Embrace Tiger Return To Mountain
This posture is the same in application as 'brush knee twist step'. The difference is that it is performed onto the closed side of the opponent, i.e. he attacks from the rear with right fist to your kidney area. You turn and block with your right arm or left as the case may dictate Photo No. 65 and attack with palm to his right soft flank. From the classics we are also given another clue as to the use of this posture, Embrace Tiger Return To Mountain embodies 'pull down and split. This tells us...
Fist Under Elbow
From the Classics we read This posture protects the middle joint. This is self-explanatory the use of this posture is as follows. You should hammer down onto the forearm 'of the attacker with your right fist as he attacks with left fist. Then you should attack his face or throat with your left palm. Photo No. 66. The 'Old Yang Style has a slightly different application for this posture. As a left face attack is being felt, you should block it with your right forearm. Photo No. 67. Next and...
Info
P'eng is one of the main techniques in t'ai chi and it's uses are many. I will cover many of the p'eng techniques in the advanced section. It's usual use is that of defense but a more unknown use is that of attack. For p'eng see PHOTO No. 12. If we take up from the last block to the right, we are able to very quickly grab the left wrist with the right palm, quickly step up with your left foot and attack the 'mind point' in acupuncture, the jaw with back fist. Photo No. 13. DOUBLE P'ENG If your...
Stork Spreads Wings
There are two uses for this posture, the first is the more commonly known while the second is less known. You are attacked with left fist so you block it outward. You are then attacked with tow right fist so you block it downward and kick to his knee. Photo No. 46. OR You are attacked with left fist to your face. Your right palm blocks it across in a circle to your left as your left pal, comes up underneath to take over the block. Photo No. 47. Your left palm looks after the left fist while...
Low Reverse Circle Punch
This punch is used to the lower abdomen and groin area and must be used with a blocking technique, as it is not as fast as the others. With your right foot forward you block to your right with your left palm and as you do this you do a change step' i.e., your right foot is quickly withdrawn and your left foot is advanced. At the same time your right fist is drawn back in a circle and low. Photo No. 147. You now punch up into the lower part of the abdomen with the flat area of your fist. The...
Long Har Chuan
I said earlier that Long Har Ch'uan is where we learn to forget about technique and take all that we have learnt and put it inside. This is where our technique becomes subconscious so that our body and mind can work as one unit. This method must not be taken for actual fighting technique because then it becomes just that, another technique to learn. We must treat this as a training device to teach us something. Some of these techniques could very well be used as fighting techniques but we...
Back Spinning Heel Kick
This kick can work in a defensive mode but forget it in an attacking mode unless your opponent knows nothing about the martial arts. It works the same as for the 'Back Turning heel kick' but instead of the right foot being thrust inward in a back kick, the foot is swung out using the waist for centrifugal force. If contact is made by the back of the heel as it swings into the target. It is fairly easy to block if you are aware and move in very quickly at the instant that it be instigated. Photo...
Double Wind Goes Through Ears
After using stomach heel kick to his abdomen, the opponent would bend forward. Now, in a fit of over-kill you take his head and slam it down onto your knee, Photo No. 109. Then as he reels backwards you step forward and follow up with double temple punch. Photo No. 110. This is really a case of over-kilt but that's how the form goes. You are being attacked by front kick and you evade by twisting your body and poke to the Dim-Mak points acupuncture points around his heart. Photo No. 111. He...
Sitting Like A Duck
This posture comes from the 'Old Yang Style' and blocks a punch from the rear, Photo No. 89. Then you should grab his wrist and using the momentum of your body in sinking downward, twist his wrist in an un-natural way to bring him down, Photo No. 90. If he should pull away and retreat, you should spring up and attack with right toe kick. This is from the Old Yang Style. Photo No. 91.
How To Use Tai Chi As A Fighting Art
How To Use T'ai Chi As a Fighting Art This is the electronic version of the earlier published book from 1984. Nothing has been changed other than typos being fixed and where some addition text has been added, this has been stated and is in italics. 1984 2000 Moontagu Books Australia This book contains material never before published. The enclosed information can only have come from Erle Montaigue, being the only Westerner to have received this information. It is illegal to copy and portion of...
