Chen Xiao Wang, Taiji, Chenstyle, new frame Chen Fa Ke, Xin Jia Yi Lu, master chen forms

[@OhioShaolin]

Fantastic. This is the version we train in Shaolin-do.

[@dmitrypopov9197]

this is a really good video

[@waylandsmith8666]

A quick correction: Chen Xiaowang learned from his grandfather, the great Chen Fake. His father was not able to practice because of the Cultural Revolution, and for that reason is not really rated in the Taiji world.

[@Supermomo2007]

could he beat a mma fighter?

[@waylandsmith8666]

@@Supermomo2007 Probably not these days: Chen Xiaowang is now 74 years old and has had a hip replacement. In his youth he was definitely a formidable fighter. There's a famous and extremely impressive (though horribly translated) book on Chen Style fighting techniques, demonstrated by a young Chen Xiaowang and Feng Zhiqiang. www.amazon.com/Chen-Style-Taijiquan-Feng-Zhiquang/dp/7505404806 Of course these mixed-mode fighting questions are always difficult to answer due to the question of whose rules you are fighting by - and if you say 'none' I don't believe you. A true no-rules fight would end with broken bones, gouged eyes, or worse.

[@Supermomo2007]

@@waylandsmith8666 do i need to train hard style before train chen tai Chi? I heard that chen style itself is mix of hard and soft and designed for young people/soldiers

[@waylandsmith8666]

@@Supermomo2007 You don't necessarily need to have trained a hard style, but you will learn much quicker if you are strong, flexible, and have good aerobic capacity. Whatever your previous background, there will be things to un-learn. Hard stylists will need to drop unnecessary tension, yogis will need to learn to sink and soften, dancers will need to understand that the moves have actual self-defense applications that need to be constantly born in mind. Many students start with Yang Style taiji and then 'graduate' to Chen.

[@Supermomo2007]

@@waylandsmith8666 does chen style have iron palm training for fists? Is it true that. Judo/karate and jiu jitsu guys feared internial kung fu styles more then shaolin styles in japan/china war?

[@lucadefalco6730]

Hj

[@redlotustaichiandqigong9166]

Chen Xiaowang's father was killed in the Chinese cultural revolution that is why he never learned everything from him and his uncle Chen Fake and chen zhaoki helped to teach him..