Push hand😂😂😂

Damn that's tiled concrete floor - something hard to fall on. Near reality place of fighting. 👍

Oh wow he went for a pretty nasty arm/wrist crank at one point

I’m so late to the party on this. These are great

Dude got schooled cuz he needed humbling with the way he was acting. He needs to realize he’s nowhere near Chens level

Much respect to both parties here. Excellent show. Master Chen is incredible and this gentleman put up a great effort.

Wow, nice use of cloudy hands! 👍

great gong fu level.

i vomit when i see it

folks in China they really take sparring seriously.. hard floor?? it was always like that in traditional kungfu

What a bunch of CRAP!

shameless level. and he have no theaching right. consider safety. stupid taichi.

Oh yeah, Daoist philosophy plays a part as well.

Chen is the original style, if you can find a Chen Village Teacher you will see what was originally intended for the actual Gung Fu portion. It's not magic. Most of them can eat pistol squats for breakfast. So strong and relaxed at the same time. The rest is physics and daily training.

Wy attack the master u never learn

0:40 very effective street defense takedown

Will this work on Khabib???

No mma meatheads crying this is staged or fake Only when he bested the Greco Roman wrestler did they say that.

No mms meatheads crying this is staged. Only when he bested the Greco Roman wrestler did they say that.

Beautiful Qinna at the beginning

Se aprecia que el sparring no usa toda su fuerza y capacidades.

There are those who say Chen's sparring matches are staged. You mean to say all the matches in this video here are staged?

Send some of these video's to Joe Rogan See what he has to say..

Nobody says this bout is fake. Chen^s opponent has grappling experience and is tough bit he still neutralized him. A lot of egos in New York city need to get shut down. Chen we need you here

muy realista pero no me gusta

I want to contact ZiQiang for a seminar in my area. How would I go about doing this?

Nothing could be more clear, than in this video. The only thing better, would be to see these techs in slo-mo. Thank you for this video !

Hey, thanks for taking a beatin' for us, guy in the shorts.

this is the tai chi truth

He looks a very good push hands player

Push hands seminar on a hard floor? Yeah, not necesserily the best idea in the world...

chen zi qiang is an unassuming guy. can often notice his casual style with his neck line very soft almost as if wobbly a little. as if he could not be bothered. my understanding is that he is actually trying to use as little energy as possible against the unrefined and rough round the edges opponents. the truth is, from what i experienced myself he normally holds back a lot when sparring with most western students in order not to embarrass or discourage anyone. that's why we see a lot of these long videos on youtube. otherwise if you look at any serious chinese competitions (easier to look up the chinese characters) you will see that none of his experienced opponents last very long standing upright

HE LOOKS GENTLE WITH THE OLDER GUYS.

redhead practitioner is good... but at 2:47, kinda excessive strike to Chen Ziqiang's jaw/neck...

@steve cousins, what u know from other taiji styles isn't close to realistic fighting.

I want to know when he's coming back so I can attend his seminar?

We call the wrestling hand - jiao shou, which is closer to real fight than pushing hand. I was hurt before in this training but I like this. Thank you for sharing.

I would hope, people understand the amount of time put in, to achieve this level. If you look closely, you will see no admixture to the masters movements. Notice I specified, the master. We need to understand, his path started very young, no games, no tricks. One other thing, you will not see him doing push hands without, his peng energy. Unless it's against another master.

What I like most about this is, Chen village is a Tai Chi village. In this video I can see application without admixture. With this video you see push hands with and without admixture. Image growing up in a village that Tai Chi is not misunderstood.

Thank you for uploading these!

There's nothing saying Tai Chi MUST be relaxed and the muscles must always be loose. There's nothing saying that loose power is a rule in Tai Chi. There are types of power where more muscular force is used. This is coming straight out of a Tai Chi book from a very popular, respected master. I'm not making shit up here haha. If a muscle dominated push will throw the opponent off balance, then use it. Nothing wrong with being strong. ;)

To recordmymind, the tall student is pretty good, although he is much bigger in statue and often clings on to Master Chen ZiQiang when he falls. He likse to use his size and weight to dominate. Looks like he was trying to do some choking at some point. It really is not as easy as Chen ZiQiang makes it look -- being able to neutralize and overcome just about every technique that everyone and anyone throws at you, hoping for a chance for a moment of fame on KZbin. Look closely and you will see these situations throughout where Chen turned around every time. I see a true master. To gptaichi, Thanks for sharing. Good stuff.

Easy dudes, just taiji practise. NOT real case or match.

That was special. Thanks for posting.

Oh damn, this breaks all the rules of the 36 sickness of push hands T_T

Then perhaps the ones you see as "good at tai chi" are not so "good" at it after all. Taijiquan is basically wrestling with Taoist principles. Push hand patterns are preparations for the real application. Furthermore, whatever energies you are referring to, (silk reeling maybe?) they should not be visible in the real application, in order for the opponent not to spot or track your intentions. For this reason taijiquan is also called the "needle hidden inside a cotton ball".

Damn his elbows ate the floor pretty hard.... Lol

Pushing hands is a practice and, as such, must be applied. This sort of thing is most commonly seen among Chen style practitioners. They are generally more oriented to the martial side of tai chi as a martial art. Yang stylists (of which I am one) more typically practice in terms of the formal patterns and seek to apply by evading and tossing the partner from more or less fixed positions. I rather like the Chen openness to more realistic scenarios myself.

Chen style pushing hands. Have seen it before. It's much more combat oriented than the Yang and Wu approaches -- more free flowing and so more natural. But it can easily devolve into mere wrestling with strength replacing sensitivity at key moments. On the other hand, done right it enables the practitioner to expand tai chi sensitivity into situations that more closely approximate reality. Yang approach probably better for perfecting the principle but Chen approach for using it.

When you see someone who is good at Taiji you don't see this kind of contact? - What you usually don't see is someone being genuinely tested - resisted. If you only practice set patterns then you are never really tested. When there is genuine resistance then things aren't so pretty. I take my hat of to Master Chen Ziqiang - many so called Masters don't allow such a situation to occur. At least these guys are keeping the art in some kind of a martial context. All the best