In the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi Chuan, there is a practice called “Pushing Hands”, where the objective is to dislodge the opponent’s stance (or, in competitions, move them out of a given area.) As always with the traditional MAs, there are different styles of practice, hard and soft, more external and more internal. In some of these styles, practitioners try to unbalance the opponent as softly as possible so to not evoke resistance until it has become futile – essentially executing a physical sum-threshold attack.
Thanks for giving me a general concept for this kind of behaviour!
In the Chinese martial art of Tai Chi Chuan, there is a practice called “Pushing Hands”, where the objective is to dislodge the opponent’s stance (or, in competitions, move them out of a given area.)
As always with the traditional MAs, there are different styles of practice, hard and soft, more external and more internal.
In some of these styles, practitioners try to unbalance the opponent as softly as possible so to not evoke resistance until it has become futile – essentially executing a physical sum-threshold attack.
Thanks for giving me a general concept for this kind of behaviour!