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Bob Klein asked in SportsMartial Arts · 8 years ago

Push Hands training in another martial art?

Does anyone use Push Hands training in another art besides Tai-chi-Chuan?

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  • 8 years ago
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    There is something similar in Wing Chun called sticking hands...It is also done with the legs and is called sticking legs...If it is done well, you actually push forward and you aim to attack the center line, you do not just do moves and chase your partner's hands or something. At list that is in sticking hands. I know that pushing hands are quite common in Chinese martial arts.

  • 8 years ago

    I have seen variations in other arts but the concepts/objectives are always different. The exercise has to go along with the foundation that the style teaches I guess and Taiji is very unique in the way it approaches it's fighting art.

    I still consider myself rather green in Taiji but when observing push hands exercise of Taiji practitioners I can always tell who practices their forms and who does not. It is almost that if you don't practice the Taiji forms you are inevitably missing the point of push hands. The two really have to go together. You can still do push hands but you will be looking for other things. Not necessarily wrong, just different and you will get something different from the exercise too and not necessarily what Taiji intended.

  • possum
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    My styles of Taekwondo and Aikido don't define this technique per se, however, in most of the schools I've been to, the instructor has introduced it as a training aid. It has never been very in-depth, but, the exercise was to demonstrate that hands can be a powerful seeing tool, by feeling an opponent's movements, balance points, intentions, etc.

  • 7 years ago

    Georgie is speaking of something called chi sao (for hands) and chi gerk (legs). Look it up on YouTube. Videos posted by Dom Izzo and another user called Chinaboxer are very good.

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  • 8 years ago

    I would use this training drill with students in karate to better help teach them how to feel pressure and weight distribution changes that their opponent was making and them developing their own ability to adjust to that. Its a good drill for that and also aiding students in relaxing and being comfortable at a closer distance in relation to their opponent.

  • 8 years ago

    Baquazhang has one version of pushing hands, and Northern Shaolin, has another version. The Northern Shaolin's version is very seldom taught.

  • 8 years ago

    Goju Ryu has Kakie(kah-kee-eh).

    White Crane also has push hands.

  • Tom
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    yes we use a version of it in Uechi Ryu

    Source(s): 12 years of training in Uechi Ryu karate
  • Kokoro
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    i learned a version of it in goju ryu and in shotokan. although the one we did in shotokan might have come from goju ryu. i cant be totally sure about that one

    Source(s): 30+yrs ma
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