Taï
Chi Chuan
The sticks
UNION
TAI
CHI
CHUAN
What one calls the sticks: is a discipline where one uses two sticks from 80 to 90 cm.
A stick in each hand, and each stick carries out alternatively a movement different followed from a similar movement. The stick is used in strike, the pushes, while preserving once more, the speed, fluidity, the effectiveness, the orientations linear and the diagonals. Side coordination is strongly requested in this discipline.
The use of the sticks is accompanied by displacements, reversals and fast jumps.
One finds the circles, the eights, the end of one struck involving the beginning of avoided. This fact certain first principles of Taï Chi Chuan are found there; avoided, pushed, pressed...