• AS A DEFINITION
• AS FOR THE NAME: TAI-CHI CHUAN OR TAIJIQUAN
• INTRODUCTION
• THE FORM
• THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TAI CHI CHUAN
• THE TAI CHI CHUAN STYLES
• PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS WHICH SUSTAIN THE TAI-CHI CHUAN THEORY
• TAOÍSM AND THE ORIGIN OF TAI CHI CHUAN
• THE CHI (QI)
• THE TAN-TIEN (or dan tian)
• INTERNAL MARTIAL ARTS
• NEI-GONG
• QIN-NA
• TUI-SHOU

  
  

TUI-SHOU

When one begins the training of the martial aspect of tai chi chuan (taijiquan), he learns to practice the ´´tui-shou´´, that is, the pushing of the hands. This is a practice which is done in pairs. The perception, sensitivity, attention are worked. We are united to the other through the contact of one or more points, for example, the wrist, where we should maintain constant contact and allow ourselves to appreciate whatever changes in the force, direction, intention, etc. The contrary is initiated with the intention to make us depart from our centre.