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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pushing hands
		Pushing hands is said to be the gateway for students to understand experientially the martial aspects of the Internal martial arts (內家 nèi jiā); leverage, reflex, sensitivity, timing, coordination and positioning.
		Pushing hands is said by T'ai Chi's Chen family to have been created by Chen Wangting (1600-1680) the founder of the Chen style Tai Chi Chuan and was originally known as hitting hands (da shou) or crossing hands (ke shou).
		Pushing hands also teaches students safety habits in regard to their own vital areas, especially acupressure points, as well as introducing them to the principles of chin na and some aspects of the manipulative therapy or tui na also taught in traditional T'ai Chi Ch'uan schools.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Pushing_hands (1283 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Pushing hands (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In that sense pushing hands is a contract between students to train the defensive and offensive movement principles of their martial art; learning to generate, coordinate and deliver power to another and also how to effectively neutralize incoming forces in a relatively safe environment.
		Pushing hands is said by T'ai Chi's Chen family to have been be created by Chen Wangting (1600-1680) the founder of the Chen style Tai Chi Chuan and was originally known as hitting hands (da shou) or crossing hands (ke shou).
		Pushing hands also teaches students safety habits in regard to their own vital areas, especially acupressure points, as well as introducing them to the principles of chin na and some aspects of the manipulative therapy or tui na also taught in traditional T'ai Chi Ch'uan schools.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pushing-hands (2518 words)

	Who's Pushing?
		Pushing hands is a stupid name because most of these drills involve considerably more than pushing and the techniques used are not always restricted to hand movements.
		Free pushing hands where one tries to push or pull the opponent off balance has long been considered by Tai Chi exponents as a genuine test of skill as it involves grappling skills, the ability to redirect the opponent's force and the ability to Fa Jing - to use force at close quarters.
		I replied that pushing hands was about training listening ability, that if he didn't have contact he couldn't listen, that he also couldn't control my free hand which I would therefore use to strike him.
	www.taichichuan.co.uk /information/articles/whos_pushing.html (1621 words)

	Pushing Hands
		Pushing Hands should be played by concentrating on this moving pattern of fl and white.
		Pushing Hands originally developed from freefighting and is the nearest thing to true close-quarter fighting that you will ever see.
		It is better to push hands with a child than with a technically skilled adult who uses strength - this causes you to use strength.
	www.soton.ac.uk /~maa1/chi/taichi/push.htm (1648 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Pushing hands works to undo a person's natural instinct to resist force with force, teaching the body to yield to force and redirect it.
		Chen was said to have devised pushing hands methods for both empty hands and armed with spears.
		At a certain point, pushing hands begins to take on aspects of ch'i kung, as the students learn to coordinate their movements in attack and defense with their breathing.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Pushing_hands (903 words)

	DVD: Taiji Pushing Hands 1 & 2 \| YMAA Website
		Pushing Hands trains you to develop sensitive feeling, or “Listening Jin” to sense to your opponent’s intention, understand their Jin (power), neutralize it, and then counterattack.
		Taijiquan pushing hands is a critical skill to develop for anyone that is serious in their study of Taijiquan.
		Watching someone "win" at pushing hands while overpowering the other person is not as impressive as seeing someone with high skill seemingly control the other person while staying centered, calm and using very efficient techniques.
	www.ymaa.com /publishing/tai_chi_DVD/internal/taijiquan_pushing_hands1DVD (873 words)

	Taijiquan Pushing Hands (1) -- Basic Techniques and Skills
		"Pushing Hands" is excellent for training combat skills, but by itself it does not enable the practitioners to fight effectively.
		"Pushing Hands" and "Striking Hands" are complementary, the former focuses on developing skills and the latter on applying techniques.
		One fundamental objective of "Pushing Hands" training is to develop sensibility, known figuratively in Chinese as "ting jin" or "hearing force" (with the arms).
	wongkk.com /review/pushing01.html (764 words)

	pushing hands (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pushing Hands is een zachte, speelse en uitdagende tweepersoons-oefenvorm om de martiale aspekten van Tai Chi Chuan te verkennen en ontwikkelen.
		Pushing Hands is voor iedereen geschikt; geslacht, leeftijd en kracht zijn van ondergeschikt belang.
		Met ingang vanaf juni 2006 is er voorlopig iedere vrijdagmiddag van 15.00 tot 18.00 uur is er vrije pushing hands in het Noorderplantsoen bij de muziekkoepel of op de taichiheuvel (die achter de koepel ligt).
	www.lianong.nl /pushinghands.htm (265 words)

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		Pushing and yielding continues in a circular fashion until one person is "uprooted," with one or both legs losing contact with the floor; then the cycle continues.
		There are, however, push hands competitions, in which players receive points for unbalancing their partner (or, in the case of moving-step push hands, causing their partner to step outside a marked area on the floor).
		In some schools, push hands is taught along with the solo form; in other cases, teachers prefer the students to spend six months to a year learning the form and strengthening their legs before beginning to study push hands.
	www.begintaichi.co.za /pushhands.htm (1220 words)

