Tai Chi's Push Hands Law of Primal Unity

[Wing Woo Gar]

I like wrist grabbers. That might be my favorite thing to counter.

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Excerpt from "Notes on the Tai Chi Training Method called Ti Fang" by Stephen Goodson:

In the Ti Fang exercise, your initial contact with your partner is at 4oz of pressure. You should have a good feel for this amount of pressure from the preliminary learning of the Push Hands choreography. Suffice to say that it's just about 4oz. Once this contact is established you then start to gently push. When the pressure builds to just more than 4oz [say 5oz] they will reflexively raise slightly, you then withdraw to just under 4oz of pressure [say 3oz, but don't disconnect], and then you accelerate them [pushing through their center]. The withdraw "severs the root" of your opponent so that when you accelerate them away you meet little/no resistance. If you get it right both his feet will leave the ground as he hops away...

I call this shake the baby .