Chen Style Taiji - Master Aiping Cheng

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@yogasamrat

To see the Yogasamrat's version of "good tai chi" search "tai chi master battle"

Tai Chi is nothing mysterious or complicated. Just very difficult to master and takes a lot of practice. And one of the non-mysterious and simple concept in Tai Chi is rooting, balance and straight posture which this lady seems to have it down. Yogasamrat is just way to freaking delusional and thinks Tai Chi is some mysterious art that requires knowledge of tiny esoteric details to obtain super power

[thebuggz]

@yogasamrat, you are welcome to your opinion, but not your own facts. Master Cheng did study with Chen Zhenglei and Chen Xiaowang. CZL has even taught at her school in CT. I spoke with CXW a few years ago and he immediately remembered her and praised the quality of her taiji. Yes, her career started in wushu in the 1970's but after retirement from the team, she spent many years studying the traditional art.

[yogasamrat]

mrdena you can spout all thw glorious epithets about Ms.Cheng but it appears you know fuck all about taiji.otherwise you would find another teacher!Ms Cheng is a product of wushu academy training!I doubt she studied at all with chenxiaowang or chenzheng le.So put that uo your ass and smoke it!

[yogasamrat]

This is what you call performance taiji. She has studied all the styles and all the forms .Perhaps she know some style better then others but she is just a beginner at the chen style! If you want to see chenstyle,look at the 4 jingang of chenjiagou or students of Tianxiuchen,Chen zhaokui, xushixi,wangqingyun etc. beijing,henan, shandong,hebei

[dena3344]

@yogasamrat , She studied under Chen Xiaowang and Chen Zhenglei for Chen style. Do you have 32 gold medals and the record # of consecutive years as the leader of China's Wu-Shu "A" team? While she is a incredible performer, she also has very solid foundations from learning strictly under various lineage holders. "just a beginner?" Also, for the record, she's a National Treasure of China and a world Grand Master. Ass.

[koisumaz2000]

Impressive.

[yogasamrat]

Master Aiping relax your hands,i know you are trying to keep the chen shape palm but you are creating to much tension.Relax and breath.

[DonSyndrome]

Amazing performance. I studied with her when I lived in CT. She CAN fight. She's only like 5' 2", and I watched her use only 25% of her effort to knock a 190 lb guy into a wall -- he was standing around 5 feet away from it. He couldn't "feel" where the power could be coming from in one of the moves.

[AnjoDeGuardaThe4th]

wow what a performance. I only wish i could do something like that and it'd take years to master..

[mikekoh66]

This is definitely very beautiful performance. However, if you want to look at the raw martial art taiji....search for Ma Hong's video. He is old school Taiji.

[veuvecliquot]

octopus style?

[bookguy12000]

can she fight?

[3325km]

真是好看。

[Waxfiretape]

Row your boat gently ------/ stream,,,,

Merry merry

[321JeRoMe123]

@Waxfiretape LOLZ whatttttt!?

[Waxfiretape]

She's Just Fantastic ! And that's all there's to it'

[Gcole63]

I keep watching it over and over again. She has a couple of instructional dvd's on her website, but not this. I'd love to be her student. Unfortunately, I don't live near her.

[Waxfiretape]

Amazing flows

[Waxfiretape]

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Finally I find yu ( two weeks late though)

:Great comment

[FireFox1914]

That is easily on of the most GORGEOUS TaiChi routines I have ever seen in my life. The strength, the fluidity, the accuracy is incredible. I get chills from watching this.

[lebarosky]

Her interpretation of the Yang Large Frame part 1 is also on YouTube and is very strong.

[Waxfiretape]

The TRUTH' = the best

[michapolak]

beautifull cocentration and force,strong legs.

[physicalcult]

Yeah, it's the Chen 56.

That said, in the way of many other high level practitioners, Master Aiping Chen seems to have found many places within the form to add spirals. My Uncle demonstrated this to me once: he knocked me a good deal of the way across a car park by spiralling his knee. It wasn't even done with fa jing! Had that been the case, I probably wouldn't have walked out of that car park. Still I was young and in the early days of training - so I just thought it was immensely cool. :)

[TheLibertard]

8/10

[Demagwanso]

Would love to push hands with her to see what that feels like. Movements are 'beautiful', and appear to have been embellished for show and seem to lack power...She seems somewhat hyper-mobile in her joints ('double-jointed') However, that might be very deceptive and I might be completely wrong and pleasantly surprised... Thanks for the post.

[seamaverick1]

she seems to have a very strong fundation....but why does she keep her thumbs so close to her palm.....that hinders the flow of chi in my humble opinion........

[orihx3]

i believe that's the way the compulsory routines (36 and 56 forms) are performed, which is different from traditional chenjiagou chen taiji where the thumb is not tucked in close to the palm.

