Taiji push hands basics

[Dirtymeat]

Taijiquan push hands is an exercise primarily designed to enhance a player's ability to remain balanced while in contact with an opponent.
Push hands training improves one's ability to disrupt the balance of an opponent by finding where his or her center of gravity is and exploiting it.

Taijiquan push hands a fighting art based on the philosophy of yin and yang finding and using the balance between hardness and softness to overcome one's opponent.

 

[K-man]

Taijiquan push hands is an exercise primarily designed to enhance a player's ability to remain balanced while in contact with an opponent.
Push hands training improves one's ability to disrupt the balance of an opponent by finding where his or her center of gravity is and exploiting it.

Taijiquan push hands a fighting art based on the philosophy of yin and yang finding and using the balance between hardness and softness to overcome one's opponent.

Good quote! I think I have read it before.

Could this be it?

Tai Chi Push Hands and Wing Chun Sticky Hands:
A Comparison
Michael R. Pekor


As practiced in America, Tai Chi Push Hands is an exercise primarily designed to enhance a player's ability to remain balanced while in contact with an opponent. Push hands training improves one's ability to disrupt the balance of an opponent by "feeling" where his or her center of gravity is and exploiting it.
http://www.patiencetaichi.com/public/104.cfm

Mmmm! I think this is what they call plagiarism!

 

[Dirtymeat]

Good quote! I think I have read it before.

Could this be it?

Mmmm! I think this is what they call plagiarism!

That's close, but not exactly what I said is common knowledge throughout the taijiquan community, and describes push hands in general.

To get this thread back on topic.

I was doing some research and found this http://taichi.snowcron.com/taichi_martial.htm

 

[oaktree]

What k-man put up is what you said as the exact word for word match.

Try like this: taijiquan tuishou is a two man set that helps the practitioners to develop
Root, structure and taiji principles and theory.
Tuishou also teaches one to break an opponents structure by yielding and directional
Change.
Haha now it looks like people copied me.