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Push Hands:Kung Fu's Training Secrets [VHS]

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Push Hands is a two person exercise which teaches you to use internal energy, to neutralize the partner's force and to connect your chi flow to the partner for use in martial arts as well as healing. This video is divided into 14 "chapters", such as "rooting", "beginning exercises", "dynamics of attention", "angles and circles of the flow of energy", etc. It is a video textbook about all aspects of push hands. You will see student and teacher practicing push hands and then the teacher explains something about what just happened, describing the techniques and basic principles. It is tapes in several natural areas as well as the T'ai-chi studio and uses some stop motion effects. I think that it is an important video for anyone interested in push hands and helps to clear up the mystery behind this practice.

Waited a while for this tape, should have canceled it when I saw how bad his Chinese Kickboxing tapes were. Poor technical demonstrations, poor instructor comments. His demos of internal strength are terrible. This was made in 1987 however.

This is an amazing video about Push Hands - the two person T'ai-chi exercise which teaches you the basics of feeling and using internal energy - both for self defense and for healing. The tape divides the subject of Push Hands into many chapters, detailing each nuance, each technique, each principle and showing examples in free style push hands. It shows that push hands is not just pushing and shoving but is a fine art which helps you to become aware of yourself and your connection to other people. Mr. Klein, the teacher, explains the principles so anyone can understand them and you can easily see, from the push hands being done, how those principles apply. This video is a great contribution to T'ai-chi training.