Step 23: 右倒撵猴 (Step Back and Repulse the Monkey, Right foot front)

1. Sitting completely on your right leg, lift your left foot and step backwards to land on the toes. Twist the left heel very slightly outwards (to your left) so that when you step your left heel down, your left foot is pointing perfectly to your front (pointing 'west').
2. As you land your left heel down, sit back onto your left leg. Feel you right toes lifted off the ground and using your right heel as pivot, turn your right toes 'anti-clockwise' to point directly to your front (west).
3. Next, sink back on your left leg and invoke the recoil or 'Gong Tui' (躬腿) while you straighten your right knee.
4. At the same time, feel your right elbow flexing your lower arm forward and down in a 'pressing down' manner while your left hand is being pulled nearer to the body.
5. Then turn your hip/waist (胯) to the left in an anti-clockwise direction for about 45 degrees and start to relax and lower your left hand down completely by your left side while your right elbow straighten a little more with your right palm facing down.
6. Reverse and turn your waist/hip (胯) clockwise to face the 'west' and feel your left elbow rotating your left lower arm upwards in a clockwise manner while your upper left arm remains by the side of your body.
7. Feel your right palm turning in a clockwise manner too, until it is facing upwards.
8. When you stopped turning your body, synchronise the two palms to face each other (yingyang play again; right palm facing up and left palm facing front).
9. Ensure that you are sitting on your left leg, that is behind, with both feet still flat on the ground.

Step 22: 左倒撵猴 (Step Back and Repulse the Monkey, Left foot front)

1. Still sitting and balancing on your right leg and with the left heels touching the ground and acting as pivot, turn your waist/hip (胯) to the right in a clockwise manner for about 45 degrees. As you turn, slowly release the clenched right fist and lower your right arm down by your side while you feel your left arm also being lowered in a 'pressing down' manner by straightening the left elbow.
2. When you turn, remember not to turn your face but keep watching the front (or 'west').
3. Once you stop turning, your left arm should be outstretched in front (left elbow still slightly bent and left lower arm horizontal) with palm facing down while your right hand is completely relaxed by your side.
4. Reverse and turn your waist/hip (胯) anti-clockwise to face the 'west' and feel your right elbow rotating your right lower arm upwards in an anti-clockwise manner while your upper right arm remains by the side of your body.
5. Feel your left palm turning in an anti-clockwise manner too, until it is facing upwards.
6. By the time you stopped turning your body, synchronise the two palms to face each other (yingyang in play; left palm facing up and right palm facing front).
7. Ensure that you are sitting on your right leg, your left toes are lifted and your left heel barely touching the ground.

Step 20: 仙人拂袖 (Immortal waves his sleeves) and Step 21: 肘底捶 (Punch Under Elbow)

 

1. As you sit back onto your right leg while you also loosen your shoulders, feel both your arms being lowered while your right fingers starts to open up, both palms now facing downwards.
2. Continue sitting back until both lower arms are by your sides, about waist level, parallel to the floor, both palms facing down and both sets of fingers pointing 'north-west'. By now, all the weight should be only on the right leg, left toes are lifted and left heel barely touching the floor.
3. Swiftly shift your left foot about 1 foot to its left (ensuring that the left toes are pointing to the 'west' and land on the heel.
4. Keeping both hands where they are, shift your weight onto the left foot, bending the left knee as you move forward, lifting your right heel up while you continue transferring more weight until you are balancing only on your left leg.
5. Drag your right foot in swiftly to briefly touch the left foot at the heels and quickly step out towards the 'north' to land on the heels. Then turn the right toes 45 degrees in an anti-clockwise direction and land them to point to the 'north-west'.
6. Shift more weight onto your right leg now as you bend your right knee and feeling your left heel lifted up. Using your left toes as pivot, turn your waist (and body) 'anti-clockwise' to face the 'west' and allowing the left hand to lower completely onto your left side of the body, but keeping your right hand as it is (relative to your body).
7. Reverse and turn your body 'clockwise' now, still using your left toes as pivot, to face 'north-west'. Simultaneously lift your left palm up by bending the elbow and then thrusting your left open palm (palm facing up) diagonally upwards across your body while you flip your right palm outwards (clockwise direction) to meet the left palm on the lower side. As the left fingers continues thrusting upwards, gently slide your right palm down the thrusting left arm until it reaches and act as a container to support the left elbow.
8. Stop turning, stabilise yourself very briefly, and still using the left toes pivoting on the ground, turn your body 'anti-clockwise' to face the 'west' keeping both hands as they are (right palm cupping out-stretched left lower arm at the elbow).
9. Still balancing only on the right leg, lift your left leg to land on its heel directly in front of you with a 'sinking' and downward force of the whole body. At the same time, flip your left palm to face forward and clench your right fist so that the left elbow is now sitting on the cavity created by the index finger and the thumb. Synchronise the 'sinking' force with loosening both shoulders, sinking of both elbows and a downward pressing of the left palm.