Push-Hands
My
words are very easy to know,Very easy to practice.There
is no one, under the Sky, to know them,No one to practice
them.- Dao
De Jing (chap70)
Taichi
moves are very natural and should be apply in a very relax way so once
it works, it seems very easy.
It's as easy as a
child game.
But the green Paradise of childhood loves,
That
sinless Paradise, full of furtive pleasures,
Is it farther
off now than India and China?
Charles
Baudelaire
The
Push-hands (Tuishou in Chinese) is the first step of the Taichi
application.
It can be described as a game where one has to
preserve his balance while pushing the opponent out of his.
This
may seem brutal but the true practice requires a lot of
subtlety and
delicacy...
Some Taichi teachers wait for years before
teaching TuiShou to their students but in LongTouShan, we think that
Tuishou, if practice in the right spirit is a very good way to check
and improve ones Taichi practice and give it the right orientation from
the very beginning.
Through Tuishou, you can
understand
how to apply the moves of the Taichi form and why it is so important to
be absolutely coordinated and relax.
