My teacher Chen Yun-ching is in the June edition of Inside Kung-fu. If you hurry, you can catch the article, which is excerpted from Jess O’Brien’s book Nei Jia Quan, 2nd edition: Internal Martial Arts
In the article, Chen laoshi brings up some interesting points. One of them is that push hands should be thought of as ting shou — listening hands — instead. The idea isn’t to push the other person but to practice listening skills. Sticking, adhering, and following are the skills to train, not pushing per se.
He also mentioned a letter from Wang Shu-jin that clearly stated he learned his taiji from Chen Pan-ling. I’m glad that got cleared up. Some propaganda was getting a bit annoying. His description of Wang’s training was interesting. Especially that Wang’s ability to take punches was just a natural outgrowth of his training.
His insights into training different styles, the relation of BGZ to the Yijing, and other points were quite interesting, but I’ll leave those for you to appreciate in the mag.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jay Gischer // Jun 12, 2008 at 11:02 pm
The link to Nei-jia Quan is broken. I really liked the first edition
2 B_Wutang // Jun 12, 2008 at 11:55 pm
“The idea isn’t to push the other person but to practice listening skills. Sticking, adhering, and following are the skills to train, not pushing per se.”
Where have I heard that before :).
Sounds consistent with push hands according to my teacher.
3 Jess O'Brien // Jun 13, 2008 at 1:34 am
Cool, glad you liked the article Dave. I thought they did a terrific job, except for the screwed up captions.
Also cool that you are learning from Mr. Chen. He is an extremely kind hearted man and from the few nights I trained with him, I could tell his gung fu is deep.
-Jess O
4 Dave Chesser // Jun 13, 2008 at 9:34 am
Link fixed. Thanks for telling me.
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