Tai Chi Moves: Cloud Hands

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name's Bob Linde and I'm going to show you the next move in the 24 yang style tai chi set. I've actually been practicing tai chi for about 13 years now. So we just finished our first single whip and we finished with the single whip and we're getting ready to do three cloud hands. So we do this three times. And instead I'm just going to show you a couple, and kind of tread water here and stay in one place. So we drop our hands and what we want to do is follow the upper hand with our eyes and actually turn our head in the same direction. And on this one I'm not going to actually show you the martial applications. Mainly because we don't have the space to do it. And I would be throwing somebody around with my hands or actually I could be just slapping them around as well. So when we're done doing three of those we're just going to do one more single whip to end the move. And that is wave hands like clouds. We've all seen that in the celebrex commercials often times. It's one of the most relaxing and meditative moves that we actually have in the tai chi set and one of my personal favorites. So make sure you find a good tai chi instructor in your area so they can teach you cloud hands so that you can meditate whilst waving your hands like clouds and enjoy playing tai chi."