Wu Pai Taiji Push Hands

The old name of the hand push hand, the meaning is more extensive, in order to adapt to today's readers of the Xi Guan, this paper is also renamed push hand. Here is what I have organized for you: Wu Pai Taiji Push Hands Technical Essentials.

Wu Pai Taiji Push Hands Technique

Early Push Hands program is relatively simple. Wu clarified (1800?1884) in the "Theory of Striking Hands" has recorded. He said: "When you first learn to fight hands, you first learn to embrace, press, and elbow. This one uses the arm, and the other uses the arm; this one uses the press, and the other uses the arm; this one uses the elbow, and the other uses the press? Two people, the same, the hand does not leave the hand, mutual adhesion, back and forth cycle, week after week, called? The old three? And note? "Strap"? This sound Lou, hold also? The common tone is "lu". Wu Clarification's "Discourse on Striking Hands" not only records the programmed movements and practice methods of striking hands, but also provides information about the special term for taijiquan, which is used in Taijiquan.　 The word "taijiquan" was used at that time, but it was still used. The word "taijiquan" was used at that time, but it is still used as "taijiquan". The character "搂" was used at that time. word was used to replace it.

In the book, the word "taijiquan" was used as a substitute for the word "kou". The old three stances First of all, in terms of theory, Wu Yuxiang, Wu clarification, Wu Ruqing, Hao Yueyu, Xu Zhen, Hao Shaoru, Yan Zhigao, Chen Guan, Yao Jizu and other gentlemen have writings, especially Wu, Li and Hao Yueyu and other predecessors of the theory of the hand, has long become a taijiquan community **** with the wealth for many practitioners to promote. Secondly, it is the form of pushing hands, according to the objective existence of the need for flexibility and change of footwork in actual combat, the footwork of one step forward and one step backward was derivatized into three and a half steps forward and one step backward. Later on, according to the teaching needs, the Push Hands and the Great were added. Mr. Chen Guan, inspired by the Taiji Wrapping Gun, created a variety of wrapping hands and added the content of Four Slanting Hands, which further enriched the Taiji Push Hands of Wu Pai. Due to the limitation of space, this article focuses on the introduction of the three and a half steps in and out of the live step Push Hands as much as other Push Hands programs and requirements, you can refer to the relevant chapters of my book "Wu Pai Taijiquan Body Use Book".

The program of Wu School Taijiquan Live Step Push Hands is based on Lazy Tied Clothes, combined with Cloud Hands, Inverted Whisking Monkey, and other combinations of punches. Lower limb attack and defense is mainly used shed, squeeze, press the four hands, so we must follow the song "hit the hand"? Shed squeeze press must be serious? The requirements, under the guidance of experienced teachers, each hand should be circumscribed in the rules, folding and rotating in the moment, open and close to meet and send, with the curve on the stretch, the God through the two shoulders, a front and a back, a top and a bottom, all must be flexible and comfortable, in the section of the beat.

The footwork of the lower limbs is three and a half steps forward and backward. In order to practice the lower limbs in the beginning, the lower limbs of the dipping and sticking with not losing the top of the kung fu is mostly for the joint step. If A's right foot is in front, B's left foot is in front. A's right foot is on the outside of B's left foot. A progress into the right foot, and then into the left foot, stepping on the outside of B's right foot; A's third step right foot to step in the middle of B's crotch step. The fourth step is the left foot heel half a step, landing on the back of the right foot (such as hitching hands when the left foot in front of the first left foot, and then on the right foot, left foot, the same method). Retreat side is the first back foot (set up for the right foot), and then retreat left foot, right foot, the fourth step left foot only half a step back, into the left virtual step.

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Wu Pai Taiji Push Hands Technique

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Wu Pai Taiji Push Hands Technique

This kind of step seems simple, but its connotation is very rich. Now the summary of one or two:

1, two legs in and out of the distance to keep their center of gravity stable as appropriate, not too big or too small. Horizontal distance to my two crotch width shall prevail, two feet can not fall in a straight line, so as not to affect the stability of the footwork. In and out according to the other side of the momentum, slightly slow with; do not monotonous straight line in and out.

