Excellent video. Thanks!

ty Sifu !

Interesting footwork on the roll back.  
In 108, the Roll Back is from the front foot to back.  
Nice to know that it works the other way, too.  
Namaste

This counter to wrestling makes more sense to me if we remember that these fights were often done on raised platforms without a safety rope enclosure.

Have yoy noticed the squirrel going on /off the tree behind?

I think oftenproblem with Taiji, specially with Yang Chen-Fu line, is that it often rely in all kind of leadings (use your opponent force etc), but in the West all fighting is heavily influenced by boxing which dont give your so much support to grab or lead etc-  its blows are short without much giving in, in very quick sequence and their trajectors greatly differ from those of Guo-shu. Dealing more than half-second with strike means receiving just next (there can be many strikes within one second). Aikido has the same problem - no time for catching and leading because the strike "is gone" quicker than half of the second - and you have got two or three next strikes, every one from different direction. One of the leading figures in Chinese Jian swordmanship Scott Rodell explains the same in the sword art - all those Yang family sword "leadings" and big arcs are in real fight just uneffective because the contact-time is super-short - and all sword-work in his branch of Mi-Quan Taiji swordmaship is performed differently - very short and sharp deflects and strikes. To concentrate on "defense" against one strike is possible only with very unexperienced or drunk person who put all weight and strength for some big unbalanced blows. Chinese movies love to show Western fighters exactly in such a way - big strong clumsy dumb giants who rely just on raw force - but the Chinese are always sophisticated, artful and intelligent professionals. But men like Xu Xiadong have clearly shown, such presentation is just wishful thinking stemming from some kind of cultural chauvinistic arrogance. By the way, I like Taiji Quan and many aspects of Chinese culture of Shi very much, and teaching Taiji Quan (studied around 5 different Guo Shu arts) more than 30 years and still learning. As having some experience in street violence (around ten or so fights, mostly against many attackers etc), got my lessons and now I'm giving my best not to delude myself with every kind of exotics - the raw truth is for me more important than anything else. So changed many "techniques" in some way to answer for real attack-patterns (nobody will grab you from the wrist, but headbutt or low-kick - easily). Don't think that fighting is super-imortant at all in life, on the contrary, but it is so boring to see in Xu Xiadong videos how absurdly helpless are all kind of "Sifus"  who never experienced REAL attacks, even as Xu is very mediocrate MMA fighter, mildly said.

C'est  une bonne explication, et une bonne démonstration,  mais c'est aussi d'avoir une balle entre les mains et d'emmener l'adversaire là où il veux aller.

Good video Sifu.  Are you doing  zhan, Lian, Nian, sui at any point in this action or are you just floating him and then sticking by manipulating his fascia to roll him back?

Very nicely done. My only suggestion would be to not use the term 'behind me' as it might be misinterpreted as behind your back, which (I am sure) is not what you mean and is not where you want an opponent to be. I'm curious, where is that lovely park that you are practicing in?

By providing resistance you freeze the opponent into a packet, which is then rolled along or about you. Is that so, Sir?

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"roll them to your back" i like that :D
silly question, in the usual form, when peng is with right hand, you rollback is to your let. but in push hand, the rollback is to your right. any special reason for that difference?
and a bit more serious one, if rollback is rolling them to your back, how about when you roll yourself to their back or side? like in da lu push hands to counter rollback.

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