Push-hand is the inseparable part of Tai Chi Chuan training. Tai Chi solo practice is to develop and sharpen the awareness of your body and of your movement. It is to know yourself. Push-hand is two-person training. It is to develop the awareness of your opponent or to know your enemy. Solo practice is to make you comfortable and stable. Push-hand is to keep your central equilibrium and make your opponent uncomfortable and unstable.
Tai Chi Chuan as an exercise or training system, it is not doing but sensing. Solo practice is to sense ourselves and make our body a thinking body. Push-Hand is to sense our opponent to know his intention and to make martial changes accordingly.
By learning Push-Hand, we not only check and correct our posture, frame, stance, poise and movement, but also develop the ability to neutralize or empty the opponent’s incoming force and capture or destroy his center gravity.
You also learn a lot of martial applications like joint locking, throwing, wrestling and grappling through push-hand training.
Content
Single hand workout
1. Single hand horizontal circle
2. Single hand vertical circle
3. Wrist leading vertical circle
4. Elbow leading vertical circle
5. Single hand pluck
6. Outer elbow circle
7. Inner elbow circle
Bump drill
1. Shoulder bump
2. Back bump
3. Hip bump
4. Knee bump
5. Walking circle bump
Four major hand patterns
1. Peng (upward)
2. Lu (backward)
3. Ji (press forward)
4. An (press downward)
Double hand workout
1. Peng lu ji an circle
2. Cai lie zhou kao circle
3. Da lu
Techniques
More training methods and techniques are provided to the students for better understanding and advanced learning.
1. Elbow and lie (wild horse parts mane)
2. Open close & push chest (Apparent closing)
3. Press elbow & push shoulder (Fair lady shuttles)
4. Brush & push (Brush knee & push)
5. Single whip & push (single whip)
6. Cloud hands
7. Pluck wrist (cai)
8. Split elbow (Lie)
9. Push shoulder
10. Press shoulder
11. Seven push & pull
12. Shake shoulders
13. Shake waist
14. Circle head
15. Horizontal circle push chest
16. Horizontal circle stick to wrist & elbow ( a. Stationary; b. One step; c. Three steps; d. four steps cross sides)
17. Moving step Lu & Fa
Qin Na (joint lock)
Learn Qin Na techniques through push-hands. All applications should be done smoothly and naturally while drawing the circles.