2, traveling to maintain a certain level, not high or low. A step forward to buckle the foot to low, almost rubbing the ground; out of the foot, the point of force in the heel, step down is like stepping on things; step back slightly higher, support leg to loose, the weight of the body to fall in the heart of the foot Chungquan, and the ground suction, as long as the same on the ground.

3, the two legs to distinguish between real and imaginary, however? The virtual is not all powerless, there is a pre-movement of the momentum; the real is not all accounted for the brake, containing the meaning of uplift. The virtual contains real, real in the virtual, left and right, each other as the main auxiliary, to maintain their own center of stability, torque balance, step with the degree, in and out of the square, the body will be naturally coordinated.

4, to be calm and steady step, move lightly, into the swiftness of the people in the unknowing, and I have been to avoid its sharp and hit its false, forcing them to? Retreat is the more urgent? If you are quiet, you will be able to keep yourself stable, and you will be able to turn the corner, which makes you feel that you are not aware of it. The more they enter, the more they grow. The more you enter, the more you grow, the less you can find the ground, and you don't know what to attack. Although there is a difference between the shape of the advance and retreat, but mainly into the main, into the retreat; retreat is also into the retreat hidden into the opportunity to change the real and virtual, as you wish, and make sure to occupy a favorable position. I'm going to send someone, step must be secretly into, an inch for the first, the overall coordination.

The above is the requirement of upper and lower limbs in Live Step Push Hands. As Wushu Taiji is y influenced by traditional culture, it is based on yin and yang, the middle ground, and the concepts of evenness, balance and wholeness are carried out.

Wu Pai Taijiquan Push Hands Technique

The above is the requirement of upper and lower limbs in Push Hands. As the Wu School of Taijiquan is y influenced by traditional culture, to the yin and yang for this, the use of mediocrity, uniformity, balance, the whole concept of the implementation of the push hands of the whole, therefore, the push hands and walk the same frame in accordance with the Wu Yuxiang formulated the essentials of the body method: lifting the top of the hanging crotch, loose shoulders and sinking elbows, containing the chest, pulling the back, wrapped crotch buttock protection, coccyx is in the center of the qi sinking Dantian, the internal solid spirit, the external display of peace and security, the standing body in the middle of the peace and comfort, the eight sides of the support; the two palms of each half of the body, guarding with the middle, the middle of the body, the two palms of each pipe The body, the guard in the use of the middle, the strength of the front section, the three tips of the unity, the momentum of the gas to move, turn off the flash war, so that the eyes and the heart together, the heart and the gas together, gas and the body together, the body and the hand together, the hand and the foot together, the foot and the crotch together. Push hands with people do not touch each other heavy (dip), phase line is not scattered (even), phase knead is not hard (sticky), and the combination is not contrary to (with), do not lose not top, do not resist not plaque, rise and fall, light spirit round and live, with the curved on the stretch, no too much and not too little, slow and urgent should be with the people and move with the people, the virtual and real open and close, according to the situation is different, the? Five techniques? (kicking, hitting, falling, taking, throwing)? Eight techniques? (arrow-quiver, stroking, squeezing, pressing, picking, holding, elbows, leaning), the combination of practice and use, in practice, constantly? In practice, we should keep on practicing.

Wu Pai Taiji Push Hands has formed a set of step-by-step practice procedures.

At the beginning of the practice, the main focus is on smoothness. Wang Zongyue "Taijiquan" cloud:? I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to do it, and I'm sure you're going to be able to do it. Go" is to go to the force, not dodge to escape. I set the strength of the center as the fulcrum, with the intention of leading its power, or shed or stroke, his power is strong, I am running flexible, go with the trend, the introduction of the fall, resulting in the back of my smooth situation, and then stick with the incoming force waiting for the opportunity to issue, forcing its defeat. In order to achieve this, we must first seek our own flexibility, standardized movements, and put more effort in walking frame. If the body muscle health failed to soft live, fist movements can not be smooth, push hands, it is not possible to intentionally people first, give up their own from the people, moving urgent emergency should be, moving slowly with, open and welcome, get the opportunity to get the momentum, so the soft seek smooth as the first key.

