Incredible push hand video!

Here's an incredible free-style push hands video, where everything moves at a fast pace with good neutralisation between both parties, both handled each other rather well: http://media.putfile.com/free-style-push-hands/320

Recently in push hands practice, a fellow student brought 3 friends to class to introduce them to tai chi chuan. And I was asking him how he managed to get 3 people to come, when all the people I know just shut off when I start talking about taichi. His answer was in the methods of taichi push hands, to slowly lead the people in rather than use strength. To slowly give them snippets of interesting taichi info rather than bombard them with stuff on taichi everyday(which I tend to do, making them think that I am a crazy taichi fanatic).

That day, in class, there was a new student who had previously learnt taichi push hands from another club. He trained mainly in double hands push hands so when I asked him to push single hands with me, the game got quite interesting(I don't really know how to do 2 hands push hands yet). While pushing hands, his other hand would come up very often to seal my elbow and it made the game rather different as I had to negotiate his 2 hands with my 1 hand. Furthermore, in our usual training, we seldom use elbow in single hand push hands but since he was trained somewhere else, he tended to use the elbow a lot which brought new elements to the push hands and it was quite refreshing and fun as i got the chance to explore new attacks and defenses. At the same time, I got a chance to test if my neutralisation skills was up to the task of adapting to new and unfamiliar moves. A rather interesting session! That's why my teacher always says, don't always push with the same people, push with as many people as you can, everyone has a diferent hand.