23. Step Back and Press Elbow. Tuì bù yā zhŏu

Ma Hong. Chen Style Taijiquan first frame (chen shi taijiquan xin jia i lu) Master Ma Hong (1927 – 2013)passed away on December 22, 2013. He was a tenth generation descendant of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan. He started learning Tai Chi in 1962. However, Ma Hong did not start learning in depth until starting his training in 1972 with Chen Zhao Kui. Ma Hong was very active in his Tai Chi community, having held positions in the Shijiazhuang Chen Style Taijiquan Research Association, Deputy Secretary of the Henan Wenxian International Organizing Committee, and being named one of China’s thirteen contemporary masters of Tai Chi at the International Conference Jury of Tai Chi Chuan in 1994. Having taught in China and other countries as well, Master Ma Hong has taught many students and has helped spread the art of Chen Family Tai Chi Chuan across the world. The Chen family-style (陳家、陳氏、陳式 太極拳) or Chen-style Taijiquan i