Well explained 🤔Thanks Sifu 😬

A nice series of 3 videos, Sifu Onassis. I've been doing a lot more Tui Shou practice the last year or so, although need to do much more. I've mainly been practising various "drills" or "patterns" in fixed step (Mainly Yang style and variants, plus some Wu and Chen style patterns of PLJA), as well as some free stepping without patterns and the San Shou two person training set. There is so much to this, but you've done a great job here in emphasising some basics and some of the body mechanics involved. My teachers are always emphasising keeping it soft to develop the "listening skills" and not to worry about getting pushed back or out by partners. Once the partners "tune in" to the drill, it can then be varied a bit in terms of pressure and speed and see how the skills develop. Then, after much more practice, we start detecting and sometimes testing weaknesses in the connection. Eventually, the transitions from one drill to another happen at the slightest detected change and it gets very interesting as it then becomes more free. It's a lot of fun, burns the legs like a forest fire, and gets the waist turning with the arms working a bit like fenders on a car - catching, sticking, deflecting, pushing, bumping etc. according to what the partner does. It's always a strange one teaching it to people from other styles, as it can end up being a hybrid rather than letting go of old ways to learn new ways. Later, once really internalised and automatic, it will develop naturally to suit the person. It's a fantastically rich part of Tai Chi training, I just wish I could find more partners to practise with and spend more time with my teachers to learn from them - which is about twice a year, not very much, but better than nothing. The underarm neutralising can work, but you're right about the risk of being trapped. However, a really good player is hard to trap, because they're always yielding and attacking at the same time - which is really tricky to deal with.

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