Chen Zhenglei

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My photos of Chen Zhenglei at Flickr 

Online information about Chen Zhenglei

Chen Zhenglei's website in Chinese, with some English pages.
Chen Style has a lot of information on Chen Zhenglei scattered throughout the site. Cruise around or go straight to this interview with Chen Zhenglei.
Article about Chen Zhenglei.
Article about Chen Zhenglei.
Interview with Chen Zhenglei on mistakes to avoid.
Interview with Chen Zhenglei in the Tai Chi Union magazine (Glasgow, Great Britain).
Interview with Chen Zhenglei in the Chen style Journal.

Clubs whose instructors train with Chen Zhenglei

Chinese Wushu and Tai-chi Academy, run by Hong Yijiao (Seattle WA).
A club in Australia.
Tai Chi Centre, run by Yue Liming (Manchester, England)
Herb Rich in Massachusetts.
The Tai Shan club in Richmond Hill, Ontario, the taiji taught by Jack Yan.

Chen style Tai Chi Centre, Yue Liming will be bringing out books in English, and new videos by Chen Zhenglei in English. He sells a DVD called "The Definitive Chen Style Tai Chi Demonstrations", a book with the old frame first form, sword and broadsword, and a book redoing the Taijiquan for Health book. You can download the introductory pages as pdf from his site, and there is also a cool set of complete photo gallery of the old frame #1 routine, photo gallery of the old frame #2 Cannon fist routine, and a gallery of all the pages of the book.

Here are links that I have found to supply information on Chen Zhenglei. He is absolutely solid yet agile with an ease of movement that is wonderful to watch. He teaches attentively with little ego, and enjoys playing and teaching taiji. He is a gentle man with a charm that sneaks up on you. He is passionate about Chen style taijiquan with an infectious enthusiasm.

Here is an article with an interview of Chen Zhengleil: "Handing Down the Family Treasure of Chen Taijiquan" by Martha Burr.

I don't do Chen Zhenglei's style. I have a responsibility to my sifu and I love my style. He has an established tour in Canada, the US, and Europe (see below).

His DVDs are top quality performance and teaching materials. There is a new series of DVDs available, made by the wushu association in Beijing. It is 40 DVDs with English subtitles. Some of the content is the same as the previous series, but re-filmed, and there is some additional content. There is also a 20 DVD series of theory that is not out yet.

Books available in English

"Chen style Taijiquan (old frame first form) Sword and Broadsword", 368 pages, 2003. ISBN 7-5348-2321-8. Excellent translation of theory, history, basics, the first form (including movements, requirements, internal energy, self-defense applications) by Zhang Xinhu and Greg Bissell. This is one of the best translations I have ever seen in Chinese martial arts, quite outstanding. Chinese terms in pinyin often given along with the translation. Idiosyncratic translation of sabre and sword forms by Xu Hailiang, very disappointing considering the excellence of the rest of the book. Excellent photographs throughout. If you see a copy of the first form done with cerlox binding, it is a bootleg. Please get the proper book published in China and authorised by Chen Zhenglei.


Seminar information 2010, Canada and the USA.

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August 25th – 26th - Eugene, Oregon
Contact: David Leung
Email: pkloi@yahoo.com 
http://www.leungsmartialarts.com/

September 4th – 5th - Seattle, WA
Contact: Hong Yijiao 
Email: yijiao@yijiaowushu.com 
http://yijiaowushu.com

September 4th – 5th - Vancouver, BC
Contact: Paul Tam
Email: paul@clfcanada.com 
http://clfcanada.com/

September 18th – 19th - Thunder Bay,  ON
Contact: Peng Youlian 
Email: taichi@tbaytel.net 
http://www.pengyou-taiji.ca

Sept 25-26  Richmond Hill, ON
Contact: Jack Yan
http://www.taishanclub.com

October 1st – 2nd - Montreal, QC
Contact: Leon Xu and Qian Zhou
Email: Sino_wushu@yahoo.ca 
http://www.sinowushuacademy.com/

October 3rd – 4th - Montreal, QC
Contact: Xiaojie 
Email: Taiji_xiao@yahoo.ca 

October 9th – 10th - Albany, NY
Contact: Troy Temullo 
Email: tot@nycap.rr.com or troy@asianartsgrp.com 
http://asianartsgrp.com

October 16th – 17th - Boston, MA
Contact: 
Brian Muccio 
Email: bmuccio@qmail.com
Or: Johanna Email: iohattendorf@verizon.com 

October 23rd – 24th - Washington DC 
Contact: C.P.Ong 
Email: cpong@gotaiji.com

November 6th – 7th - Atlanta, GA 
Contact:
David Dunn 
Or:
Jimmy Dong 
Email: qjdong@charter.net 

November 13th – 14th - San Antonio, TX 
Contact: 
Salvdor delaRosa 
Email: mu_chen@sbcglobal.net 
Or:
Yu Xia Qiu 
Email: docqiu@yahoo.com

November 18th – 25th - Mexico 
Huan Ba Shi 

Nov. 25th – Dec. 2nd - Peru 
Contact: Juan Vasquez Sanchez
Email: 142857jv@terra.com.pe 
http://www.taichienp...inoamerica.com/

December 4th – 5th - San Diego, CA 
Contact: Jesse Tsao 
Email: taichitsao@yahoo.com 
http://www.taichihealthways.com/

December 11th – 12th - December - Irvine, CA 
Contact: Dr. Shin Lin
Email: shinlin@uci.edu



Chen Zhenlei came back to the Tai Shan club in Richmond Hill, Ontario in September and October 2009. He was in good form and good humour. The two weekends were well attended, and once again Jack Yan did an great organizational and interpretation job. Some of the wushu centre guys were there.
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Chen Zhenglei came to the Tai Shan club in Richmond Hill, Ontario in November, 2008. There was a huge IMG_9027crowd there, almost too many for the club. Fortunately, it is in a small empty mall, so there was lots of space to work with. A small gang from the wushu centre took part in the seminar
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Comments from buyers of the DVDs

"This has to be the most complete video package that I have seen on Chen Tai Chi... Old Routine, New Routine, weapons... it is all there... and Chen Zhenglei is a very accomplished martial artist who performs these routines flawlessly. This is a must for any Taiji enthusiast. You sure have a knack for picking outstanding video packages." William Johnson

"I just started watching the Push-Hand DVD and am amazed at the amount and depth of knowledge contained within... There's "YEARS" of training in each DVD. Just blown away." "This series of DVD'S allows us an unique glimpse at a very high level of Chen training. Any serious Chen style practitioner should have the entire set in their collection." "Watched the rest of the Health Preserving Qi Gong, and am still blown away. It's a Record for all time of authentic Chen style tai chi chuan training. I've spent years trying to find material of this calibre. I think the availability of the material HAS to raise the level of tai chi chuan everywhere." Don

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