Thursday, April 5, 2007

Obstruct and Sweep

I'm going to add this to our basic training as the Tai Chi equivalents of parry 4 and parry 5 in western sabre (high inside and outside). What's nice about this motion is the automatic step and riposte.

The question that is buggis me is if you block left and then step and cut right, you're leaving the opponent's blade behind, right? Why the when you block right and step and cut left is there a high block with the guard hand?

http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/sword.htm#Sword63

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