	Pushing Hands (film)
		Pushing hands is also a training routine practiced in T'ai Chi Ch'uan (Taijiquan) and a few other Chinese martial arts
		Pushing Hands is a film directed by Ang Lee.
		"Pushing Hands" thereby alludes to the process of adaptation to culture shock felt by a traditional teacher in moving to the United States.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pu/pushing_hands__film_.html (295 words)

	Chi Sau rules for competition within the BKFA. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The forward hand of each participant is raised to approximately chest height with the palm facing in, and the back of the hand lightly touching the same part of the other person’s hand.
		The rear hand (the hand corresponding to the rear foot) is placed gently on the elbow of the other player's lead elbow, so that both players are in an equal starting position.
		Pushing Hands provides Lau Gar Kung Fu practitioners with a format to test and improve upon their relaxation, flexibility, timing, balance, poise and numerous other qualities while in contact with another person.
	www.laugar-kungfu.com /chi_sau.htm (731 words)

	Tai Chi Push Hands Page
		Pushing Hands is a simplified form of sparring popular with students of Tai Chi.
		Lacking the punches and kicks common in the practice fighting of many external martial arts, Pushing Hands is a gentle sport of control where success is achieved by upsetting the balance of one's opponent.
		Speed and strength are often assets to the Push Hands competitor, as is a strong knowledge of the proscribed movements for the format.
	www.taichiacademy.com /pushhands.htm (374 words)

	The Art Of Pushing Hands
		Pushing hands is an important part of understanding the technical basis of the solo form and postures.
		The most common of which among western novices is the notion that Push hands is meant to be a combative test of personal prowess.
		The Push Hands Method requires mental application emotional balance, intuitive understanding of energetic expression coupled with a refined sense of conservation of position and purpose.
	members.tripod.com /~donalo/artof.htm (1076 words)

	US Students Practise 'Pushing Hands'
		A group of US middle school students have practised "pushing hands," a non-competitive exercise of taijiquan between two people, with local students in Foshan, a city in south China's Guangdong Province.
		The attacker must push over the defender in 20 seconds, but cannot move their feet or touch any part of the defender except for their arms and trunks.
		"Playing 'pushing hands' makes me know martial art is an exercise that needs the player to listen to the partner's body movement, learn his or her expression in eyes and internal feelings.
	www.china.org.cn /english/Life/164602.htm (321 words)

	Taijiquan Pushing Hands (1) -- Basic Techniques and Skills
		"Pushing Hands" is excellent for training combat skills, but by itself it does not enable the practitioners to fight effectively.
		"Pushing Hands" and "Striking Hands" are complementary, the former focuses on developing skills and the latter on applying techniques.
		One fundamental objective of "Pushing Hands" training is to develop sensibility, known figuratively in Chinese as "ting jin" or "hearing force" (with the arms).
	www.wongkk.com /review/pushing01.html (764 words)

	TAIJI PUSHING HANDS
		You may start pushing hands anytime after you finish learning the solo sequence, and it should be part of your training for as long as you practice Taiji.
		Pushing hands also gives you a chance to practice the applications of the techniques, which increases your understanding of the sequence.
		With this training you will be able to understand the principles and general rules of pushing hands, and lay a foundation which will enable you to research and study further.
	www.accesscom.com /~zappat/TAIJIQUANPUSHINGHANDS.html (1026 words)

	chiflow Nei Jia Kungfu Taiji, Xingyquan, Baguazhang Qigung and Liangong
		Probably the most influential Push Hands teacher I have had the honor to train with was the late Ma Yueh Liang.
		Furthermore, pushing can be more useful when the position of the joint you are pushing is considered, and which way the opponent's joint is trapped or reacts as you penetrate with the push effects how much force or pressure is applied.
		Zhong Ding may also take the form of hands sliding on and across the opponent's body continuing to be "connected," as you test, follow, push, pull, lift, or raise the opponent while at the same time maintaining your stability.
	www.chiflow.com /html/tuishou.htm (2449 words)

	The First Pushing Hands Victory - Plum Blossom International Federation
		He practiced Wu style of tai chi and was an expert in pushing hands.
		After a couple of minutes of warming up using the double pushing hands pattern with him, Yam was trying to push Grandmaster Wong over, he tried for more than couple of minutes and still couldn’t get him off balance.
		Grandmaster Wong quickly realized that it was okay for him to push the “pushing hand king” over without getting in trouble from his teacher.
	www.plumblossom.net /Grandmaster/firstvictory.html (670 words)

	TheTaiChiSite.com - Pushing hands, San Shou and Tai Chi Combat
		USCKF Tai Chi Pushing Hands Rules - Pushing hands rules vary from tournament to tournament but the USCKF's rules are representative of a typical set of push hands rules.
		If you are interested in meeting to practice Tai Chi push hands drills and cooperative 2-person partner drills in the University and Wallingford areas of Seattle Frank Wong or call (425) 356-5584 during the day.
		Push Hands, in movement, like water, in stillness, like a mirror - From the Patience T'ai Chi Association one of the oldest continuously operating Tai Chi schools in America.
	www.thetaichisite.com /tai-205.htm (2207 words)

