The eight basic techniques of Taijiquan

The eight basic techniques of Taijiquan are arrow-quiver, stroking, squeezing, pressing, picking, poking, elbowing and leaning.

Example 1, the movement of the bird's tail contains four of the eight techniques of Taijiquan: shedding, stroking, squeezing, and pressing, which in push hands we call the four positive push techniques. First of all, we have to remember: shed to round support, stroke to light, squeeze to surprise, press to punch. In order to master the Range Sparrow's Tail, you must know its meaning, and in most Taijiquan routines it is the Range Sparrow's Tail that is used as the beginning.

As the saying goes, "the beginning of everything is difficult", if the beginning of a good, the latter will be followed by speculation and understanding, but also feel a little easier.

1, arrow-quiver type: pay attention to do shed style, back to the back, arm to the left or right shed, and the other hand to open the lower stroke, shed when the force of the two arms to be combined with the body law strength, four sides of the support round, as if a blowing round the balloon outward as a round, so that the action is full of mixed yuan.

2, stroking potential: pay attention to stroking the hand rotating arm forward, waist slightly to the right, both want to the left first right, want to the right first left reasoning, rotating arm after the end of the waist and then turn to the left, then the two hands with the left diagonal back stroking, and to be light, natural. With the other side of the force to dissolve, there is no stiffness.

3, squeeze potential: squeeze potential is like the impact of the car brakes. Similarly, in doing this action, the back of the back, the two palms together squeeze out the direction of the intersection, with the cross of the joint force extrusion, the formation of shock.

4, according to the potential: pay attention to do this action when the tip of the elbow can not be outward, should be down, the two palms pressed out, the palm should not be positive forward, but to have a certain arc, because in the technique, you are targeting the human body, and the human body itself is curved, but also taijiquan everywhere is the theoretical basis of the circle and arc. Palms together to hit each other, so that the force pressed out can be whole.

Elbows down, press the time palm heel to hold the circle forward press punch, back back support, just as you are pushing the wall or cart when the feeling, with the waist attack.

5, use: this action contains an important Taijiquan technique, is to apply the above four methods in the push hands, to defend themselves to attack others, so called four positive hand, its point of strength: shed style point of strength in the two arms, stroke style point of strength in the palm. Squeeze type strength point in the small arm, press type strength point in the waist attack. In the routine, the hand waving pipa action can reflect the role of the pick and the pick; lifting the hand potential embodiment of leaning; oblique flying potential embodiment of the pick, the pick, the elbow, the elbow, leaning; the wild horse is the representative of the four diagonal angle of the fighting method, so we can exercise in the process of exercise, the wild horse can be separated from the routine to practice, so that a better grasp of the four orthodox hand usage.