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Different skills
Shuai jiao incorporates a wide range of different skills:
Applications
Dying ground
Everybody falls
Floor work
Floor work (control)
Flowing shuai jiao applications
Shuai jiao against a knife
Shuai jiao: elbow & bump
Shuai jiao: footwork
Shuai jiao: throws
Shuai jiao: use of legs
Yielding/shuai jiao
No effort required
Although shuai jiao is essentially about taking the opponent to the floor,
there are a multitude of options available.
Unlike conventional martial arts,
there are no 'hip throws' or other
strenuous methods in the syllabus.
Everything must be easy, fast and flowing.
Footwork
Shuai jiao is highly dependent upon footwork.
Your ability to position your body relative to the attacker is of
paramount importance.
Speed, accuracy and balance are a given.
Sensitivity
Clumsy, rough, brutal use of the body will
not work in tai chi shuai jiao.
It will alert the attacker and they will involuntarily
tense up against your counter.
Stealth is required.
Why bother?
Shuai jiao is immensely effective and psychologically unsettling for the
attacker.
Hitting the floor is tiring.
Getting up off the floor is tiring.
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18 April 1995
Last updated
16 June 2023
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