Tai Chi Push Hands: The Martial Foundation of Tai Chi Chuan | YMAA

Home >> Publishing >> Book

Tai Chi Push Hands: The Martial Foundation of Tai Chi Chuan

by David W. Grantham, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

Push Hands is the part of tai chi that makes your practice a true living art. Tai chi push hands practice is a necessary next step for tai chi practitioners who wish to make their art come alive.

$29.95

$20.96Save: $8.99 (30%)


SKU:
B6458
Release date: 
October 27, 2020
Paperback: 276 pages
Dimensions: 
9.735 × 7.25 × 1 in
ISBN: 9781594396458
Printing: Black and White

$45.00

$31.50


SKU:
B8605
Release date: 
August 1, 2022
Hardcover: 276 pages
Dimensions: 
7.5 x 9.25 x 1 in

$17.95

$12.56Save: $5.39 (30%)

SKU:
E6465
Release date: 
October 27, 2020
Filesize:
37.45 MB
Printing: Color

$47.90

$33.52Save: $14.38 (30%)


Release date: 
October 27, 2020
Paperback: 276 pages
Dimensions: 
9.735 × 7.25 × 1 in
ISBN: 9781594396458

Audiobook purchase options with our partners.

This item is eligible for free shipping (Conditions apply).
Average: 3.9 (16 votes)
Skill Level: 1 2 3

Push Hands is the “other” part of tai chi that makes your practice a true living art

Tai chi push hands practice is a necessary next step for tai chi practitioners who wish to make their art come alive. Push hands practice requires two people to engage in a variety of “light touch” moving and walking routines. By practicing these movements, practitioners begin to develop tai chi’s sensing, listening, and yielding skills. Combined, these skills are the first step for developing your tai chi as a martial art.

The Dao De Jing classic reminds us that knowing others (an opponent) is important for knowing ourselves. By develop tai chi push hand skills, one begins to obtain a profound sense of feeling of your own body and mind. This ability aids greatly in regulating and controlling body, balance, health, perseverance, compassion, and overall spirit.

It is no mistake that tai chi offers a lifetime of continued learning and progress; the goal is a deep understanding of yourself and your role in nature.

In this book, you will learn

  • The theory of tai chi pushing hands
  • Tai chi qigong foundation practice
  • Tai chi jing (power) practice
  • Two-person stationary push hands practice
  • Two-person moving push hands practice
  • Tai chi rollback and press push hands practice
  • International standard push hands routine
  • Two-person free style push hands
  • Martial art applications in tai chi push hands practice

Dr. Yang reminds us “tai chi chuan was created based on the martial applications which were used for self-defense. Every movement of tai chi chuan has its unique martial purpose. Without this martial root, tai chi chuan practice will limited to a dance, lacking a deeper meaning or a deeper feeling.

Reviews


About the Authors

David W. Grantham

David W. Grantham was born on September 22, 1965, in Dorchester, Massachusetts and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts from the age of three. At the age of eighteen, he attended Bridgewater State College to pursue his dream and currently is employed by United Airlines as a pilot based in New Jersey. Mr. Grantham began his martial art training at the age of twenty-four, studying Liuhebafaquan under the tutelage of instructor David Zucker. Mr. Zucker studied under the late Master John Chung … More »

Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (楊俊敏博士) started his Gongfu (Kung Fu) training at the age of fifteen under the Shaolin White Crane (Bai He) Master Cheng, Gin Gsao (曾金灶). In thirteen years of study (1961-1974) under Master Cheng, Dr. Yang became an expert in the White Crane style of Chinese martial arts, which includes both the use of bare hands and of various weapons such as saber, staff, spear, trident, two short rods, and many others. With the same master he also studied White Crane Qin Na … More »