The 12 Drills

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The 12 primary drill of Tai Chi will focus on more repetition of various movements to enable all practitioners to work their body while perfecting the principle and quieting the mind.

1. Opening Move

Legs:  hip-width apart

Arms up and down  (Lifting water

2. Brush Knee & Push with Twist Step

3. Play the Pipa 

4. Step Back and

Repel Monkey  

5. Wave Hands Like Clouds 6. Golden Pheasant Stands on 1 Leg 7. Fair Lady Works Shuttles 8. Step into Lift Hands
9. Needles at the Sea Bottom    10. Fan through the Back 11. Cross Hands 12. Closing

(Lifting water)

The 12  is a linear exercise of the Tai Chi Chuan form. It takes a singular posture and removes it from the linking form,  allowing it to move across the floor in a straight line, zigzag or in a circular pattern, with or without a 4-corner.

 

 

 

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