LOTUS KICK

Use your own two arms to attack the ‘chest as your right leg comes
across his lower back to ‘break the roots’. Photo No. 134.
This concludes the uses of most of the postures from the New Yang
Style of Yang Ching-Fu and the Old Yang Style as it was founded by
Yang Lu-Ch’an (Lo-Sim).
The Old Yang Style is the style before it was changed to an all slow
moving form in the mid 1920’s. Yang Ching-Fu changed the form
that was given to him by his Father some three times before he
founded the now famous modern Yang Style, the most widely practiced
style in the world. For a complete history of t’ai chi (a realistic
view), see my third book, “POWER T’AI CHI CH’UAN BOOK
THREE”.
As I stated in the introduction you must take the applications that I
have given for their face value and take only what you need leaving
the rest. As long as you know what the meaning is of each posture so
that you are able to visualize when you perform the slow forms for
their therapeutic value.
Some of these postures you will find will work in a real situation but
I have found that it is much better to discover these for yourself. This
is one of the pre-requisites in my school; we try to make leaders, not
sheep