10,000 Victories team is now tackling the wonderful world of Pushing Hands or Tui Shou. Tui Shou or Pushing Hands exercises are great partner exercises for the art of Tai Chi Chuan, the Supreme Ultimate Boxing Style. Push Hands helps to develop the incredibly responsive and balanced yet rooted body method of Tai Chi Chuan.
The first part of the name Tai Chi Chuan means Supreme Ultimate and refers to the classical Chinese philosophy related to the Tai Chi symbol and expressing the interrelationships of Yin and Yang. Chuan means not only “boxing” but also “defeating the enemy by skillfully using their own strength against them”. Skillfully using their own strength against them sounds really cool but how do you acquire the skills to do that?
The first and most important exercise in classical Tai chi Chuan is learning Pushing Hands and practicing diligently with many partners. In 10,000 victories Tai chi we like to also add a lot of dodging and footwork drills to our foundation building as well. We have already prepared a fantastic series of lessons about the dodging and stepping exercises we teach and practice for the forthcoming 10,000 Victories Online Tai Chi Course. Now we are filming an extensive series of lessons on the exercises and ideas that we practice building our tournament winning Push Hands Team’s skills.
Here our list of topics that we will be recording lessons for in the next couple of weeks:
- Tai Chi Push Hands Lessons
- Introduction to Push Hands
- Being a Good Practice Partner
- Foundation Drills for Body Sensitivity and Mobility
- The Setup “Testing Ward Offs Hands Cross”
- Single Hand
- Single Hand – Presenting a Strong Ward Off
- Single Hand – Using your Stance and Turning Your Waist
- Single Hand – Coiling your Body as You Yield
- Single Hand – Practicing Your Single Palm Push / Strike
- Single Hand – Reestablishing Your Ward Off
- Single Hand – Yielding Deep In Your Shoulder – Coiling Your Shoulder
- Single Hand – Playing with the Pull and the Elbow
- Common Mistakes
- Common Mistakes – Pushing to the side instead off on target
- Common Mistakes – Using Force to Redirect Triggers Strikes
- Common Mistakes – Collapsing Triggers Elbow
- Common Mistakes – Pulling versus yielding
- Common Mistakes – Becoming over extended when you push
- Common Mistakes – Improving your Knee Position to Strengthen Your Stance
- Common Mistakes – Sinking the Elbow to Defeat the Pull
- Common Mistakes – Conforming Your Hand to Opponents Wrist
- Common Mistakes – Stiff Elbow
- Common Mistakes – Stiff Shoulder
- Common Mistakes – Staying Relaxed
- Common Mistakes – Using Light Pressure versus Heavy Pressure
- Single Hand Variation –
- Single Hand Variation – Reverse or Back Hand Pushing
- Single Hand Variation – Chopping / Slicing Down – Groin Strike
- Single Hand Variation – Overturning Low
- Single Hand Variation – Opposite Arms
- Single Hand Variation – Quick Turning Striking Palm
- Single Hand Variation – Pull Down Spiral Up
- Single Hand with Stepping
- Single Hand with Stepping – Single Step Understand the Hidden Throws and Trips
- Single Hand with Stepping – Two Steps
- Simple Both Hands Stationary
- Simple Both Hands with Single Step
- Simple Both Hands with Two Steps
- Peng, Lu, Ji, Ahn – Classic Push Hands
- Classic Push Hands – Learning the Classic Chinna or “Joint Locking and vital Striking” Version First
- Classic Push Hands – Smoothing The Sharp Edges of The Chinna Version
- Classic Push Hands – Free Style Push Hand Fixed steps
- Classic Push Hands – Free Style Push Hands Moving Steps
Wow!
I am excited to share all of these great drills, exercises, games, and concepts with everyone! You can be pretty darn certain, if you learn all of these drills and practice them it will be impossible for a normal person to push you around, your balance will become incredibly, profoundly enhanced, your Tai Chi and Kung Fu forms practice will transform, and you will develop and deepen many new friendships!
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