Tai Chi Moves: Repulse Monkey

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Bob Linde, and I'm here today to show you some of the moves of twenty four yang style tai chi. I've been practicing tai chi now for thirteen years. So the last move we finished was called strum the paypa, so all of our weight is on our back leg, our heels down with our toe up. And our hands our here, kind of protecting us in our front. So what we want to do at this point is we are going to drop our right arm and bring it back just below our shoulders, our palms are facing up, we are going to step back into what's called a bagua step. And then as we shift the weight back to our left foot, our hands come down, performing a little bit of a block or a strike in front of us here. So we end our toe is down, our right foot is down, we are in a good half step and we've got our left hand just below our belly button coming towards dan tien where we store our chi. And our other hand is out in front of us just kind of protecting the lower part of our body. Let me show you from the side again. So here we are with strong the paypa, we drop the right hand back, we step back, and we repulse the monkeys. Alright let's take a quick look at the martial application, and we are getting a little help here from our student. So here is our hands coming back we are getting ready to grab him as he punches and then as we come in, we can strike to the sternum or down to the armpit, actually stopping the heart often times. It's an acupuncture point called heart one there. Thank you. So remember to find a good tai chi instructor in your area and enjoy playing tai chi."