Form 13: Zhou Di (Kan) Chui (Fist under Elbow)

Elusive and disguised, this form uses the fist to guard beneath the elbow, poised to defend against the opponent and protect oneself. It implies watch, defense and readiness to move.

Key Point
Make sure that the whole body is in harmony up and down. With the head uplifted and the waist upright, use the waist to drive two arms, eyes following the leading hand. When holding postures, keep the head uplifted, the neck upright, the back broadened and the armpits empty.

Detailed Explanation
Lower limbs: Take a crescent step left forward with the left foot, move the right foot a hatf step in the same direction, and transfer weight onto the right foot with the knee slightly curved; step forward with the left foot, with the left heel landing on the ground, and raise tiptoes to form into a left empty stance.
Upper limbs: As the left foot is moved forward, move the left palm upward and leftward in front of the body from before the abdomen, through beneath the right forearm, until the head height, and circle the right palm from before the right chest to the left chest down to the right side of the crotch; as the right foot foliows the left one, continue to circle the left palm leftward and downward to the left side of the body, and circle the right palm right and forward to the front of the body (with the palm obliquely facing upward); when the left foot moves forward into a left empty stance, turn the left palm to an inclined standing palm and strike it out forward over the right wrist, with fingertips reaching the eyebrow height, turn the right palm into a ftst before the body and take it back to beneath the left elbow, with the eye of fist facing upward; keep the upper part of the body upright, with the chest facing forward in a slightly oblique way, eyes looking at the left palm.