These are some Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method push hands and applications demonstrated by master Chen Zhonghua and Sensei Michael Calandra. Michael Calandra is an outstanding NY city police officer. He had taught hand combat courses for the FBI and is currently responsible for the security of very important government officials.
He is a sixth dan black belt in Okinawan Karate and is a senior sensei in many traditional Japanese martial arts. In 2003, after many encounters and lessons, he became master Chen Zhonghua’s disciple in Chen Style Taijiquan Practical Method.
This video showed some basic use of power and techniques from the Cannon Fist routine, which is mainly the usage of taiji power in a fast and linear way in combat situations. Some of the moves in the video are for the purpose of explaining power and alignment only. They are not exclusive applicable techniques.
Filed under: Power of Taiji, PushHands
