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Our aim: Preserving the Taiji community’s effort
When Cheng Man Ching unexpectedly died in 1975, he was buried with a traditional ceremony, which included the writing of a so-called funerary biography.
Our main interest lies in the roots and branches of Yang Style resp. Cheng Man Ching Taijiquan…
To vie and struggle in order to win is not doing Cheng Man Ch’ing Tai Chi.
When Cheng Man Ching changed the Yang form, it was not simply to make it shorter.
Cheng Man Ching’s Tai Chi System is praised by some as a corner stone of Tai Chi’s reinvention in the modern age.
Ken van Sickle is famous for his swordplay & his photographs of Cheng Man Ching
Cheng Man Ching was a Chinese Doctor, Master of Taijiquan and a passionate calligrapher, poet and painter. He is the author of numerous own books and is regarded as the ghostwriter of Yang Chengfu’s book on form and application of Yang Style Taijiquan.
2nd European Cheng Man Ching Forum 31st July – 6th August 2004 in Hannover (Germany) The year 2000 saw the centenary of the birth of the late Professor Cheng Man Ching who was one of the most renowned exponents of taijiquan in the western world. Cheng originally studied with Yang […]
Were you still in touch with Professor Cheng Man Ching? Did you still meet him and how was your relationship? So when I was in New York I went to see him from time to time. Actually, at that time I was supposed to help him teaching, but then I […]
Cheng Man Ching’s direct students – the “second generation” if one sees Cheng Man Ching’s influence as determining a new approach – seem to follow this new tradition while continuing to adapt further to modernity. The Master as student and teacher Taken as an example out of the group of […]
So you went to Professor Cheng Man Ching and then you started Tai Chi, but did he have a school or…? He didn’t have a school, but he was teaching in one place. It was like the front yard of an office, a little space. In the morning he taught […]
Well, Master Chen, how did you learn about Taijiquan and how and where and when did you start? I started about the age of 18, 19. And the reason I started was that I was looking to the martial arts – all these comic books and fantasies with the martial […]
Part IV – The second generation and the beginning’s of Cheng Man Ching Tai Chi in New York In the 4th part of the interview, Ken van Sickle talks about some students of Cheng Man Ching, the “second generation”, especially about two of the older students who studied with him […]
Asked about the motivation behind his movie “The Professor – Tai Chi’s Journey West”, Ken van Sickle recalls Cheng Man Ching urging his students to “get it out there”, i.e. to make Tai Chi practice known in the West and also to spread the knowledge about this unique kind of […]
Ken van Sickle on Cheng Man Ching Part I – Studying with Cheng Man Ching In this 5-part interview series, Ken van Sickle, photographer, Tai Chi Master and student of Cheng Man Ching in New York, talks about studying with Cheng Man Ching and his desire to capture Cheng Man Ching’s […]
Conversations with the Grandmasters During the course of the Cheng Man Ching Forum 2002 I wanted to arrange interviews with the special guests who were the lineaged Grandmasters that had been very close students of Professor Cheng Man Ching. The Gentlemen concerned were: William C C Chen, Benjamin Lo, Hsu […]
My Father by Katy Cheng My father was born in the last century, well imbued with the traditional Chinese culture. But he was not weighed down by the old. He was open-minded, a tireless teacher, creating new ideas with full enthusiasm and keeping doggedly his principles in those fashion-filled times. […]
Yang style according to Professor Cheng Man Ching Professor Cheng Man Ching (1900 – 1975) learned Tai Chi Chuan in the tradition of the classical Yang style from Yang Chengfu in Shanghai. There he was close friends with Ma Yueliang, the representative figure of the new Wu style. After the […]