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Tai Chi Form Movements – Push
Grasp Sparrow’s Tail is completed with Push.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Press
This movement is led by the waist with a rooting and pressing of the back foot.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Roll Back
The third part of Grasp Sparrow’s Tail is Rollback and here the importance of the waist in Taiji practice is emphasized.
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The Tai Chi Walk – Walking Brush Knee and Press
To learn the Brush Knee and Press Tai Chi Walk will aid you in learning the form more easily and better ingrain the principals. The following break down is not intended to teach, but rather support what you have learned in class.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Ward Off Right
This will practice your first right bow stance of the form. Hold this posture for some time to practice rooting and alignment.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Ward Off Left
Ward Off Left begins the series know as Grasp Sparrow's Tail.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Beginning
Taiji is stillness in motion and motion in stillness. The beginning movement demonstrates the separation of yin and yang as stillness is transformed. 1. Arms float upward like bubbles from the bottom of a pond. Wrists are bent and tranquil – fingers being drawn downward. Sink body slightly. (1.5) At shoulder level fingertips lift slightly [...]
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Preparation
Better not to think of "Preparation" as preparing to begin the form, but rather as preparing to let go of everything else.
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Tai Chi Form Movements – Single Whip