Wang Peisheng discusses push hands 王培生推手

This is an old seminar on push hands by master Wang Peisheng. I did my best with the subtitles. At the points where there's justs question marks, any native speakers who can tell me exactly what he said would be welcomed warmly. Fortunately, every time he spouts a bunch of classical Chinese he follows immediately with the phrase, "So what does this mean..." and explains it in plain Chinese. ;)

Enjoy

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• 推手
• 太极拳
• push
• hands
• taiji
• wang
• peisheng

[oicaroh]

Thank you for your work on this most excellent material.

When downloading it does not download subtitles. Can you do anything about that?

[bailewen]

@oicaroh

I really don't understand how it works. I used the "annotations" to subtitle it because I don't really know how to create a subtitle track. Feel free to embed my video on your site though.

[chiman1000]

Wow he is great! Who is this master? Does he comes to the states?

[bdzbk1]

Real Taiji is something hard explain. People can not understand and keep saying it's fake just because they never get chance to feel because Taiji is total opposite way to practice than any other kongfu. If you are not in certain level of Taiji. You can not get it anyway. Check out my master toss me arround on Gary lam Taiji. On second clip have push hand demo. All my hard force suddenlly drop in hollow hole and then more than doubled to knock me back when my feet off the ground

[taijispirit1]

For those know it all & that say it's a bit phony etc.,.. are really ignorant of who Wang Peng Shen was and higher principles of Taijiquan.

Ignorance stems from one's own limited knowledge and they can only see & understand from a shallow depth of experience & knowledge.

Until one's knowledge is deep and vast, one should not speak of what is and what is not possible. Having definite opinions limits one's growth to the average level, remain open and the world can share it's secrets with you.

[taijitantra]

@kungfukennyg

How sad.how much of tai chi have you learned and from whom?

look for a good teacher.great martial artists are good learners.always seek knowledge.treat it as a gift ...

[statisticool]

meh



[joeynishad]

@bailewen - Thank you for the translations! Pleasure to watch!

[thekungfustudio]

thank you bailewen for your hard work on the translations. great to hear!

[thekungfustudio]

thank you bailiwen for your hard work on the translations. great to hear!

[kungfukennyg]

He is giving some very good principles here, but the demonstrations are more examples of a tai chi master using a willing student to fall dramatically. There is NO WAY a normal person would be falling around like this. It sets everyone up for mental failure, because if you happen to be trying to make someone fall and they aren't playing along, you feel as if you have no good kung-fu. Very disappointing demo and a bit phony, but good basic information.

[kungfukennyg]

He is giving some very good principles here, but the demonstrations are more examples of a tai chi master using a willing student to fall dramatically. There is NO WAY a normal person would be falling around like this. It sets everyone up for mental failure, because if you happen to be trying to make someone fall and they aren't playing along, you feel as if you have no good kung-fu. Very disappointing demo and a bit phony, but good basic information.