Tai Chi: Kicking With the Heel

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In this sequence and in the next, I'm going to teach about Kicking With The Heel. There's a few different kicks in Tai Chi but in this more teach kick with the heel. What's very important is that a good solid rooted base. So we never want to have the toe of the post leg facing in the direction we're going to kick. We always want it out, about forty five degrees. We're, almost always, we're going to cross the hands before we kick. So it's as if we're scooping upward the leg, whichever leg we're going to kick with, that's the leg the hand that's going to cross underneath. So as you rise up, you cross your hands, the palms faced toward you. Now this shows up different ways throughout our form, but the leg comes out, the heel comes straight out and the arms can either out to the side or the arm over the leg. There's different variation to this. So as you kick, you're scooping the leg up, drawing up, up, up and then you're going to push out, push the heel outward, extending the leg all the way. In many young style, they say to keep the leg a little bit bent. This is actually true for Young Style Tai Chi, but for our health, it's very good and healthy for us to fully extend our leg without locking the knee. It's good for your health, good for your power.

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