Tai Ji Chuan's listening is the core skill of capture.

It is estimated that many people disapprove of discussing Tai Chi Chuan and David together. Whether it is correct or not, most people watch Tai Chi Chuan more than catching it. In China, there are people practicing Tai Ji Chuan in every park every weekend, but very few of them are caught in teaching or learning. Usually only the armed police and the police will take arrest as a necessary subject, because it is necessary to use arrest technology when dealing with criminals.

When I first started learning Tai Ji Chuan, I didn't expect to learn how to capture. However, capture, as the essence of China traditional Wushu, is involved in all schools and sects, but the practice methods and skills are different. With the deepening of Tai Ji Chuan's practice, I gradually mastered some grasping skills. Write down my experience here and give more expectations to those who want to learn from Tai Ji Chuan: Wushu is the foundation of Taiji.

What is capture? Baidu Encyclopedia has an explanation, but it can't be skipped. I admire Zhao Dayuan's statement in "Capture in Actual Combat":

Grasping method is a practical technique, which integrates kicking, hitting, falling and grasping, so as to strike and pinch the key points, grasp the meridians and pulse, separate the bones and muscles, combine rigidity with softness, transform yin and yang, and win by circular flow.

What is the transformation of yin and yang, circular circle, and winning by cleverness? This can't be understood only by reading books, nor can it be learned by general skill practice. What I want to say is that with the listening of Tai Chi Chuan, all this can be solved easily.

Experience of beginners in boxing and grasping boxing.

On New Year's Day in 2009, she went to Tai Chi Chuan with Master Shan Ying to study. Master was not often in Guangzhou, so several new disciples in Panyu often looked for early brothers to study, especially Xiaozhou Huang in Huangpu.

Once, Brother Huang raised the little finger of his right hand and told us to break it off with any force and speed. Isn't there a saying of "fast, accurate and ruthless" in grasping? As long as you are fast enough and strong enough (the hand must be the power to crush the little finger), you will be able to hold each other through the little finger, at least making him feel unbearable pain and lose his resistance. But the result is unexpected, no matter how hard we try, how fast. I just can't hold it. My brother's little finger has been in our hands all the time, but our hands feel weak. My brother's fingers are as soft as cotton, but it is because of softness that we can't interrupt his finger pain or control him through the little finger. It really should be the theory of Tai Chi, and it should be both rigid and flexible.

The second demonstration is that we grasp his right hand with both hands and lock it behind. This action is probably often seen in TV dramas, and it is a common way for police to catch thieves. We grasped his right hand in advance, then held the other disciples' left elbow with the left hand and rotated it up to the right, while the right hand held the wrist and rotated it down to the left, forming a double force. In this case, if you take the initiative and make a sudden effort, it is usually effective. However, my brother's whole arm is as slippery as a loach and he can't catch it at all. Even caught the direction of our hard work. It's hard to try, but we can't learn according to his movements.

I saw my brother's exquisite kung fu. At the same time, brother brought a policeman to see brother Huang. The police were curious about Tai Ji Chuan, but they didn't see a master of Tai Chi who really had kung fu. While we were practicing Tai Ji Chuan, Brother Huang talked with him about Tai Ji Chuan. When talking about arresting skills, Brother Huang gave his two arms to the police for arresting action. Arrest should be a necessary basic skill for the police, so the police have more arrest actions and techniques and a higher level. However, even if the senior gave his two arms to the police respectively and let him make all kinds of grasping movements without resistance, in the end, in our eyes, we only saw the busy hands of the police and the slippery hands of the senior, but the police just couldn't catch both arms. It can be said that the police's arrest skills have failed here.

On 20 10, Master Shan Ying held the first annual meeting of Lingnan Taiji in Panyu Dafu Mountain Sanatorium. I met Brother Qiu Chunfa in Shiqiao subway. When I was with my brothers, I didn't mean to practice boxing all the time, and it was the same at this time. Brother Qiu grabbed my right hand and sent it up as soon as he came up. I'm about to stand on tiptoe. I'm locked from my wrist to my shoulder and can't move. But it is not a state of unbearable pain. It's another Tai Chi pass. It's small and simple, but it can control the whole body. I drew a gourd ladle, but it didn't have such an effect. Why?

