Video: Cheng Man Ching Tai Chi

[SPJ]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8162222609571015204&q=tai+chi

have fun.

:)

[RAF]

Why does Zhang Man Qing, during pushing hand demonstrations, continue to lift and place his front foot in to the centerline of the opponent before he does his final release?

I've practiced a similar moving step pushing hands drill but did not think this was part of the Zhang Man Qing practice.

[TenTigers]

yeah, me too. He must be doing it wrong.:p
That was an awesome vid. My OL's Grandfather trained with him. I've only seen stills, never saw him move. It was strange seeing him play his form, you can see he was getting on in years, but when he moved, it was another story. Kind of how they described Uyesheba.

[beaudacious]

That was NICE. Not a yang expert or anything but he looked very fluid there old age or not.

[Repulsive Monkey]

Zheng may not of been a Yang expert, as he said he only got 70% of Yang Cheng fu's art off of him, but Zheng definitely had something.
Even to this day many Yang family exponents put Zheng down, but Zheng couold definitely hold his own.

[wuqigong]

I get thought chen man ching's form. I'm a first year's student. I've been talking to many other people that practice tai chi and I found it this is very different then usual yang styles. It's more directed to health then fighting. Now I wonder if I practice this style long enough, would I be able to start using it as a martial art more and more? Or is it better to find another teacher that teaches in a way they do more in wushu..

[TenTigers]

Cheng Man-Ch'ing was well-known for his fighting, and his student, William Chen was Taiwan's full-contact champion, and William Chen's son and daughter also compete full-contact, and have outstanding records. So, yes. If you have a good teacher, Like William Chen, you will be able to fight.

[wuqigong]

Okay, thankz. Now I can train on fully motivated!

[chud]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8162222609571015204&q=tai+chi

have fun.

:)

Thanks for posting that SPJ, good stuff.

[YongChun]

Is there any way to save this video clip on my hard drive?

Ray

[shaolinboxer]

Home sick instead of out partying over my vacation :(. That made my day :)!

[fajinpower]

yeah, me too. He must be doing it wrong.:p
That was an awesome vid. My OL's Grandfather trained with him. I've only seen stills, never saw him move. It was strange seeing him play his form, you can see he was getting on in years, but when he moved, it was another story. Kind of how they described Uyesheba.

Do you study ... AIKIDO and/or Tai Chi???

[fajinpower]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8162222609571015204&q=tai+chi

have fun.

:)


May I ask a silly question. So I heard of his name and he is a master and everything. But who is he, where does he train, why is he famous, and or what style? Please elaborate. Thank you.

[SPJ]

http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/cheng1.htm#Links

[robu]

Is there any way to save this video clip on my hard drive?

Ray

Yes there is. The file is in some sort of flash video format.

Goto this page to download the clip. You need the URL of the clip.
http://dev2.traxio.net/projects/googlevideo/

And you need a "flv" player inorder to be able to view the file. You can get a free "flv" player here:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/flvplayer.html

There is a plugin for firefox that will download files from google video but I don't have the URL for that. If you want to do it the hard way, follow this link:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-download-google-video.html

/Robert B

[Hua Lin Laoshi]

My holiday gift to the forum - http://media.putfile.com/Cheng-Man-Ching

[robu]

It seems that the VideoLan player supports flv playback:
http://www.videolan.org/

Here is a simple free program to convert flv files to mpeg or avi. The avi file produced is uncompressed and will be quite large. You can use virtualdub to recompress it to a format of your own choice.
http://rainscape.org.uk/flvconvert.zip
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104183

Here is another program that is somewhat more combersome to use:
http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3

You have to set the video and audio parameters to match the input video parameters for best quality and you have to change the extension of the output file. Instructions on how to use it can be found here:
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t259578.html

[qiphlow]

wow! that's neat! i liked the fencing--we don't see too much of that anymore.

[Taiji-Rory]

That was cool, I don't know a lot about Chen Man Ching’s style of Yang Taiji, but the foot raising thing is similar to something we do in Wu style.

[Repulsive Monkey]

If I'm right the video there was taken up to about a year before Prof died after he left and went back to Taiwan.
Although for the camera he makes use of showing some clear aspects of yielding and attack he is also pretty freeform and so the lifting up of the foot is one of those things that some students would copy it thinking it was the wat forward.

A lot of the American students tended to copy his every motion and some of his mistakes too and missed on some of the essence of what he was teaching.

The lineages of the Taiwanese disciples has a stronger line and has lasted more intact I feel than the American students because they managed to get more out of Prof.
This is my undertsanding anyway.