of his life.
Good luck little guy and keep showing us all the effortless action of nature.
Tai Chi Chuan, invented in China and a gift to the world.
Beautiful.
:-)
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
"In the West he'd be diagnosed as having ADHD and put on prescription medication for the rest of his life."..? What on earth ever led you to that misguided conclusion..?
HeckoX 1 year ago
@HeckoX
The fact that psychiatry can't pathologically prove any of it's conditions, it's witchcraft.
Conform or else we give you a label and let the pharmaceutical companies make money off you for the rest of your life,
ADHD doesn't exist.
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
But how does that, in any way shape or form, relate to a 10-year-old kid doing tai chi? If you want to voice your opinion of ADHD being complete BS, go ahead, but at LEAST do it in a way that makes it sound plausible rather than just plain stupid.
No one would diagnose a kid as having ADHD simply because he does tai chi. In fact, people, unlike yourself, who believe ADHD is real would probably rather argue that he -doesn't- have it for that exact reason; his devotion to tai chi.
HeckoX 1 year ago
@HeckoX
I understand your point completely but we're looking from a different point of view to psychiatrists.
A young couple brought their 7 YO son to our MMA gym because he'd been diagnosed with ADHD and they just needed to find some way to express himself physically.
He took to the bags once we put gloves on him like a tiger!
He was a perfectly healthy young boy who had simply been so misunderstaood by "professionals".
Happily he's off drugs and is rapidly becoming a wicked kick boxer.
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
From your response, it rather seems that you've missed my point by miles.
While ADHD truly -is- grossly over-diagnosed, it doesn't mean that the West automatically believes that every single person on earth has it, which is what can be inferred from your statement.
You can't just look at a kid doing tai chi and then go "in the West, he would've been diagnosed with ADHD". It's a stupid, narrow-minded, and illogical statement which is counter-productive.
HeckoX 1 year ago
@HeckoX
No it is perfectly logical.
It is the exposure of how two different cultures see normality n the development of their children.
There are shades of grey yes but their is also the black end, an engineered process.
Look up codex alimentaris and see what you find.
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699 Seconded. ADHD is bs. Statistics show it is far more prevalent in boys than girls... I wonder why that is? Just maybe because males tend to be more physically driven? We're hardwired from birth to express ourselves physically, and in the past several decades the male gender has been feminized since early childhood. Children are not allowed to rough house and wrestle, protective parents don't want them doing anything physically intensive or aggressive.
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
@BlueberryDoughnuts
NORMAL has been moved for the convenience of others.
Love is neither male nor female and both, we have been farmed and de-humanised, disconnected and neutered.
The propaganda message; be beautiful by someone else's standards, get famous or you're no one and compete and win by any means.
The winner is the one who dies with the most toys.
Take a look at the lawman
beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
and to your longer post, I couldn't agree more. Love is love, and should be the top priority, but we need to understand that as a rule, males are driven by male instincts, and females by female instincts, while at the same time not restricting childrens' identity to what we believe it must be. Let the child be the child, and let them grow into their natural self. Above all, love beyond measure.
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
@BlueberryDoughnuts
What would you define as the "Male Instincts"?
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
Just simply that males are males, females are females. We have different souls and different energies, and are two parts of one whole. All things come in twos. Men are more hardwired toward things like aggression (healthy or otherwise depending on their lifestyle and experience), intellectual thinking, visual stimuli, etc, and women by nature usually tend to be more maternal, emotionally driven, abstract in nature, etc. Men's brains tend to be larger than women's, but women's...
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
@smudge6699
tend to be roughly 30% more active. Each gender has its strengths and weaknesses, and it is the realization of this and the union of masculine and feminine energies that brings balance. Yin and yang. A man is no more a woman than a hawk is an owl.
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
@BlueberryDoughnuts
Yuk on so many levels.
