Steps to Learn

THE FORM
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PUSH HANDS

SWORD

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..STILL POSTURES:
..Beach Ball
..70-30 Stance
..Single Whip
..Ward-off Left / Ward-off Right
..Press & Push

..Lift Hands
..Phoenix Spreads Wings
..Play the Guitar
..“Hold the Watermelon”
..Punch
..Closure / Conclusion

..Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain
..Fist Under Elbow
..Diagonal Flying
..Golden Rooster on One Leg
..Separate Right (or Left) Foot
..“Low Punch”
..Corners (Fair Lady Works at Shuttles)
..7 Stars
..Step Back & Ride Tiger
..Bend Bow & Shoot Tiger

..MOVING POSTURES:
..Beginning
..Stir the Soup
..Rollback-Press, Rollback-Push
..Ward-off Left, Ward-off Right
..Brush Knee Left
..Shoulder Strike
..Block, Perry & Punch
..Repulse Monkey
..Wave Hands in the Clouds
..Snake Creeps Down
..Spinning Heel Kick
..Sweep Lotus

..THE FORM:
..To first Single Whip
..***APPARENT CLOSURE***
..Repulse Monkey
..Wave Hands in the Clouds
..Golden Rooster
..4 Corners
..7 Stars

..Cleaning up Technique

..Cultivating Chi in the Form
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..• Sensitivity Drill

..• Keep ball between chest & hand

..• Square Shoulders

..• Weight Change

..• Full Range (back & forth)

..• Turn & Redirect

..One Hand Push Hands
..- Try to unbalance your partner

..Two-Hand Push Hands
..- Neutralizing
..- Grounding
..- Rooting
..- Directing Chi

..Dalu

..Choreographed Push Hands

..Free-Style Push Hands

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..BASICS
..- How to hold the sword
..- 3 parts of the sword
..- 4 sides of the sword

..10 STRIKES
..15 BLOCKS

..• Apply Strikes & Blocks
..• Sticking Sword Drill

..DOWN THE ROOM:
..(no partner)
..- Drawing in, Drawing out
..- Spiral Block, Minor Literary Star
..- Diagonal Slashes

..PARTNER DRILLS:
..• Drawing out, Drawing in
....Spiral Block, Minor Literary Star
..• Circle Drill
..• Thrust, Downward Block
..• Diagonal Slashes
..• Little Whirlpool

..CHOREOGRAPHED:
..• Short Choreographed Form
..• No-Partner Form
..• Long Choreographed Form with Partner
....(5 Sections)

..APPLICATION:
..Free Sword Play