Taiji - broad sword

Demonstration by Master Chen Zhenglei 陳正雷 - 陳式單刀
http://taiji.thecorner.org

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Sports

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• taiji
• taichi
• broadsword
• 陳式
• 太極刀
• chen
• style

[redjademartialarts]

Thats Chen Zheng lei, One of the top masters alive.

[Kwizii]

It's a bit sad to see people criticizing before they really know about the sword. Obviously it's not a fighting sword.

The floppy ones are actually better (for TaiChi) because when they bend, it incarnates the ripple of energy flowing suddenly out of you body.

[1life1batle]

Very good, this is really going to help my tai chi! ^_^

[alwaysparadox]

When they make these demo videos, the production company usually supplies the weapons, props and sometimes clothes. In mainland China it is very common and fashionable to use the flashy, wobbly weapons with the tassels and flags for demonstration and photo shoots. If you gave Master Chen a cardboard cut-out his Taiji would be just as good. The art is in the person. It's not a big deal. As for "acupuncter." It seems that he has a very limited understanding of the circles in Taiji practice.

[BadlyWiredWetware]

Can anyone tell me what the music is for this?

[acupuncter]

But referring to Chan Su Gong, silk reeling, the circular motion is critical not only to Chen taiji but all Taiji, and even as I have now seen that Chen Zhenglei replied to a question about circular motion, that it must be maintained, it is a point I'm afraid he has not adhered to in this video.

[acupuncter]

Come on, where do you think most of the weapons come from that you use? The mainland. There are a wide range of swords available, North and South, and as for weapons, I have seen groups come to study in China and take back big bundles of waxwood poles because they are unavailable anywhere else in the world.

[acupuncter]

I realize that many that comment on taiji aren't able to read or write Chinese, but just to correct repeated mistakes that I see on the internet, it should be Yang Chengfu, who was one of my master's teachers, and Cheng (or Zheng) ManChing (or Manjing), another style I have practiced.

[taijihitman]

Of course it would have resembled Chen that is what he learned. Yang Luchan wasnt taught pao choi (cannon fist routine) only Lao jia (old frame). Yang Luchan's Grandson Yang Chenfu, did change it considerably and his student Chen Manching did also by shortening th rotuine. Having studied both (and still studying) the roots are realy clear to me and in application also. Chansing Gung (silk Reeling) is a huge difference between Chen & Yang.

[acupuncter]

Well, and I've discussed this at length in China with students and masters, Yang indeed studied from Chen but the style (frame) he developed is closer to the original Chen style than what we now refer to as New Chen. So, although it is Yang style since it is closer to the original it is considered by many to be the earliest style (still preserved).

[taijihitman]

Sorry to comment but it is the other way around. Yang style came from Chen style. Yang Luchan studied under the chen family in Chen village. I am learning this form at present and scrolled sown to read some comments.