Unlock the Secrets of Taijiquan
What if you could transform your martial arts skills in a way you never imagined?
The Practical Method Workshop - a revolutionary new approach to Taijiquan under the direct guidance of Master Chen Zhonghua.
Have you struggled to grasp the intricacies of Taijiquan?
Are you a seasoned martial artist looking for something more?
Or have you always wanted to get into martial arts but don’t know where to start?
Are you ready to recalibrate your body and mind connection, and take your martial arts skills to a whole new level?
Embrace a new way of learning that will transform your abilities in Taijiquan and martial arts.
You don’t need to waste more years of stagnant training with little to no progress.
The Chen Zhonghua Practical Method Workshops are a unique opportunity.
Practical Method: Learn the method behind secret Taiji body mechanics with real-time demonstrations. Experience hands-on demonstrations and corrections from Master Chen himself.
Principles, Concepts, Actions: Recalibrate your body with step by step guidance, hands on exercises, and in depth explanations to fully integrate the Taiji principles, concepts, and actions into your daily life.
Real Learning: Avoid years wasted in trial and error. Follow a clear procedure for learning with a proven method for training. See how others have transformed their bodies, becoming skilled and deeply connected practitioners.
Those are big statements, I know.
But the reason I can make those statements is because as well as you being shown how to use Taijiquan with thrilling effect…
The Practical Method workshop will take things a STEP FURTHER and also give you the critical missing KEY.
The KEY that is not usually taught to Taijiquan students until they have ‘proven their worth (!??)’ by attending years and years of classes…
What is the critical missing KEY (the critical KEY that you are missing)?
Principles are one part.
What else is missing?
A proper system.
When was the last time your body mind connection was challenged?
You are now ready to be challenged about your understanding of movement.
When was the last time, when someone taught you something, that you literally stepped back and scratched you head because you just could not fathom how this was possible?
Your thinking is all in your head.
Now is the chance to create a new connection with your body.
Question: Why might you want to go to Master Chen Zhonghua’s Practical Method workshop?
Take a moment to see what answer arises in you to that question…
The obvious answer now, is it will give you real ability in Taijiquan, and your push hands skills will amaze others.
There are, however, some “deeper” reasons (added benefits you may not have considered before) why you might want to attend the Practical Method workshop including:
It deepens all your OTHER martial arts skills (making you an all-round better martial artist or movement practitioner)
It gives you both a conscious and unconscious competency of using Taiji body mechanics as part of your everyday way of being.
It integrates body mechanics language in such a way that it’s no longer a technique that you do; but a way you naturally move through the world and interact with other people.
It gives you body-mechanics skills that far surpass the body mechanics skills of even the best martial artists out there.
It enables you to kinaesthetically understand and bond with fellow students like never before.
It improves not only your overall martial arts skills but it will also improve your human skills – making you a more compassionate person for those you love and truly care about.
It makes you creative in your ability to think about movement and in your ability to engage with anyone on a deep and energetic level.
It gives you a new and exciting outlook on your life – you won’t be able to wait to get out each day and move in new and uplifting ways. It will become almost addictive once you feel the new body mechanics connections you are making.
You’ll have a better understanding of how the body works (a critical factor for each movement student, physiotherapist, personal trainer, martial artist and indeed everyone who wants to learn to be able to move better)
It empowers you as a martial artist and as a movement practitioner.
Others will see you as a person who they feel they can really learn something from.
For all those reasons we’ve had all kinds of people that have jumped at the chance to get the training by a world renowned Taiji Master including…
martial arts instructors;
many Kung Fu practitioners;
many Wing Chun practitioners;
the CEO of a Sydney accounting firm;
a solicitor;
a dance teacher;
a Lohan Qigong Master;
acupuncture and Chinese medicine clinic owner operators;
a master control operator at a large sports media company;
a computer programmer at a recently NYSE listed IT firm;
a systems analyst;
a retired school teacher;
a graphic artist and web developer;
a financial analyst at a bank;
a bio-chemistry PhD scientist working in one of the top BSL-3 laboratories in Australia;
an electrician that worked on a mining site of a famous Australia mining lady;
government workers from various state and federal departments;
and now, YOU.
The one thing they all comment on is the way that Master Chen Zhonghua is able to break down abstract and fuzzy Taiji principles and concepts that are often shrouded in mystical language, directly into concrete actions.
Compare this to language that is often used to hide concepts even the teachers don’t properly understand.
“Don’t worry son, learn 15 years of Mandarin and maybe then you’ll understand where to hold your kua in the Single Whip.
Till then, be baffled like the rest of us”.
He speaks perfect English.
Master Chen Zhonghua was born in Shandong Province, China.
His perfect English enables him to explain the body-mechanics concepts like no other Chen Style Taijiquan master.
Master Chen integrates the explanations with hands-on exercises so you suddenly just “get” how to use the body as part of your natural way of being.
Curious why his English is perfect?
Well, Master Chen Zhonghua attended the Foreign Languages department at the Shandong University at Jinan to learn the languages used by the Chinese Diplomatic corps.
Jinan, Black Tiger Springs is the place that changed his life. Here he met the two people that changed his destiny. One was Grandmaster Hong Junsheng. The other person was a student of Grandmaster Hong. Also studying at the Shandong University, this lady came from Canada.
