I prefer this version of Chen Style because of its similarity to Yang Style. I do some of this frame to warm up for or cool down from the Yang forms both Short and Long.
This looks like Yang Style much more than the contemporary Chen frame. I really like it even though I practice Yang Style and practice parts of this routine to supplement my core training.
It is Du Ye Ze practising old frame of ChenTajiquan aged 81 in Taiwan - He was a student of Chen Yan Xi - the father of the famous Taiji master Chen Fa Ke.
“ A Chinese speaking friend of mine, also a Chen style practitioner, looked up Du on taijiren.cn, which is what he describes, I think with tongue in cheek, as the "official" taiji site. It suggests that Du’s teachers were more varied that just Chen Fake. This is his translated distillation of the entry about Du): “Dù Yǜzé born in 1897. When Yuze was 18 (1915), his father, who worked for the Qīng imperial administration in a town not far from Chenjiagou, hired Chén Yánxī, Chén Fākē's father, to take on Yuze as a discipl. Shortly after Du started studying with him, after teaching Du the first 13 moves of Lao Jia, Yanxi retired. He sent Du to study with Chen Mingbiao, a small frame practitioner. Du's father hired Mingbiao to serve as a guard at his official residence. Yuze graduated university in Shanghai in 1925. So if he was in Shanghai for 4 or more years, his time with Yanxi and Mingbiao amounted to 6 years (or less). “ I appreciated the historical color about Du’s circumstances and the reference to small frame, which was certainly actively practiced around Chenjiagou at that time. Du himself was still a young man after he moved to Shanghai, and there may have been much more training available to him after he moved to Shanghai (and later to Taiwan) Has anyone been able to date the video of Du?
@@paulwinick540 When I watched the video above, it looked to me like a shortened version of the old frame (several postures of the now practiced old frame were missing) but the more "closed" and short movements kinda looked like the small frame. The translation you shared confirmed my thoughts! So thanks A LOT for it!!!
@@zenfeng173 Yes. I practice Huang’s Yang style but I study this video for instruction and do some of this Old Chen form as my warm up or cool down before or after I do the Yang form. I really like it.