Here is the secret how Cheng's performance differs from others. In many movements, his hands and one of the legs is "swung" to position, not "moved" to position. Of course, Cheng has to "move" hands/leg to position often but he does it effortlessly. That means his is totally "song"(relaxed). He has very pure Jing traveling the path foot>hip>waist>hand, unblocked. Most people's Jing is blocked somewhere along the path. Never overlook the slight difference and that's why Cheng is so powerful. Cheng's movements totally comply with Chang San Feng's principles: "hands are not hands, every part of the body are hands". My teacher also taught me to "swing" hands/leg but I don't think I can do it as well as Cheng. Nevertheless, the ultimate rule is to clearly divide legs into Yin and Yang otherwise it is useless even practicing for 100 years. Most people including those "masters" on UA-cam always "move" their hands/leg to position. They also lay low in order to be looked good but their Jing is truncated. Now you have good eyes to tell the difference.
Centered and rooted, economy of movement. These are the keys to taiji and qigong. Cheng Man Ching was criticized for his form, but truly he was correct. Soft and relaxed when slow, with a small frame is real fighting. Long and large is dance!
small world... this is the same Tai Chi long form I was taught at Silent Dragon in CT. Come to find out it's originally from Cheng Man Ching. Great upload, thank you.
Taiji forms are for training the principles of Taiji. The fighting aspect, Taijiquan, requires different training. However, without mastering the principles first, any fighting applications are likely to be difficult, almost impossible, to put into practice. Learning Taiji takes many years, thousands of hours of practice, to even get a grounding in the principles. Most people give up and try to jump ahead to applications because they look good (or not) from the outside. If tried in a real fight situation, they could fall short. It depends a lot on the person, their training and their fighting spirit - some aspects of which are difficult to train. I hope this answers your question.
@@mr31337 personally, and this is only my opinion. I don't practise Taiji for fighting, I practise for health and well-being on many levels. However, when teaching or learning Taiji it's important to have some understanding of its roots as a fighting system. This may be in terms of visualising applications at first. Students interested in the fighting/self-defence aspect may practise to that end. What you see in the video is the Taiji form, a training system for learning the principles. There are also examples in the video of "push hands", which is only the very beginning of learning to understand forces between two people and developing touch/sensing skills with occasional lightweight uses of power. For example, if you look at say a Kung Fu or Karate form/kata, it's external nature and emphasis on speed and power might convince you that it's for fighting. It certainly has more of a martial focus, but the forms/kata are still just training methods to develop strength, conditioning, flexibility, speed etc., all of which might be useful in a fight, but they also might not work in reality. However, most Kung Fu and Karate students will only ever do sparring or competition fighting semi-contact for points or full-contact/KO. When I practised Kung Fu many years ago and Judo before that, I saw serious injuries and even heard of people receiving mortal blows that caused their unfortunate death - that was in a "practice session", not even real fighting. Sometimes the student forgets that real application of techniques used in Kung Fu, Karate, BJJ, Boxing etc. and including Taiji, can often lead to severe injury, death and corresponding legal consequences. In the old days Taijiquan was like this too, it was often brutal. Nowadays, for obvious reasons, it is rarely practised that way. However, don't be fooled by an old man that might look like he couldn't hurt a fly. In my experience, underestimating someone can lead to something unexpected. On more than one occasion, I've been caught out by surprise, both in martial arts training and in street fights. I've just been lucky and got away with minor injuries at the time.
ja das ist die richtige taidji form heute giebt es ja viel modefezierungen bis abmodefezierungen aber so wie auf diesen film kommt man zu quellreichen ursprüngen zurück vergesst niemals cheng man ching
You can still find some direct students of master Cheng Man-Ch'ing. However, most will be second, third or fourth generation students. Most will be in America where he set up his first school after leaving Taiwan. It will easier to find 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation students, some of whom will have a very good understanding of the CMC form and practice I was taught by a 3rd generation student, John Kells, in London in the late 80s. His teacher was Dr. Qi Chiang Tao, who was a close student of master Cheng Man-Ch'ing for at least 15 to 20 years while they lived in Taiwan. He practised daily with CMC during that time. Unfortunately, neither of these teachers are alive now. I can recommend this video by Benjamin Lo, one of his top students from New York: ua-cam.com/video/zU-Bej5ZAVI/v-deo.html
能看到鄭曼青先生打拳套的紀錄影片真的非常可貴。曾看過蔡肇祺先生（也是鄭曼青先生的弟子）所著的《我所認識的太極拳》，其中敘及向鄭曼青先生學拳的點滴，對其為人、教誨亦均有所著墨。看了這本書，也讓人知曉太極拳這項功夫的偉大。
Here is the secret how Cheng's performance differs from others. In many movements, his hands and one of the legs is "swung" to position, not "moved" to position. Of course, Cheng has to "move" hands/leg to position often but he does it effortlessly. That means his is totally "song"(relaxed). He has very pure Jing traveling the path foot>hip>waist>hand, unblocked. Most people's Jing is blocked somewhere along the path. Never overlook the slight difference and that's why Cheng is so powerful. Cheng's movements totally comply with Chang San Feng's principles: "hands are not hands, every part of the body are hands". My teacher also taught me to "swing" hands/leg but I don't think I can do it as well as Cheng. Nevertheless, the ultimate rule is to clearly divide legs into Yin and Yang otherwise it is useless even practicing for 100 years. Most people including those "masters" on UA-cam always "move" their hands/leg to position. They also lay low in order to be looked good but their Jing is truncated. Now you have good eyes to tell the difference.
