Cheng Man Ching eight Exercises for Health

This set of chi-kung exercises were originally developed by Prof Cheng in New York to give less able students a set of easy but powerful exercises.
I have presented them here for you to try out.
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[@edwardhanson3664]

This is great stuff, thanks.

[@carlosroji4144]

Thanks , it is a pity that the camera does not film the legs as well, we cannot really appreciate the steps!

[@KaimingCoUktaichi]

Plan to re record very soon

[@taichisimplicity3070]

Wonderful work Mark 😊

[@marcusbain8743]

I do like your videos as you are so direct and natural. I think these are great exercises and well performed. However in my experience the rowing should actually be more like skulling. As if you are on the back of a Junk Using the Tan Tien as if performing the push. Not a critism, just an observation.

[@MarkPetersbalancedapp]

thanks for the feedback

[@KaimingCoUktaichi]

thanks. I'm just performing how I was taught by one of Prof Cheng's direct students :-) I will give your method a try too. thank you

[@smoggie2833]

Helpful and informative. Thank you.

[@willowstream]

I've practiced professor's form for 40 years and have studied his teachings as well as interviewed some of his direct students, and I've never heard anything about this. I have all sorts of doubts about this claim.

[@KaimingCoUktaichi]

please do ask his seniors in NY and they will confirm its roots.

[@willowstream]

​​@@KaimingCoUktaichiAs you must know, the professor's most senior students are no longer in this world, and Maggie Newman is unable to answer questions. I just sent an email to Bill Phillips who recorded everything that CMC said over a period of years at the New York school. Hopefully he will have an answer. I do know that within CMC's Malaysian community, which is extensive, there is the claim that the professor taught a form of nei gong, but there's also the claim that he didn't and no one knows what it might have been anyway. I'll let you know what I learn, if anything.

[@KaimingCoUktaichi]

​@willowstream I trained mainly in Malaysia. Yes, neigong was taught to closed door students, and it was always claimed to be from Prof cheng. I imagine it could have come from huang but it doesn't really matter. Other weapons were also taught in Malaysia as you can see from the videos I've posted but cheng only taught straight sword

[@willowstream]

@@KaimingCoUktaichi This is the response I received from Bill Phillips. Dear Robert, I am sorry but I do not know. I was a fit and healthy hard style martial artist, learning to become soft, when I was in the Shr Jung school. I was not aware of any such teachings. In T'ai Chi, Bill William C Phillips Of course this doesn't mean that professor Cheng didn't teach methods abroad that he decided not to teach in the US. If Bill isn't aware of it, being the professor's chronicler in the US, it wasn't taught here.

[@KaimingCoUktaichi]

I can only repeat what I was told when I learnt it. It was so long ago now. I do like it and use it for falls prevention classes mainly. It's easy access and clearly from cheng or yang style tai chi

[@jerryweeks1231]

Thanks, Mark.

[@awhite7761]

so, I have only watched your 1st exercise. Don't you think you should show your legs and feet instead of your chest and head when showing someone how to walk on thin ice??

[@taichiforrehabilitation5347]

It was only posted as a reminder for students who had learnt it, rather than a teaching from scratch video. Plus walking is pretty straight forward

[@Nowhereoh]

@ A White Agreed. I learned Tai Chii and sprent years walking on ice. I didn't get much from this video. I studied with a Whilliam Chen student and then a Ben Lo student. I think the old Terry Dunn video that shows circling exercise and horse stance is still helpful in my daily practice.

[@shinobu19]

Shifu must have inwardly rolled his eyes. After shortening the form from 108 to 37 movements students still came to him wanting a shorter sequence of exercises. LOL

[@KaimingCoUktaichi]

I know. I believe the set was developed for older and/or less able people so they could benefit without longterm study.

[@david9180]

The short 37 form is actually more difficult to perform correctly than the long form ' if you truly view the form you shall see huge errors from today's so called masters

[@iandale9261]

Have you read the transcript? It's hilarious.

[@MarkPetersbalancedapp]

HAHAHA . I love some of the auto subtitles.