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ChenCenter Opens New Online Store!3 comments

chencenter wrote 1 week ago: Hey Gang! Just a short little note to tell everyone that I have a new online store that I just looov … more »

Tags: Announcements, Martial Arts, Chen Style, chencenter, Michael Joyce, Store, cafepress, Products, Students

The Way of 'Smoke1 comment

wizardsmoke wrote 1 month ago: It’s un-Buddhist to be a martial artist, right? Everyone should live in a vanilla-flavored par … more »

Tags: Reality Bites, Martial Arts, Religion, Buddhism, fighting, Taiji, Tai Chi, Kung Fu, gongfu

Taijiquan for some...4 comments

wizardsmoke wrote 1 month ago: …miniature American flags for others! It’s funny, if you try to compare how difficult to … more »

Tags: Reality Bites, Martial Arts, fighting, Taiji, Deshimaru, Tai Chi

What It All Boils Down To6 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago: is this… The efforts we make towards the attainment of anything within the martial artists, ar … more »

Tags: Gong, Lessons, HowTo, Martial Arts, Tai Chi, gongfu

FIVE FUN FACTS (A GAME)4 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago: IF YOU ARE VIDEO RESPONDING, PUT IT UP ON YOUTUBE (UNDER MINE) SO THAT WE ALL CAN SEE IT.  YOU CAN … more »

Tags: Announcements, chencenter, five facts, tag-game, Game

WELCOME TO MY WORLD4 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago: THIS IS THE TRUE BEGINNINGS OF THE VIDEO LOGS (or “VLOGSs”)   … more »

Tags: Announcements, Martial Arts, chencenter, Vlog, Welcome, Message

Martial Morality4 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago: … more »

Tags: Announcements, Lessons, HowTo, Martial Arts, Virtue, Philosophy

Pushing legs

neijia wrote 2 months ago: From a taijiquan perspective, I need to start thinking about bjj as pushing legs. Sure, you, random … more »

Tags: bjj

What Can We Learn From Guitar Hero 3?7 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago:    Recently, like the masses of North America, I’ve been caught up… mesmerized by the … more »

Tags: Lessons, guitar hero, Guitar Hero 3, Games, Xbox, Gaming, PlayStation

EMBODY THE BUTTERFLY3 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago: WELL WELL WELL WE QUICKLY GOT TO 10 COMMENTS ! AND AS PROMISED…. I’M HERE TO VENTURE MY … more »

Tags: Lessons, Martial Arts, Xingyiquan, Spirit, Tai Chi, ¥Í¬¡, mind intent, Butterfly

What the Spirit Takes On (a Question)14 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago: THIS QUESTION GOES OUT TO EVERYONE WHO PRACTICES THE MARTIAL ARTS: PREFACE:  Within many martial ar … more »

Tags: Lessons, Martial Arts, Question, Kung Fu, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Kárate, Spirit, imagery

Josh Waitzkin interview

neijia wrote 2 months ago: Here is a great interview I found on EmptyFlower.net in a thread called “Attacking during the … more »

Tags: bjj, Chess, Genius, Josh Waitzkin

Josh Waitkin's taiji book? Genius applied to multiple domains?3 comments

neijia wrote 2 months ago: I was responding to a Formosa Neijia blog post about doing limited moves vs. knowing many and refere … more »

Tags: Chess, Genius, Josh Waitzkin, Everything, Fedor

LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS OF SCIENCE AT THE TEN ESSENTIALS OF TAl CHI CHUAN 1 comment

cptaichi wrote 2 months ago: Written by Holly Sweeney Yang Chengfu’s Ten Essentials insured that the practice of Tai Chi Ch … more »

Tags: Tai Chi, health, yang, CHI, Style, cheng fu, Tai, chuan, Taiji

Yoga and qigong: relationship of chakras to dantians

neijia wrote 2 months ago: I’m getting more interested in the similarity of yoga and qigong. It’s interesting that … more »

Tags: Qigong, Yoga

Ways to apply what I just said

neijia wrote 2 months ago: Some examples for me to test my 80/20 theory. Entry to inside for judo throws. Cloud hands movement … more »

Tags: judo, Bagua

Wardoff, rollback, press, and pull down

neijia wrote 2 months ago: In the spirit of jkd, I wonder what the “essence” of taijiquan I want to absorb would be … more »

A New and Improved CCB2 comments

chencenter wrote 2 months ago:   With time, comes great things.     First, I’d like to thank all our readers and those w … more »

Tags: Announcements, Lessons, Martial Arts, News, Lesson, Announcement, Chen Style, chencenter, Hunyuan

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day

neijia wrote 3 months ago: I don’t know anything about it but today is World Tai Chi and Qigong Day. … more »

Tags: Offtopic, Qigong