Greetings..
I have seen no high level skill in any Chen push hands tournaments yet. Plenty of pushing and pulling though.
LOL.. that is a perception.. if you have played with the likes of Josh Waitzken, Dan Caulfield, the Childress clan, Tiffany Chen, etc... you would realize that the "pushing and pulling" can be a very advanced sensitivity experience.. they can elevate sensitivity to a combat level, not just polite unbalancing games... Try pushing-hands with Taiwan Rules, where throws are expected and subtle manipulations in the heat of struggles are hardly noticable to the untrained eye.. I think we have a restricted perception of Taiji's martial capability, we seem to think it must be some esoteric set of mystical movements.. it is combat done with Taiji principles. At combat speed Taiji appears similar, it's the results that are Taiji's signature...
Be well...
TaiChiBob.. "the teacher that is not also a student is neither"