Push Hands – Shearing Shearing in Push Hands is when you allow your partner to push and you receive and return his force across his weak angle or load his rear foot and roll him off it as a pivot . The touch is similar to a scuffing along the […]
Tai Chi Chuan
Push Hands Receiving /Returning Drill This is a cooperative training drill in which one practitioner pushes ( using muscle) into the root of the receiver with the intent of nourishing , not threatening the root of the receiver . This is done by pushing mindfully and gradually building up power […]
Push Hands Receiving /Returning Drill
Push Hands Changes When Alex and i train push hands , there is a part that is drills to develop skills and there is a free play part as well . The drills are sometimes cooperative in nature as they are necessary in nurturing the skills of the practitioners . […]
PUSH HANDS CHANGES
1 CIRCULATION GONG This is one of those little tidbit type exercises that would be discussed in passing by Mr. Chan that i would retain and train . He mentioned this exercise as a necessity as one ages. He said that we would not understand at our age . He […]
CIRCULATION GONG
SIX HARMONIES IN PUSH HANDS i trained with Dr. Tao Ping Siang in Push Hands . William CC Chen’s son Max and i would do push hands under the watchful eye of Dr. Tao. When Max or i got tied up, Dr. Tao would replace one of us and […]
SIX HARMONIES IN PUSH HANDS
2 Beware the Fist Under Elbow This is an interesting posture in that it represents a second line of defense. If when defending myself , the fist passes into my “Egg” or over the outermost line where i am neither collapsed nor overly extended away from my center or if i […]
Beware the Fist Under Elbow
” YOU CAN’T SAY RELAX ! INSTEAD SAY CALM , LOOSE “ BP Chan was aware of the fact that the English translation of the word Song was Relax . Mr. Chan felt that the word relax was not relaxing . The technical definition did not match the actual feeling […]
“YOU CAN’T SAY RELAX ! INSTEAD SAY CALM , LOOSE ...
1 GRASPING VS GRABBING It is important to make a distinction between Grasping and Grabbing . When i speak of grabbing , i am referring to the excess use of strength in locking up all of the fingers in an effort to hold or control something . Grasping refers to […]
GRASPING VS GRABBING
BRUSH KNEE 2 PERSON SET – WHAT IF DETAILS These are just some examples of how to deal with someone who is trying to oppress you with their strength or if they cross their center line or if they attack you with the intent of holding open your centerline […]
BRUSH KNEE 2 PERSON SET – WHAT IF DETAILS
BRUSH KNEE 2 PERSON SET It is named “Brush Knee” because that is the intent necessary to take your opponent out of center. If you just push “downish” to a vague destination, then you will have a fight on your hands. If, however, you deflect & drill up (rise up,drill) […]
BRUSH KNEE 2 PERSON SET
USING THE WAIST TO GENERATE POWER When warming the hands i always use the waist because it allows me to relax my arms ( with regard to the forward and backward forces) and let the waist and its larger musculature generate the movement and forces . The palms press together […]