Lipyeow's Chenjiagou Taijiquan Page

Lipyeow's Chenjiagou Taijiquan (陈家沟太极拳) Page

Dear Visitor,

I teach Chen style Taijiquan, specifically, the style that is practised in Chen village (chenjiagou). This website is primarily dedicated as a resource to my students, but may be of interest to the general public as well.

Taijiquan or Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese internal martial arts that is also practised for health. It is characterized by slow, graceful and often circular movements. Chen style taijiquan is believed to be the oldest form of taijiquan and originated from Chen Village (Chenjiagou) in Henan, China.

I trace my lineage from my primary teacher-couple, Hu Su-Tan 胡淑坦 and Chen Hui-Qiu 陈慧秋 (both from Singapore). Teacher Chen Hui-Qiu is a disciple of Grandmaster Zhu Tian-Cai 朱天才 (from Chenjiagou). Grandmaster Zhu is a 19th generation grandmaster and one of the four tigers or Buddha warriors (together with Chen Xiao-Wang, Chen Zheng-Lei, & Wang Xi-An) from Chenjiagou. I also study under Grandmaster Zhu and host Grandmaster Zhu's Taijiquan Workshops in North Carolina, USA.

I have also started training in the I-Liq-Chuan 意力拳 system under Master Sam Chin.

The rest of this website contains information including video clips that hopefully would aid you in your training.

Mr. Lipyeow Lim 林立耀
limlipye at yahoo dot com

Class Schedule

Valhalla, New York

FREE Beginner's class
Every Thursday evening 7 -- 8:30 PM at
Valhalla United Methodist Church, 200 Columbus Avenue Valhalla, NY 10595
Email limlipye [at] yahoo [dot] com or call 914-220-2194 (after office hours) for more information.

The curriculum will focus on silk-reeling exercises and 13 movements from the chen style old frame first routine (lao jia yi lu). This class is free of charge, but I will encourage you to make a freewill donation to the church for the use of their facilities. Please come in loose comfortable clothing and bring something to drink.

Durham, North Carolina

Please see the Duke Taijiquan Club Website for more infomation. (Old club website).

For private individual/group lessons, please email.

Training Resources

Posture Names

Names of the movements/postures in the different routines can be downloaded in PDF format here:

十八功法，老架一路（十三式） 18 Basic Exercises & 13 Old Frame Postures (English+Chinese) (pdf)
老架一路 Lao Jia Yi Lu - Old Frame 1st Routine in English (pdf), Chinese(pdf), English Pocketsize (pdf)
新架一路 Xin Jia Yi Lu - New Frame 1st Routine in English Pocketsize(pdf)
陈氏太极单剑 Chen Style Taiji Straight Sword (English) (pdf)
陈氏太极单刀 Chen Style Taiji Broadsword (English) (pdf)
陈氏太极单剑，单刀 Chen Style Taiji Broadsword and Straight Sword (Chinese+Pocketsize) (pdf)
陈氏太极大刀(春秋晏月刀) Chen Style Taiji Da Dao (Guan Dao) Routine in Chinese(pdf)

Videos

These low-res b/w videos in DivX format are provided to help students remember the routines. You may need to download the DivX decoder (MS Windows) (Mac) and install it (after which, your regular video player, eg. Windows Media Player, should be able to play the video).

十八功法 18 Exercises Qigong and Silk Reeling exercises � 丝劲基本功 (4 MB) performed by Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai.
老架一路（十三式） Lao Jia Yi Lu -- 13 movements (13 movements from the Old Frame 1st Routine)(3 MB Real Video) performed by Czech friend and fellow student of Grandmaster Zhu, Radek Kolar. You need REAL player to view this video.
老架一路（十三式） Lao Jia Yi Lu -- 13 movements (13 movements from the Old Frame 1st Routine)(1.5 MB) by Grandmaster Zhu Tian-Cai. The 13 movements are performed twice here, the first time on medium stance and the second time on high stance.
老架一路 Lao Jia Yi Lu (Old Frame 1st Routine)(5 MB) by Grandmaster Zhu Tian-Cai
陈氏太极单剑 Taijijian (straight sword) (1 MB) by Grandmaster Zhu

Additional video resources:

Malisa's website (also Grandmaster Zhu's student) provides free chen tai chi videos.

Reading Material

The following links point to reading material that i have found insightful and helpful in my training.

Taijiquan School of Central Equilibrium. Click on Notes. Cheng Man-Ching, Huang Sheng Shyan lineage.

Info on Grandmaster Hong Jun-Sheng's Chen Taijiquan

Paraphernalia

Limited quantities of the following for sale. Email limlipye at yahoo dot com for details.

Tassels:

Tassels for straight swords.
7USD each + shipping.
Click on picture for larger image.
Wooden Detachable Guan Dao (similar to a Halberd).
Black training pants.
Chenjiagou Tai Chi videos.