The Postures And Their Applications
X he form or kata of t'ai chi is the first real physical method that we learn. Once one is well versed in ch'i-kung, see POWER T'AI CHI CH'UAN BOOK ONE by Erle Montaigue the form is the foundation of one's training. This form is made up of many different postures all held together by linking movements to make one long flowing movement which is likened to a great flowing river. It has been said of t'ai chi, that unlike some of the 'harder styles' where what you see is what you get, in t'ai chi...
The Folding Principle
This principle is solely based upon your changing from yin to yang. If you walk to the top of a hill, then you have gone as far yang as possible. If you stay there you will be unable to go anywhere unless you come down again. In other words you must go yin before you are able to do any more work. It's the same with punching and indeed the whole of your t'ai chi training. We must be forever changing in order to re-attack after being blocked. If I punch someone and that punch is successfully...
Training Methods
It's all very well to practice these techniques in the classroom but when it comes to using them you will have to know exactly what it will feel like for real. The most important thing in kicking is to know that a kick will work. Firstly we work with a partner. We use slow, well-aimed kicks to the knee area, not right on the top of the knee but to the side to break the ligaments that hold the lower leg on. Have your partner come at you as if to attack slowly, then step to wherever you feel is...
Cock Stands On One Leg
You should stand up quickly and grab a right or left fist attack with your appropriate palm as you use knee to the groin. Photo No. 124. From the 'Old Yang Style' we have two other uses for this posture. As the attack is imminent, you block it with your left palm and bring your other palm over the top to attack the face with palm slap and groin attack with your knee. Photo No. 125. Or, you could use your second palm to grab the throat after the block. You block a left or right fist attack with...
Fishes In Eight
Your opponent strikes you with right fist at your right side. You should block his arm with your right forearm in a circular fashion, Photo No. 36. Then, simultaneously attack his face with right heel palm as the left palm takes over the block. Photo No. 37. Another use of this posture is as follows You are attacked with a punch to the acupuncture Dim-Mak points under your left arm. You should block down with your right forearm onto your left forearm to form a scissor block. Photo No. 38. Mow...
Step Forward Parry And Punch
You are being attacked with right fist to your middle area. You should circle your right fist up to your left side and slam it down onto the attacking forearm as you attack to the chest or face with your left palm. Photo No. 53. The attacking fist will probably make use of the downward force caused by your right back fist and come back up in a circle to attack to your left face. You will block with your left palm and punch to the heart as you step in. Photo No. 54. A very effective block and...
Hit Tiger Left And Right With Penetration Punch
This posture comes from the Old Yang Style and is slightly different than the new Yang. Block a head punch with your right p'eng shaped hand. This is important so as not to break your ulnar which is quite a weak bone Then when contact has been made, you roll your arm immediately upward as shown in the photo to cause a 'set up' point strike on the arm. Never under and circumstances initially block using the ulnar as many have received broken arms doing this Photo No. 103, the opponent would...
Penetration Punch
This is a very fast and powerful punch and is quite difficult to block, as it is not quite straight or round. It is like a curved punch but on a much less arc. Once again you block to the left, Photo No. 149. Then the right fist flicks out due to the turning of the waist and turns so that the small finger is upward upon impact. Photo No. 150. In this section I have covered only a few of the easier punching techniques from t'ai chi. There are others of course but they should be taught...
The Front Heel Kick
This kick is the simplest kick of all but it is also one of the most difficult to execute correctly. Usually upon trying this kick for the first time, your foot will glance upward on the bag with not much effect until you discover that you must thrust the waist inward so that your heel is snapped in towards the target and not up and away from it. Photo No. 151. Always put in the particular palm movement with this kick, as you should always block before attacking.
Hidden Hand Punch
This also comes from the 'Old Yang Style', racing your opponent with your left foot forward he attacks with left punch low. You should leap into the air and block with your right forearm. Photo No. 128. You trap his arm with your left arm underneath your right arm and attack his lower abdomen with your left fist. Photo No. 129. SLEEVES DANCING LIKE PLUMB BLOSSOMS From Old Yang Style You are attacked with right fist you should leap into the air and turn around while blocking with your left...