[Tango-L] Tango and tai chi push hands

2011-02-03 Thread Jim Gillette
There is another 2 person activity that is interactive, starts with guided movements or choreography and evolves to an intuitive, shared, moving experience. It is tai chi push hands. Most practitioners of the tai chi form don't move on to push hands in the US. Many more do in China. I do and

Re: [Tango-L] Tango and tai chi push hands

2011-02-05 Thread tango
ricia Muller www.kidojo.it (T'ai Chi Chuan, Tango also in english) Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:32 PM Subject: [Tango-L] Tango and tai chi push hands > There is another 2 person activity that is interactive, starts with guided > movements or choreography and evolves to an i

Re: [Tango-L] Tango and tai chi push hands

2011-02-05 Thread Don Klein
Jim-- As a practitioner/player of both I generally agree, but I find two essential differences, in tuishou (push hands) the object is to find the duifang's (partner's) center and uproot him/her-- although many times the game is played stopping just at that point to make the partner aware--wher

Re: [Tango-L] Tango and tai chi push hands

2011-02-09 Thread Sergey Kazachenko
And the two arts can be combined! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxmBv_0aWY On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Jim Gillette wrote: > There is another 2 person activity that is interactive, starts with guided > movements or >choreography and evolves to an intuitive, shared, moving experience.  I

Re: [Tango-L] Tango and tai chi push hands

2011-02-12 Thread Jim Gillette
ja, ja, ja. I guess I'll have to take a boom box with some tango music to the park next week! Others have tried to combine it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu8q-EqhTdI It just pops up all over the place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdP2po2kX8 On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Sergey Kazachen