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Chén Fā Kē Pào Chuí – Part 2 Grandmaster Chén Fā Kē None of the audience could believe what they were watching was Tàijíquán太極拳. Some of them had heard there was also a form called Pào Chuí 砲捶 and when Grandmaster…

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Chén Fā Kē Pào Chuí – Part 1 Great Grandmaster Chén Fā Kē 陳發科 On the October of 1928, Great Grandmaster Chén Fā Kē 陳發科 was invited to Běijīng 北京 by Xǔ Yǔ Shēng 許禹生, to demonstrate his Tàijíquán太極拳.…

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Pào Chuí 砲捶 – Part 7 Zhàn 戰 means fighting, but the kind of fighting that happens in a war, not just one on one combat. It is like two groups, parties or even countries going to war. In Sūn Zi Bīng Fǎ 孫子兵法 - Sūn…

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Pào Chuí 砲捶 – Part 6 Téng 騰 means running fast Téng 騰 means running fast, moving fast to jump up over a space. It is like a horse running fast and jumping over an obstruction, like a fence. In movement 32, Full Cannon Fist…

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Pào Chuí 砲捶 – Part 5 Bèng 蹦 means bouncing up from the floor or the ground, or jumping up all of a sudden. It is like Double Jumping Kicks 踢二起 in Lǎojià Yīlù 老架—路 where we jump up from a low position. Bèng…

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Pào Chuí 砲捶 – Part 4 Pào Chuí 砲捶 is powerful and fast, like running and having more power to be able to jump and leap over things. So if we are running fast and there is a low wall in front of us, we can jump over it, or…

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Pào Chuí 砲捶 – Part 3 Sijo Chen Chén Fā Kē 陳發科 The Yìjīng 易經 – Book of Changing says, “無極生太極，太極生兩儀，兩儀生四象，四象生八卦，八卦演萬物.  Wújí 無極 - Nothing creates…

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Pào Chuí 砲捶 – Part 2 The principle of Tàijí 太極 actually comes from the Yìjīng 易經 – Book of Changing. The Yìjīng is over 5000 years old and it is the root of Chinese philosophy. In it is says, “Wújí 無極…

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Chén Wáng Tíng’s Poem 陳王廷太極拳經總歌 Part 7 Chén Wáng Tíng 陳王廷 Chén Wáng Tíng 陳王廷 says in his poem, “Cover the head – block the face – this skill is ordinary 藏頭蓋面天下有, Strike the…

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Chén Wáng Tíng’s Poem 陳王廷太極拳經總歌 Part 6 Chén Wáng Tíng 陳王廷 continues to say, “Pretend to attack the East, but strike the West – we must be familiar with this skill  聲東擊西要熟識. Attack…