johnwang wrote:Steve James wrote:Some teachers use the opposite side to teach.
Even if you teach the opposite side of the form, a "right leg outside crescent kick" will turn into a "left leg outside crescent kick". You will not reverse an "outside crescent kick" into an "inside crescent kick" (or reverse an uppercut into an overhand).
edededed wrote:Actually, near the end of the traditional taiji form, we can see what looks like an inside crescent kick just before the last outside crescent kick.
- Wu style: slowed down so it looks like a posture
- Wu style (fast): sort of in between inside crescent and front kick
- Yang style: for some performers (e.g. Dong Yingjie) it looks more clear
- Yang style (fast): variable, but some have the last kick as a jumping outside crescent, using the inside crescent to jump
Some Yang style (including derivatives) seem to not have it, on the other hand (e.g. Chang style?).
But maybe the kick was just removed later on...
origami_itto wrote:Yeah I suppose you could think of/practice the spin before the kick hands (Lotus leg?) as an inside crescent kick.
johnwang wrote:The 108 moves Yang Taiji form has one right leg "outside crescent kick". I assume the left leg "outside crescent kick" is not in the form because the form creator might assume that students could reverse the form themselves. But what I don't understand is why the "inside crescent kick" is not in the form. We may assume that if the form creator understood the "outside crescent kick", he should also understand the "inside crescent kick". Why did he include one but not the other?
What's your opinion on this?
wayne hansen wrote:So is it a form you practice or have seen or one u have read about
wayne hansen wrote:So what form do you practice and from who that you call 13 postures
The way you talked about 13 postures I though you meant you practiced an old form
No form I have ever practiced dosent have 13 postures
Both kicks are in the Thirteen Postures form from which all “taijiquan” forms descend.
origami_itto wrote:edededed wrote:Actually, near the end of the traditional taiji form, we can see what looks like an inside crescent kick just before the last outside crescent kick.
- Wu style: slowed down so it looks like a posture
- Wu style (fast): sort of in between inside crescent and front kick
- Yang style: for some performers (e.g. Dong Yingjie) it looks more clear
- Yang style (fast): variable, but some have the last kick as a jumping outside crescent, using the inside crescent to jump
Some Yang style (including derivatives) seem to not have it, on the other hand (e.g. Chang style?).
But maybe the kick was just removed later on...
Yeah I suppose you could think of/practice the spin before the kick hands (Lotus leg?) as an inside crescent kick.
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