Tai Chi: Direction Tips for Forms

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Summary: The legs are typically the driving force, in Tai Chi, for directing movements. Learn some direction tips for forms 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: Direction Tips for Forms

In this segment I'm going to talk about where you're going and where you're facing, and this builds upon the idea of the last segment of understanding the eight directions. So as we go back to the idea of the beginning of the form, I know I'm facing in the direction of the north, because this is where my belly button is facing. The idea is the direction usually is told by our legs; where we face is by where our belly button faces. So where I'm facing, in the direction where I'm going is all the same right now. But I know I want to go to the corner, so first I'm going to move everything to the side, to release the leg. Now, I know I'm going to be going to this corner, now I have a choice, I originally was here, and I'm going over here. But I have a choice, do I face here, or do I face here. In this case I'm going to face in the direction that I'm going, so that when I move forward, everything goes together, as in the beginning of our Tai Chi form. Now I'm here, and we're getting ready to go and ward off, I want to go back in the north direction, but I'm facing the corner, because this is where my bellybutton is facing. So I step in the direction I'm going, to the north, I move in that direction, but then I face in that direction, bringing me into ward off left.