http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Num-zFlfY4
Lot’s of great stuff showing up lately on youtube and this clip just feeds my growing obsession with Wu-Hao style taiji. I love this style.
In this clip, we see Hao doing moving push hands in a restricted step method. We don’t see a lot of this kind of training on the net.
One thing that I want to point out is that you can see in the clip that his body doesn’t move much. The reason for this is that this is moving step — you yield with your feet. This gets lost a lot when people move from fixed step to moving step push hands. I still have a hard time with it. The trainings are different. In fixed step, you have to use the body to absorb and issue power because you can’t move your feet. In moving step, using your body too much will put you at a disadvantage because your partner can step and use your exaggerated shenfa to defeat you. You want to step in or at an angle when issuing power and step back or at angles when absorbing. In either case, the feet drive the power.
Hao shows a mastery of this movement.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Pepe // Aug 28, 2007 at 6:24 pm
When receiving an attack, in moving step you first have to absorb all the opponent’s force you can while standing 100% in your front foot, and at the same time stretch your rear leg so as to yield. I think I understood what you meant, but “yielding with your feet” may not be the accurate term IMO. It may lead to think that you absorb with the rear foot instead of the front foot.
2 chessman71 // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:20 am
Well, I hope that people don’t need to be reminded that they have two feet.
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