15 years forward, Chen Zhonghua lives in Edmonton, Canada, teaching English, Maths, and other subjects at the Edmonton High School.
As a certified Mandarin-English / English-Mandarin translator, he translates for businesses and the State government. This enabled him to translate books by his two Chen Style Taijiquan masters, Grandmaster Hong Junsheng and Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang.
GM Hong Junsheng & Chen Zhonghua
Chen Zhonghua & GM Feng Zhiqiang
International Standard Bearer for the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
Accepted as the International Standard Bearer for the Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method, Master Chen Zhonghua’s travels take him from coast to coast in Canada, across the United States, UK, Ireland, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Netherlands, across China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, New Zealand and since 2012, Australia, to teach the knowledge that Grandmaster Hong and Grandmaster Feng imparted to him.
Is he busy? Yes! In one year, he spent only 2 weeks at home in Edmonton out of 52 weeks of the year. That is how busy.
His practical experience in teaching thousands of student directly is a skill that stands him apart from many other Masters.
Enhanced by his years of teaching Taiji, his teaching methods are highly refined.
You are the beneficiary of that collected knowledge.
Chen Zhonghua appointed International Standard Bearer of Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method in 2004
First Rizhao Daqingshan Hong Junsheng Taiji International Seminar & Taiji International Exchange Competition in 2011
All good Taiji masters left China.
Yes, some of the best Masters left China.
Yes, some of the best Masters were left behind.
One of the one’s who was not able to leave was Grandmaster Hong Junsheng. When the situation got too out of control in Beijing when the Japanese invaded the area, Hong thought he ought to do something about it. Instead of leaving China, he moved to Jinan and established the local Anti-Japanese and Anti-Communist Association.
Your imagination cannot even fathom the suffering he endured as a result of this act.
Arrested, imprisoned and labelled an Anti-Revolutionary, Hong was unable to get a job, unable to live in a house or unit, unable to have a family, movement was restricted and was required to visit the police station every week.
But there was one thing that could not be taken away.
His fanatical practice of Taiji that resulted in a Taiji system like no other.
You will always remember Master Chen Zhonghua.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s hands-on approach is unique.
Master Chen does not stand on a podium where only a few of his chosen students can touch him for demonstrations.
No, now you have access to a Taiji Master who will tell you: “Do anything! Do whatever.”
As the Practical Method is a body mechanics system, you learn more from touch than from seeing.
Master Chen will rarely adjust your posture. He is more interested your movement habits - how you got there, and how you move from there. The principle is primary, not the fact that your hand is 27mm too high.
He’s not interested in adjusting your body so you fall over.
He is interested in you getting it right, or to at least give you a picture of where your goal is.
Truly Don’t Move!
This is one of the phrases known by all Practical Method students.
“Truly Don’t Move”.
“Truly Don’t Move”.
“Truly Don’t Move”.
This mysterious piece of advice is THE KEY to the system.
If you only try to see it, then you will not learn the importance of THIS KEY.
Because your eye is trained to see things that move, your eyes deceive you.
Power does not transmit unless you do not move.
The mystery of power transmission of Practical Method is UNIQUE.
You will not find it in ANY other system.
It is ALIEN to other systems.
Watching a video is not going to cut it.
Now you have to FEEL it.
You are not alone.
Master Chen Zhonghua’s Taiji Academy has grown to include more than 150 branches in over 40 countries and regions, with more than 470 disciples, and over 30,000 students registered.
He has developed a full time Taijiquan training facility in Daqingshan, China where beginners, intermediate and advance students, and masters, engage daily with others who share your passion for Taijiquan.
In addition, many students learn online over weekly Zoom classes, or through the vast library of online Taijiquan training videos in English or Chinese.
These videos include workshops and intensives globally, form instruction videos, detailed movement analysis videos, form correction videos, private session correction videos, Taiji theory videos, learning methods videos, push hands vidoes, application videos, and more!
There is more.
One of the important tasks of every student in the system is the learning of the Taiji routine.
While the rough choreography can be learned in a short period, once you are able to open some of the joints, small adjustments are need to ‘bring you back on track’.
It is difficult to see your own mistakes.
Corrections by Master Chen Zhonghua are an important to ensure you remain on track.
Billy Bob in Texas might want to make his form more flamboyant, or Hans in Germany may interpret it in a more robotic way.
If both perform every movement as an action, then they are on track.
Movement requires a depth of understanding.
The deeper you go the better you feel and the better you feel the deeper you can go.
That’s right, you have to practice.
There is no substitute to working directly with a Master.
Imagine you play golf. Tiger Woods is in town and is giving private lessons. Would you go? OF COURSE!
You realise that Practical Method is not a fly by night Taiji system. This system is grounded in more tradition and analysis than the ‘approved government forms’.
You recognise that it has a proper lineage back to Grandmaster Chen Fake, the famous Chen Master that left the Chen Family Village in 1928.
You have a chance to reconnect with your body now.
Register now to secure your spot in the workshop.
When Grandmaster Hong introduced the system, it revolutionised the teaching of Taiji.
Now you can learn the secrets of Taiji.
You learn through real transmission.
Let Master Chen Zhonghua be your guide in the practice of Taiji, and you will never forget what he teaches you.