everything wrote:looks like a great group, and a great time!
everything wrote:ah gotcha. don't have any technical comments. last time I tried push hands and made baby step progress, it was good, 4 oz vs. 1lb at best, but I got impatient, we all had no idea what we were doing, and so I went to judo to do throws. ph is difficult to work on imo.
Bhassler wrote:Thanks for sharing. I started getting a lot more out of fixed step tuishou when I got rid of all the shuffling feet that are prevalent in most of the vids I looked at. I.e., everyone sets their feet before they start pushing, and if anyone moves a foot, reset and start again. YMMV, etc.
Either way, it's nice of you to share. This way, I can sit behind my keyboard and judge everyone without going to all the effort of actually going and having to prove myself. Or practice. Or even know anything at all, really. Keyboard warriors, FTW!!!
wayne hansen wrote:Are you in these
If so which one are you
Is this the best of those that were there or are there other clips
origami_itto wrote:Anyhow, here's me and some other folks doing our poor imitation of Push Hands, please tell us what we're doing wrong. (Seriously, that forward fall is like inescapable for me wtf am I doing?)
robert wrote:origami_itto wrote:Anyhow, here's me and some other folks doing our poor imitation of Push Hands, please tell us what we're doing wrong. (Seriously, that forward fall is like inescapable for me wtf am I doing?)
Just an observation watching a few clips. Larry, Casey, and JD look more song than you. Tristan and you seem to have about the same level of stiffness. To a large extent ph is about who has better jin development. In the clip with Larry his movement is pretty spare and economical compared to yours. Note that throughout the clips I mentioned you seem to break at the hips.
I'm sure you know all about song, but I'll link to this video anyway.
Keep at it.
origami_itto wrote: I actually got this correction from Alex Dong a year ago (and Doc in ...what 2015???) but ... you know... shit takes a while to burn in.
The mind must perform alternations nimbly, and then you will have the qualities of roundness and liveliness. The Thirteen Dynamics Song says to pay attention to the alternation of empty and full.
...The alternations of intention are like a flask half full of water: tip it to the left and it floods the left half, or tip it to the right and it floods the right half. If it can be like this, not only will you have obtained the qualities of roundness and liveliness, there will also be pleasure in the movements of your hands and feet. Once in such a delightful state, nobody could stop you from practicing if they tried.
robert wrote:origami_itto wrote: I actually got this correction from Alex Dong a year ago (and Doc in ...what 2015???) but ... you know... shit takes a while to burn in.
Absolutely. I asked Chen Bing to teach me how to sink into the kuas in 2005. That's a tough row to hoe. In 2013 I started working with CXX and his teaching method was to sink. Every alternation, every change, sink. And at that time, I wasn't song enough to do it correctly. It took a few more years to get song kua. I'm still working on it.
Dong Yingjie writes about a similar approach in his taiji manual.The mind must perform alternations nimbly, and then you will have the qualities of roundness and liveliness. The Thirteen Dynamics Song says to pay attention to the alternation of empty and full.
...The alternations of intention are like a flask half full of water: tip it to the left and it floods the left half, or tip it to the right and it floods the right half. If it can be like this, not only will you have obtained the qualities of roundness and liveliness, there will also be pleasure in the movements of your hands and feet. Once in such a delightful state, nobody could stop you from practicing if they tried.
I have friends who studied with Dong Kaiying who said he used this analogy as well.
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