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Persuading and fighting more successfully by humanizing opponents.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Lately, I have gotten many new weekly ideas for persuasion and trial combat, through weekend t'ai chi push hands gatherings, daily solo practice, and ongoing viewing of videos and reading of books by today's and yesterday's t'ai chi masters. Here are some recent ideas:  - Learned at Sunday t'ai chi push hands practice today: Do not be too late in yielding nor attacking. - Also learned at t'ai chi- Several efforts may be needed to find the opponent's stiffness or gravity center to push against, sometimes including through pushing and yielding a few times on the same part of the opponent's body. - T'ai chi push hands, the Art of War, and trial practice are about moving when the opponent starts to move, and arriving before the opponent. - Chinese speakers are advantaged to read the t'ai chi texts untranslated...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 05, 2009 (boomark / email).