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Sifu Niel Willcott competes at the Tai Chi Pushing Hands world championship in Taiwan 2006.

Sifu Niel Willcott is the head instructor of the Hung Sing Martial Arts School Norwich, UK. www.hungsing.co.uk

Push hands in Norwich, UK.
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1st World Push Hands Tai Chi Cup. Taiwan, Taipei 2006

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Pushing hands, (, Wade-Giles t'ui1 shou3, pinyin tuī shǒu), is a name for two-person training routines practiced in internal Chinese martial arts such as Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan), Liuhebafa, Quan Fa, Yiquan. Wing Chun practitioners perform sticky hands which has similar concepts of sensitivity and developing the proper energy.

Pushing hands is said to be the gateway for students to experientially understand the martial aspects of the internal martial arts (內家 nèijiā); leverage, reflex, sensitivity, timing, coordination and positioning. Pushing hands works to undo a person's natural instinct to resist force with force, teaching the body to yield to force and redirect it. Health oriented tai chi schools may teach push hands to complement the physical conditioning available from performing solo form routines. Push hands allows students to learn how to respond to external stimuli using techniques from their forms practice. Among other things, training with a partner allows a student to develop ting jing (listening power), the sensitivity to feel the direction and strength of a partner's intention. In that sense pushing hands is a contract between students to train in the defensive and offensive movement principles of their martial art; learning to generate, coordinate and deliver power to another and also how to effectively neutralize incoming forces in a safe environment. World Champion.

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Congratulations on the victory and thereof on the medal too, Shifu Willcott! Pushing hands vertebrates with tai ji quan in particular, but it can inform all the martial arts as well. But to do so, in addition to or perhaps rather than viewing pushing hands as an end in its own right, one has to be able to draw on pushing hands knowledge and skills as a means towards doing better in a controlled sparring situation or in an actual fighting instance too.