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Engaging the opponent.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  At this past Sunday morning t'ai chi practice, one of my push hands partners talked of the need for a push hands player to engage the opponent and to connect with the opponent's tan t'ien, which generally is the point near the navel where t'ai ch practitioners are taught to sink their ch'i, their minds, and their very centers, with one of the many benefits being that an opponent has more trouble finding any center against which to push.  The more I practice t'ai chi  open hand and push hands/sensing hands, the more I fully accept t'ai chi's teachings to be simultaneously alert, calm, relaxed, soft and substantial at all times; and to quiet the mind of unnecessary noise. In t'ai chi and all other physical fighting situations, in court, and in the world in general, we do not always know where, how, and from whom the next attack on us will come, whether it be a vicious attack -- or even ambush -- from an opposing lawyer or opposing witnesses; a seeming attack from a judge who might instead be getting cranky, impatient, or incredulous; or an attack from a non-human source that therefore has no ill will, including disease, hurricanes and other natural disasters, and attacks from non-human animals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).