Couple of tai chi related questions
Both to do with push hands, sort of. I did a bit of wudang tai chi ('practical tai chi') a couple of years ago, and did a bit of free step push hands. I've quite recently taken up shodokan aikido, at least partly because I enjoy shiai (and other forms of) randori in the same way that I used to enjoy push hands, and have been loving every minute of it. Two questions though...
i) Does anyone which aikido techniques would be allowed in free push hands? Presumably atemi waza, but what about the others? I never really got advanced enough to be able to do anything I wasn't allowed to! ii) One of the things I did get onto in tai chi was using little leg sweeps to manipulate the opponent's balance in push hands. There isn't anything like this in the randori no kata (and hence in randori) for safety reasons, but are there such techniques in aikido generally? Thanks! |
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Hi Dave
In my experience Aikido can accomodate any technique from any art - you just have to adapt it slightly to Aiki principles. If you think about it Aikido is a synthesis of many other arts, so you just 'open the book backwards' if you know what I mean. Cheers P :) |
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That being said, Irimi Nage, Tenchi Nage, and the arm kokyu's would be good in a free-sparring arrangement... with the eye always open to take kotegaehi or sankyo or shiho-nage. FWIW Mike |
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As to the source, I can't remember exactly who it was from, but I'm pretty sure it was one of the mainstream UK wudang people. Wudang isn't a completely traditional a style of tai chi, but even the Beijing 24 form has a couple of highish kicks in it. I'm pretty sure it was kosher. Peter: yeah, I see your point. I was really wondering if any aikido styles regularly teach them, though... |
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FWIW Mike |
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