Product Details

• Actors: Bob Klein
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Artistic Video
• VHS Release Date: June 1, 1987
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302932831
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,585 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the Teacher, April 16, 2000

By	Carl Weis (NY) - See all my reviews

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars More (...junk) from Bob Klein, December 20, 2001

By	John J. Dempsey III (Heidelberg Germany) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must" video for T'ai-chi practitioners, July 14, 2000

By	David Weis (N.Y., USA) - See all my reviews

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.