PUSH HANDS

 

Push Hands

Good

Gestures

Have

Percussion to

Their 

Application

SLOW SET

 

Slow set

Welcome

Misalignment

As an acceptable

Surprise

Correcting it 

A practice

Prize

PUSH HANDS

 

Push Hands

Movement of 

Application

Consists in 

Returning to 

Waist

GESTURE

 

Slow Set

Union of

Spirit/gravity at

Waist/tan tien

Aka gut brain

Is the secret

Source of 

Tai Chi gestures

GESTURE

 

Slow set

Like pressing

Coil spring

More spirited

Gesture

Greater

Jing/Chi

GESTURES

 

Tai Chi gestures

Slow Set

Shapes them

Spirit 

Gives them

Life

Applications

Perfects

ADVANCING/RETREATING

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Essence is an

Elastic

Connection

Between 

Advancing/retreating

FUTURE/PRESENT/PAST

 

Slow Set

Between

Future/past

Gesture 

There is a

Ever 

Present 

Tai Chi

Fulcrum 

GESTURE/APPLICATION

 

Gesture

Without

Spirit

Is an application

Without

Gravity

PUSH HANDS

 

Push Hands

Barrow 

Opponent's

Intent with

Apprehensive

Advancing

GESTURE

 

Tai Chi 

Gesture

Originates in

Waist 

Manifestes in 

Wrist

GESTURE

 

Spirited

Tai Chi 

Gesture is 

Inexhaustible

When anchored

By gravity

ROLLBACK

 

Push Hands

Do not 

Strive/struggle

With opponent

Rollback

So not be 

Uprooted

HEALING/HARMING

 

Practice

Slow Set   

Healing  

In mind

Practice

Push Hands

Harming comes

To mind

FUTRE/PAST

 

Spirited

Gestures into 

Centrifugal

Future with

Centripetal

Gravity

Anchoring from

Past

APPLICATION

 

Slow Set

Only a 

Gesture of 

Spirit/gravity  

Can Create

Tai Chi

Application

SLOW SET

 

Slow Set

Spirit/gravity

Converge at

Waist

Filling

Gestures with

Jing/Chi

LINEAGE

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Lineage 

Cannot be

Seen/felt/heard

By unworthy

Student

GESTURES/APPLICATIONS

 

Slow Set

Movement of

Gestures

Consists in 

Elasticity

Applications

Are born from

Gestures

S;LOW SET

 

Slow set

Spirit/gravity

Unite at

Heart

Creating

Heartfelt

Gestures