Rule change by Jet Li to make push hands an Olynmpic sport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-KcIBYnOk&t=982s
GrahamB wrote:Rule change by Jet Li to make push hands an Olynmpic sport:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-KcIBYnOk&t=982s
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The current 'sumo style' expression of push hands (literally) just does not jive with actual knowledge of what tuishou is or how it should become. I realize that few have reached that pinnacle based on this current competition mentality showing terrible push hands. I realize it may be just me but it beez like dat
yeniseri wrote:I have always found the elements and criteris of Wu style tuishou/roushou to be an absolute standard on how 'push hands' should be expressed and practiced but that level and type of training is an outlier!
The current 'sumo style' expression of push hands (literally) just does not jive with actual knowledge of what tuishou is or how it should become. I realize that few have reached that pinnacle based on this current competition mentality showing terrible push hands. I realize it may be just me but it beez like dat
As the famous saying goes “Of Luchan’s students, Wanchun (萬春) got his hard fajin, Lingshan (凌山) was adapt as throwing, and Quanyou (全佑) was skilled at neutralization.” So these were his three best students (besides his sons of course). Wangchun, Lingshan, and Quanyou were Manchurian guards working at Prince Duan’s palace.
Wangchun and Lingshan had no desciples, Quanyou today is respected as founder of Wu Style Taijiquan. According to family lore within Taiji circles, there were actually two other Manchurian students who obtained Taijiquan skill before these three, but they both perished during the invasion of Eight-Nation Alliance.
It is during this time Shuaijiao reached its zenith, as Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han styles merged into a much larger, more detailed skill. The Manchu emperor has his own wrestling team of around 438 people, divided into two camps.
Throughout the year the camps competed with each other, had frequent exhibitions, traveled with emperor during hunts, and most importantly, faced off against the Mongolian king’s wrestlers in annual contest. Membership and promotion in the team depended entirely on one’s performance in all these events.
The 438 of professional wrestlers at Shan Pu Ying (善扑营) belong to but one of the three capitol city garrisons. The one where Yang Luchan, Liu Zhijun, and Song Mailun taught at – Shen Ji Ying, had over 2,000 instructors/weapons experts who led the training of 30,000 strong palace guards.
That plus the battle-hardened agents of Big Ten security companies (Biaoju), members of Big Six martial arts of the north, and all the people who flock to the city to make a name for themselves
Unlike the Manchurian patrons during an earlier age, these wealthy merchants and politicians tend to be of middle age, otherwise inactive, used to life of luxury and comfort. They tend to be very overweight, and quite a few indulged in opium. They were not martial art material to say the least. During push hands, they have poor awareness of their own center, and tend to lean forward too much during advances.
It was young Master Wang’s job to prevent them from falling in such circumstances. Similarly, he need to very precise in his own attacks so these clients won’t get thrown down to the ground.
Master Wang looked to this not as a drudgery, but an opportunity to refine his skill: here has this heavy weight he needs to carefully control at all times, he has to follow the opponent, make him think he’s doing well, he needs to do his own skill,
but beat the opponent without hurting him or cause any discomfort.
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