Sunday morning push hands at Pease Park is where you go to meet and play with students from different martial artist backgrounds and a wide range of skill levels. It is a place to practice what you have learned doing T’ai Chi forms in a relaxed setting with friendly people. We use a clock to time partnering, so each participant gets the opportunity to switch off and play with everyone else.

Everyone who comes has an ego, so the problem of focusing on winning just this one particular match is always present. Which is a good thing, since part of the push hand learning is to “invest in loss”, something I will be working on for the next 20+ years. Sunday morning at Pease Park is a place to do that...

Everybody will tell you something different because everybody comes from different styles and different teachers. This is a feature, not a bug! Decide for yourself what works best, while still remaining under the guidance of your teacher!