	Pushing Hands - Flying Eagle Martial Arts Academy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pushing Hands or "Tui Shou" in Mandarin (Tuei Sao in Cantonese), is to Taijiquan what sparring is to Taekwondo.
		Practice starts with single hand pushing, whereby two partners (not opponents) face each other and "join" hands at the wrists.
		When one attains to the level of "interpreting energy" or in other words reaches the highest level of Pushing Hands skill then one will be what the Taijiquan Classics call a "Peerless Boxer" or an "Invincible Fighter".
	flyingeagleacademy.com /pushing.html (287 words)

	Push Hands: Interesting Thing of the Day
		By being pushed off balance, you become aware of areas of tension in your body, so the whole challenge of push hands is to identify and correct those areas—to relax completely.
		Pushing and yielding continues in a circular fashion until one person is “uprooted,” with one or both feet losing contact with the floor; then the cycle continues.
		There are, however, push hands competitions, in which players receive points for unbalancing their partners (or, in the case of moving-step push hands, causing the partner to step outside a marked area on the floor).
	itotd.com /articles/294/push-hands (1688 words)

	YMAA Internal Styles-Taijiquan Program. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The purpose of Taiji pushing hands training is the same as that of the fighting forms in the external styles.
		In YMAA stationary pushing hands training, there are four basic neutralization patterns which a pushing hands beginner must learn.
		In moving pushing hands, the student must use stepping strategy with the techniques learned in stationary pushing hands and the fighting set.
	school.ymaa.com /training/ymaaprogram/taijiquan/taijiquan.php (1062 words)

	Newsfinder e-magazine: A literary favour to world culture
		Pushing hands is the gateway for martial arts practitioners to understand experientially the martial aspects of their Martial arts.
		Falsely pushing hands (chin.: tui shou) considered as a nei jia (internal style) martial arts practice.
		In general Pushing Hands technique is an exercise performed by two people who are attempting to improve their martial skills.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/pushing_hands (276 words)

	When pushing hands, or minds, relax the tension \| faithCommons.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Push hands" is done with a partner, as contrasted with Tai Chi forms, which are played individually (Tai Chi practitioners typically say "play" instead of "perform," a reflection of the relaxed Taoist sensibility that pervades this art).
		One of the first things I learned when pushing hands is that tensing up offers the other person a marvelous means of manipulating me. If I extend an arm and it's grabbed by my partner, he can use it to throw me every which way if I keep it rigidly connected to my body.
		This is why pushing hands with a partner is an important Tai Chi practice.
	faithcommons.org /node/61806 (898 words)

	Re: pushing hands
		Hands-on experience is important for any martial development, and especially for 2-person contact exercises like pushing hands.
		Pushing hands is a 2-person exercise that helps to bridge the gap between solo practice and free-fighting.
		One of the problems with descriptions is that a whole range of practices can come under the label of "pushing hands," ranging from very basic restricted exercises to practices that are close to sparring.
	www.mtsu.edu /%7Ejpurcell/Taichi/wwwboard/messages/2444.html (400 words)

	Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pushing Hands Drills - there are nine methods of structured pushing hands in Wudang Tai Chi.
		Pushing Hands drills enable us to a train in the strategies of softness, adherence, following, continuous movement and neither resisting nor breaking from the opponent.
		Below we show a moving image of Reeling Silk pushing hands which is a fundemantal way of training a concept called Gyrating Arms.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /nottingham.wudang/tuishoudrills.htm (368 words)

	Push Hands
		Tai Chi Push Hands is a cooperative two person exercise that balances the energies of both people by applying the principles of Chi Kung and Tai Chi It enables individuals to neutralize aggression while remaining calm and effective in the face of adversity.
		Push Hands is also an excellent introduction to the martial aspect of Tai Chi Chuan and is the bridge between the Tai Chi form and fighting.
		Push Hands teaches students to go beyond the physical and to feel and use their own energy and that of their partner.
	www.taoist-arts.com /html/push_hands.html (312 words)

	Over Tai Chi
		Pushing hands is een oefening met zijn tweeën.
		Het doel kan zijn elkaar uit balans te brengen totdat een voet wordt verzet (z.g.
		Pushing hands biedt een vechtsituatie zonder blessurerisico, we gaan niet slaan of schoppen.
	www.lakerveld.org /over-tai-chi.html (1068 words)

	Yiquan - introduction
		Pushing hands should serve this goal and not be just pushing hands for sake of pushing hands.
		In pushing hands exercises contact lasts for some longer time, but in practical use in free fighting the contact is very often not longer than a split of second.
		Free (sparring) pushing hands in fixed position and with steps (more stress is put on practice with steps).
	www.yiquan.pl /engintroduction.html (897 words)

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