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| Chen
Family style Tai Chi Chuan - beginners |
| Eighteen
Movements form |
| Buddha's Warrior
Pounds the Mortar |
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| Buddha's Warrior
Pounds the Mortar is one of the few movements in Chen Family
style to have an |
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overtly religious name. Buddha's Warrior Pounds the Mortar
is an important movement both in
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terms of its placement and because it is found twice in 18
Movements, four times in Lao Jia (Old |
| Frame),
four times in Xin Jia (New Frame), twice in Cannon Fist and
three times in Xin Jia #2. |
| Buddha's Warrior
Pounds the Mortar is a signature movement - once you do it
EVERYONE |
| knows that they
are watching Chen style. |
| When we are doing
an exhibition and dancing in series it means each person on the
stage does a |
| single movement.
So the student on your left does single whip, then you do single
whip, then the |
| student on your
right does single whip ... until we reach the end of the line.
If the Single Whip |
| was movement 26,
51 or 61 in Lao Jia OR 29, 56 or 69 in Xin Jia then the
last student on the end |
| does Wave Hands
Like Clouds. Gradually that move works its way to you from your
right. |
| However, if the
next movemet is Buddha's Warrior Pounds the Mortar everybody
does it in parallel. |
| That means the
whole line at the same time - the intent is to jolt the
audience. We will tease them |
| later. |
| In the more
theatric version of Buddha's Warrior Pounds the Mortar there's a
little extra footwork. |
| As you lift the
right leg so the thigh is parallel to the ground you alos rise
up with the left foot |
| so the left heel
is clear of the ground. Note the straightahead as opposed to
well-turned ankle. |
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