martial applications

Cloud Hands – Coiling in to coil out BP Chan was often heard saying” coil in to coil out”. This is a very profound statement when one gets to understand it. Firstly the coiling can be active or passive and ends up with the tissue being wound like a rope […]

Cloud Hands – “Coil in, to coil out”

Step back to repulse the monkey – sticking versus grasping Practitioners are often perplexed about how to grasp the attack in the posture “step back to repulse the monkey”. Most practitioners will reach for the punch or try to swat it away with power. The contraction of their muscles as […]

Step back to repulse the monkey – sticking versus grasping

Sometimes you miss In this clip I attempt a press technique on Alex who senses my attack and yields neutralizing my force. I start to move a little more sloppily and collapse inward in an attempt to draw him in to an attack. I also utilize a shortcut to shorter […]

Sometimes you miss

Unique to the family form One peculiarity of BP Chan’s Family form is a transitional movement between Hi Pat the Horse and the following posture of Separate and Kick. The action involves using a facing out palm while turning around the central axis horizontally. This is a similar action to […]

Unique to the family form

The use of Peng, Lu and An in Push Hands When practicing push hands and applying the art of Taijiquan we must use the strategic energies of ward off, rollback, and press downward to effectively apply our techniques. These are the energies found it in the traditional long form. They […]

The use of Peng, Lu and An in Push Hands

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

RAISING YOUR HEELS AND BENDING BACKWARD SEVEN TIMES , ALL OF YOUR DISEASES WILL DISAPPEAR – SIXTH BROCADE This is the sixth of eight exercises known as the Eight Pieces of Brocade or Ba Duan Jin . These Dao Yin are over 900 years old and one of my essential […]

RAISING YOUR HEELS AND BENDING BACKWARD SEVEN TIMES , ALL ...

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THE PRACTICE OF RECOVERY AND POSITION IN PUSH HANDS   The Single Hand Fixed Foot Push Hands Drill teaches the methods of recovery as well as concepts of positioning . It is important that when training , the Pushing practitioner focuses his push to the right target and that he […]

THE PRACTICE OF RECOVERY AND POSITION IN PUSH HANDS

DRILL FOR ACQUIRING WARD OFF  Taijiquan has been called Peng Jin Quan or Ward Off Boxing by some. It is Ward Off that allows for the cultivation of soft effortless power and it is softness that creates an environment for Ward Off to occur. If one attempts to aquire […]

DRILL FOR ACQUIRING WARD OFF

DEFENSE  AGAINST A HOOK PUNCH TO THE RIBS/KIDNEY i can “roll with the punch” using my elbow to Roll Off the force (Lu) and hook Jim Galloway’s wrist . Jim’s resistant wrist will adhere to my elbow and with a turn of the waist, i can pull Jim off balance […]

DEFENSE AGAINST A HOOK PUNCH TO THE RIBS/KIDNEY

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THE FORMULA FOR EFFORTLESS POWER When applying power upward , there are 3 ways that one can progress through to achieve something Internal as a mechanism . The Tai Chi Tu or ” Yin Yang Diagram” is the visual expression of a Universal Principle that could be explained as opposing […]

THE FORMULA FOR EFFORTLESS POWER

  LEAN OF THE HORSE TO INQUIRE THE WAY – 3 ZONES OF CONTROL     Baguazhang’s posture Lean on the Horse to Inquire the Way uses the 3 zones/fists of control to elicit a response from my opponent. My opponent’s forearm is three fist widths long from the wrist […]

LEAN OF THE HORSE TO INQUIRE THE WAY – 3 ...