36-Style Taiji Knife Movements Explained

36-Style Taiji Knife Movements

The 36-Style Taiji Knife has always been popular among Taiji enthusiasts. Its main feature is a good integration of Taiji and knife skills into one.

The knife method is well emphasized in the whole routine, and all kinds of knife methods and all kinds of step patterns, footwork, hand patterns and techniques are skillfully arranged, which not only do not lose the style of Taijiquan, but also give people a fresh feeling of changing knife methods and natural stance, and fully display the robust and powerful style characteristics of the Taijiquan knife.

The command of 36-type Taijiquan is as follows:

With a false step and holding the knife, lifting the knee and holding the knife, bowing and sticking the knife, pushing the knife with a right and left bowing step, sticking the knife with a forked step, returning to a parallel step and splitting the knife, setting up the knife and stirring up the foot, hiding the knife with a bowing step, wrapping up the head with a cover step, hiding the knife with a bowing step, wrapping up the head with a cover step, intercepting the knife with a bowing step, hinging the knife with a pad step, sticking the knife with a bowing step, pointing the knife with a Ting step, skipping the step for the sticking the knife, lifting the knee and sticking the knife with a knee, pushing the knife with a horse stance.

Bouncing kick, lifting the knee to cut the knife, wrapping the head to sweep the knife, tilting the body to push the knife, lunge flat chopping, back flower counter-teasing, parallel step to tie the knife, turning back to the two starting feet, pouncing step to press the knife, lifting the knee to set up the knife in the horse stance, left and right hanging knives, resting step to press the knife, lifting the knee to cleave the knife, back knife in the joint, lunge counter-teasing, set up the knife to rush the fist, false step to light up the palm, and holding the knife to close the stance.

Characteristics of Taiji Knife Technique

Chen Style Taiji Knife Technique draws on the strengths of various schools, removes the superfluous and stores the essentials, combines the changes of Taiji yin and yang, and is characterized by the combination of lightness and heaviness, rigidity and softness, winding and rapidity, slowness and speed, and the rolling body and rolling hand knife method, which distinguishes the knife methods of various schools and schools of knives, and is why some people call it the "Taiji Winding Knife".

It is characterized by the spiral as the "form" and the "quality" of the twisting force, and the focus is on the intention of the mind and the unexpected. Do not force yourself to practice Tai Chi, just practice according to your own physical and mental conditions.