DVD: Taiji Pushing Hands 3 & 4

Pushing Hands trains you to develop sensitive feeling, or Listening Jin, to sense your opponents intention, understand their Jin (power), neutralize it, and then counterattack. Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming clearly instructs the finer details of step-by-step Pushing Hands training, with an emphasis on understanding the emitting of Jin and its applications. Techniques are taught solo and with a partner, from the most basic to advanced.

Course 3

• Wardoff, Pressing and Twisting Jin
• Stepping, Sense of Distance, and Angling
• Single Pushing Hands
• Double Pushing Hands

Course 4

• Coiling and Spiraling Training
• Taiji Jin Practice
• Large Rollback Pushing Hands
• Cai, Lie, Zhou, Kao Pushing Hands

SPECIAL FEATURES: Over 50 Scene Selections • Narration: English, French • Multi –Language Menus & Subtitles: English, French • Interactive YMAA Product Catalog with previews of all YMAA videos

PRODUCTION • DR. YANG, JWING-MING •“TAIJI PUSHING HANDS 3 & 4” • WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY DR. YANG, JWING-MING WITH RAMEL RONES, KATHY YANG• EDITED BY DAVID SILVER AND MEDIAMANIC • VIDEO PRODUCTION SUPERVISION BY DAVID SILVER • DVD PRODUCTION BY MEDIAMANIC • DIRECTED BY DR.YANG, JWING-MING AND DAVID SILVER

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AUTHOR(S)

Yang, Jwing-Ming Ph.D., is a renowned author and teacher of Chinese martial arts and Qigong. Born in Taiwan, he has trained and taught Taijiquan, Qigong and Chinese martial arts for over forty-five years. He is the author of over thirty books, and was elected by Inside Kung Fu magazine as one of the 10 people who has "made the greatest impact on martial arts in the past 100 years." Dr. Yang lives in Northern California.

REVIEWS

5 of 5 stars, Taijiquan.com, Patrick Dickson, May 2008

This DVD combines two VHS tapes that were titled Taiji Pushing Hands 3 and Taiji Pushing Hands 4.

The DVD covers the following material:

TAIJI PUSHING HANDS 3
PART I Basic Taiji Jin Practice Pt. 2 1. Ward Off Jin (Peng Jin) 2. Pressing Jin 3. Twisting Jin
PART II Basic Stepping Training 1. Stepping 2. Sense of Distance 3. Angling
PART III 1. Moving Single Pushing Hands 2. Self Neutralization 3. Stationary Yin Neutralization 4. Moving Neutralization
PART IV 1. Moving Double Pushing Hands 2. Eight Jin Patterns 3. Five Stepping Patterns

TAIJI PUSHING HANDS 4
PART 1 Coiling and Spiraling Training Routines 1. Stationary 2. Moving 3. Changing Direction
PART 11 Taiji Jin Practice 1. Overturning Jin 2. Sinking Jin 3. Uprooting Jin
PART 111 Large Rollback Moving Push Hands 1. Large Rollback - 1 2. Large Rollback -2 3. Change Sides
PART IV Cai, Lie, Zhou, Kao Moving Pushing Hands

In Part I of Push Hands 3, Master Yang points out that Peng Jin is the most important Jin. If you study the moves and applications in Taijiquan, they all have Peng Jin as one of the qualities. For example, while Ward Off (Peng) might be thought of as being accomplished using forward stepping, if you practice Ward Off to the left and to the right while doing side stepping, you find yourself doing Wave Hands Like Clouds.

In real life the opponent will be moving. When you are moving you need to keep a good root in order to manifest your power efficiently. In this section Master Yang teaches a type of walking that is very reminiscent of Bagua Circle walking. This is accomplished by basically slide your feet forward as if walking in mud.

Master Yang then teaches how to use the center of the body to lead the stepping either forward or backward. Master Yang effectively uses students of various skill levels to demonstrate the different techniques and training exercises. This is invaluable in many ways.

The viewers of this DVD are able to observe persons of different body types perform the movements. What is interesting is that each of the students has their own unique skills. One student who looks rather weak in some of the movements in Part I looks stronger than the others during the stepping demonstrations in Part II.

In sense of distance the negative aspects of resisting against the opponent and losing contact with the opponent are shown to be the outer extremes of the optimum distance; that being not too close and not too far.

Taijiquan principles always seem to find the middle ground, a fine balance between Yin and Yang. The fingers are not too limp, not too stiff. The jaw is not too forward, not too pulled in. That fine balance between opposite energies that make up the whole pretty much sums up the underlying principles of Taijiquan, and Daoism. That's why I've always enjoyed Master Yang's teachings, as they demonstrate the depth of his knowledge and his ability to take concepts like these and make them come alive.

There are moments in Master Yang's DVDs where I always enjoy a good chuckle. At one point he is telling Ramel and another student that their hand motions need to be more coordinated with their body and base. As the students absorb this information he tells them that they are now going to demonstrate the qualities of "Sense of Angling", which he assures them “is even harder".

You know, I could write twenty more paragraphs trying to describe the excellent information as it is presented on this DVD. Bottom line, Master Yang truly has an excellent, real life, hands on understanding of what push hands is all about.

When you learn the Taijiquan form the foot work and base and legs are the most important if you want to have effective techniques. The same is true in push hands, and Master Yang spends an appropriate amount of time on demonstrating the basics, which ironically are more complex than the more advanced moves. It is infinitely easier to superficially teach a complex technique or application than it is to understand and teach the basic movements and structure that allow such a complex move to be effective and powerful.

If you are interested in push hands, this DVD is invaluable. There are many tapes and DVDs by other martial artists that merely "demonstrate" push hands. In this DVD Master Yang effectively teaches the necessary drills and techniques that a practitioner would need in order to become proficient at push hands and/or demonstrating the martial applications of Taijiquan.