 Hey, how's it going? This Wing Chun kid here taking a walk doing my Qigong doing my Tai Chi exercise You know they say Tai Chi it's only good for old people and it's only good for health and fitness But I say that's wrong because Tai Chi means grand ultimate fist in China and the most powerful fighters at that time use Tai Chi So I'm gonna show you how to use it in the street self-defense because attacks can come at any time any moment All right in this video we're gonna show you top five most powerful Tai Chi techniques you can use in self-defense here we go Yo, what's up? Welcome to Tai Chi's most powerful five techniques. We're gonna start with technique number five cloud hands look like this It's very nice and peaceful and very fluffy very soft. That's what we call it cloud hands as if you are Creating clouds with your hands. All right, so if it's stationary, this is how it looks like. Let's just isolate one hand Okay, notice my whole body is moving my hand starts with the rotating of the hips up to the movement of the shoulders up to the movement of my shoulders and Then my elbow joint to my wrist joint to my fingers. Okay, so the whole body needs to be Coordinated that's just one hand. Now we combine two hands at the same time It's gonna look like this now in the form We have movement so it's gonna look like this Step so you need to coordinate The steps with the cloud hands. Okay, like this way Okay, in some forms we see a cross step like this Okay, so either way you do it as long as you have this motion and that's correct Okay, make sure you using your whole body And see every connection is there Some details you want to notice is that when I'm coming up my fingers point upwards then I Flip it and then when I'm coming down as if I'm painting a wall with my fingers And then when I come down down here, I'm scooping up And then my fingers point upwards again. So then when I'm here I rotate out And then I paint down with my fingers. All right, so those are just some details of the form I'm gonna show you how to use it an application first way of movement is the parry and punch So it's good if you come all up close Like this first of all this the focus on the parry. Okay, so if you come out this way parry Parry and grab Very grab. Okay, so that's the first and now we number is both at the same time, right? So we vary and punch at the same time Okay, and I showed you what the other comes just do it in the other arm I can do another punch but in this case since I'm behind them. I'm just gonna step and do another one Here You can either keep your hand here Because we just grab this Notice in some forms they do Have the bird speak what this is is actually just holding the wrist Reason they do this with the first three fingers is they want to emphasize That you don't want to use all the force and grab on tight You just grabbing on this much so that you can let go and pull let them go It's okay. We're not trying to force anything in Tai Chi. Everything is smooth. Everything goes with the flow So if you want to grab I'm just grab lightly with three fingers. Okay, that's the concept. Okay, I can grab like this But it's always doesn't like grab So I've got the deflection on this side and we'll be in behind him Got my birds big here. You can go this way. This way. It doesn't matter I get up to his chest and then I sink it down his chest. All right so common Well, you can't we say mistake by common thing that people do Is they want to push this way which may or may not work Like what happens up happening. It's just like that doesn't fall. He just goes that way. Okay, I like I like to do is Use the cloud hands movement Comes down in the circle, right? It's a circle. It's not out. It's actually Down, so let's try you see the difference if I go out That happens if I go down That happens. Okay, so you want to use it like that you want to get the guy down All right, so that's cloud hands Technique number five. 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