http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xOYh6HIMA
This is a clip of Feng (one of my favorite taiji players, as I’m sure you can tell) doing some really cool push hands. He does quite a few push hands application, often calling them free sparring techniques. I’m not sure, really, why he called them that. They seem more like normal PH applications to me rather than something you’d use in free sparring. Perhaps he meant “taiji free sparing.” I’m not sure. In any event, the apps shown are great examples of things that people can work into their PH routines.
This clip is taken from a VCD that is a bit hard to find. But this one is very good. Definitely worth tracking down.
There are two versions of the VCD. Here is one of them:
This one has his 24 movement form plus the push hands. My version is a single disk that just has the push hands on it. You can buy the above VCD here.
4 responses so far ↓
1 GrahamB // Oct 24, 2006 at 5:14 am
I believe Feng delibertly calls his art a cross between XinYi and Chen Taiji, and I’ve never really worked out why until I saw this clip, so thanks very much.
He’s using the body method of XinYi in a lot of these applications - imagine them all being done with an added headbut, which he’s politely refraining from adding in
2 chessman71 // Oct 24, 2006 at 7:32 am
GrahamB,
Yeah, the headbutt from the second clip posted over at EF kind of gives it away doen’t it?
And yet, the head is one of the seven stars that taiji also is supposed to utilize. Couldn’t it be just another part of taiji that isn’t emphasized because of this pointless, blind obsession with endless amounts of pushing?
I think so.
So I don’t see it as something added as much as something put back where it was supposed to be in the first place.
3 silkreeling // Oct 25, 2006 at 5:15 am
check this one out, fan of feng zhiqiang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wfKH6IRqmI&mode=related&search=
4 Than Lee Hean // Oct 30, 2006 at 3:44 pm
3 Taiji masters playing pushing hands.2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98uIvKi8cvs
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