ANOTHER TAI CHI QUERY

IrishDave · White Belt

Just wondering if anyone has had any relative success learning tai chi from a book or video and if so, which they found most useful? I'm doing a short course on Tai Chi but we don't do pushing hands... would both practitioners need to know any Tai Chi to learn how to do this? I am pleased enough with the pace I am learning Tai Chi but understand that pushing hands is necessary to cultivate the art as a martial one....
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Lurker · White Belt

I have great sympathy with your problem. I have now found what seems (so far) to be a good style but I live in a huge city and there still didn't seem to be much choice of classes even here.

I can't imagine trying to do push hands without an expert eye helping pick out my errors but what can you do if there's no-one available to you ? So I'd say good luck trying and maybe, if you have another helpful friend, he/she could cast an eye on you both trying this and can pick out obvious faults.

I haven't been doing this long myself so my only advise would be to take the practise easy, be aware of your alignment and try to build a sensitivity of your partner's energies.

Good luck.

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