@WYEGARY My guess: 1. Stepping backward is to stay balanced so to avoid falling. 2. The teacher when rejecting the force( Jin 發勁), he can choose to make one fall, rise, or far away, and in some case, injured. So, when playing this with students, the teacher tend to use the harmless way.
This is pretty much what they do in regular weekly practice in Sun Yishen Memorial hall in Taipei. As I can tell in their regular practice, those look like jump put much weight on Mr. Liau. So, the backfires were more obvious.
I was suspecious about this kind of demonstrations until I tried to tackle a Taiji master and got similar "treatment". Obviously, the force used by the attacker and the defender is mild, just enough to let the viewer appreciate the ability to sense the force and to redirect it in minimum amount of movement. All I can say is that when the attacker is "directed" away, he simply has to follow the "direction", or to fall. If looking for street fight demo, this would not be worth the time.
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Who is this? Not saying he's bad or completely fake, but this clip shows a lot of very cooperative behavior by his attackers who I assume are his students. Students, especially in a public setting, are not going to take a chance on making their teacher look bad, so these guys are deliberately pushing themselves away or launching wide-open and gentle attacks. Don't understand why the audience seems so impressed.
It's just that the floor is slippery , and those guys are too old to take a fall on their tailbone , that's why they choose to step backwards to reduce the impact , or they could choose to fall.
And this is kind of the only real one I see out of most of the videos I saw , would be interesting if these master talk about the mechanic of 勁 more , so that people could have a better concept on this.
