Tai Chi Moves: Parting the Wild Horse's Mane

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Bob Linde and I've been practicing yang style tai chi for about thirteen years now here is St. Petersburg, Florida. So I want to show you the next move which is called parting the wild horse's mane. So I'm actually going to start from the side. And we just practiced the opening of tai chi. So you've learned this one already and the next move, we have a transition move call hold the ball. And we step out without shifting our weight and then we bring our arm forward as we drop our right hand down. It's important to, on the first one to adjust your back foot so that you can have a proper tai chi step while you do this. You want to make sure that our elbows are down, our shoulders are relaxed. Our palm is facing our chest, and our other hand is slightly bent and at our side. And let me show you that one more time. And I'll go ahead and show it from the opening of tai chi. So we know this move, hold the ball and now we are going into empty step and we have parting the wild horse's mane. We do that move actually three times in the set. But of course just like with all the tai chi moves this is actually a martial arts applicable kind of exercise. So we are going to have our student come out one more time and this is great for somebody who throws a punch we step out, we can grab the arm and I can come up behind him and control him as we flip him over the leg. So remember have a good time playing tai chi and find a good tai chi instructor in your area."