Balance is essential for performing the kicks in Tai Chi. Not only the keeping your balance to stand on one leg, but also the balance between the arms and the arms and the legs as well.
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The older generation sharing knowledge and experience with the younger generation. Grandmaster William C.C. Chen shares some finer points of 2-person Tai Chi training with a younger student.
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“Kevin, please tell us why you have such poor eye contact.” They asked me this at a Job Interview, in California, during the 1970s, the era of the Human Potential movement. The job was as Live-in Counselor for Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents, and I had just learned from the Interviewers that their approach was based upon the mechanistic Stick-and-Carrot approach, the Stimulus-Response system of Skinner, with the adolescents´ daily actions being evaluated and scored, with consistent/continuous CONSEQUENCES. Minutes before, I had decided that I did not feel rapport with these folks, and their competitive use of eyeballs felt like arm-wrestling. So…it was an easy Hello-Goodbye Job Interview.
By contrast, consider:
* sitting with friends and talking around a campfire at night, beneath the stars, as in John Denver’s song Rocky Mountain High
* Chinese Dao-inspired paintings, in which the humans are quite small, as they are part of a larger Circle of Nature—sky-mountain-river-trees-animals
* Pushing Hands with someone who is blind and/or with your own eyes closed.
At Helen Keller´s famed Alma Mater, Perkins School for the Blind, several decades ago I was a Volunteer Trainer in Pushing Hands and the exercises of Walking and Rowing. To empathize/equalize the process, I would typically close my own eyes. No one complained. I felt—and still do—that Ting Jing (Listening Energy) can be greatly enhanced with eyes closed. In China, and elsewhere in Asia, there are Massage Centers with blind professionals. There is a global network for Blind Massage Centers, called ´´Seeing Hands´´.
SEEING HANDS — that is a relevant metaphor for our goal in Pushing Hands, eh? Here are 2 videos of my Blind Pushing Hands classes in 2017 in San Cristobal de las Casas (SCLC), Chiapas, Mexico.
For a period, I made a base in SCLC because I thought it would be suitable for introducing Pushing Hands. On the walls, there are always posters of music events and classes—Yoga/Reiki/Aromatherapy/Film-making/Afro-Cuban Dance/Puppetry/Enneagrams/Meditation/Shamanism/Sweat Lodges/ad infinitum. SCLC is visually exquisite, with a strong Mayan/Zapatista ambience, especially attracting (1) artisans/musicians from Latin America and beyond, and (2) Mexican tourists, especially on weekends. On the pedestrian-only Walking Street, folks earn income by selling their crafts and playing their music for the tourists. There are 2 different residential Artist Cooperatives—one specializing in Visual Arts, and the other in Dance/Movement. Though it didn´t develop in SCLC, that is my goal/intention/plan/Dharma—to develop a Cooperative for folks training in Pushing Hands.
The great thing about Tai Chi is that it can be practiced anywhere, and you do not need any special clothing to wear.
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Practicing Tai Chi amongst the beautiful surroundings of Italy.
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Practicing Tai Chi keeps you flexible and strong as you get older!
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Weapons are an important part of the Tai Chi curriculum. It as an advanced part of the training required to get to the higher levels of the art.
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This is some interesting Tai Chi media art…
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This amazing little 6-year-old girl performs Chen style Tai Chi Chuan at a competition in China. Our sister publication “Best Tai Chi Videos” has a longer video of this fabulous young practitioner. Click Here to see the longer video!
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Pandas doing Tai Chi are so much fun!
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