You are aware that is a didactic form, isn't it?
感謝無私分享！非常珍貴而完整的拳套演示⋯⋯⋯
I have read his book and practised for more tha 15 years. This si the first time saw professoe Cheng in person!
珍貴的影片,借分享
Professor Cheng was my late fathers teacher, nice to see this video of him after hearing so much about him
The master's style is completely "effortless", like a breeze!
Centered and rooted, economy of movement. These are the keys to taiji and qigong. Cheng Man Ching was criticized for his form, but truly he was correct. Soft and relaxed when slow, with a small frame is real fighting. Long and large is dance!
one of my Master! thank you Sensei! Oss!
Manicomenuvoleitaly why are you using Japanese words ?
Love this guy. He was all lazy with his tai ji.
I give thanks to to my teachers teacher and honor they're memory with alway's 4 ounces in practice and play
감사합니다.
Very good.
small world... this is the same Tai Chi long form I was taught at Silent Dragon in CT. Come to find out it's originally from Cheng Man Ching. Great upload, thank you.
I bet you the movements here though seems subtle,
but if you were near his radius epicenter, there's probably a hurricane of energy going on.
🔥
I wish I could see video of Yang Cheng Fu
這才是真正的太極拳,張三丰祖師傳下來的太極十三式.
Much to learn, young grasshoppa
красота. видно что дед этим 100 лет занимался
thank you for evriting
Is this supposed to be for fighting?
Taiji forms are for training the principles of Taiji. The fighting aspect, Taijiquan, requires different training. However, without mastering the principles first, any fighting applications are likely to be difficult, almost impossible, to put into practice. Learning Taiji takes many years, thousands of hours of practice, to even get a grounding in the principles. Most people give up and try to jump ahead to applications because they look good (or not) from the outside. If tried in a real fight situation, they could fall short. It depends a lot on the person, their training and their fighting spirit - some aspects of which are difficult to train.
I hope this answers your question.
@@markdonovan1540 not really, but thanks. So you are saying "no"?
@@mr31337 personally, and this is only my opinion. I don't practise Taiji for fighting, I practise for health and well-being on many levels.
However, when teaching or learning Taiji it's important to have some understanding of its roots as a fighting system. This may be in terms of visualising applications at first. Students interested in the fighting/self-defence aspect may practise to that end. What you see in the video is the Taiji form, a training system for learning the principles. There are also examples in the video of "push hands", which is only the very beginning of learning to understand forces between two people and developing touch/sensing skills with occasional lightweight uses of power.
For example, if you look at say a Kung Fu or Karate form/kata, it's external nature and emphasis on speed and power might convince you that it's for fighting. It certainly has more of a martial focus, but the forms/kata are still just training methods to develop strength, conditioning, flexibility, speed etc., all of which might be useful in a fight, but they also might not work in reality. However, most Kung Fu and Karate students will only ever do sparring or competition fighting semi-contact for points or full-contact/KO. When I practised Kung Fu many years ago and Judo before that, I saw serious injuries and even heard of people receiving mortal blows that caused their unfortunate death - that was in a "practice session", not even real fighting.
Sometimes the student forgets that real application of techniques used in Kung Fu, Karate, BJJ, Boxing etc. and including Taiji, can often lead to severe injury, death and corresponding legal consequences. In the old days Taijiquan was like this too, it was often brutal. Nowadays, for obvious reasons, it is rarely practised that way. However, don't be fooled by an old man that might look like he couldn't hurt a fly. In my experience, underestimating someone can lead to something unexpected. On more than one occasion, I've been caught out by surprise, both in martial arts training and in street fights. I've just been lucky and got away with minor injuries at the time.
I can't even imagine how good he must have been in his prime (not that he's not great in this too)...
Le nec plus ultra...
How is he great?
ja das ist die richtige taidji form heute giebt es ja viel modefezierungen bis abmodefezierungen aber so wie auf diesen film kommt man zu quellreichen ursprüngen zurück vergesst niemals cheng man ching
haha!! you are welcome. You must be the same guy with taiji, right?
Who knows the master's students? I need a teacher in this style.
You can still find some direct students of master Cheng Man-Ch'ing. However, most will be second, third or fourth generation students. Most will be in America where he set up his first school after leaving Taiwan.
It will easier to find 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation students, some of whom will have a very good understanding of the CMC form and practice
I was taught by a 3rd generation student, John Kells, in London in the late 80s. His teacher was Dr. Qi Chiang Tao, who was a close student of master Cheng Man-Ch'ing for at least 15 to 20 years while they lived in Taiwan. He practised daily with CMC during that time. Unfortunately, neither of these teachers are alive now.
I can recommend this video by Benjamin Lo, one of his top students from New York:
ua-cam.com/video/zU-Bej5ZAVI/v-deo.html
看了武田犁奈的空手道影片後,才發現太極拳只是養身操
Vitor
laoshi Cheng Man Ching Taijiquan feichang henhao!!
哈哈哈
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腳底無根、心底無念、手中無意、極至無極
徐世憲
Thank you for your poetry
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