11/28/2025
Don’t Be A Push Over 🤲
Tai Chi Walking isn’t done just to walk.
The walking part is just the lower-body portion of tai chi movements.
So then what about the upper body?
Well, the easiest movement to add to your tai chi walking is simply a Push.
And yes it is a real push.
If you don’t want someone or something in your space, push it away.
Push or get pushed.
You choose.
Think of Tai Chi like shadow boxing, not dancing.
You should look like you are actually pushing someone.
My teacher used to say be a mime.
Your hands should be at the appropriate height of pushing someone in the chest.
Your hands should have a “yang” energy to them, not yin. Pushing is expansion not contraction.
Your fingers should be straight…no “jazz hands” or flamenco hands.
But most importantly you are pushing with your whole body, not just your arms.
When your whole body is traveling forward as unified unit working together,
it feels like a truck or a train coming at your opponent.
When you are in that kind of alignment you are supreme ultimate power.
This is why we practice slowly, to perfect the movements and channel your coherent energy.
Make sense?
