the training partner i can get but i mean will i have to find a school tha teaches it
to learn?
Yes, you will absolutely need a teacher.
Try:
There are others, too, but these guys are both pretty good.
Also try Mike Sigman’s Internal Strength videos.
First, yes, you need a teacher who truly understands what is going on with push-hands.
Secondly, push-hands is not a technique. Practicing the fixed routines is an exercise in developing sensitivity to movement. Learning to follow, learning to stick, feeling for tension in your partner. This is all done while learning to relax your own muscles so that you can feel and follow.
The fixed routine can then be graduated to a moving step routine. Then free pushing exercises, where one learns to apply taiji principle to physical contact from an opponent. Not just a push, but punches, kicks, etc.
None of this can be learned from a book or tape. All of what is happening in taiji has to do with feeling. Without a competent teacher to show you and help you to understand the feeling, you have no chance. You’d be better off studying another art. BTW, there really are very few martial taiji teachers in the world let alone in the US. Most taiji that you encounter is misunderstood, fuzz-headed, new age crap. Just be careful who you learn from. Some of the biggest names in taiji are not even the best and they get things wrong. For instance, William C.C. Chen in NYC incorporates western boxing into his taiji, because honestly, he doesn’t really have the understanding or skill to make taiji work for real. So be careful you don’t fall into a trap with the wrong teacher.
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I’d agree with 99% of the above. Pushing hands is a style of training that involves many, many techniques. It is vital to all the aspects of T’ai Chi Ch’uan. Without it, one cannot benefit fully from T’ai Chi’s health, meditation or martial potential.
The 1% that I can’t agree with (I plead ignorance!) is that I don’t know William C.C. Chen well enough to comment. I’ve heard of him, that’s all. If a school is incorporating any other style into their T’ai Chi curriculum, then I’d say that is a bad sign, however.
Pushing hands is a huge subject, very complicated. If you have a full pushing hands schedule you don’t have time to study Western boxing! We have 12 different styles of pushing hands at our school, 8 choreographed patterns and 4 different freestyles. Eventually they lead to freestyle sparring (which includes wrestling). Along with the pushing hands we have two person and then multiple opponent application drills, empty hand and weapon. This is at least 10 years worth of work just to cover the basics!
As mentioned by delibandit above, many schools have lost such a thorough syllabus, teaching only one or two styles of pushing hands, if they teach any at all, and those one or two styles are uninformed by the rest of the pushing hands agenda and thereby incomplete even for what they are supposed to do.
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READ Advanced Taiji Push Hands: Da LeBy Jie Gu, Li Weiqian, and Zhou Yudong in our SUMMER 2018 issue.
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New Event for 2019 KUNG FU TAI CHI DAY! Pushing Hands Exchange.
KUNG FU TAI CHI DAY is pleased to announce a new event for 2019 the Pushing Hands Exchange. This is a non-competitive opportunity to practice Pushing Hands (tuishou ) with a wide variety of partners in a safe environment. Masters and teachers will be on hand to offer coaching and this is open to all levels of skill. The event will be overseen by Master Jeff Lin, who serves on the Organizing Committee of the Tiger Claw Elite Championships and KUNG FU TAI CHI DAY.
KUNG FU TAI CHI DAY will be held on May 19 2019 in the South Hall of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. More details to come.
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The Tiger Claw Push Hands Championship
The Tiger Claw Push Hands Championship returns to the 2019 Tiger Claw Elite Championships, May 18-19, San Jose, CA
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I just posted 34 more pix in Tiger Claw Elite KungFuMagazine.com Championship 2019. Photos by Patrick Lugo
These are all of the Push Hands competition.
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PUSH HANDS CHAMPIONS
Adults: Restricted-Step Push Hands
<145 lbs. Kuang, Jianhui
145-155 lbs. Yu, Junxuan
156-170 lbs. Relator, Anthony
171-185 lbs. Geddes, Henry
186–205 lbs. Walstrum, James
206-225 lbs. Peterson, Alexander
Adults: Moving Push Hands
<145 lbs. Kuang, Jianhui
145-155 lbs. Wen, Jiajum
156-170 lbs. Relator, Anthony
171-185 lbs. Pu, Haiting
186–205 lbs. Walstrum, James
206-225 lbs. Salas, Eric
Youths Match Winners: Bridgewater, Dean – Chung, Leo – Rolleston, Alex – Scott, Ahana – Andersson, Charlotte – Mcdade, Sophie – Maya Ye, – Thach, Nathan – Phommachakr, Nolan – Vera, Kye – Panguluri, Tanmay – Xu, lvan – Algubelli, Parthiv – Solpon, Kadin
These are the last results from TCEC 2019. Congratulations to all our winners!
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Form-Immersion Push Hands with Coach Zeng Xiang Bo ()
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Immersing in Tai Chi Push Hands
By Jeff Lin with Zhao Xiaohu
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Push Hands: Tai Chi with Friends
Since Kung Fu Tai Chi folded, I’ve been doing some work for YMAA. Here’s my first feature there: Push Hands: Tai Chi with Friends
Working Together: A Powerful Writing Team
Here’s another feature I wrote for YMAA: [URL=“https://ymaa.com/articles/2021/01/working-together-a-powerful-writing-team”]Working Together: A Powerful Writing Team
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Why Practice Push Hands? READ Push Hands Thoughts by Alan Ludmer
Push hands is one of the hardest things I ever did in my martial arts experience! It’s very hard to avoid exerting a lot of energy, especially when I’m just so used to doing so. 