Yi Jian Tai Chi Styles
There are more than 100 different Tai Chi styles. This is an overview of our Yi Jian Tai Chi styles.
Yi Jian Tai Chi
Description Tai Chi
Tai Chi Sabre
Description Tai Chi Sabre
Tai Chi Sword
Description Tai Chi Sword
Tai Chi Pushing Hands
Tai Chi Pushing Hands
Pushing hands or tuishou is a name for two-person training routines practiced in internal Chinese martial arts such as T'ai chi ch'uan (Taijiquan).
Pushing hands is said to be the gateway for students to experientially understand the martial aspects of the internal martial arts (內家 nèijiā): leverage, reflex, sensitivity, timing, coordination and positioning.
Pushing hands works to undo a person's natural instinct to resist force with force, teaching the body to yield to force and redirect it. Health oriented t'ai chi schools may teach push hands to complement the physical conditioning available from performing solo form routines. Push hands allows students to learn how to respond to external stimuli using techniques from their forms practice. Among other things, training with a partner allows a student to develop ting jing (listening power), the sensitivity to feel the direction and strength of a partner's intention. In that sense pushing hands is a contract between students to train in the defensive and offensive movement principles of their martial art: learning to generate, coordinate and deliver power to another and also how to effectively neutralize incoming forces in a safe environment.