Whether it's Karate, Krav Maga, Greco-Roman wrestling, Shuai Jiao, BJJ, Wing Tsun or Bagua - close contact skills are a useful and important part of your training. Push hands is a great way of developing the skills, and is also an increasingly popular competition format featuring a wide range of techniques for neutralising and redirecting the opponent, with a high degree of safety.
Moving step push hands competition is close to grappling arts such as Sumo or wrestling. Fixed step pushing hands features a much more restricted set of techniques, as there is no footwork.
The Melbourne Push Hands Open (MPHO) is entirely rules-based and open to any participant from any background, any style of Martial Arts, any age or weight or gender.