[taichivermont]

This is a fantastic demonstration

[protoandghetto]

some people just cant see the philosophy of Tai Chi to its fullest potential hence says Tai Chi lacks power. And they're right, Tai Chi lacks power, because its not fighting fire with fire, but quenching an opponents fire with a flowering water, negating an opponent's energy (chi), and applying a little of your own. Like how water flows, and yet it can crash (quote from Bruce Lee). understanding tai chi philosophy is needed to understand the value of a performance such as this.

[TJcrazyhorse]

She invented her own routine, so you can't really copy. It is unique at least.

[thebuggz]

This is the first two sections of the Chen 56 Form, the standard for competition in China. This is not her own invention.

[realtjman]

she has a very nice flow fizuck what you heard!

[washingzoo1]

Don''t look on the superficial; soft-, tender-ness, beauty don't mean unfightability; she can kick you, but her eyes are opened (twisting Tarkhova's word); she may not kick your but; but she kicks you, but with eyes opened. Beautiful girls shouldn't be taken as weakful girls !

[kennhiser]

flow does not equal power - and little wiggles don't mean power either. power is not necessarily beautiful to the eye

[Aheyne]

Despite the fact that she does also have a Wushu background, I've seen her toss plenty of students around in class. She was doing a xingyi app the other day and tossed a student into a copying machine.

She's about 5' tall too, maybe 100 pounds.

[gamma235]

anyone with an eye for skill, like me, haha :) can tell that this chick is not just all for show. She's just bad ass. All of her form are immaculate.

[vjazz]

great !!

[GaryPansey]

Falun Dafa Hao!

[alidonli]

what does that mean? i've heard of falun gong and the whole story. you talking about that?

[chenwatch]

With all due respect to her skills I do think that while the flow of movements is great she lacks the power.

You can compare with same routine performed by Ding Ji

[KARASUNSTAR]

if you say she lacks power it exhibits your ignorance about the art, her technique and flow is flawless

[DJMOCRO07]

Dude she can kick your but with here eyes closed!

[Tarkhova]

WOW the timing of the movements is brilliant.

how much time and practices need to get to that level.

[lileulileu]

If you feel it really, not so much time needed indeed.

[dragonyim]

垃圾堆中選出來的

[yonitree]

Ive watched this maybe 30 times and i just want to watch again and again...... this is the most powerfull display of white crane kung-fu(tiji chuan) i have ever witnessed...., the martial moves are like watching water drown an inferno

[treborkciddur]

Do you have any idea who Master Ai Ping is???! Do your homework.

[cioccolatosexy]

You can see she doesn't truly understand the movements she's doing. She's adding fluff and on top of that her movement is empty of mind. She is a wonderful mover but this set is dance, not true taiji which is a martial art. Although in fact, great dancers always have mind in their movements. That is what makes them great. Technicality can brings you to goodness, only truth of expression can bring you to greatness. And truth of expression requires something to express.

[nagi85]

These days it seems people are trying to show the martial applications to taijiquan alot more now. At least from what I've witnessed. I'm happy because you can't have a whole with only a half.

[EddieN8]

Beautiful

[Drakula5]

She is really pretty! Women in fight can be more dangerous due to her natural flexibility and unexpectiveness. Gracious movements like the panther! She is wonderfull!

[chlifa]

Martial Art has no sex! It's depend on your skill! A woman can be better than a man and the other way around. Just remember that Wing Chun is founded bye a woman and a lot of man use it! =)

[superdoople]

仙风道骨

[taijiguy]

She was on the Chinese National Team with Chen Zhenglei. That's why her Chen style is so good. That stage must have been a little dirty. It's not easy doing those inner heel slides on a clean floor while wearing those Shanghai tennis shoes.

[seanamico]

WOW, never seen a women that had chi flow and snap like her. Nice.

[TexasSizzle]

Truly remarkable. One of the finest tai ji performances I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. She is truly and deeply skilled. Hao Tai Ji Quan Kung Fu!

[cnewman003]

wow that's one the nicest tai chi forms I have ever seen.

[MEY8018]

sometime her shoulder is up

[jimanHK]

somehow her palms positions seem not very practical in actual combact:))

[Asianclark]

Agree. I've been doing Chen Style under a british Shi fu and he's much more pratically minded. Tai chi in China seems to be losing its orginal spirit of combating to the pursuit of pleasing to eyes. But maybe I am just too pessimistic and I am sure there are people who can do Tai chi both gracefully and effecitvely

[JCHendee]

It's not the first half; it's all of the 56 from what I see.

[JCHendee]

Or maybe I'm not remembering it all correctly, now that I think about it.

[thebuggz]

It is only the first few parts. There is substantially more to the form than shown. Often for demonstrations like this the form needs to be abotu 3:00-3:30 long. The entire 56 is about 5:30 so the last 2 parts have been dropped.

[TheLeviChannel]

@JCHendee The entire traditional form is 83 movements.