Chen Style Taijiquan - Chen-style Tai Chi Routine II 71 Postures Ma Hong 3DVDs

Chen-style Taiji Quan Routine II is also called Cannon Boxing. It stresses hardness with softness. While practicing, you should complete with force and in quick succession such movements as stamping, applying your force, dodging away or jumping up. It has the air of monstrous python coming out of cave, fierce tiger rushing down mountain and moves as lion shaking its furs. Its demands are: hand leading, body following, flexible footwork, steady foot, complete force and sufficient spirit. Its main movements are pluck, elbow and lean, accompanied by stroke, squeeze and press, so it fully shows the features of fastness and forcefulness.

Lecturer: Ma Hong
Format: 3DVDs
Language Speaking: Chinese
Subtitle: Chinese and English

GRAND MASTER MA HONG

Master Ma Hong (1927 – 2013) passed away on December 22, 2013.  He started learning Tai Chi in 1962. However, Ma Hong did not start learning in depth until starting his training in 1972 with Chen Zhao Kui.

Master Ma Hong, one of the most famous Tai Chi master in China, is the nineteenth generation of the Chen Style Tai Chi. His teacher was Chen Dao Kuei, son of Chen Fa Ke (the seventeenth generation). Master Ma Hong believes the Chen Style taught by his teacher, Chen Dao Kuei, just right combination of hardness and softness and he said, according to Tai Chi Yin Yang, Tai Chi must be hard and soft; fast and slow; insubstantial and substantial; open and close. And also it must have Yi, Qi, Li (spirit, breath, strength) and all of these must be combined together in Tai Chi. Master Ma Hong also addressed the relationship between close and open whilst doing Tai Chi. He said entirely open is not good, and entirely closed is not good either. In addition to benefiting health, His teacher Chen Dao Kuei taught him not only each posture, but broke down the function, the martial use of each posture because Tai Chi also has its martial worth.