Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang

[bawang]

in changquan you have single leg ride tiger. there is also reverse ride tiger, you step back and use the opponents momentum. some tai chi families do the single leg one like you showed in your video.

[YouKnowWho]

some tai chi families do the single leg one like you showed in your video.

If it's not in the form, it may come from "cross training". I put up that short clip just to prove that the "foot sweep" exists in the longfist form "1st road Mai Fu chuan".

[bawang]

If it's not in the form

tai chi family poem: 退步跨虎闪正中，左挒右黏敌落空，虚步寓踢势腾挪，以走制敌显神通
qi jiguang poem: 跨虎势那移发脚，要腿去不使他知，左右根扫一连施，失手剪刀分易

*rubs testicles

[YouKnowWho]

tai chi family poem: 退步跨虎闪正中，左挒右黏敌落空，虚步寓踢势腾挪，以走制敌显神通
qi jiguang poem: 跨虎势那移发脚，要腿去不使他知，左右根扫一连施，失手剪刀分易

*rubs testicles

Will you be able to find any "Taiji solo form clip" that has this posture?

[bawang]

wu family tai chi.

[taai gihk yahn]

wu family tai chi.

I think in Wu, don't they also do "monkey retreats" by stepping back w the same side leg that the hand presses forward? looks like an "outer reaping" type movement there...

(just looking for a chance at rubbing someone's testicles other than my own...)

[YouKnowWho]

wu family tai chi.

Could you point out which move in this wu family tai chi form?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnqRz...eature=related

I have tried to search "foot sweep" in many TCMA styles "solo forms". Today all clips can be googled, I still can't find it.

[bawang]

12:37

*smells fingers

[YouKnowWho]

12:37

*smells fingers

That's sound like a sticky kick instead of a foot sweep. Both moves are very similiar. Of course you can call 12.47 at the beginning of the lotus kick can be foot sweep. But both moves are not following the foot sweep principle.

[bawang]

can you read chinese? i posted the poems.

[YouKnowWho]

can you read chinese? i posted the poems.

Yes! You are right. 左右根扫一连施 is foot sweep. So I agree that "foot sweep" exists in Wu style Taiji.

It does seem to me that Wu style is superior than Yang and Chen in this issue.

[bawang]

arguing with you is like stabbing a needle into my hemmorhoid. now that i have defeated you, can i borrow your daughter?

Yes! You are right. 左右根扫一连施 is foot sweep. So I agree that "foot sweep" exists in Wu style Taiji.

It does seem to me that Wu style is superior than Yang and Chen in this issue.

sweeping the root and scrape means ankle sweep. thats why some styles the foot dont leave the ground but scrape the ground.

this is reverse ride tiger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-oGMZ96_o

[Frost]

arguing with you is like stabbing a needle into my hemmorhoid. now that i have defeated you, can i borrow your daughter?



sweeping the root and scrape means ankle sweep. thats why some styles the foot dont leave the ground but scrape the ground.

this is reverse ride tiger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-oGMZ96_o

Frequently funny, often outright hilarious and occasionally posts some very insightful things…….i love this guy (in a manly way)!

[YouKnowWho]

arguing with you is like stabbing a needle into my hemmorhoid.

We are discussing. We are not arguing.

[taai gihk yahn]

Could you point out which move in this wu family tai chi form?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnqRz...eature=related

I have tried to search "foot sweep" in many TCMA styles "solo forms". Today all clips can be googled, I still can't find it.

also, look at 3:30 - the way they do "Monkey Retreats" is clearly a sweep, similar to an "o soto gari" type maneuver


*sniffs bawang's fingers