 Hey welcome to the second video in our series. We're going to show you technique number four in the most powerful top five Tai Chi techniques. I'm going to show you brush knee and we're going to show you how to use it in self-defense application. So let's go in this video and see you soon. Hey here we go technique number four called brush knee. All right it's called brush knee because it's as if I'm brushing my knee with my left hand. If I'm doing brush knee I step forward, this hand comes up to my ear and presses forward. Right from the side through the circle, hairy, and then it's brush knee. Okay right way, same thing. Notice that I'm sinking here and then we're expanding here. So we sink down and expand. By this time my hip should be square this way. All right so that's brush knee. Some people they do it with a step to get more momentum. Okay sometimes what you might need to do if you change angles is you might need to pivot your foot so that it's back into a 45 degrees. So if I'm going here this way I got to change my back foot angle so that we're back into this angle. So my step here I'm going to move my foot here. Okay so I'm stepping here see how my foot follows and goes back to a 45 degree angle. Your knee should never pass your toe if you're looking down straight at it and you don't want to fully extend the back leg. Okay you want to have it slightly bent. So that's brush knee. All right here we go brush knee technique number four. So let's just isolate it. The first movement is just the carry big circle with your left hand. Okay so that comes doesn't matter what it is. Carry. Okay this big giant handle is going to remove anything that comes in this direction. If it comes here I can get it. If it's here I can get it. It's here to get it. Okay so you make a big movement. People say why do you make big movements in Tai Chi? A couple reasons. Number one you get more momentum. Okay number two is you practice the big moves so that you can do the small moves with power. All right so we do it big so we can get more deflection and cover more area. All right so first move is just the deflection. Okay so we're going to add it so that once we pass this here we're going to go and then we're going to tap the guy on the lambar. All right I'll show you why later. Here okay lambar. Okay so one more time big circle lambar. Okay now we're going to combine it with our press. Okay so big circle and press. Now why do we want here because you want this to be close to you so that when we do this you're going to go down. Okay it doesn't take much force. Actually it's better if you don't use force and just use softness to do this. Okay because once I have this underneath here and I lock this in here I just need to move his head back about there and then once it gets to that angle just go down and it doesn't take any strength or power for a take down. Okay just try this at home. Okay what you can do is you can lift your chin like this as far as you can go until you're looking up straight in the sky. Then at that point put your finger on your forehead and just press it there and then you won't be able to keep your balance very well. Okay so that's how you do a take down and even if I don't have it if I just got this that's all you need to do to do take down. Okay so what you do one good place to do it is on the nose. Okay so under the nose and just go and do a circle and try to reach behind his head and down. So just imagine a question mark. All right question mark. All right so I push a lot of pressure on the upper spine and the body does not like that naturally it will go down. Okay so just go down. Okay I don't even need to show you so it's so simple. So if you combine the whole motion something is coming out of nowhere. Step behind him. Okay this can also be a strike if you is a very vicious situation that guy has a knife right then you want to up your attack level right so boom like this way. Okay right down on the eyes use your claw. Okay I'm not going to use it on his face on his chest it still stuns right boom like that right but if you're just training and it's just your uncle that's drunk or something like that and he's trying to swing at you with his arm okay come on relax. Okay so there's two different types of usage for an attack. Now that's using a big movement but how about small movements. Let's say you're in close. Okay one way to use it is just do it in a small movement same thing okay so you can see closer is uh I'm on the outside he's on the inside so I want to get back to the inside. I do a really small brush knee so instead of doing a big motion I'm just going to use a small motion but see my whole body is still coordinated with it that's why you need to use the big motions with the whole body so that when you do it with the small motions you're still using your body not just your hand or your arm because this is not that strong right so okay so step 10 boom pull in with this and boom you can do it in the neck face eyes whatever okay if you want to use it in a self-defense situation and training you can just tap the guy on the chest or you can just do it soft take down like this okay all right so those are a couple uses when deflecting arms brush knee can also be used against straight kicks okay so it doesn't matter which kick if it's this one I got this one I just step in and now have a really good position you just push the guy off because I'm right behind him okay one more time so it helps to also get it out of the way and then how I deflected it and now all this is available to me right I can hit on the head back on the head and whatever I want to okay let's say it's a kick with the other leg same thing step away brush knee in this case depends how far his head is if his head is closer closer then I can reach his head easily right boom there's a strike but if his head's far away can't reach his head I just gonna go for this instead go for knee brush knee okay so I step up here I just brush you down here same thing okay one more time so step out of the way brush okay so those are a couple ways you can use brush knee very useful application hey thanks for watching top five Tai Chi techniques you want to watch the next video just click on the video box here or you can check out some of my other playlists if you haven't already make sure you subscribe to my channel and click the button right here so I'll see you in the next video