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title: Chen Tai Chi 8 Form
teacher: Jamal Alek 陳德家
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/chen-tai-chi-8-form-kVDFosEQaR8
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Chen Tai Chi 8 Form

2 min with Jamal Alek 陳德家. Standing and unsupported. Works for focus. Assumes some practice behind you. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Jamal Alek 陳德家**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVDFosEQaR8

- **Runtime**: 2 min (124 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing and unsupported
- **Style**: Chen style — the oldest family, alternating slow passages with sudden released power; the most demanding of the legs
- **Trains**: focus
- **Suits**: someone with a few months behind them, someone with an established practice
- **Intensity**: moderate
- **Phases it can fill**: Form
- **Teaching style**: silent or near-silent performance to follow by eye
- **Spoken language**: English

Tai Chi places this class into a session automatically rather than asking you to choose it: https://tai-chi.app