The strike shown above is a two step sequence, the way we do it in class. At the completion of the step, the strike can be a punch, it could be a push, it could be a palm attack. The step used is an interesting motion, and many students get confused by it.
One student asked if the footwork shown was advocating a particular type of attack or entry we could use with push hands. Shifu explained to us that the step interpretation is dependent upon the situation we are caught in at the time. How is our opponent different from us? Is he bigger, taller, shorter, stronger, etc, and what have we done to him or her as we go to apply this motion here. Hence application is always dependent upon relative things in regards to an opponent.
Some students have a prior bias and inclination towards push hands practice. Shifu always encourages us to learn pushhands, but feels that on occasion, it may be unrealistic if the practitioners are pushing and pushing too long, whereas in actual fighting the contact time is generally much shorter; hence, we don't have that 'listening' time before we try to apply a given counter.
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