Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang Annual Seminar June 2008  click here for Photos

It was our great pleasure and honour to host the 12th Annual Seminar of Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang.

And what a great event, it was, full of energy and enthusiasm from the first seminar to the last.

The seminar began on Saturday morning with the CHAN SI GONG Seminar (Silk Reeling Energy Exercise).and was very well attended seminar, with students old and new in attendance from all parts of the country..
A deeper understanding was the aim,
Grandmaster Chen explanation of  “One Principle, Three Movements” was well received and many students grasped the basic principles involved in the practise & study of Taiji.

Saturday afternoon we revised the CHEN STYLE PAO CUI (CANNON FIST) FORM
This fast form designed to reflect combat speed and the expression of explosive power (fa jing) from a relaxed state using internal energy rather than brute force
Towards the end of the seminar Grandmaster Chen demonstration of the form, left us without any doubt about the effectiveness of Taiji as a potent fighting art, it was the highlight of the whole seminar.

Silk Reeling Group

On Sunday at 9.30 am the YI - JING - JIN (YIN YANG CHI KUNG Seminar began, It certainly lived up to it’s reputation to strengthen the muscles and tendons through the circulation of Chi. There was much stretching and loosening of joints in evidence and I’m sure everyone really did feel energised. Special greetings to our friends from Spain and Switzerland
who attended.
 

At 5.30 pm in the afternoon, it was time to finish, it seemed as if we had only been training for around a couple of hours, surely the sign of a great seminar.
Cannon Fist Best

Above Left: Silk Reeling Group

On Monday morning we continued with the Xinjia Yi-Lu (New Frame)
Grandmaster Chen’s Grandfather Chen Fa-Ke created the “New Frame” Taiji form in the early 19 century.
The main character of this form is to apply the spiral technique to the movements.
We worked through about 55% part of the form, with 110% effort awarded by Grandmaster Chen.
Hopefully we will continue this form next year.


Thanks to everybody who attended the seminars this year.

Cannon Fist Group Photo .

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