Master Cheng Jincai Entering the door of Chen Taijiquan

by Asr Cordes

Traditional chen style taijiquan is complete art that develop the practitioner on many levels along the road to achieving mastery, Whether one’s purpose in training is for health or for marital skills, traditional Chen Style Taijiquan  training seeks to develop the compete person inside and out.

As the Chen Style begins to gain popularity its standard bearers and official representative travel around the world teaching the genuine article to those sincerely interested in achieving the development offered by genuine Chen Style Taiji Training. It is upon meeting and interacting with these Master that the aspiring Taiji practitioner begins to realize that alot more is involved in learning the art than just the diligent practice of techniques and principles.

Master cheng Jincai Grew up training the Chen village and has practiced chen Style tai ij for  over 40 years having been a top” indoor disciple” of 18th Generation standard bearer Chen Zhaokui, Master Cheng is quite well versed in waht it take to be able to received the genuine transmission of the art and achieve the higher level of development. Cheng Jincai the third of five son was born in 1954 in Wen Country Henna province . China, The birth lace of Chen Style tai Chi, as youth . Cheng was very sickly and suffered from severed headaches dizziness and fainting, as a result he was able neither to attend school regularly nor live a normal life. as did the other children. after great efforts to remedy the illness. finally one doctor told Cheng’s father that his illness was very difficult to cure and that this would probably be a lifetime condition.  Cheng became very depressed about his situation but he noticed that other child around the village who practiced Taiji Gong fu were very healthy, so at young age of seven Cheng decided to take his life into his own hands and began learning Taiji chuan to improve his health.

to be contiunes.

 

 

Mark Cheng

Mark was born in the late 1970s in Big Yellow Village, near Chen Village, one of the best-known places associated with traditional Tai Chi. Growing up in this environment gave him early exposure to Chinese martial arts, and he has now practiced Tai Chi and other traditional Chinese martial arts for more than 40 years, including extensive training in Baji Quan. Over the decades, Mark has traveled around the world to train, study, and attend seminars and classes with respected masters and senior practitioners. His martial arts journey has also taken him into competition, where he has earned multiple gold medals, as well as into judging, serving as a judge at numerous martial arts competitions. Mark’s writing combines more than four decades of hands-on training with lessons learned from seminars, personal exchanges and interviews with experienced practitioners, competition experience, and research into Chinese-language martial arts sources. His goal is to explain traditional Chinese martial arts from the perspective of someone who has practiced them for most of his life—not simply studied them from books.

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