Tai Chi: Fan Through Back Attack

Video Transcript

"In this sequence we're going to be showing a possible application using the movement of fan through back in the Tai Chi form against somebody just coming up and wanting to box with you. So, when we do fan through back is we step out, open the arms, the left arm coming out, right arm coming back, opening ourselves up. So, if somebody is up here, they want to box you. Come through with the elbow energy at the end possible. So, the slow of this is Ray is coming at me with this punch is I do my fan through back and cut the root down, cut the tree off at the root, if I try and worry too much about this I'm in trouble already. But, if I come here and break the root this whole arm will become useless and if you look even though we have same length arms, if I'm in this movement, in this good bow stance my arm is going to connect with him before his arm connects with me. So, as we come forward, as I come strike the root and then I have my elbow energy so I can just follow through striking with my elbow stepping behind. Right? So, this is one of the possible applications. Another application is he comes here, he steps through, I strike and then I can turn around and chop at that direction as well."