Push Hands at Canadian Open Taiji Championship 2007 - Vincent Dat-Wun Seah

A few highlights from my matches in the Canadian Open Taiji Championship held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 24th, 2007.

Although I won two Gold Medals in both the Fixed-Step and Moving-Step Push Hands categories in the 120-140 lbs weight divisions, I realized how hard it was to stay calm, cool and collected in a competition environment. It's easy to see that I used way too much force and energy and not enough patience and listening to use the proper Tai Chi principles that we learn in class.

So it's back to a lot more training before the next competition!

We study at the Ji Hong Tai Chi College
(Richmond Hill, ON, Canada) 基宏太極拳學院 under Chief Instructor Sifu Bao Sen Liang 梁寶森師傅

canada.taichi.ca

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[acbentley]

very very impressive! What style of tai chi do you train in?

[Datwun]

@acbentley I have been primarily training in Chen style of Tai Chi.

[bdzbk1]

Check out Gary lam Taiji 4 clip. Hope you enjoy my master toss and bonce me arround. And keep my feet off the groun all the time. My hard force have no chance to make it work. The more hard I am, the further I bonce off

[hhhaaaccc]

really nice.. i do judo but your body feel must be very tuned... well done

[shayne7257]

i like tai chi. but it is a partial aspect of the whole of martial arts. i study mainly barra gracie jiu jitsu and wing chun. also partial aspects of the whole of martial arts. being primarily a jeet kune do practioner i love all martial arts. dont forget this is a very very limited area of combat. its just pushing and pulling ect. if you dont agree then you are blinded. nuff said.

[bdzbk1]

Why judge rule not set Taiji way. If this kind happen should just stop. It is no meaning to push hand like this. I am so sad can not see any competition better and close to real Taiji priciple

[arahim1231987]

i see a lot of grabbing, holding, aggression, and zero rooting ability. DISLIKE!

[MegaSuperUltimate]

@akaprana I agree. 

[HillardEarl]

I always want to know. what do this have to do with the art of Tai chi? I started doing push hands, because of what I heard about Tai chi. I enjoy doing push hands because it really works. But this is not it.

[akaprana]

Not much technique, More like a shoving match than push hands.