Tui Shou(Push Hands)

After one year and 2 months of Yang Style Routine practice, i have started learning the art of tui shou (push hands)!

First lesson was full of being pushed around and locked in position by my teacher and classmates. However, it was an enlightening experience! Everyone's hand had a different weight and style. It seems to me that everyone in my class had a different method of shifting back and forth. Quite confusing here, not knowing who to follow....Nevertheless, it was great fun but was also very tiring for the hands and legs. After some time, i ended up moving only my hands.
When i concentrated on listening using the hands, i forget to move my legs and waist. When i concentrated on my waist and legs, i forgot about my hands! Seems like i have some psychomotor problem.

Second lesson: more pushing, pulling and being thrown, less locking. My coordination improved and i could start to feel some of the people's lax in defense and intent of attack. Very fun! Haha! I even managed to lock one guy down twice after feeling for his lax in defense. However, to all the other classmates, most i could find no break. Strange, how does teacher always manage to have them in his grasp????
It is also interesting how different people neutralise or peng. It is only after i chanced upon a video clip of Erle's a few days ago that i realised that some of them are using the yang push hands techniques while others are using yin push hands techniques.

According to Cheng Man Ching, we should invest in loss first and then learn to attack. However, i find this a little selfish. As the people in my class are rather new, some of them are really investing in loss and neglect to push or press when it is their turn to do so. If they don't do that, how is their opponent going to learn neutralisation skills? Thus i feel, when it is time to attack, learn to attack well, when it is time to defend and neutralise, learn to defend and neutralise well. Only then can there be a good exchange of knowledge.