wayne hansen wrote:Several years ago one of our junior students won 5 gold medals in an Australian championship
He told me he was going to visit my teacher
I told him to make sure he wore the 5 gold medals around his neck when they pushed
He soon found out what I meant
There seems to be a big crowd there for the final
If these guys are the lineage holders I need a rethink
When you talk about Australia I think you might ask how long the teacher has been here in Australia
everything wrote:what kinds of throws are allowed or not allowed?
generally speaking, why not just use the very widely popular existing formats for sports competition?
for a shoving game, the most fun one is standing on one of those giant gymnastics foam log things with the giant "staff" that look like foam "dumbbells" and shove each other off the foam log. you can use "brute force". you can use whatever you think is "Taiji" be it fascia, qi, jin, li, who cares. it doesn't matter how much skill you have, really, to have fun. your balance needs to be good as the log rolls slightly. everyone will end up laughing a lot. OR put on those sumo suits...
windwalker wrote:n 1991 Phillip Starr became the National Chairman for the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)
He held a national event
Took fist in taiji mens forms division, 37 step my taiji style at the time.
didn’t place in the push hands contest held ..
Kind of funny as all the taiji people were pushed out by those who didn’t practice taiji
It was opened to all styles…most of those who won from a local kuntao gym…
Doc Fai Wong, "CLF"
A friend of mine judging the event.
Lost the event, oddly enough the guy who won later walked up to me and said…
”Out all the people here your the only one who really knows taiji “
Taiji not my primary style at the time….
much later would judge ph events for other friends hosting contest in the Bay Area....
would take both the winer and loser after the contest
and show them a different way of approaching push hands..
After awhile, stopped feeling the practice was not really something I felt was
useful as practiced.. Others might, for me no...
Not a fan of push hands…used as a contest...
If someone wants to demo taiji skill set publicly,
they should just compete or spar bringing the skill sets
gained through ph into their practice...
Doc Stier wrote:Many years ago at an International CMA tournament event, I sat with the late T.T. Liang in the front row of seats on the sideline watching a 'Push Hands' competition like the one shown in the OP video, commenting on everything we saw...the good, the bad and the ugly.
It was a rough affair, particularly in the heavier weight divisions. After a little more than an hour, Master Liang said "today is the first time I have ever seen blood drawn in a push hands competition. This is not good TCC." He then grabbed his walking cane, informed me that he couldn't bear to watch any more of the competition, and retired to his hotel room.
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