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    My condoleance to Jim's family and close friends.

     

    This is tragic news indeed, we lost a pioneer of neikung and a person with a good hearth and deep knowledge.

     

    Real truthseeker, real yogi, real martial artist.

     

    May you rest in peace and roam the fields of eternal bliss.

     

    Thank you Jim. Thank you for everything. I can never repay you for all the help you gave me.

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    . Full routine in 8 videos. (sorry can't provide the name of the exact routine being performed. If someone knows please state it in your post, thanks.)

     

    Hey Gerard thanx for the links !! I like master Wong's video's alot but he's Chen style isn't all that great.

     

    For a beginner form people can google the 19 form by Chen Xiaowang.

     

    The basic routines and the actual base of Chen taiji are the yi lu and er lu. They come in an old frame (laojia) and new frame (xinjia) version. The new frame is more complex with more coiling to teach advanced stuff.

     

    Chen Xiaowang, Chen Zhenlei, Chen Xiaoxing, Wang Xi'an, Zhu Tiancai, Chen Yu, Chen Bing etc. are good examples of masters who represent this family style.

     

    Kind regards !

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    Rest in peace Mike Martello, a very small person but with big accomplishment in the internal martial arts. A month before he died he showed me he's laojia yi lu (Chen style) here in Antwerp .. deep and powerfull stances, relaxed, agile and peng everywhere. Impressive is all i can say. The good ones die young :(

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    Thank you so much minkus! I will make sure to keep up with my practice!!!!!!!!!I will also check out Chen Xin's manual, is it on amazon? Again thank you for everything!

     

    You can read it here online, i bought mine at INBI world: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22501334/Illustrated-Canon-of-Chen-Family-Taijiquan-by-CHEN-XIN

     

    If you yust begin training it's not that useful, its more about the smallframe version while most people learn the large frame. Still alot of the neikung and essence of Chen is explained !

     

    If you yust started out this is a great book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1113810

     

    And also check the blog http://chentaijiquanworld.blogspot.be

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    Hey Chenplayer, dont mind all the mumbo jumbo around mo-pai or neikung. Keep practising your Chen every day. Everything is there. Everything. The combat, the healing, the spiritual: the applications becomming 1 principle, the subtle internal works and alchemy, the meditation and the neikung (check Chen Xin's manual of chentaiji). The further you go the more you notice you allready have it within you because of Chenjiagou taiji. Chen is the root of tai-chi. Yust practice every single day .. or more.

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    Yin-Yang Gong of Lei Shan Dao is a real thing. I have best friends who experienced it as a first hand.

     

    Hey Recep, why do you speak of Lei Shan Dao ? I thought Lei Shan Dao was a fancy name David Verdesi and he's sidekick Sean Denty came up with to lure students to he's expensive visits with masters ? :) I highly doubt there is a lineage of internal alchemy/neikung called Lei Shan Dao.

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    yeah! thanks! i put it to gether that way because the philosophy gets in the way of practice. and especially when theres no teacher to guide you through. so i took the time to learn what was meant by the philosophies and can decipher most qi gong/nei kung information out there. and once i hear the theory and philosophy i can translate it. to what it is or means. its all the same thing the same principles explained in fanciful ways due to whose system your practicing and how philosophical the creator of the style is or was. also its explained in which way the base principles are used along with healing and fighting. the philosophy is used to hide knowledge. if you dont know the philosophy then you cant figure out the techniques. lol. and they did a good job cause i see alot of people on here caught up completley in the philosophy and never really get to the practice. also they squabble over which one is rite ect... but anyway thanks it took alot of time to learn and simplify.

     

    Amen ! Nothing to add here :)

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    Hey Basher, yust keep practicing like you do now. Practice every day in a relaxed matter. Try to hold the stance you have difficulty with for a few minutes before you continue to the next one. Let it sink in. A year isnt that long indeed, let the seed grow to a sprout and water it every day :)

     

    Opening of the kua is a long and slow process, dont pay to much attention to it. See that your stances are solid and correctly alligned and make smooth transitions in your form. Your kua will open up and smooth out. Thats where the (yilu) form is designed for.

     

    Enjoy :)