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
and what has it led to but a nation in which one in five children are medically considered obese, an even higher percentage overweight, and an astonishing number of cases in which children show signs of "ADHD." Stop caging your children and let them be themselves, not without boundaries, but if your child likes to run, buy them running shoes, not Ritalin, and smudge, good work with the kickboxing kid. Have you thought of contacting child psychologists with these results?
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
@BlueberryDoughnuts
One swallow doesn't make a Summer.
:-)
It's not just the children that are caged.
smudge6699 1 year ago
@smudge6699
True, but I happen to know many such swallows personally. =]
And yes, that's an unfortunate fact directly stated. It all starts at home eh?
BlueberryDoughnuts 1 year ago
This music is called the little bird flying over the mountains..
MrTheoldtowngirls 1 year ago
Someone can tell me how is this music called, please?
Limingdao 1 year ago
There is so much this child is doing right, so much detail! I can forgive his feet not always rooted when expressing, his fajin not completely expressed. This child is a prodigy. Like a child prodigy in music, time will tell if they reach full potential. None the less, this is superb.
i have been in a class with 50 "instructors" or long time players, being taught by Chen Xiao Wang, less than a handful had more than this child in substance, one or two the stance skills, detail and expression.
kiai1234 1 year ago
@kiai1234 your eyes are judging right but can you tell me how old is he?
MrTheoldtowngirls 1 year ago
@MrTheoldtowngirls 10 years old. It's the first thing written in the video info... ;>.>
HeckoX 1 year ago
@HeckoX yes yes I guess but am I wrong if I ask you when he began his practice...?
MrTheoldtowngirls 1 year ago
@MrTheoldtowngirls
Nope, you wouldn't be 'wrong' (how can you ever be wrong in a regular question?), but this wasn't what you were asking the first time around, now was it? 8D
HeckoX 1 year ago
he is better than most adults I've seen. Excellent!
zen2tranquility 1 year ago
Hey, look everyone!!! It's the real Aang from Avatar:The Last Airbender.
Mushorwell 1 year ago
*0*
fearfilth 1 year ago
i love chen style! it has sooooo many uses!!
YinGuoDao 1 year ago
not so bad to be a child...BUT:
feet are not sticking 2 ground (BAD roots)
movement are not spiralling and too much linear (no chan ssu chin, no volume covered) no fajin...
anyway he has time to geto sooooo much better.
Rabinki 1 year ago
well I think it just can easily be remedied through horse-riding stance training... over-all I guess he's not bad after all...
lazaga777 1 year ago
so beautiful
dopestghost 1 year ago
When i was 10, i played with legos...i couldnt imagin learning something like this at the age i am now, much less 10. Im impressed.
Ijustmadethisup4 1 year ago
His stance work makes me cry
MrBrokenwind 1 year ago
very impressiv
unendlichtief 1 year ago
one word...beautiful, kid.
Sinderking 1 year ago
are you the avitar? ^..^
muffinkatt 1 year ago
Beautiful art
ka37no 1 year ago
Great performance, very impressive!
He´ll be even better in the future, hope I can watch another video then!
MoDangerFlint 2 years ago
Impressionnant !!!!!!
inspectricebilvur 2 years ago 2
kid is tough
robrocksred 2 years ago 2
He's amazing
lordtains 2 years ago
instead of tai chi i think he would be a great dancer because in the end it seem like his dancing if he is he is AWSOME!!!!
TheHappyface01 2 years ago
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It's not a good idea for young kid like him to learn Tai Chi now. Tai Chi is great for people over 20 years to learn, but for a kid likes him; I would suggest him to start with Sho Lin's kung fu, not Tai Chi.
andrewwentang 2 years ago
He may know both. Plus, tai chi teaches fluidity and muscle control. So, why not?
farfour25 2 years ago 2
@andrewwentang Why not?!!! Isn't it that the earlier time you start tai chi the more years you can have of experience, the better you'll be?
