I was practicing the applications to White Crane this morning and was again in awe of how fast this technique can be applied. It is a very tricky and effective technique.

When in a parallel push hands position with the opponent in a right leg forward stance and holding the top hand position, coil your left hand around the opponents right wrist, at the same time shoot your right hand (palm up) up against the opponents right collar bone finishing with your right forearm on the collar bone and the bottom of your right hand about chin height. You can apply some lie (splitting) energy here. Left is pulling down on a 45 degree angle and the right is pushing up and against the collar bone.

Now with your controlling left hand lift the opponent’s right arm while at the same time rotate your right hand and arm pressing into your opponent. This will move will uproot the opponent.

The finisher is with the leg. You should be in a left weighted false stance at this point and as you feel the opponent loose their root, use your right leg to sweep their right leg out and up.

When the full technique is applied quickly and skilfully, the result is a total collapse of the opponents root and likely a takedown.

Have fun with this one… keep training!

Peace

Rod