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San Shou – Applications/Self Defence

48 San Sau Applications – 四十八散手

  1. 七星勢 – seven stars style
  2. 攬雀尾 – grasping bird’s tail
  3. 單鞭 – single whip
  4. 斜飛勢 – flying oblique high and low
  5. 提手上勢 – raise hands and step up
  6. 白鶴涼翅 – white crane flaps its wings
  7. 摟膝拗步 – brush knee twist step
  8. 手揮琵琶 – stroke the lute
  9. 搬攔捶 – parry, deflect and punch
  10. 如封似閉 – as if shutting a door
  11. 抱虎歸山 – embrace tiger, return to mountain
  12. 十字手 – cross hands
  13. 肘底看捶 – fist under elbow
  14. 倒攆猴 – step back repulse monkey
  15. 海底針 – needle at sea bottom
  16. 扇通背 – fan through the back
  17. 撇身捶 – swing fist
  18. 雲手 – cloud hands
  19. 高探馬 – pat the horse high
  20. 左右披身 – drape body to left and right
  21. 左右分腳 – separate legs left and right
  22. 轉身蹬腳 – turn body and kick
  23. 進步栽捶 – step forward punch down
  24. 翻身撇身捶 – turn body and swing fist
  25. 卸步七星 – step back seven stars
  26. 打虎勢 – to beat the tiger
  27. 披身踢腳 – twist the body and kick
  28. 雙峰貫耳 – box the ears
  29. 野馬分鬃 – parting wild horse’s mane
  30. 玉女穿梭 – fair lady works shuttle
  31. 蛇身下勢 – snake creeps down (low style)
  32. 金雞獨立 – golden cockerel stands on 1 leg
  33. 撲面掌 – slap the face
  34. 擺蓮腿 – single hand sweep lotus leg
  35. 指擋捶 – punch the groin
  36. 退步跨虎 – step back to ride the tiger
  37. 雙擺蓮腿 – double hand sweep lotus leg
  38. 彎弓射虎 – draw the bow to shoot the tiger
  39. 雙抽腿 – double seizing legs
  40. 折臂式 – break arm style
  41. 迴旋手 – gyrating arms
  42. 虎抱頭 – tiger embraces head
  43. 白蛇吐信 – white snake spits out tongue
  44. 先鋒臂 – vanguard arms
  45. 飛花掌 – flying flower palm
  46. 五行肘 – 5 element arm
  47. 奔雷手 – running thunder hand
  48. 單抽腿 – single seizing leg
  • 太極起式 beginning style
  • 太極收式 completion style
  • 分手 separate hands
  • 出手 extend hands
  • 上步七星 step up seven stars
  • 擺肘逼門 use the forearm [zhou] to force the door
Some useful You Tube clips showing some of the Self Defence application in Wudang Tai Chi Chuan