Adam Mizner Explains How to Approach Push Hands - Consciousness is Key, Not Mechanical, Not Thinking

#Taijiquan #PushHands #Mindfulness

With millions practicing Taijiquan today, still, push hands is largely misunderstood despite being a key training method. To some it is a shoving match, to see who is the strongest and trickiest. To some, it is an exercise in turn on, tune in and switch off, mindlessly and mechanically going through the motions. These are major errors. So no wonder the skills one is meant to embody by practicing the push hands training methods are not all that common today, given how practitioners are approaching in the contemporary Taijiquan world!

During the intensive, one month camp in February, in Phuket, Thailand, Sifu Adam Mizner takes a moment to explain how to practice push hands correctly. He describes how the consciousness must penetrate deeply, and completely throughout the body while being present in the pushing hands exercise, without resorting to thinking what to do based on what the partner is doing (too slow, among other things) or just running through the motions with very little attention.

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[laoosting]

I think that is the best verbalization of internal work I ever heard.

[VineofLifeAlchemy]

“and I can tell when you’re doing it! The room changes...”

The sign of a GREAT teacher!

[deborahdakota]

"Your body becomes Kung fu, you don't do Kung fu." Sink consciousness into the body. Love it!

[ytb]

This is exactly the difference between internal and external i.e. you body becomes kung-fu and not just doing a technique.

[MyOkman]

Sifu Adam is so generous, most masters would not give this stuff out. Or probably would not know it in the first place 😂

[metalxhorse]

Awesome. Love the simplicity. Thank You 🙏🏼

[JM-wddk]

They all look exactly what a cult member would look like 💀

[bernidavis]

Hello, very nice explanation, very simple and true. Thank you. For those that have not trodden the path then it's not really going to make much sense. It's not the same thing at all, but the flavour is a bit like understanding everything about a bicycle and how a bicycle is ridden. It's not the same as knowing how to ride a bicycle though. For Tai Chi its quite a reductive process. A lot of not doing, a lot of releasing, a lot of letting go, and a lot of accepting. Thats why it changes you, and why it is not readily achievable for most people.

[brucekai]

How to talk for 4:17 without saying anything at all. lololol

I thought the cult of Jim Jones was madness but this "one touch and I throw you around with my chi" foolishness is next level 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[theshadow]

That makes so much sense to become you can apply that to anything easily said hard to do discipline and practice but it's fun in the end that leaves me with a thought reflect like a mirror respond like an echo move like water thank you sensei

[Labalix]

So much said in such a few minutes. Another precious time 🙏

[Museigenkanoseido]

Very good stuff when you understand, the external versions of this you still have to do "become" some of these concepts to have a higher level of skill even in boxing, kickboxing and mma.
(Not that it is about those but people fail to see the correlative realities of martial arts.)

[johnnysche]

I tried these moves against a random foe on the streets and him and his entire existence was erased from this universe

[blockmasterscott]

It's like the same with our forms in Choy Li Fut. What he's teaching is very scientific, there's no hocus pocus in it.

[novaacuinfo]

Wuxin in Chinese (無心 "no mind").

[ishetrying]

Do we need to be mechanically sound to facilitate being conscious in our bodies?

[JoCharles]

So much information in there. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂🙏🏼👊🏼☯️

[joejohnston]

Sifu Adam is truly on another level and amazing!

[gustogusto]

How does that all play with high level players from other systems like Chen, Sun, etc. in the Push Hands space?
Yang being 'regal' and all. Are the other styles lesser, incorrect, or otherwise?

Does it then just become a 'battle' of who can be more song?

[Frari]

Its not only the knowledge of Pushing somebody. Its the wisdom how life could be, if you are awakening from the illusion of THINKING/ EGO.