形意拳 XING YI QUAN Five Movements and Twelve Animals 01

This Taolu brings together the Five Movements and the Twelve Animals in a single sequence. Now let's just look at the work of the hands. Supporting palm. One knight and three shots. Fire. The horse. The earth. Double horse: Water. The Four Grips of the Cock. An experienced eye can see many ground throw techniques here. From how much I have been practicing Shuai Jiao for more than thirty years, I have also understood the other Chinese styles better. (first part of Taolu) Let's try to understand t

he essential concepts of what we are doing. Supporting palm. And then he pulls himself. This is very important: it is the returning hand that gives power to the blow. The force of the blow does not come from the arm that goes forward, but from the hand that comes back. Yin, what cannot be seen, gives birth to Yang, power. Handsome! Now we have one horse and three shots. This can be done in different ways, different possibilities. First possibility, the most common: all three punches are wooden p

unches. Second possibility, which I love very much: first punch is wood, second punch is earth and the third is wood. Third possibility: first punch wood, second punch Earth that transforms into Wood ( fanqin na) and third punch Wood. Both in this technique and in the following one, the fire, the leg on the ground really works a lot! The back leg pulls well and strong. Same thing in Fire, the leg does not lift, but sticks to the ground by pulling. I'm sorry darling! We have this very energetic c

losing and opening in the lower part of the body. Then we have the horse: twice it protects and the third time it protects and strikes simultaneously. Now we have the Earth shot, where we don't just emphasize the separation of the hands. But we also work well with the walking of the Earth. Not like I often see done with a simple straight step. Now we have the double horse. What we have done individually is now double. After hitting the fist it bends, absorbing, as if it were a hoof. Now in the w

ater we do a variation to which I have already dedicated many videos. This technique - concept is very common in Northern China, for example in Bagua Zhang. It is also common in Okinawan Karate. It is common in southern styles, such as Hung Gar. It is an important concept, called a flower, but it is not a useless flowering. It's very effective work at short distances. Now we have the four tricks of the Rooster. There's a lot of this sense of rebound. I often see it done like this. it's still goo

d, but the sense of pulsation is missing. It's like a rooster that doesn't have spurs or a hen without a beak. There is a connection between the elbow and the knee. When I can, I will show the martial applications with a student. The important thing is to understand the meaning of the fire, of the rooster. Even in Taiji Quan the Fire goes from below and then upwards. It's bad in Italian to say chicken, it's better to call it rooster. One, two and three, separate. The Shou Biezi technique. We can

also perform by lifting and hooking a lot with the leg. There is however the sense of hooking and then exploding. The Gallo section is very rich in detail. Lots of melee applications.