Что бы научиться плавать, надо плавать, что бы научиться драться, надо драться. По другому ни как.

Thanks, Erwin. This video shows 'friendly' training but we like to keep a relationship with reality. Actually we have both progressed further since this video was made. It's still okay as a document of where we were ten years ago - we aim to put out a new video soon.

@@cloudhand-taichi-berlin Looking forward to your new video.

В Тайцзи Цюань нет ударов. Тайцзи Цюань это искусство выведения из равновесия.

Благодарность! :-)

谢谢你，但更多的中等水平比高级别... :-) (with Google Translator)

高個屁！

No, not at all. It's mostly based on the Ma Tsun Kuen lineage as taught by Fernando Chedel, in this video also incorporating other elements taken from the Cheng Man Ching lineage of Yang style, and from Wu style as taught by Paul Rogers. And of course our very own, personally developed deficiencies and deviations ;-)

+Rosbander !! Well, that's quite a mixed bag you have there. I'm sure you have lots of fun training together :-)

Möglich (aber nicht unbedingt empfohlen): Du kannst mit einem Partner ein langsames und vorsichtiges "tuishou" mit langen Stöcken machen. Da bleibt man immer mindestens 2 Meter auf Abstand.Eine andere Möglichkeit: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9GlhdiHutXXkok.html&t. Hier kannst du üben, MIT dem Stock und der Schwerkraft zu spielen, dem Stock zu "folgen" und nicht den Stock zu bewegen/manipulieren. Viel Spaß!

No need to be afraid! To be afraid is not helpfull for the internal quality ;-)

Maybe. Guess you'd have to drop by and do a little friendly hands-on training/exchange to know for sure... ;-)

As far as training your body to automatically react based on touching your opponent and being able to know where he is going to move is body is worth more than these being practical in any sense. It teaches abilities that transfer over into life. If u get it to a super high level your reading your opponents mind without touching. Idgaf if u believe me or think I'm wrong. The truth is the truth. Train any form of kung fu actually correctly and u will without being explained anything but the forms naturally use whatever movement fits best.

That isn't effective to know. If u parry your opponents punch and now know your opponents next move its more than worth it. Sorry being basically telepathic in fighting isnt worth it. Kinda being hard on you but everything I said is absolutely factual and can be proven very easily. With little effort.

@@daltondammthebabe I disagree, you weren't hard on me or hyper crititical. The problem with Tai Chi isn't the drills, concepts or energy and flow drills. The problem is if you throw, off balance an opponent across the room they are not physically harmed and will come right back. Like a really weak jab, they just keep coming back. A great art though when you can incorporate the flow and energy drills in training. Sorry, but parting the horses main does not hurt.

@@daltondammthebabe Great for training, but horrible for combat.

Hi Jeff, Giles here. Thanks to you (and Street Justice) for your considered remarks. Actually I totally agree with you as regards your comments about “throwing someone across the room who will then just come back” when you really need to defend yourself. In some situations anyway. I could write an essay on this but no time or space for that, so: This video is quite old now, both Martin and I are further down the road since then. More importantly, we were showing aspects of the tuishou/pushhands training we were offering then. Not a ‘fighting with tai chi’ course. Very briefly, in some situations it may actually be enough to just slip the attacker’s strength and force, and use the window of opportunity to run, or to push them away to do this. Or to do the kind of move shown at 0:21 to 0:23 (it was in response to a punch, but we cut that bit out), doing the technique in either a friendly way (shown here) or not so friendly. Depends on the situation. But often, yes, you may need to go straight into the attacker’s centre, his body, and break things, hit hard, twist, throw, if possible incapacitate within 2 or 3 seconds. That’s part of it too. In this case, tuishou can help create the opening and the flow to enter and issue energy in the right places - using whole body strength, which also comes from the relaxation. So you keep flowing, keep responsive, don’t get stuck when stressed and maybe even shocked yourself. Then the ‘pushing hands’ takes place in maybe half a second, no more, as you receive and/or bridge and/or evade. -- Of course, you have to train that way too, with partners attacking you with increasing speed (wear protection, glove up...). So you can overcome the freeze, get the experience, trust in softness when the other person is not soft. I train this way too sometimes, even though other aspects are more rewarding for me in the long term. Best wishes.