Philosophy is an important part of our Taijiquan training. Here Grandmaster Wong explains the progressive sophistication of various forms of attack.

Many Taijiquan practitioners have a mis-conception that practicing ?Tui Shou? or Pushing Hands is sufficient to make them combat efficient. Pushing Hands is excellent for developing combat skills, but by itself it is insufficient to make a practitioner combat efficient. He has to progress to ?Da Shou? or Striking Hands, where techniques are applied for combat.

Striking Hands does not refer just to striking. It refers to all the four categories of attack, namely striking, kicking, felling and gripping. These four categories of attack are progressively sophisticated in their combat functions.

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