Push hands is a basic exercise for two partners that is practiced by students of Tai Chi. In this volume, push hands is presented as a means to relax under physical and mental stress and to improve one's interactions with others in daily life. The author also offers instruction in the fundamentals of the soft form of push hands and lays the groundwork for studying the hard form, which is the actual fighting style of push hands. Also included are chapters on ch'i and Taoist philosophy.
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An excellent tuishou discussion--but not for beginners,
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I like Paul's discussion of taiji tuishou (push hands) and some of the suggestions he makes for developing one's tuishou abilities. However, I would not particularly recommend this book for beginners for two related reasons: first of all, the pictures are dark, and its hard to see where the arms and hands go sometimes. An experienced practictioner can make it out, but I doubt most beginners could without feeling really frustrated. Secondly, it lacks what I would call "transitional pictures." A beginner can easily wonder how one gets from one picture to the next. Again, an experienced practictioner can figure it out, but most beginners won't have the knowledge base to get past this structural difficulty. The book would have been much better with at least double the number of pictures for each illustration.That said, Paul's discussion of tuishou is very good, and reveals him to be both knowledgable in taiji tuishou and a mature individual. He doesn't especially blow his own horn, and also makes a point stressing the fact that tuishou is primarily a learning tool meant to develop one's taiji fighting ability and not a vehicle for competition in and of itself. To get hung up on tuishou is like Earnest Hemingway getting hung up on calligraphy and never writing a single story. This is clearly one of the better taiji tuishou books out there. Hopefully one day they'll supplement the pictures.
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