You should watch Adam Mizner toying around with a US fencing champion. It's in the documentary called "Power of Chi" with Morgan Freeman.

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Good question! It’s depends on the level of understanding. Since there is no clear measurement of yin and Yang it’s always have smaller yin Yang combination. As long as opponents center of balanced yin and Yang can not meet the center of smaller scale balanced yin and Yang of defense party, the opponent body mass will be spin off

+Cann Lam thank you. 谢谢

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Pushing with one leg is not the standard Tai Chi or Tui Shou posture ^^ the teacher is just demonstrating that the guy's pressure is being used to the advantage of rooting the teacher, hence if the guy moves in the demonstration, he has to adjust his body.

Federico Ramirez thank you!

@Michael Webber Well said. I totally agree with you on the second part, but not sure why it's even necessary to 'test' push hands against something that is not push hands. After all, it's just a drill, it's not meant to be an actual fighting skill in itself. Obviously, if a practitioner wants to do that with a Jiu Jitsu opponent, no doubt it would be interesting to some people. My experience in push hands helped me to develop some key aspects to Tai Chi practice by working with the energy of a partner. These are sensitivity (or listening), yielding (or song/relaxation - not butting in), sticking, sinking, turning the waist, roundness etc. Although form practice should work on these same principles, the push hands is the 'test' for what you think you might be doing correctly in the form. Push hands itself doesn't need a test, other than lots of practice - daily if possible. You need to find good partners, a variety of Tai chi practitioners of different levels of experience, size etc, who are not trying to 'win a competition'. It should be respectful, without egos and provide good energy and intent for the other to work with (and not just be moving backwards and forwards and having a chat about the weather.....). But a smile and spontaneous laughter is always good to lighten any excess seriousness. You can be a bit more sneaky and slippery once you develop a good connection and mutual respect with your practice partner.

IMHO, it is hard for a beginner to understand it. I think a beginner can "pretend" to understand it. But you need to constantly think about it while you practice it. One day, all of the sudden, you will get it. Then you will realize that you did not understand in the begging, but that is the process, you are not doing anything wrong.

Genius Asian I'm learning yang Tai Chi in New Zealand :-)

can you explain how it's more shaolin than taiji skill. will you share with us via youtube videos please. i'm in maryland on the east coast. most things that are explained well, i can understand and implement in time with practice. supplementing it with actual video allows me to do it better though. thanks

Hi Cotton, for Taichi, it is not about the force regardless using the force from whole body or part of body. Be relaxed is very necessary but it should be NOT used to produce more force. For Taichi, you want to be able to sense and use other one's speed, acceleration and even body balance force. If you can tell third one, you need no force to move people easy.

Hi,so what did you wind up doing? Master Fung is great.He teaches in S.F. and Palo Alto.I'll be in Thailand this winter, as I go there frequently.Take care.

Ok, awareness comes through practicing TaijiQuan and TuiShou (obviously). And yes, meditation can help. Once you seriously start to practice, then you should feel the benefits and if you're not, either you're practicing it wrong on your own, or it's time to get a real teacher. From the sounds of it though, I think you've never had a teacher and have only used the trusty interned to "self-educate" and now are thoroughly confused? TaijiQuan and QiGong are not the same thing. Qigong has it's focus on health/medicinal purpose, is subcategorized under traditional Chinese medicine, and is catered to target different ailments. TaijiQuan, like I said, is for cultivating an awareness of yourself in space, time, movement, and increasing harmony between body, mind and universe (it has a spiritual aspect rooted in Taoism). Obviously too, it will have health benefits of different kinds, stress-relief is one, another are benefits similar to those of practicing a sport (you can't really get good cardio from TaijiQuan though, but you can with TuiShou). You can't get benefits of sport activity from practicing QiGong. TuiShou is a direct product of TaijiQuan, so it's not related to QiGong, but using Qigong will benefit your focused output energy when you want to use power. So, to conclude, TaijiQuan and Qigong are complimentary but not the same thing. TaijiQuan/TuiShou doesn't target your Qi, but if does benefit it indirectly. To get health benefits from TaijiQuan you don't need QiGong, although QiGong will benefit your TaijiQuan and TaijiQuan will beneit your Qi. Note: Taiji is a term Westerners use to describe TaijiQuan - they've dropped the "Quan" for some reason. If your speaking to a Chinese person about TaijiQuan you should include the "Quan" or they won't know what you're on about, since Taiji on it's own means "ultimate/supreme". Rude and condensending tone in your comment btw.

Read the book www.amazon.com/Rise-Shine-Awaken-Energy-Alchemy/dp/1934170259 and you will understand it.

+Cann Lam 老師很欣赏鄭曼青，有很多是自己积累的， 老師的老師 是王氏水性太极： kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hthmpN2V3NXap3k.html

There is a sifu in china zhan jiang called fong wai. He teaches in the park in zhan jiang he knows alot of real internal stuff. Would be interesting if you could meet him if you go china. There isnt any need for rotation or forms very direct. I am not small and pretty strong he pushed me out with a cigarette packet and no damage to the packet. Very similar to the stuff you teach real internal stuff. Not just fake tai chi dancing many sifus teach today.

How is your sifu bryon? I watch alot of tai chi videos i fidn yours very impressive because i see you know the real internal stuff.... not many tai chi practicioners seem to know real tai chi these days shame much is lost. If you go zhan jiang maybe see if fong wai can exhange knowlege with you its good to always learn more from each other.

Tank1 100% agree with everything you’re saying. Everything has become a washed down commercialized version of something very real

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Heyyy, I'm a scientist too! My favourite delineation of science is called "non-linear" physics.. where science cannot but admit to knowing very little and to the limits of it's tools! But unlike you, science taught me to treat it as but a tool, not a belief system. To make science into a belief, to believe it has proven all phenomen and limit yourself from rationalizing new phenomena using it's tools is your own mind's limitation. Speaking of minds, actually the brain and conciousness is one of science's greatest unsolved mysteries

@@unpolishedpearl3769 yes, agree with you. Science allow us to repeat experiments with predication, that is why I use science in tai chi: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtRyg5Z4lrSmh4E.html However for a lot of things, there are things unexplained or not yet to be explained, then it does not hurt to let old explanation pass to the generations until we have some definite scientific explanation.

Bella Angelina thank you!

push hand is similar but not exactly the same as wushu

He is channelling the weight from the leg that goes through the body and then to the arm, he's not using *just* force from the arm. That's the point. When your body is sensitive and you use your whole being to push in the right way (in this case just even expanding your arms slightly), instead of use just one limb segment, it makes a huge difference. Have you practiced TuiShou or TaijiQuan application before?? You'd know if you did - and that only after you "got it". This kind of awareness and movement is not something that comes very naturally, because here your body is relaxed to the maxium and using the least amount of power, where most actions your do in your life tend to use tension an localized power output. Does it make more sense?

@@unpolishedpearl3769 no need for explanations, see my comment again. Mechanics. No lies.

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tai chi or tai ji looks soft but it is not

Sam Fu what kind of action would you prefer to see in this basic training and explanation (we can always add more if there are demand)? Please also check out many of our other videos for different actions.