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Chinese language with English subtitles.Teacher: Li De Run, fourth generation disciple of Yang style Tai Chi. Chairman of Shen Yang Research Center. Demonstrator: Zhu Chang Hai. Yang Jian Hou, son of Yang’s creator Yang Lu Chan, taught Hu Xing Zhai who in turn taught Li De Run. This method is highly organized taking the practitioner no only through a series of steps but different angles and formations. Probably the most consistent and sequential of all presentations of Push Hands. Applications are shown but are somewhat secondary to the general plan of progressive steps.Disc 1 : Fixed Push Hands. Fixed in this case means “no stepping.” This first disk gives the basics to the Push Hands structure. But Li demonstrates quite a number of methods. All are broken down and fit into the concept of the square in the circle or, as Li puts it, the Four Sides. This is one of the most systemized approaches to learning the different Push Hands patterns we have ever seen.Disc 2 : Double Hand Push- Fixed Steps. Simple horizontal, simple vertical, Full Four Hands, simultaneous Rolling Hands, Wheel Circling, Threading Shoulders: all are shown along with key points of verbal instruction. This is the natural outgrowth of the previous DVD. Some applications are shown but really secondary to the overall training of the patterns.Disc 3 : Double Hand Push- Free Steps. The next, third, DVD in this series is called Double Hand Push with Free steps or Live steps. Though true to the title, this one begins with Single Hand Push patterns also with “live” stepping. It then progresses to Double Hand (also known as Four Hand Operations) with set patterns of footwork. “Live” in this case does not mean random or arbitrary. The patterns cover variants such as Replacement, Circling, Back and Forth stepping and others.Disc 4 : Double Hand Push- Four Sides. “As the saying goes” Find the square in the circle and the circle in the square.” This series of more advanced Push Hand, the fourth disk in the presentation, shows patterns with just this goal. Underarm grabs, plucking movements, high corner actions, all add a dimensionality of the Push Hands picture.https://www.plumpub.com/sales/dvd/dvdcoll_TCpushhands.htm