I can fight, and try to apply tai chi to fighting. Just perhaps not very well. I'm working on that. That's what the sparring sets are for.
This is what the treatise of taijiquan states right on page 1, about dealing with old force. When I pushed hands with the wing chun guy as I explained earlier I was unable to deal with him. So I remembered what it said and I listened very carefully to the wing chun guy's explanation of how and what he was doing. Then it clicked and I understood. I yielded to his force and I yielded my center, all the way. suddenly he had no more power left and just froze up and tensed.
I was shocked and suprised I did not understand why he did this, so I immediately plucked his force to the side (just applied ward off 90 degrees to the side like catching the moment) as is normal in the form of push hands. He lost his balance and tripped behind me. It was like I was pushing a broomstick at one end with my pinky while someone on the other end tried to shove it forward. Or like catching a baseball. According to him he was relaxed the whole time but to me I felt him tense up like a wooden stick.
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