Enticing Enticing is sometimes useful to elicit an urgent or stiff expression from your push hands partner. In this clip after one circle I slightly drop below his hand making him miss, he reaches for my arm again and he misses a second time, on his third attempt I let […]

Enticing

Sinking and turning in push hands I am experimenting with sinking and small turns internally in this video . Alex, my partner, pushes towards me and I receive his force, roll him off, and sink under him internally. You may notice right after the rollback, he pops out of his […]

Sinking and turning in push hands

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Using Na (seizing) to confuse Na or seizing can be applied in pushhands practice by sticking to and manipulating the space between the joints. This method will confuse your opponent by pulling his body internally via the connection to the connective tissue in the joint. When it is being applied […]

Using Na (seizing) to confuse

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Playing with Na Na is to seize in Tai Chi. One point where seizing is relatively easy to apply is at the joints. When you invade a joint Center, you pull tissue from both sides of the joint at the same time creating a state of confusion within the body. […]

Playing with Na

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 […]

Push Hands – Shearing

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

“me comes from We without We there is no me” – BP Chan This is my favorite quote from Mr. Chan it seems to be what all realized people find to be the deepest principle. I spoke with a very high-level monk who basically said the same thing. We are […]

My favorite BP Chan quote

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Madam Guo Lin created an anti-cancer qigong with the help of her grandfather and his Taoist friends to help her combat cancer . She had six surgeries before trying this method which is based on the Bear from the Five Animal Frolics . Her formula for success is to 1) […]

GUO LIN’S ANTI-CANCER FIXED FOOT WALKING QIGONG

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  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