Balance, Balance, Balance… Tai Chi is all about Balance!
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Doreen Hynd is a 92 year old Tai Chi teacher. She has been practicing Tai Chi for over 30 years, originally learning at the Sydney University in Australia,. She moved to the United States in 1984 to seek out Sophia Delza, a Wu style Tai Chi teacher who studied in China under the famous master Ma Yueh Liang, who was a senior disciple of Wu Chien Chuan.
On April 20th, she was invited to the U.N. building in New York for the ninth United Nations Chinese Language Day to be awarded a special honor for her outstanding work and achievement in promoting the culture of Tai Chi.
The video below is of Doreen Hynd performing parts of the traditional Wu style of Tai Chi Chuan, and of her talking about the importance of Tai Chi in her life.
Doreen Hynd is a great example of how not only practicing Tai Chi, but also teaching the art can improve a person’s quality of life well into one’s later years.
Spread out across the world, enthusiasts from more than 80 countries will gather in groups large and small to celebrate the practice of Tai Chi and Qigong. Every year on the last Saturday of April at 10:00 am local time, groups will gather in different cities for the event. This year the World Tai Chi and Qigong day will fall on Saturday, April 28th.
Please enjoy this video of a 2017 World Tai Chi Day event in Aukland, New Zealand!
Starting In the small country of Fiji, the worldwide events for World Tai Chi and Qiqong Day will begin at 10:00 am their local time. This annual event will then move westward through such countries as Australia, Japan, China, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North and South America. The very last of the country to celebrate Word Tai Chi Day are the Hawaiian Islands, 22 hours later at 10:00 am their local time.
This worldwide event all began in back in 1999. Bill Douglas, a Tai Chi teacher, organized an event to celebrate the healing benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong. He organized a group of about 200 participants to demonstrate Tai Chi and Qigong on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, in the United States.
The many World Tai Chi and Qigong Day events across the globe are usually organized by the different local groups and schools of Tai Chi or Qiqong. To join an existing World Tai Chi and Qiqong Day event, or register your own event, you can visit the official World Tai Chi and Qigong Day website
Yang style master Raymond Chung turned 105 years old on March 7th in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He celebrated this landmark by teaching a Tai Chi class at his senior’s home and practiced push hands with one of his longtime Tai Chi students.
In the video below, Master Raymond Chung practices Pushing Hands with one of his longtime Tai Chi students.
Here is a video of Taichi Master Raymond Chung, who is celebrating his 105th birthday today, showing us how it’s done. @CBCGloria @CBCOnTheCoast pic.twitter.com/SsWuPL35az
— Rohit Joseph (@RoTomJo) March 7, 2018
He was one of the first to teach Tai Chi publicly in British Columbia, and Canada after emigrating from China in 1962. Having been a fighter pilot for the nationalists in WW2, he fled China after the communists won the country’s civil war,,, having to leave his family behind.
For more information on the interesting life of master Raymond Chung, please check out this story on the CBC news website
The art of Tai Chi is a cultural heritage of China. It is a centuries old martial art for self defence, a health exercise, philosophy, and for some a way of life.
The China Global Television Network’s show World Insight produced a Spring Festival Special called “The Art of Tai-Chi”. Host Tian Wei invited several Tai Chi masters to come on the show and have a discussion on about the art of Tai Chi.
Tai Chi is becoming more popular around the world. It is taught in clubs, community centres, church basements, and in open parks.
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The Chen Village (ChenJiaGou) is known as the birthplace of Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan). It a sacred place amongst the hearts of many practitioners of Tai Chi, many of whom make a pilgrimage to this once sleepy village to learn the ancient art.
Host Min-Zhui Lee takes us on a wonderful journeying this travelogue to this famous place of Tai Chi.
“Globally, hundreds of millions of people practise tai chi. But in Wenxian County, where the ancient martial arts and philosophy was born, tai chi is truly a way of life. Travelogue host Zhui goes on a pilgrimage to find out what this Tai Chi Mecca is all about.”
Have you ever wondered what the famous Chen Village looks like from the view of a bird flying above? This wonderfully filmed video features a breathtaking arial view of what is commonly referred to as “The Birth Place of Tai Chi Chuan”. One of the special treats in watching the film is seeing several well known teachers of the Chen style of Tai Chi Chuan. Chen Xiaoxing and a large group of his students are featured in the video.Chen Ziqiang is also seen expertly performing his family’s art in front of a snowy backdrop and in front of a written Chinese characters..
Please enjoy this wonderful video. It is best viewed in full screen!
As you can see from the footage in the video the once dusty village is now a thriving small city. It has become famous for foreign students of Tai Chi travelling from all across the globe to train the amazing art. The teaching of these foreign students, as well as students from across China, had created a new local economy. The local teachers have been able to build large teaching facilities with dormitories, and the Chinese government seeing the benefit has taken a large part in promoting Chen Village and the Tai Chi that it has become famous for.
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director, who has seen many of his films have international success. His first full feature film was “Pushing Hands” from 1992. It was part of the “Father Knows Best” trilogy which also included the films “The Wedding Banquet” and “Eat Man Drink Woman”.
The movie “Pushing Hands” is one of the few movies which is said to accurately portray the Tai Chi art of pushing hands. Below is a video essay of the film “Pushing Hands” by The Seventh Art. It looks at the relationships of the film’s characters through the use of space in the filming of the movie.
This is one of my favourite movies. Click on the image below to see more about this wonderful movie!
Just yesterday we showed you the new trailer for Jet Li’s new short movie called “Gong Shou Dao”. Well, we are happy to be able to show you the whole film now that it was just released on November 11th!
Please enjoy this wonderful movie that is just over 20 minutes in length!
The film stars billionaire Alibaba.com owner Jack Ma as the Wuxia legend ”Feng Qing Yang” who fights all the Kung Fu masters he crosses paths with. This short film also stars big name martial arts actors such as Jet Li,, Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, and Tony Jaa. Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-Ping contributed to the film as fight scene coordinators.
Check out the official website of Gong Shou Dao. For more information about this and other projects by Jet Li, list his website at www.jetli.com.
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We have all been hearing about Jet Li’s new short movie called “Gong Shou Dao”, featuring billionaire businessman Jack Ma. The official trailer was released today during at the evening celebration banquet for the 2017 Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. The full version of the film will premiere on November 11th.
The film stars Jack Ma as the Wuxia legend ”Feng Qing Yang“. Ma’s character is a Tai Chi master who takes on the different masters of Kung Fu he comes across throughout the film. Besides Jet Li and Jack Ma starring in this short film to promote Tai Chi, it also features big name martial arts actors such as Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen, Yuen Woo-Ping, Wu Jing, and Tony Jaa.
You can watch the full version of this film by clicking here!
More information about this and other projects by Jet Li on his website www.jetli.com.
