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[kenshinbattousai374]

This form has only two things wrong with it:

1: Your kicks, you've deprived yourself. To fix them look at 2

2: Speed, I can tell you worked hard, but your speed is very odd for a Tai Chi Weapon form. I appreciate the fan a lot, since it IS hard to make a constructive form with it, but either speed it up so it flows and your kicks come out nicer. The extension is great, as is your flexibility, but you just lack the extra "something". Either that, or slow it down to Tai Chi slow.

Good Luck!!!

[taihuibabe]

To correct my earlier comment, if you look at the video at about 0:48-0:52, there is in fact a move in which I do snap the fan closed. That's the only place in the form where it is choreographed that way, because snapping the fan closed is just a fancy move, it has no function in fighting. In all the other movements, the fan is closed with the hand as part of another move, usually a double-block movement or some kind of reinforcement with the other hand.

[super1commenter]

That person is not good. She is not graceful, doesn't know how to close her fan, and her ma bu is not stable

[taihuibabe]

Ok, I gotta ask--what is the "right" way to close the fan?

[super1commenter]

She closes her fan by using her other hand to shove it to one piece. The correct way of closing it is to swing it like a yo-yo, after that let go of everything but hold the fan (so it would not drop), and the gravity or weight force would force the fan closed.

[super1commenter]

Okay, I understand

[xiaolaoshu520]

how many styles get in tai chi? i like the sword too. cool

[xiaolaoshu520]

her movements are not graceful

[taihuibabe]

you can say that again! I hate this video.

[blackfox44]

i was just wondering though  the point of y when she is making slicing motions she walks in a half circle...im a clueless kenpo student lol

[taihuibabe]

That is a circular combination of block-left/strike to the temple-right. There is supposed to be more of a wrist-twist-snap to the fan striking. This was my first competition and I was playing very timidly.

[blackfox44]

ah i c thank u

[blackfox44]

that was awesome..what is the name of that form?

[MasterGohring]

sorry, don't know, it might be one she came up with on her own. she usually attends the taiji legacy each year, so you might have the chance to ask her in person...

[taihuibabe]

Hi... that is the Phoenix Fan form, composed by Sifu Chun Man Sit (my teacher). It's a combination of moves from Wu Style tai chi and Six Elbows kung fu.

Thank you, MasterGohring, for posting this! It has been helpful for me to look back on.

[blackfox44]

thanks a lot to both u guys:)

[pleasuretherapist]

Well done! She holds at each point just long enough for the postures to be seen,does a fairly tricky form. Good stuff from a young artist.