Training Plan
Training For A Few Days, Weeks or Months
Training At Chen Style Tai Chi Academy
Chinese martial arts has a long history, is a witness to the years, and is a treasure of culture.
The road to training martial arts (or Tai Chi) is full of hardships and challenges, but it is these hardships that have forged the glory of martial artists. Every jump and every strike condenses the hard work and sweat of martial artists, and tells of their love and persistence for martial arts. Let us embark on this martial arts journey together and pursue the tranquility and strength from the heart.
Practicing Tai Chi not only exercises our bodies, but also teaches us how to regulate our breathing and how to concentrate. In our busy lives, Tai Chi is like a good medicine that helps us relieve stress and regulate our emotions. It allows us to find tranquility in the hustle and bustle and peace in the impetuousness.
Training Plan
The basic skills training of Tai Chi is the only way to enter the door of Tai Chi and need to be practiced daily. It covers the steady posture, smooth walking, agile hand gestures, relaxation, flexibility, waist turning, delicacy, and coordination of body, footwork, eye movements, breathing and thoughts. Through hard practice day after day, students can not only improve their physical fitness, but also understand the yin and yang of Tai Chi between movement and stillness, and achieve the state of unity of body and mind.
Our disciple Chen-style Tai Chi masters will teach you how to do something and they will do their utmost to help you to progress, but your actual progress all depends on your personal effort. The harder you train, the more you learn, and the better you get.
Teaching Plan
We hope that every student who dreams of learning Tai Chi (or martial arts) can find their own Tai Chi soul in Chenjiagou, the birthplace of Tai Chi, and turn this hard work and effort into the most precious wealth in their lives.
We customize individual study programs for every student according to different situations, ages and expectations. we have few days (or Weeks), one month, three months, six months and one year programs. Also you can choose different stay periods according to your schedule.
In order to give you a general idea of what you can learn during different lengths of stay at Chen Style Tai Chi Academy, we provide you a rough teaching plan. This plan will be adjusted individually to personal body condition, preference and improvements. For example, if you like one type of Tai Chi (or weapon) in particular you can learn more forms of that Tai Chi (or weapon) during your stay here. Also our experienced masters will recommend the best form for you according to the situation of each student.
After you’ve finished a set of movements or a form, our masters will teach you all its practical applications in order to make you understand the underlying meaning of the form. You will be granted an official certificate from Chen Style Tai Chi Academy to display all your learning’s after you finish your training period.
Training Period
For few days or weeks, you will learn the Basic skills of Chen-style Tai Chi (body, footwork, eye movements, breathing and thoughts etc.). One traditional Chen-style Tai Chi fist form is what you’ll have to master.
| Example of Forms | Tai Chi Basic Skills |
| 19 Step Tai Chi |
In this time you will learn the basics of Chen-style Tai Chi and Chinese martial arts, and one traditional Chen-style Tai Chi form. Furthermore you will be able to learn Tai Chi push hands and a weapon form if you should wish. Depending on experience some students might be able to learn more and some less than described.
| Example of Forms | Tai Chi Push Hands |
| Lao Jia Yi Lu Chen Tai Chi | |
| Tai Chi Single Fan |
During three months of training you will learn some more advanced Chen-style Tai Chi forms and weapons, Tai Chi Push Hands, Tai Chi San Shou and some Qi Gong. What you can learn in 3 months will also depend on how much you train and/or your preferences for specific styles (or forms).
| Example of Forms | Tai Chi San Shou |
| Tai Chi Push Hands | |
| 38 Step Chen Tai Chi | |
| Xin Jia Yi Lu Chen Tai Chi | |
| Tai Chi Single Straightsword | |
| Meditation |
During six months training you can learn about six Chen-style Tai Chi forms, four to five Tai Chi weapons (or traditional weapons) and some Qi Gong as well as all the applications of the forms. You will be able to master the techniques of Tai Chi (body, footwork, eye movement, breathing, and thoughts etc.)
| Example of Forms | Tai Chi Push Hands |
| Tai Chi San Shou | |
| 19 Step Chen Tai Chi | |
| 38 Step Chen Tai Chi | |
| Xin Jia Yi Lu Chen Tai Chi | |
| Xin Jia Er Lu Chen Tai Chi | |
| 4 Weapons: Tai Chi Single Broadsword, Tai Chi Single Straightsword, Tai Chi Ball, Qi Mei Gun | |
| Meditation |
In one year time, you will learn the basic skills of Chen-style Tai Chi, all the forms of Chen-style Tai Chi forms and weapon forms, the traditional weapons and Qi Gong. You can find all the styles (or forms) on Tai Chi Styles Page.
