{"id":2357,"date":"2022-10-03T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T02:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:21:34","slug":"beyond-chi-sao-tui-sao-push-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/beyond-chi-sao-tui-sao-push-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Chi Sao part 2: Tui Sao"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Wing Chun\u2019s <em>\u9ed0\u624b<\/em> partner exercise gives practitioners the potential to control exchanges based only on feel. Paired with the unbalancing powers of Tai Chi, these possibilities are expanded.<\/h4>\n<p><em>Tui Sao<\/em> (also known as \u201cpush hands\u201d) is the partner exercise from Tai Chi where coordination between the hands and feet play a crucial role. In contrast to <em>\u9ed0\u624b<\/em>, these hand techniques apply pressure through a standard opposing-guard position and use active forward force from a mobile stance.<\/p>\n<h4>Watch the video:<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UfUvggyIqY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Similarities and differences<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Attacking intent<\/strong> differs between the styles. Both push forward and develop arm sensitivity to \u201cfeel\u201d and react to forces. Whilst <em>\u9ed0\u624b<\/em> aims to split the centreline, <em>Tui Sao<\/em> seeks to push, collapse and destabilise opponents. Once achieved, the reflex is to never allow recovery from being off balance, continuing to press and attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defensive reflexes<\/strong> are honed differently. In single-hand practice, the guard positions activate different reflexes. Whereas <em>\u9ed0\u624b<\/em> promotes an inward deflection using the inside of the <em>Fook Sao<\/em> arm, <em>Tui Sao<\/em> takes a more regulation approach to bridging the opponent\u2019s guard. It makes crossed-hand contact, as would be the case in most squaring up situations, with the outer forearm making the contact. Once pressure is applied, <em>Tui Sao<\/em> trains a very natural outwards deflection reflex when clashing against a stronger opponent. It can also utilise the waist rotation to \u201croll away\u201d the incoming forces.<\/p>\n<p>When defences are pushed beyond just arm movements, requiring footwork to defend, there is another difference. <em>Chi Sao&#8217;s<\/em> forward-stepping attack requires a circular pivot from the defender. <em>Tui Sao&#8217;s<\/em> defence is the reverse. It retains straight-line footwork to escape, combined with circular hand movements to deflect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Power generation<\/strong> is from the stance in both practices. <em>\u9ed0\u624b<\/em> emphasises a static training position, sinking the weight and utilising strength gained from long periods of <em>Sil Lum Tao<\/em> practice. Wing Chun\u2019s short, sharp hand techniques draw instant power from this firm base. <em>Tui Sao<\/em> uses a more mobile stance that transitions forward and back with the feet planted. It presses forward into a front stance to attack and retreats to a back stance when defending. Practitioners can apply great strength onto their opponent\u2019s guard with these flowing, well-coordinated attacks. In the case of double-hand <em>Tui Sao<\/em>, the hands are used to push, which can also translate into high-impact palm strikes.<\/p>\n<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<p>Both <em>\u9ed0\u624b<\/em> and <em>Tui Sao<\/em> seek to contact the guard and develop sensitivity through the arms to \u2018read\u2019 and react to forces. <em>Tui Sao<\/em> introduces more contact points, including the hands and emphasises a natural opposing-guard position. Like <em>Yiu Shun<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/beyond-chi-sao-yiu-shun\/\">covered in part 1<\/a>) it also brings the full potential of stance power into play, with forward (attacking) and backward (defensive) movements coordinated carefully with the hand work.<\/p>\n<p>Our use of <em>Tui Sao<\/em> comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/team\/wu-hua-tai\/\">Grandmaster Wu<\/a> who sought the soft hands of his master <a href=\"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/lung-ying\/lam-yiu-gwai\/\">\u6797\u8000\u6842<\/a>. Wu integrated <em>Tui Sao<\/em> into his <a href=\"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/lung-ying\/\">\u9f99\u5f62<\/a> program after learning from <strong>Yang Chengfu \u6768\u6f84\u752b<\/strong> and his eldest son <strong>Yang Sau Chung \u6768\u5b88\u4e2d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>\u53c2\u770b<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/beyond-chi-sao-yiu-shun\/\">Beyond Chi Sao part 1: Yiu Shun<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/kung-fu-mastery-breaks-style-boundaries\/\">Kung Fu mastery breaks style boundaries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Article<\/strong>: Written by R Zandbergs. Created from Barry Pang\u2019s seminars.<br \/>\n<strong>Video<\/strong>: Filmed and edited by R Zandbergs<br \/>\n<strong>Main photo<\/strong>: Barry Pang demonstrating with Scott Peterson (2022)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wing Chun\u2019s Chi Sao partner exercise gives practitioners the potential to control exchanges based only on feel. Paired with the unbalancing powers of Tai Chi, these possibilities are expanded. Tui Sao (also known as \u201cpush hands\u201d) is the&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78],"tags":[102,84,75,77,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barrypangkungfu.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}