- Push Hands/ Tue Shou or Rou Shou/ Rolling Hands or San Shou (?)/ Sticking hands is part of any real Chinese internal martial arts system.
- Push hands is a drill, not fighting or sparring.
- The Push Hands drill begins with the idea that we have already closed the distance on our opponent, established contact points, and are attempting to control their center.
- Sticking hands will develop close in fighting skill.
- A lot of schools will treat Push Hands training as an end unto itself, this is a bad habit, it is a training tool designed to develop a specific skill set in a specific fighting range.
- Within that range there are numerous skills to train, throwing and sweeping, striking, kicking, joint locking etc.
Boulder Internal Arts - Awareness Through Marital Movement. Internal Kung Fu training in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Gao Bagua Zhang and Hebei Xingyi Quan; methods for building mindfulness, lasting health and personal transformation using unique movement and martial contact in a safe setting with an established long-term group. First class is free. Use the Widget on the Right or Email for More Info : Owen Yi Zong @ Email
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Boulder Internal Arts an Yi Zong School: Things i tell my students about Push Hands training:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Boulder Internal Arts - Classes Ongoing in 2025
Although I don't post much here anymore. We are still training and teaching in Boulder after 20 years! Boulder Internal Arts offers ong...

-
FOUND HERE - Dragons Armory web site Jinyiwei: Ming Elite Guards 錦衣衛 1. Bloodhounds ...
-
練習舞劍,余分為六個階段, 一、練形:即各式形態姿勢, 二、練敏:即動作敏捷靈活, 三、練力:即氣勢力量, 四、練神:即全神貫注, 五、練意:即劍術效力使用, 六、練化:即融會貫通, 也就是把形、敏、力、神、意、化六字融化為一體, 練至精純,不獨可隨意表演,...
Push hands is a vital tool to learning how to apply internal martial arts well. I completely agree that it is a tool and not fighting/sparring. Even when intensity is increased to a point where there is no cooperation, there is still an underlying set of rules involved, ie remaining in contact. If I break contact I break the rules. Fighting and sparring do not recognize this 'rule'.
ReplyDeleteRou shou has got to be one of my favorite training tools that we have in the Yizong arts!
Good stuff, O!