Video of Master Chen Xiao Xing

Here is some video of Master Chen Xiao Xing taken back in 2007. I thought it would be nice to start off this New Year with some Chen Style Taijiquan. In the following video of Master Chen Xiao Xing 陳小星 are from the "Cannon Fist" or "Er Lu" Chen Style Taiji form and were recorded in Chicago at a wonderful seminar. There are some nice fajin clips in this short video and some clips shown in slow and extra slow motion as well. Chen Xiao Xing was born in 1952, 3rd son of Chen Zhao Xu and brother of Chen Xiao Wang.



Here is the YouTube link for those of you that enjoy watching videos there.

I really enjoyed shooting this back then and now putting this video together this week. I hope that showng Master Chen Xiao Xing doing some of the fajin (to issue or discharge power explosively) of "Cannon fist" in this video at various speeds of slow motion and at normal speed is helpful and enjoyable for you as well. It's pretty rare to be able to shoot video while a seminar is "in progress" and I'm happy to be able to share these clips here with all of you.

Let me know what you think of this video of Master Chen Xiao Xing in the comment area. There are more internal martial arts videos in the works as I am always weeding back through footage I have taken over the years. Also more articles and videos on Wujifa in the works as well.

Happy New Year everyone!

Video of Chen Style Taijiquan at Wushu Demo

As requested here is more video from Hunan, China this time of Chen Style Taijiquan. The students of the Yue Shan Temple (Moon Mountain) wushu gongfu demo, filmed in May of 2004. As you watch this video remember how old some of these kids are, and then think about how long many people have been practicing their forms as you watch these kids.



For those who enjoy YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-oQtcTfVA

As many of you that read this blog know I believe internal martial arts is much more than a form or some kind of dance move and that the "way one moves" instead of the form it's self is what is most important. Now, I will say watching this video, seeing kids of this age practicing Chen Style Taiji looks pretty damn good at their age and for wushu.

Now I know these kids practice their forms a heck of a lot and after all they live there at that gongfu school. My hope is in sharing this video, that it may inspire some folks who watch these kids as they do these forms to think more about how and when they practice. After all there are lot's of blogs with Youtube videos of various masters doing forms. Yes even on this blog. Yet simply watching kids doing these kinds of forms can put things in a certain perspective.