When I used to do Japanese and Okinawan and Korean martial arts, the pulling hand always went back to the hips and was opposite in force to the other hand going forward. All of us guys spent years working this one angle over and over and over again. In Chinese martial arts, when done properly, the pulling hand might go in different angles relative to the opposite striking hand. Chen Tai Chi has quite a few strikes done in these unusual fashions and the level of sophistication of the strikes and application is clearly higher, in addition to being different. There is greater efficiency in the transmission of force and more functional stability noted when the angles of the pulling hand are moving appropriately with the striking hand.
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