Find this video. It's similar to Taiji PH but have more combat value IMO.
Not a fan of push hands.
Many bad habits can develop depending on the practice.
General observations:
The clip posted, similar to a lot of the training done by short-hand systems like Mantis, Wing Chun, etc.
In most cases, these systems are trained and designed for similar stylist tactics and movements.
As shown in the video posted.
They train to start at the point of contact instead of before contact. Often, they lack real entering skill sets and do not understand the concept of controlling the space, something they don't really train to do.
With teachers trained in styles like them, they are not always able to adapt outside of what they trained.
For some, like Northern Mantis, it is thought that speed coupled with flurries of combinations works. For others, like Wing Chun, it is about off-line movement and angles.
Taking them as examples of styles developed and designed to work against other styles of their time.
Bad outcomes when applied against, un similar styles, of this "time"
like "boxing" based on different tactics and movement...
"observations"
as with anything depends on practitioner and level...
