Don't mean to be disrespectful to people who only train just the form, it is hard for me to understand how that alone can train reflexes.
If the end product is sanshou, why not just train san shou?
windwalker wrote:Strange wrote:15 pages minimum
na maybe only 10
KEND wrote: Push hands is an excellent drill but there appears to be no transitional drills to actual combat.
"...the action can change seamlessly to fighting for real at any moment. This is the most practical approach.
... Whenever you make a move, you must distinguish substantial from insubstantial. But
you are not to make this distinction by using your hands, arms, and shoulders, rather, you
must be able to to distinguish full and empty by means of your waist and your body and by using your spirit power. Even in real fighting or sparring competition, sensing the full/empty distinction is absolutely essential. However, in a free fighting situation, your movements must be instantaneous, crisp, and decisive, applied with an unshakable conviction of absolute victory."
Push hands as taught in the Yang family style is always based on tracking your partner or opponent’s movements in a relaxed, light application of insubstantiality. It never consists of forceful grappling as certain teachers would hold.
.... Just never even slightly violate the principle of no gaps, no resistance. If you depart from this principle you are no longer practicing Taijiquan, you are just bashing each other around pointlessly.
.... And it isn’t only a matter of relaxing and sinking, you must also cultivate extreme sensitivity in your hands. If you don’t follow this teaching, you’ll be like certain practitioners who can only do well when practicing among themselves and can’t apply any real skill against outsiders and strangers from any other school.
willie wrote:Ron Panunto wrote:Sparring does not teach Taiji's method of fighting. Taiji's way is to close the distance as soon as possible and then stay connected to the opponent until he is defeated. Sparring methods are to maintain separation so that you can release punches and kicks. i.e., kickboxing. Push hands is the preferred method for teaching Taiji's boxing skills. And when I speak of "push hands", I mean free stepping, where punches , kicks, chin na, and takedowns are permitted. So what is the difference? The difference is in always attempting to stick and adhere to the opponent while taking his space away - that is the Taiji way.
what about creating space to fire the bow?
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