Tai Chi 24 Form Lesson 4 Play the Fiddle with Todd Martin MD

Tai Chi Yang Style 24 Form Play the Fiddle. This is Lesson 4. In this lesson we look at technique number 5, Play the Fiddle, or Play the Lute. This technique comes after Brush Knee. You can find the link to the other lessons below. In this Tai Chi lesson series, I focus on how to perform each movement with precise movements of the core. Most people learn by watching and repeating what they see without understanding how to core is functioning. Understanding how you are moving adds greater depth to your practice and helps to ensure you are moving your arms and legs with your core and not with your shoulders. I will review which of the Tai Chi 8 Techniques are in use during each movement.

Play the Fiddle uses the following Techniques.

1. Half Step Up: Split
Flexion of the right hip, torsional rotation on the left

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2. Shift Back to the Heel: Split
Flexion of the left hip, torsional rotation on the right
3. Empty stance: Elbow Strike

Trigram
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Flexion of the left hip, clockwise concordant rotation
4. Play the Fiddle Pluck
Extension of the left hip, torsional rotation on the right

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