Tai Chi – Kick with the foot like Bert
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22nd International Push Hands Meeting
Concerning the supposed spectacular results, there is a second “secret“: Expanding one’s structure outwards in the fraction of a second – a bit like an airbag…
Taking our Push Hands to the next Yang level
If the first step of our Yang training is building our structure and testing it with postures…
For the beginner, the central question is hence this: How to build my structure?
After some training of turning and melting, we start to feel comfortable in 2D and 3D: moving our torso via the hip joints to…
Instead of turning “like a millstone“, which is a two-dimensional beginners exercise…
It is actually quite easy: the rising hand is always on the inside
A good atmosphere and both practitioners being good partners is necessary for things not to get too competitive or hectic in this scenario.
If I try to go out of the way of the incoming force, but crumble
“Don’t push back|don‘t pull away“ or “yield and wait“ he use to say again and again…
In the 4 postures, one moment of openness is after yielding the press, when all four hands are piled upon each other, building the famous sandwich.
All of you who meditate on some level, be it meditation in motion or some sort of sitting meditation, surely know …
We show two sequences of the 4 postures as a basic partner exercise. Two persons interact on a horizontal plane.
In the 4 postures as a solo exercise, we focus on slow execution and mindful movement.
…to bring Tai Chi back to the basics and to study hand form, sword and push hands exclusively, but therefore in greater depth.
Streaming the Taiji Gala of the 21st International Push Hands Meeting live on Youtube.
We will be able to organize a Gala on Saturday evening in the Kunsthalle!