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.