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Summary: It's important to maintain your vertical centerline, when learning the Tai Chi walk. Learn some tips for maintaining your vertical centerline 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: Vertical Centerline

In this segment we're going to continue with the idea of Tai chi walking primarily from the focus of our vertical centerline. So coming back to our forward stance, I want to take my centerline and move it directly back keeping my centerline here as I move this empty leg. I move my centerline forward. Now here we have to sink, if we don't sink we will wobble as we come forward. So I want to maintain my centerline. Now here the biggest error takes place. When people step out, they move their centerline forward before getting there. And if I do it with this leg, as I step out and I move my centerline forward, look out what happens to my knee and I fall down unto this leg. If there's a punch coming at me, I'll fall right into that punch. So I want to maintain my vertical centerline here, sinking, stepping out. Then if I decide to move there, I can move there. If I decide to move over here, I can move over here. So it's the ideas, it gives us choice of movement. So we maintain our vertical centerline where we're at by sinking, stepping out, then and only then do we choose to move forward. Again, paying close attention not to push the thigh forward, pushing the knee forward. As we move forward we want to sink, maintaining our vertical center, pushing back, vertical, turning vertical. Moving forward vertical, maintaining our center as we step and then moving forward.

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