The reason is that the listening skills of Taiji Chuan are different.

With these experiences, I will pay attention to Tai Ji Chuan's grasping method when I practice Tai Ji Chuan in the future. But one thing is strange, just like the previous case, the same action is effective for senior brothers, no matter how we imitate it, it is always useless. Mentoring explained that most of them are in these aspects: not resisting, giving up who I am and following others (this is the basic technical requirement of Tai Ji Chuan); The idea is to lock the whole movement chain of the human body from one end of the holding joint to the other end of the waist or the opposite side; Have certain listening ability (this is the technical requirement of Tai Ji Chuan, which is difficult), feel the state of the other person's body and joints, and follow up at any time.

With the passage of time and continuous practice, I have mastered Tai Ji Chuan's softening technique, and with a certain listening ability, I can also effectively complete the grasping action. At this time, I realized why my brother could do the same action before, but we couldn't. The core factor lies in the listening skills of Taiji Chuan. He can listen to each other's state and react, so that he can control each other, or escape from each other's capture and look for opportunities to counter each other. Because, the principle of capture and liberation of Taiji Chuan is the same-both are listening. When I can hold others, that is, when others can't hold me, the core of liberation is neither resistance nor listening (these are two sides of the same thing, and there is no listening if there is resistance).

The so-called listening ability is to be able to perceive the size, direction and speed of the other party's strength, and then change, so that you can catch the other party or escape or counter it from the other party's capture. "Practical Capture" says: Use it skillfully but not clumsily. First of all, go with the flow, go with the flow, turn yin into yang, and don't resist. What is said here is clever, which corresponds to the terminology of Taiji Chuan, or the corresponding technology. I understand. Listening is listening. This is a different description of the same concept by different martial arts schools.

An experience of mine

A few years ago, Guangzhou Trade Union organized some free courses for employees, including a five-time taekwondo course in Fangcun. The last content of the course is capture. Although I have learned many grasping movements and mastered some core skills that I think Tai Ji Chuan grasped, I always feel that many techniques have not been mastered. So I signed up for this training class. See if you can learn some skills in the last class.

The first four courses are all techniques of punching and kicking, nothing special. The last day is arrest. Sure enough, there are many grasping skills, such as how the other person grabs your hair, what to do when others grab your collar, and some I don't remember.

Since we are studying, my partner and I also practice with each other according to the teacher's explanation. I can control the effect of the opponent's capture at will by listening and practicing Tai Chi Chuan. Sometimes the other person can hold me, sometimes it doesn't work, and I'm confused. At this time, the coach came to guide everyone how to deal with various problems in arrest, such as arrest and anti-arrest, and escape. For example, the coach said that when his palm is locked on his chest and his elbow is locked by internal rotation, he can turn around and grab the other person's throat with his other hand. This is a way of anti-capture.

When the coach demonstrates here, I first lock the coach's right hand according to the requirements of the routine, and then rotate his elbow with my right hand to start the locking action. The coach began to turn around. That is, I don't just do pronation, but use listening to feel the gap between the coaches' joints, and then penetrate my own strength, from elbow joint to shoulder to waist to leg, locking the whole joint chain. In this way, during the whole pronation process, the coach's turn was held back by my pronation, and he turned around and fell to the ground with a bang.

This experience deepened my understanding of Tai Chi listening and improved my ability to use listening in grasping. Zhao Dayuan, the author of "Practical Capture Science", was a former lecturer in capture technology at People's Police University of China and Public Security University. The description in the book is also full of descriptions about clever use, such as the use of force, the transformation of yin and yang, and no resistance. So I think these descriptions correspond to the listening skills of Taiji Chuan. However, the well-known formula of "fast, accurate and ruthless" may become an obstacle for you to further master this advanced skill, because as long as you master these methods, you can kill ordinary people in practical application. Therefore, most policemen and martial arts coaches work hard on these three words, but they have not mastered the core of grasping skills-listening.