Shuai jiao skills

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Different skills

Shuai jiao incorporates a wide range of different skills:

1. Applications

2. Combining chin na, shuai jiao & jing

3. Dying ground

4. Everybody falls

5. Finishing-off

6. Floor work

7. Floor work (control)

8. Flowing shuai jiao applications

9. Freeform triangle

10. Mutual arising

11. Shuai jiao against a knife

12. Shuai jiao: elbow & bump

13. Shuai jiao: footwork

14. Shuai jiao: throws

15. Shuai jiao: use of legs

16. 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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Page created 18 April 1995
Last updated 16 June 2023

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