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The Latest Pushing Hands Workshop was September 19th, 2008
My thanks to
Scott White and his
Personal Training Zone
4022 South 2700 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
(801) 596-7035We do push hands in most classes, and the next Full Pushing Hands Workshop is in March 2009.
- Single Pushing Hands
- Double Pushing Hands
- Corner Pushing Hands
Done well, with firmness and structure, elasticity and sensitivity, balance and timing, each Pushing Hands Drill provides insight into body-mind movements. Inspire strength and expire fear-reactions to grasp and hone these drills.
Each one compounds on the lessons of the others and integrates into a fluid-flowing, combat-training system. They provoke awareness. Breath deepens, body structures strengthen, and movement sophisticates, through repetition in each drill, stimulating potent healing potential.
Single Pushing Hands
“If you learn nothing else, learn Ward-Off (Peng)” suggests a Classic Taiji Writer. And indeed, Single Pushing Hands teaches Ward-Off-By-Lifting-Upward. A great reality and powerful metaphor, this concept develops strength and sensitivity in the resisting arm — through resistance. First and foremost, train the Ward-Off with a firm structure to produce strength in the tissues of the warding arm.
Push firmly toward the opponents center, and resist steadily throughout the pushing motion. Train this repetitive motion until arm muscles tire, ache, and weaken, then notice core body muscules participating and guiding; wear out that arm long enough to feel the core. This gross motion becomes subtle as one gains enough structural strength to resist with less and less mental effort. The body begins to feel, through and beyond tensions, resisting minimally, exactly where necessary. The body begins to read the opponent’s force trajectories, smiling with just the right amount of tension. Fascia and tendons and ligaments gain tensile strength through repetition.
