Single Hand Push Tai Chi Exercise

Video Transcript

"In this segment we'll be introducing you to the very basic push hands exercises; Single hands, Fixed step, Push hands. You begin with the opposite foot forward with each other, with hands touching at the wrists. The other hand can be by your side, but don't just let it sit empty by your side, the whole body is alive, even if you're not using that down hand, you want it to be very alive and the whole body very alive, you know your center. And you just begin very gently drawing a circle, so as Ray pushes in, I move back, I turn. As I push in, Ray moves back. So this is helping up to not only understand what's happening in our hands, even though we call it Push hands, really the main idea is what's happening in your legs. So as you move forward, as I push with my back leg, he should be pushing with his front leg. As he pushes with his back leg, I push with my front leg. And as always, using the principle and concept that the waist guides all the movement, so we, a big mistake is to just do this, just to move your hand like that, or even just move back and forth. See how each time I end up in a very vulnerable position. So we want to use the whole body, having a sense that there's a balloon inside here, that is in a way protecting us is the idea. To ward off energy."