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“Tui Shou”

Mar
22
2020

Safe, Sound and Shipping

Dear friends, Just a note to let you know that we at Plum are all healthy and safe and still open for correspondence and business. We are monitoring the shipping situation around the world and, so far, packages are being delivered, although it may take a few extra days to receive them. Having suspended classes […]

Mar
21
2020

Chen Style Taijiquan—A Tangled History

Happy to announce the arrival of a new book to our Plum catalogue, Mark Chen’s Chen Style Taijiquan: Collected Masterworks—The History of a Martial Art. Chen has done wide and deep research on the origins of Chen Taiji, not an easy matter. His main focus is Chen ZhaoPi, but he incorporates other voices in the […]

Mar
28
2011

Push Hands Improves

Why are we Pushing? How important is rooting? What are we doing here, anyway?

Jul
10
2010

Why is Push Hands so bad?

To explore this topic we’ll have to assume the basic premise that Push Hands is bad…