Tai Chi: Fan Through Back

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Summary: It's important for the body to be in alignment when performing the Tai Chi fan through movement. Learn more about the fan through back movement 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: Fan Through Back

We're going to continue in our Young Style form from Needle At Sea Bottom into Fan Through Back. So coming from where we ended up in the last segment in Needle At Sea Bottom, we come up the leg with the palms facing. When we get up to a point where we're sitting down and feeling comfortable, we let the hands circle up, so they just come up and when they get to that half way point, we're going to turn the body, we're going to turn the body and the hands are going to rotate and we're going to sit down with the hands as if we're looking through a mask. The elbows down, the body in alignment forty five degrees. I'm going to step in to a Forward Stance, again making sure that you don't fall forward. So it's a nice strong leg, it make your legs firm. Now, push with your back leg and as you do this, the left arm is going to circle forward this way, the right hand is going to circle up and back a little bit. So the right hand is last movement. Left hand circling out. So you're feeling your back is opening up call Fan Through Back. So from this posture here where we sink our chi into our tan t'ien, into our center, we step forward, move forward again, all our movement becomes from the foot into our waist and then we open up and we look in this direction. It's very similar to the Single Whip Posture. But it's a feeling of opening up, be very careful not to pull this arm back or extend it out too much. It's really just to redirect something. So you could just take your elbow and drop it down to keep something away and then open outward. So Fan Through Back.