Secondly, the practice of the reversal of the smooth. On the basis of practicing a good smooth and then practicing the kung fu to become smooth, in the people smooth my back under the disadvantage, I through the body of the virtual changes, waist and hip draw switch, from the back (inverse) to become smooth, the other side of the back from the smooth to the back of the system for me. This is a further step in practicing Push Hands.

Wu Yuxiang pointed out in "Thirteen potentials" that walking frame to hit the hand? From the feet to the legs to the waist, it is necessary to complete a gas, forward and backward, to be able to get the opportunity to get the momentum. If you do not have the opportunity to gain momentum, your body will be scattered, and you will be skewed, and the disease will be found in your waist and legs. This passage is very important, walking frame hitter if you want to get the opportunity to get the momentum, we must hand, eye, body, waist, step ? Complete a gas? Once the body law is scattered, bias loss of weight, the corrective method? Must seek in the waist and legs?

Once again, it is skillful with the changes in the strength of the virtual and real opening and closing. The change is magical because of the enemy. The practice of boxing to practice the body for the law, push hands to the application of the art, through the above two stages of the focus of the exercise, practitioners have mastered the essentials of strength, should be further targeted to combine the relevant boxing research with the changes in the strength. It should be known that the shape of the outside, the strength is contained in the inside, the strength is with the strength, with the strength of the carrier, the two can not be separated from the disaster, to achieve the same table, change freely, is considered perfect. At this stage, it is still "giving up oneself and following others", but following others is for the sake of oneself. Mr. Hao Yueru said in "Taijiquan's Walking and Striking Hands": "If he wants to go to the left, then I will go to the left, then I will go to the right. If he wants to go to the left, I will lead him to the left; if he wants to go to the right, I will lead him to the right; if he wants to go in, I will lead him in; if he wants to go out, I will lead him out? If you can reach this point? If he wants to retreat, I will follow him with my mind and retreat. If the left is heavy, then the left is empty; if there is heavy, then there is dark; if you look up, then you are high; if you look down, then you are deep; if you go in, then you are longer; if you go out, then you are shorter. Appearance seems to be from people, but its internal strength for me to control. I am the combination of internal and external, the body and harmony, the operation of the external skill is skillful, the internal strength is hidden and appearing, stable and changeable, the change of the enemy is magic. The change of the enemy is magical.

Further practice should be based on emptiness, that is, Wang Zongyue said in "Discourse on Taijiquan", "A feather cannot be added, a fly and a worm can't be added. A feather can not be added, flies and insects can not fall? The advanced kung fu. Left, right, up, down, front, back, virtual, dark, high, deep, long, promote, everywhere in the spirit of the air, not to force, to achieve this state, outside the body law is light, the hands of the eye sharp, the body spirit step steadily, within the spirit of the gas through the reaction of the sensitive; and people touch, the transport of my spirit of the virtual, virtual and real open and close, in the section of the rhythm, the coming force everywhere in the air, want to enter the can not, want to stop can not be seen, look forward to in the front, suddenly in the back, such as trapped in a heavy siege. I want to be able to win with my skill, but I have to work on my lightness of being.

Following this, we can reach the realm of the subtle.

The tutorials of Shun, Reverse, Change, Empty, and Xuan are meant to illustrate the key points of each stage of practice, not to separate them. The theories of Wang Zongyue, Wu Yuxiang, Li Yishe, Hao Yueru and other predecessors should be followed throughout. Under the guidance of the theory, one must understand the principles of boxing, know how to use them, follow the requirements, and study them with all one's heart, so that one can progress from beginner to skillful, and from coarse to refined, and the longer one works, the more refined one's skills become. There is no end to learning and no end to art. Those who want to climb to the peak of Taiji Push Hands can only? Work with no rest method from rest? The only way to achieve this is to "work without rest" and "rest from the law".