The Random Circle
Tai Chi Push Hands
Jason Tsou

This two DVD set contains a series of solo and partner exercises for developing ability in Tai Chi Push Hands.  If you are already experienced with a Tai Chi Solo Routine, then this material may be of interest to you.
 
The poem "Random Circle" dates back at least as far as Yang Ban-Hou, uncle of Yang Cheng Fu and the son of Yang Lu-Chan (founder of Yang T’ai Chi). Yang taught this poem to his students because he felt that in it lay the secrets of Push Hands for T’ai Chi including the four levels of training and strategies for energy manipulation regardless of style.

This is one of the most logical and sequential formats for training ever seen. Jason Tsou in Disk One takes us through over a dozen Reeling Silk exercises that at first seem simple until you realize they encompass just about all the possibilities. In the second disk he applies these circling exercises to Push Hands in a new way that is far more "realistic" than the majority of methods. He not only shows the applications from these various circlings but from different styles.

Jason Tsou has been a martial artist for over 40 years. He has taught T’ai Chi and Kung Fu in both Taiwan and the United States, where he has been involved in the training of both military and law enforcement personnel. He has also founded a number of clubs on the East and West coasts. He studied Yang, Chen and Wu styles of T’ai Chi with Yang Bao-Chien, Chang Yu-Cheng, Su Yu-Chang and Adam Hsu. He also studied at the Wu Tang Center from GrandMaster Lu Yun-Chiao. He has also worked under Chang Deng-Shen in Taiwan. Besides T’ai Chi, Jason Tsou is proficient in Ba Gua and Xing Yi as well as other external martial arts.