I've seen pushing hands for fifteen years and have always been really curious but I never understood it. This is the first time it's actually made sense.

I felt like I wanted you guys to hug at the end. I am really happy for David... he is progressing on his journey! You can see it in the way he moves (or in the way he doesn't move) and hear it in the way he talks about tai chi. Good work, and thank you for sharing this insight filled video!

This is the best explanation I have hear about the essence of Tai Chi and at the same time explaining and showing the difference between this and other systems of martial arts.

The music analogy is spot on... the more one advances, the more it all comes down to removing all distractions and doing the basics extremely well.

Great video - some real gold on here. Thanks very much

Fascinating indeed; Thank you Mr. Sinclair. Now have to follow every chance I get...😎

Very nice lesson. Love what Ian said about defending ourselves is really about defending our balance

I enjoy watching your work Ian. Can identify ( most of the time!) Would like to come to Canada and work with you one day.

So amazing, excellent insight

excellent demo!

I know you are in Europe at this time. I am really tempted to make an appointment to go through the process of learning Push Hands

So much good information 😎👍 Thx

Excellent

Dustin Hoffman has some skills too :)

A sense of humor makes your lesions fun

Woah, he's getting good.

thank you Ian to open that door

Sir, is your video course covering these principles? Do you think It is possible to leatn them by practising by distance?

Subscribed!

So how to relax fully

perfect

where do i have to go to train with you man?

The student loves to keep doing the fingers to the eyes and the palm to the nose. It is obvious no one ever did this attack to the student because the student would eventually by accident get eye jabbed hard or get his nose smashed hard. He would have learned immediately I don't want someone blinding me by accident so I will be careful not to do that to someone else.

@IanSinclairTaiChi

4 жыл бұрын

It is a good point. (pardon the pun.) I take the risk here, because he does not fight with others, and I don't want to inhibit natural instinct that would serve him well in a real fight. Plus, it is a good lesson for me. Sometimes we wear goggles, though.

@viperman2454

4 жыл бұрын

@@IanSinclairTaiChi , I realized after watching latter videos you were trying to teach him to respond always by fingers in front of the eyes as a reflex. I myself don't like anyone even pretending to finger jab me. They eventually actually get us. I been poked and accidentally smashed in the face enough. I always say go as fast and as hard as you want but remember my turn is next .You are more brave than me Sifu. lol

autocratic dictator on twitter?? I have watched this and enjoyed it many times. Only today did I even bother to think about what he meant 'deeply' there is quite a bit of great info to absorb. Dictator twitter tuishou?? huh??

Dear Ian, your explanations are very useful, however, the antique video effect you used here is not at all eye-friendly ;-P

@IanSinclairTaiChi

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I will not use that effect again. At the time that this was made, I had been watching lots of archival video and it looked normal to me. But no more.

@TRUTHorSTFU

2 жыл бұрын

@@IanSinclairTaiChi merci 🙏

Based on this demonstration, one does not have to have an awareness, of any kind about one's own structural alignment. So a limp sack of anything can do these things, as long as it has mind. ^^ EDIT: Thank you for sharing.

@IanSinclairTaiChi

3 жыл бұрын

On the contrary. The point of this video is that awareness of subtle alignment is extremely important.

@kasumifu1541

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanSinclairTaiChi May we learn have you produced a video about your Zhan Zhuang practice(s), please? You already know well what my previous comment was about, teacher Sinclair. ^^ Thank you.

Please dont use the "old timey" video look again.. Its great content.. Dont need it to look old to be relevant.. It's just distracting

@IanSinclairTaiChi

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. I apologize for that. That filter was inadvertently set in the camera when recording. I will try not to let that happen again.

@Padraic54

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't even notice until you pointed it out.

I do not understand!

@armandberkut6021

4 жыл бұрын

Love his teachings and specially the stress he puts on connection

@clacicle

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry. Most people doing Taiji don’t understand. Step one is to not treat push hands as a competition.

@IanSinclairTaiChi

4 жыл бұрын

Good. In my experience, people who think they truly understand are not really paying attention.

Be less Belgian shepherd, nice.

Too much talking

The way you're teaching it bugs me. Why are you not rotating your arm to press with the palm on each other's arms when changing from giving and receiving? It's not giving you a proper feeling of issuing with your palm without that and you need to learn how to catch and stick with the rotation.

@IanSinclairTaiChi

4 жыл бұрын

There is a change from giving to receiving?

@DrunkenDarwin

4 жыл бұрын

@@IanSinclairTaiChi I didn't say there wasn't? maybe I can't articulate what I'm seeing and not seeing well. It just looks very different from what I was taught.

Blah blah blah... How much standing practice have you actually done Ian? For as long as I've known you (since the early 90s, when you would learn something from Shou-Yu Liang one day and then go and teach it at your "school" the next day) you were always looking for "quick" results. Again, how many years of rigorous standing practice have you done...I'd wager NONE.

@IanSinclairTaiChi

Жыл бұрын

Sifu? Is that you? For those wondering, “Blah Blah Blah” is the translation of my Chinese name.