Your favorite Tai Chi posture

[SPJ]

I would pick single whip or dan bian.

It is used as a connection, turn around, start and end posture dispersed out in any tai chi routines or forms.

Why ?

Both our hands start in front of our center line and then drawn out fully or partially to the left and to the right.

We sit on hip and lower our posture or center our posture, zhong ding shi.

What is yours?

and why ?

[Prairie]

Probably easier to pick most hated due to pain.

Nevertheless, I think this is part of the maiden works the shuttles in Chen style. After the several steps backwards there is a vertical jump and stomp. It is this jump and stomp that I like. Maybe it is because it is a good way to shake out some acid or just the powerful emotion it sometimes imparts.

Good topic. Hard describe specific movements though. (Maybe just me)

[YouKnowWho]

I like the "striking tiger".

[SPJ]

I like the "striking tiger".

Yes. Depending on styles

There is the hitting tiger posture, da hu shi

or bending bow to shoot the tiger wan gong she hu.

[SPJ]

Hard describe specific movements though. (Maybe just me)

We may draw small circles, mid circles and large circles with all postures.

The same goes to single whip.

From recruitment of rotation of the wrist, forearm, elbow, shoulder, chest/back, waist and then step.

Great.

[GoldenBrain]

I can't pick just one, but I will list my favorites. The reason I put cloud hands as number one is because it's an effective block which covers tons of real estate and leads into a check-deflect (old man plays guitar) to a single whip…etc. Of course old man plays guitar is also a throw but I'd rather use it as a check-deflect to the outside which sets up all sorts of strikes and throws for me.

1. cloud hands
2. old man plays guitar
3. single whip
4. white stork cools wings
5. heel kick
6. white stork cools wings
7. pulling silk

[GLW]

If I am judging a competition, I watch a person's Grasp Sparrow's Tail - Peng-Lu-Ji-An - It contains the ideas of almost all other movements and the way the body moves with the shifting of weight, the waist, the completion of the movements, and so on tell me a lot about a person's level and ability - at least in the form.

[mawali]

Cloud hands (yun shou) is not so much a favourite but a multi-platform generalized response to 'scenarios". It can be a setup to other bafa!
This is on of the better examples I can come up with!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5OXI4Mnc2U

Elements of the circle are evident, whether through intersection, crossing a vector like white crane spreads wings, fan through back, etc whether in a horizontal, vertical or mixed plane!