Starting Push Hands Training
Posted: Mon May 22, 2023 1:19 am
I'll just preface this by saying my teacher told me I could start learning push hands if I wanted to, and showed me single hand push hands, and i've been to a few push hands classes before.
But, I have heard various tales over when a student should learn push hands. According to CZL (iirc), students would start push hands after the first year of forms training. Sun Lutang was even more ambitious, suggesting as little as six months. On the DAOI server someone said that in their school push hands was taught from the beginning.
On the other side of the coin, there seems to be the opinion that push hands shouldn't be started until possibly many years after practice -- as many as 10. That there needs to be some kind of breakthrough into "something" -- I am not sure what -- dantian rotation, qi movement, not sure.
So I am here to ask the respected citizens of rumsoakedfist, when do you think a student, in general, should start push hands training? I am not looking to push people into it "as soon as possible" neither do I want to delay someone's training. But, when is a reasonable, rational time to begin? Thanks.
p.s. I am talking about cooperative push hands of the various kinds, at least in the beginning, as described, for example, in the Wang Fengming book, or the Ma Hong video. Not necessarily competitive push hands, which I believe comes later.
But, I have heard various tales over when a student should learn push hands. According to CZL (iirc), students would start push hands after the first year of forms training. Sun Lutang was even more ambitious, suggesting as little as six months. On the DAOI server someone said that in their school push hands was taught from the beginning.
On the other side of the coin, there seems to be the opinion that push hands shouldn't be started until possibly many years after practice -- as many as 10. That there needs to be some kind of breakthrough into "something" -- I am not sure what -- dantian rotation, qi movement, not sure.
So I am here to ask the respected citizens of rumsoakedfist, when do you think a student, in general, should start push hands training? I am not looking to push people into it "as soon as possible" neither do I want to delay someone's training. But, when is a reasonable, rational time to begin? Thanks.
p.s. I am talking about cooperative push hands of the various kinds, at least in the beginning, as described, for example, in the Wang Fengming book, or the Ma Hong video. Not necessarily competitive push hands, which I believe comes later.