Ma Yu Liang push hands

[ShortFormMike]

jose, when i get around to it i'll post a video of my friend who is pretty good at taiji but as a physical therapist he knows how to play w/ people's nervous system's pretty good. he can tap me on my chest w/ his palm and then tap me again w/ the back of his palm and my feet come off the ground. it reminds me of when the doctor taps your knee.

so what i mean by defying physics is that how could a force that is much less than my weight (his hand tapping) get my feet to lift off the ground. surely that would not work on a statue.

maybe i could help NickC's example. once i tried to open my fridge while on the phone. i had my glasses on and was looking at the door handle past the lens. there must've been some kind of parallax involved cuz i missed the handle and landed on my ass. this was actually one of the taiji "a ha!" moments for me.

[Craig]

I always thought it was much like when you go to lift a container that you think is full and really heavy and it turns out to be empty and really light and you pull yourself off balance.

[cdobe]

Mike...The fall at 2:02...could you explain what happens? what makes the guy fall?

If not Mike, any Wu expert?

Nick C?

Jose,
you should find a free copy of Adam Franks dissertation on the web. He describes the worship of Ma by his followers in Shanghai. You can figure out the rest. You already have, don't you ?

CD

[GrahamB]

You mean this?

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Taijiq ... 1403968289

[cdobe]

You mean this?

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Taijiq ... 1403968289

Yes, but there's a free version around on the interwebs. And I'm not talking about a pirated copy here.

[cdobe]

Here you go...

http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl/handle/ ... ?show=full

[GrahamB]

Thanks. Also here:

http://www.ebooksbay.org/analog_and_oth ... f/2007/08/

[wassy]

Ok...so..maybe im thick headed...but, what was it he did at 2:02 again? What exactly made him fall?

gravity?