Mushorwell 1 year ago
May I know the name of his teacher? Is he in Hong Kong?
hildafung 2 years ago
he the best in the future
tazoxx 2 years ago
i think this little master ^^ is 8-9 years old
i think he learn this as he was 2-3
ohhhh mmeeennn
tiger7697 2 years ago
Hello all,
does anyone know the name of this form and what style tai chi is this little wonder doing?
tagtagnagbag 2 years ago
It's in the title buddy!
funkychef 2 years ago
Thank you very much for sharing this, to all involved.
((Those who point out our faults are our greatest teachers.))
o00o000o000o00o 2 years ago
In the past, when martial ability was a matter of life and death, people trained like their lives depended on it(they did) and so many masters kept their training methods and theories secret. Today, with modern technology, we have access to dvd's, books, etc. that give us access to info that was once secret. Now, the only "secret" to true ability is practice. Most people in the west are too lazy to gain true martial ability. We have everything we need to become masters except the dedication.
1mataleo1 2 years ago 2
1matealeo:
What is the cure for laziness?
ohsnap31 2 years ago
@ohsnap31
cure for laziness....finding joy and love in something
(everything) you do....:~)
Bluebellinata 2 years ago
amazing!!!!
harderstyle123 2 years ago
wtf man....whenever people see someone else doing something better then them they bitch....stop hating and just enjoy it....shit man....
ghostdancer1984 2 years ago
This kid is amazing!
If he had a little more muscle he would perform the last half better. Other than that I've nothing to say but FLAWLESS!
zauron 2 years ago
-_- I guess only someone who really knows Chen style taiji is going to understand what I say. He's moving his arms and knees too much. Plus his wrist is way too stiff. That's all I have to say :)
ccktj 2 years ago
There is something mind-boggling and humbling about watching a 10-year old in order to learn the best way to do something.
user2171 2 years ago
Unbelievable!!! The true essence of Tai Chi!!
Zeitgeist1101 2 years ago
I love watching anything to do with chinese martial arts!!! Beautiful to watch!!!
I bet they're all brilliant dancers aswell lol!
GavNugent1 2 years ago
This kid's form is excellent! beautiful to watch! I'm practicing Shaolin Kung-fu and soon i'll be starting Chen Tajichuan...I like the soundtrack in this video.Does anyone know the artist?
TJ4FP 2 years ago 2
i would imagine the leg strength required to be massive....luckily for this kid, he is light...i would not mess with him...lol....he looks tough.
lawrencezx 2 years ago
Though Chen style is the most external of them all, it is ovbious that this kid has Wu Shu training. Despite that, it is possible to see more chi flowing than muscle strengh, he is already there. I wish to lern from this Xiao Shifu.
floatinglandscape 2 years ago
Beautiful! It's poetry in motion.
yongy2000 2 years ago
十歲嗎?!
好利害!
加油！
ChiangFam 2 years ago
I'm learning this style of Tai Chi in my school :D
tobirankai 2 years ago
it is best taolu i've seen.
Siddthartha 2 years ago
Nicely done!
eyezwideopen 2 years ago
I hope this kid sticks with it as he will be great master one day. To many bad masters around.
flute1234 2 years ago
Heng hau, xiao hi!
rnatwick 2 years ago
I can only go up to Single Whip.
& I have to go super slow :[
aldana16 2 years ago
Excellent tai-chi stance!!!
twmsia 2 years ago
very, very kool!!!
wrongjon1 2 years ago
i wish i could learn this but i get lost after a few movements lol the kid is great : )
trash65 2 years ago
Wow, this kids amazing.
nankles 2 years ago
For some reason this kid reminds me of Aang the last Airbender. Anyway superb form!
Tinhamodic 2 years ago
Are people sure this isn't a 100 year old man? You never know....
