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(In most fighting encounters, your opponent will punch or kick at you, often a barrage of punches and kicks. For example, if the guy is trained in kickboxing or thai kickboxing. Isn't it unlikely to have opportunity to apply push-hand techniques?) recently I got a chance to push with some people fro...

(I have one opponent I am afraid of, but when I think about holding him in my heart as though both of us were perfectly safe, then pushing with him goes much better, so I can understand that there is a practical reason for practicing love and compassion. It makes you a better matrial artist as well ...

When engaging with someone be totally aware, forget your self and use your awareness it will be difficult if not impossible for them to attack. you could always make tea http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/wink.gif http://shamanism.info/stories_samurai.htm Japanese Story: The Samurai and the Tea Mas...

(A mind that is "song" is more important than a body that is "song" because everything comes from the mind. What in Chinese martial arts is referred to as "dan liang" (guts) is trained by repeatedly practising the form - in this way it comes naturally. Repeated practise...

(Is this a kind of dim mak technique ?)

no just an example of what can be done with high levle tech. historcaly this type of tech has been exbited by earlyer members of the yang family.

[This message has been edited by bamboo leaf (edited 05-01-2005).]

(Am I on the right track trying to move my body out of the way, or should I be putting a little more strength into my arms?) never use force or strength, if you want to move your body out of the way think of moving your kua (hips) first all else follows. The important point is that you only move as ...

(and then use them)

yep thats what many woman do

(Hi, In most fighting encounters, your opponent will punch or kick at you, often a barrage of punches and kicks. For example, if the guy is trained in kickboxing or thai kickboxing. Isn't it unlikely to have opportunity to apply push-hand techniques? regards ) I think you must first really look at t...

(what we're doing isn't what he wants us to work on. Usually, his correction is that we’re not sticking, adhering, connecting, or following properly.) Reading this brought a smile to my face with many happy recent memories. My teacher in china at 86 is always smiling, and radiates a very happy and s...

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(practice the from small, make the mind or think big) if one can really follow that it will really have a profound affect on ones practice. My comment was meant to illustrate something that he found and emphases in his practice and to those he teaches. Only to say that his meaning was that we are tr...

Thanks for your long and detailed post. Sorry for such a short reply. My thoughts at this time is really I don¡¯t know how it would be, only what is and what was taught and told to me. I think people can get it using the small frame just takes a while and maybe a certain teacher to bring it out. The...

(Everything comes from form; your form represents what you have learnt and trained. If your form is not correct then your pushing hands and fighting will not be effective. Form is the most important thing. Pushing hands is to train "ting jing" and "dong jing". It is not as import...

(If you don't use it, you'll lose it. I still believe that, but fortunately it's not turning out to be the total train wreck I was fearing.) hope your feeling better. My point was and is that form practice is the foundation, push hands only serves to show things that are not correct plus teach one o...

(I seem to have lost the skills of listening, yielding, falling correctly, etc, etc. Lost them nearly completely. When I touch hands with someone now I find myself anticipating, resisting, basically not doing what my mind knows it should be doing but my body doesn't remember how to do yet.) my thoug...