Appledog wrote:Isn't the reason why most push hands 'competitions' devolve into shoving and yanking matches is because the people involved didn't put the proper time into forms practice in the first place?
wayne hansen wrote:Or was it because they weren't taught pushing correctly and their egos get the better of them
Appledog wrote: This isn't something I came up with on my own, it's said by one's teacher's enough that it probably shouldn't come up here...
I do understand what you mean about long time forms competitors not being very good at push hands. To be good at push hands you have to train in it, not just do forms. It's just that if you don't do the forms first you really can't do the push hands.
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