BLACKROCKCCITY 2 years ago
they dont have to show secrets we hold as much as they do the question is can u see the alinement of body in the moving the concentration refined the ebb and flow taking its form through the movements these things r seen only misunderstood
imthepowerer5000 2 years ago
awesome
such a brilliant style
i love taiji theory, so well thought out and refined
if you get the right teacher, your extremely lucky
xoenhit 2 years ago 7
that was excellent, fantastic technique
AlaskanZod 2 years ago 2
What is the name of this form?
SGags001 2 years ago
it's Lao jia
LemanRoss 2 years ago
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HoustonShaolinTemple 2 years ago
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HoustonShaolinTemple 2 years ago
Of the internal martial arts, this is how I ran them in terms of effectiveness and power;
1) The Sun style
2) The Chen small frame, the origin of the Hao Wei Zheng
3) The standard Chen
4) The Yang style
Ultimately Tai Chi is about healing; don't care much about combat effectiveness.
stardingo747 2 years ago
rather with sick man would win a healed man ;-)
sphiral84 2 years ago
Powerkid!
BENJY9090 2 years ago
Very graceful, his movements are well refined. He flows areound like water in a glass...
Like someone moving a glass of water in their hand. When the move it fast, he moves fast... when they slow it down...
Well, you get my point.
davedetrick 2 years ago 3
Taji Quan, an art of calmness focuses on relaxation this art is hard to master
yomtumthai2 2 years ago 3
Many UFC/MMA fighters are good, but they are nothing compared to a tip-top Tai Chi fighter. Tai Chi is the hardest martial arts style to master.
TheSenseofTouch 2 years ago 8
WOW
BARBIEDANCER1323 2 years ago
This kid is amazing and could probably whoop an american man 3x his age. His Taiji is beautiful!
unjedi7 2 years ago 5
Doubt it
purplehazygurl 2 years ago
No doubt, eh?
MaBu888 2 years ago
What's the name of the song? I think i've heard this before
chaosorcie 2 years ago
Spectacular; sublime.
Grace, precision, power.
Thank you for posting this.
rachimbaskin 2 years ago 4
umm.. what are some of yous talking about? this is chen style taijiquan. all of it. yes even the last 40 secs. only things i don't know about are those elbow moves at 3:55 but that must just something i haven't learnt yet. also it clearly says in the beginning "Taiji (Chen Style)", hard to miss. it looks very much the same chen style form i study, not mantis, but maybe mantis has some same moves?
DonMega187 2 years ago
my friend combines this with northern mantis and it is some scary shit.
Anihilist 2 years ago
Mantis chuan demands lots of flexibility. When I was a kid at Tsindau we used to practise Lohan(Buddha) chuan with Mantis. Lots of these need to start early. What this kid does is a combination of martial art and Tai chi. If the "chi" has to follow the movement circulating from Dantien to the finger tips, then his movements are too rapid and I say this is not great Taichi. Yes, I practise this for years but still feel like an outsider.
david1234lee 2 years ago
Actually my friend corrected me he practices I think its plumb lotus northern mantis or that is what he uses combined with practical chen tai chi something like that it is like a more complex version of Paochoy or is it paochui. Sorry I am a Capoeira practitioner not a kung fu practitioner so forgive me if I am not being specific enough.
Anihilist 2 years ago
You know there are many different schools even in Taiji. Chinese monks who lived in the wild mountains used to watch serpents, birds, animals fight and record the actions. This is the orgin of martial art. This kid definitely does mantis since I still remember some postures but they often mix them up.
david1234lee 2 years ago
dude! the last 40 secs was bad ass
rtrann9ball 2 years ago
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just looks like dancing...
xxmsp91 2 years ago
yes but i dont think you can do that with it muschel move
kang3sama 2 years ago
tai chi forms often do look like dances but within each form there are many applications which us inthe west couldnt even comprehend..the chinese are unwilling to show us their secrets...
fallenmorningstar99 2 years ago 2
Very Good.
OrganicAlien 2 years ago
AH I remember learning my first routine
Chessjock 2 years ago
Does anyone know if he is accepting any students? lol I would love to learn from him.
belinda6383 2 years ago 6