William C. C. Chen's Push Hands Videos
How relaxation, yielding and softness overcome force
From: Essential Sports and Fitness Video (Tai Chi) Channel
Grandmaster William C. C. Chen has guided many of his students to become national and world, push hands champions.
Josh Waitzkin is a well-known example.
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Dr. Ping-Siang Tao.
There are exclusive competition videos from world push hands champions Josh Waitzkin and Tuishou Chen.
Root down, fill up. Don't push forwards (NYC, 2015-2016)
In these push hands sessions, we see Grandmaster Chen teaching his students how to do the basic forward push.
He uses serving coffee and tea on a tray to demonstrate the motion.
... He shows pushing with a towel to help students understand about using indirect force instead of direct force.
From: William C. C. Chen (00:14:11)
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How to push without tensing (Hanover, Germany, 2011)
Grandmaster Chen demonstrates the difference between "energy pushing" and pushes
that come from tensing the muscles of the arms and legs. ... He shows how to uproot
an opponent, how to disappear under a push (without injuring your back), how to
resist by sinking down instead of using muscles to push back, and how to drag
down a person who is pushing by their arm. He illustrates the difference between
slow fa-ching (pushing) for push hands and fast fa-ching for martial arts
applications.
From: William C. C. Chen and Nils Klug (Body Mechanics DVD) (00:09:19)
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Advanced pushing and neutralization techniques
We see Grandmaster Chen teaching push hands in a revealing private session with an advanced student. (NYC, late 1970's or early 1980's)
From: William C. C. Chen (00:07:39)
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Energetic pushing hands instruction from Master Chen (NYC, 2002)
This episode of Sam Masich's Taiji People series follows Master Chen through a push hands class.
We see William training his children Tiffany and Max, as well as U.S. and world champion, Josh Waitzkin.
From: William C. C. Chen and Sam Masich (00:07:20)
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Yielding first when being pushed and then pushing (Spain, 2011)
We see Grandmaster Chen teaching students how to relax and yield while being pushed.
Then, he shows a push that can be done after yielding.
... Finally, he works with a student on a pull that can be issued when she is pushed.
(His senior student, Luis Molera, is filming in the background.)
From: William C. C. Chen and Manolo Mazon (00:02:14)
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Rare clips of push hands and martial arts applications
The video starts out with senior students of Grandmaster Chen showing a basic push hands, loosening and yielding exercise.
Grandmaster Chen explains the use of shoulder strike in push hands, with the audience participating.
... (Most of this video focuses on his students demonstrating martial arts applications derived from the Tai Chi form.)
(8mm, no sound)
From: William C. C. Chen (00:02:02)
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