Step Forward Parry And Punch
You are being attacked with right fist to your middle area. You should circle your right fist up to your left side and slam it down onto the attacking forearm as you attack to the chest or face with your left palm. Photo No. 53. The attacking fist will probably make use of the downward force caused by your right back fist and come back up in a circle to attack to your left face. You will block with your left palm and punch to the heart as you step in. Photo No. 54. A very effective block and...
Play The Guitar
This has a different action to the lift hands posture although the final positions look the same. As your opponent attacks you with right fist to your head you should block it with your left palm across to your right and a split second later your right palm comes up underneath your left palm to cause the attacking arm to slide. You will also kick to the knee area with your heel. Your right palm can also punch to the face. Photo No. 52. This is one of the best fighting techniques offered by t'ai...
Snake Creeps Down
You should block and grab a left fist attack with your right palm, Photo No. 121. Then you should pull the opponent downward as you slip your left arm under the groin area and attack the groin with shoulder. Photo No. 122. Another use for this posture is You are being attacked with a right fist, you should block using p'eng with your right wrist and then your left palm grabs his right elbow. You then pull downward using your weight moving down. This is a most powerful technique and causes the...
Stork Spreads Wings
There are two uses for this posture, the first is the more commonly known while the second is less known. You are attacked with left fist so you block it outward. You are then attacked with tow right fist so you block it downward and kick to his knee. Photo No. 46. OR You are attacked with left fist to your face. Your right palm blocks it across in a circle to your left as your left pal, comes up underneath to take over the block. Photo No. 47. Your left palm looks after the left fist while...
Low Reverse Circle Punch
This punch is used to the lower abdomen and groin area and must be used with a blocking technique, as it is not as fast as the others. With your right foot forward you block to your right with your left palm and as you do this you do a change step' i.e., your right foot is quickly withdrawn and your left foot is advanced. At the same time your right fist is drawn back in a circle and low. Photo No. 147. You now punch up into the lower part of the abdomen with the flat area of your fist. The...
Roundhouse Kick
This is the kick that is most used by kick boxers in tournaments so it should not be used in the street unless you are really sure that you aren't going to receive a broken or badly bruised shin from a well timed elbow. This is one good way to block this type of kick. Your front leg is lifted as shown in Photo No. 159. You now twist your rear heel inward and roll your hip over to flick the right foot out in a snapping motion from the knee. Photo No. 160. You must also try a double kick so that...
Tripping Repulse Monkey
In the Old Yang Style we have the postures of 'Step Back And Repulse Monkey', which appears in the last third of the form, which is the same posture with the same name that appears in the New Yang Style. However, in the second third of the Old Yang Style we have 'Tripping Repulse Monkey' which is different than the more commonly known one. An attack comes from behind so you turn to block and grab the arm. Photo No. 71. You now place your left or right as the case may be foot onto the groin or...
Cross Punch
This is one of the other punches that uses the first two knuckles. This punch is used to the hard bony areas and so it is a snapping punch. This also starts out from a block with the other hand. Photo No. 141. Notice the position of the punching hand before it punches. It is placed in a vertical position. When the body steps in and turns at the waist the palm is thrown out. Just before impact the waist is jerked back the other way, which causes the fist to have the whip effect. You then flick...
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X he form or kata of t'ai chi is the first real physical method that we learn. Once one is well versed in ch'i-kung, see POWER T'AI CHI CH'UAN BOOK ONE by Erle Montaigue the form is the foundation of one's training. This form is made up of many different postures all held together by linking movements to make one long flowing movement which is likened to a great flowing river. It has been said of t'ai chi, that unlike some of the 'harder styles' where what you see is what you get, in t'ai chi...
The Front Heel Kick
This kick is the simplest kick of all but it is also one of the most difficult to execute correctly. Usually upon trying this kick for the first time, your foot will glance upward on the bag with not much effect until you discover that you must thrust the waist inward so that your heel is snapped in towards the target and not up and away from it. Photo No. 151. Always put in the particular palm movement with this kick, as you should always block before attacking.
Brush Knee Twist Step
This posture is used to block either a middle straight kick to the stomach or a low punch to the abdomen. If it is the left fist attacking, your left palm will block it over to your left side as you pick up your left foot. Photo No. 50. Or, you can attack with right pounding palm to the chest. Photo' No. 51. The palm strike in this posture should not be mistaken for a pushing technique. The palm stays relaxed until impact and then flicks up just upon striking. NB Additional to the original...
Embrace Tiger Return To Mountain
This posture is the same in application as 'brush knee twist step'. The difference is that it is performed onto the closed side of the opponent, i.e. he attacks from the rear with right fist to your kidney area. You turn and block with your right arm or left as the case may dictate Photo No. 65 and attack with palm to his right soft flank. From the classics we are also given another clue as to the use of this posture, Embrace Tiger Return To Mountain embodies 'pull down and split. This tells us...