www.thewushucentre.net

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.

Richmond Hill, ON, September 5-6

Montreal September 12-13

Newmarket, ON, September 19-20

Go to the  calendar page for seminars.

His DVDs are top quality performance, and teaching materials - explaining the moves, giving pointers on tricky bits, showing applications, and showing in slow motion (not camera slow motion, but doing it slowly) - clear, without a lot of extra explanation of 'how' but with enough repetition for you to see for yourself. The core series is the old frame first form, old frame second form, sword, push hands, health exercises and forms performance. The new frame first form was filmed on a stage. The extra series I call the golf course series, and contains the new frame second form, broadsword, double broadsword, double sword, long pole, spring and autumn cutter, spear, and more forms performance. They did all of them on the same day because they had to pay for the golf course hole they were on. Professor Chen looks drained, dehydrated, has to squint into the sun, and then the wind picks up. The broadsword, spear, long pole, and cutter are cool forms, and the new frame hand forms are well done, though not as well as he usually does them. Chen Zhenglei at half-power is still way better than most performers, though. The quality, again, is excellent. Straight from the horse's mouth, all the masters's videos were filmed this way - they were taken outside and filmed through ALL their forms in one day. What a way to treat a master, eh? The DVDs are made for all zones.

*There is a new series of DVDs available now, 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.