F20. Taichi Application – Chen Style Taichi Push Hand
elementary: 2 months; intermediate: 2 months; advanced: 2 months
The Taichi Push Hand requires two persons to twist their forearms together according to the Taichi principles: attaching, gluing, connecting, and submitting. The nimble movement also follows the Taichi principles of neither lean away or butt in, avoid the counterpart’s force and strike at his weak points, and win by skill not by strength. The practice combines the basic fighting elements which are seizing, taking, throwing, kicking, and hitting.
It applies the eight methods (warding off, rolling back, pressing, pushing, pulling down, splitting, elbowing, body strike) and force types to practice the sensitivity of the skin and inside body feeling to reach the status of preventing the counterpart from knowing oneself, knowing the counterpart in advance and using the counterpart’s force to conquer.
While Taichi Boxing is the technique to know oneself, Push Hand is the technique to know others and is a rare training of practical fighting. Chen Style Push Hand contains five training methods and the learners have to be equipped with basic Taichi technique.
