Local & Global Moves, Rotations & Revolutions

by Gavin on 2017/10/10

Here are some of my notes from this morning’s training on Daqingshan where Master Chen went over the two different types of movements in push hands:

An opponent can make “local” or “global” moves against you. Local moves involve only part of the body. Global moves involve the whole body.
We must learn to match an opponent’s local move with a global move, and vice versa.
In Practical Method, local and global moves are as follows:
– Local = “rotations” occurring in the upper body
– Global = “revolution” generated through stepping
No matter how large a movement is, if it doesn’t involve stepping, it is still a local move.

Hope these notes make sense without seeing what he was talking about. Happy training!