Partner training work help the player to find how to apply the particular power of the techniques that he/she has trained independently. Partner work is done to check or verify power, not to find or develop the power. The drills are friendly, but not overly cooperative. Partner work is not sparring, though, so the drills are more cooperative than not. Sometimes considerable force needs to be used to check the powers and skills.
One should search out three partners: a partner much stronger than you, a partner much weaker than you, and a partner about your equal. Each can teach you something about your skills. Someone way beyond your skill/power level will give you a feel for what whole body power is. Someone at your own level gives you a chance to find the power yourself. Someone below your level enables you to feel what it is like to apply the power.
Remember that if you hurt your partner too much then they might not want to play with you again, but if you don't cause them difficulty (which may include some pain) then they don't learn much.
- Absorbing power partner drill
- video of absorbing partner drill
- bear form partner drill
- Chuanzhang partner drill
- video of chuanzhang partner drill
- Dragon walking
- Danhuanzhang (single palm change) partner drill
- daishou partner drill
- Crossing arms partner drill
- Coiling palm partner drill
- video of crossing arms partner drill
- lion form partner drill
- wrist wringing partner drill
- video of wrist wringing partner training
- Anzhang partner drill
- video of yazhang partner drill
