Tai Chi: Knee Ups

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Summary: Knee ups are a very simple exercise, in Tai Chi, for conditioning the body and opening up the hips. Learn to perform knee ups from a professional Tai Chi instructor in this free martial arts video.

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Rich Marantz Rich Marantz is the director and instructor of Green Mountain Tai Chi in Manchester, Vermont. He has taken his passion for Taoist philosophy and Chinese inter... read more

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Tai Chi: Knee Ups

In this next segment I'll show you a very simple exercise called Knee-ups. It's a great conditioning exercises for opening up the hips and eventually also working on your cardiovascular. So what we do is we bring our hands out and just bring your knee up very simply up to your knee. Now if you can't keep your knee up high, you start your hands here, it's okay. I just don't want you to bring your hands down to your knee. Bring your knee up to your hands. So, what you want to do is move from your hip joint as oppose to lifting your knee which will pull you forward. You want to keep your body very straight and relax and move from your hip joint, bring the knee up. Once you get a feel for this, you can turn this into a conditioning exercise and just do rapidly. So as soon as one goes down, the other one comes up. So it's up and down, up and down, feet off of the floor. You can do in that succession. You could also do this moving across the floor as if running across the floor doing Knee-ups. But I do recommend just begin by bringing the knee up, get use to that, get your hip joint open.