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Tai Chi: Lazily Tying One's Coat

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Summary: Lazily tying one's coat is a move used in Tai Chi that helps to disrupt or split an opponents energy. Learn to perform this intricate maneuver from a professional Tai Chi instructor in this free martial arts video.

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By Michael Suter
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Michael Suter is a practitioner and private instructor of Chen-style tai chi chuan. He trained with Grandmaster Chen Zheng-Lei, a descendant of the Chen family from which tai chi...read more

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"So moving from Buddha's Attendant Pounds Mortar, we're moving into Lazily Tying One's Coat. This is one of the first obvious examples of a splitting energy, where one hand is moving in one direction and the other is moving in the opposite direction, and you're controlling the opponent's arms, moving them opposite and away from each other. So moving from here. Ok. So this is an example of a clinch, or a typical mixed martial arts move. Trying to hold the opponent's head, and usually kick them in the head. So here, I move this hand out, collapse it on the other one, and then send the opponent away."

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