Victoria Chen Taiji Academy

Chen Style Practical Method

 Er Lu - Cannon Fist

Grandmaster Hong Junsheng had several principles of movement that should be kept in mind during form practise.

1. The head should always be upright.
2. When reaching out, the hand should always proceed the elbow and the elbow should always proceed the shoulder.

When withdrawing, the shoulder should always precede the elbow and the elbow the hand
3. The spine should always be straight, with the tail-bone slightly pointed backwards.
   The knees should be relaxed and bent at all times.
4. The elbow should always be sunk.
The body should always be straight. The weight of the body can only be adjusted by the bending of the knees.
5. The hand normally does not go above the eyebrows or lower than the knees.
6. The knees never bend beyond the toes.
7. When one knee is down, the other one must be up, thus creating a cork-screw type of spiral of the body.
8. The two hands can move along the same general directions, but they can never turn in the same directions.
9. The eyes should be fixed on a fictitious opponent, even when practicing the solo form
10. The head, body/torso and limbs can only turn at 45-degrees.

1. Buddha's warrior attendants pounds the mortar
2. Block touching coat
3. Six sealing and four closing
4. Single whip
5. The hammer of lifting and blocking
6. White ape presents fruit
7. The fist of protecting the heart
8. Serial cannon
9. Brush the knee
10. Turn right and shoulder strike
11. Block and enter head-on
12. The wind blows the plum flowers
13. Buddha's warrior attendants pounds the mortar
14. Cross the hands
15. The fist of draping over the body
16. The fist of covering the body
17. Cut hand
18. Turning flowers and playing with sleeves
19. The fist of covering the hand
20. Jump forward and strike with elbow
21. Grand red fist
22. Turn left and high pat on horse
23. Small red fist
24. High pat on horse
25. Shuttle
26. Riding the donkey backward
27. Flash the back
28. Step forward and fist of covering the hand
29. The whip wrapping around the body
30. Turn right and the whip wrapping around the body
31. The posture of hand and elbow
32. The posture of the splitting power
33. Turning flowers and playing with sleeves
34. The fist of covering the hand
35. Tame the tiger
36. Brush the eyebrow
37. Right single cloud hand
38. Cut hand
39. Left single cloud hand
40. Left forward thrust
41. Double fist hit downward
42. Right forward thrust
43. Turning flowers out of the bottom of the sea
44. The fist of covering the hand
45. Foot sweep
46. The fist of covering the hand
47. Left fist cannon
48. Left fist cannon
49. Step forward and strike with shoulder
50. The fist of covering the hand
51. Planting the flower upside down
52. Left arm attack twice
53. Left change posture to pile stance
54. Left turn back and hit with cannon to the head
55. Right arm attack twice
56. Right change posture to pile stance
57. Right turn back and hit with cannon to the head
58. The fist of covering the body
59. Elbow strike with left foot
60. Elbow strike with right foot
61. Cannon comes out of the bottom
62. Block and enter head-on
63. Wind blow the plum flowers
64. Buddha's warrior attendants pounds the mortar