Adam Hsu – Chen TaiChi Linking Form

This is the second DVD in Master Adam Hsu’s series on the Tai Chi of the Chen family, the original Tai Chi.
This is the original form taught to Yang Lu Chan, from which Yang and all other styles descended! T’ai Chi is one of the Chen family’s main forms.
Unlike many other versions, this one focuses on identifiable and useful self-defense applications as well as the extremely delicate usage of “Reeling Silk energy.”
This is one of the greatest ways to learn Chen style T’ai Chi.
In Yang style, this “connecting form” is identical to the Short Form.
Though simpler than Lao Jia, the first major T’ai Chi Chen form, it does not compromise on the fundamental principles and motions required for a complete grasp of this “parent” of T’ai Chi.
Other topics covered in Hsu’s usual detailed and fascinating style include:
Chen T’ai Chi’s History and Lineage
Fundamental Ideas – (the kind of information neglected on so many tapes)
Basic Training consists of the eight classic postures.
The shape itself Fists Joined Chen T’ai Chi-Ch’i collecting particular Ch’i Kung Expansion of Posture Training Push Hands Exercise-elbow Search T’ai Chi Application- How it Works for Chen Style Hsu, Adam Since 1978, our Master has been teaching traditional northern style kung fu in America.
In 1941, Master Adam Hsu was born in Shanghai, China.
His family relocated to Taiwan in 1949, where he spent the next twenty-five years learning with the most renowned kung fu instructors.
His primary instructor was the illustrious Grandmaster Liu Yun Chiao.
Master Hsu received his master’s degree in Chinese literature from Taiwan Normal University, one of numerous famous schools where he taught kung fu as well as Chinese literature.
He has held several distinguished positions, including General Secretary of Taiwan’s National Kung Fu Federation, Instructor to the Republic of Liberia, and Member of the Republic of China National Kung Fu Delegation.
He was the previous editor and publisher of Wu Tang Martial Arts Magazine, as well as a prior senior editor of Wu Chow Publishing Company’s Kung Fu Library, the largest publisher of kung fu literature.
He has many Chinese books and over a hundred articles in English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and German.
He has also appeared on the covers of over eighteen magazines throughout the world.
Black Belt Hall of Fame, Black Belt Instructor of the Year, AAU National Senior Advisor, and recognized President of the International and Six-Harmony Praying Mantis Associations are among his most recent accolades.
He established the Ancient Wushu Association in 1990 as a non-profit international organization committed to the preservation, refinement, and promotion of traditional Chinese martial arts.
He wrote Sword Polisher’s Record, a significant English study on the origins and reality of traditional kung fu.
His two-volume “Essays on Chinese Martial Arts” (Chinese language version only) are regarded as kung fu classics.
He and his pupils have taken part in several concerts and seminars both in the United States and overseas.
Master Hsu’s teachers have been educated to integrate modern teaching methods with traditional kung fu training and techniques.
English language copies of Master Hsu’s kung fu teaching DVDs are now available.
Mr. Lin Huai-Min, the creator of Taiwan’s famous Cloud Gate Dance Theater, requested him to become an instructor for the group in 2000.
His work in instilling the fundamental concepts of traditional Chinese wushu into the bodies and minds of the dancers was so effective that he was asked to develop a children’s wushu training program.
This curriculum has been adopted at a number of Cloud Gate schools around Taiwan.
Sifu Hsu received the Taiwan Government’s Cultural Award in 2006 for his lifelong contributions to the traditional Chinese martial art of kung fu.
His most recent English language work, Lone Sword Against The Cold Cold Sky, was released in early 2007.
Beginning in 2008, Sifu Hsu assumed the same role as his respected Master, Liu Yun-Chiao: instructor for Taiwan’s presidential bodyguards.
In 2010, he published Learn Long Fist, a new Chinese-language book for youngsters.
The material is written in a conversational tone, with explicit directions and numerous stunning graphics that clearly demonstrate each stage of long fist basic training and the form, Linking Fist.
Sifu Hsu now lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
He is still giving seminars and classes throughout the United States, as well as Taiwan, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, and other countries.