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SPECIAL SHORT FORM (PHD)

Outline of the Special Short Form (PHD)
from Tai Chi for Health & Harmony - A Special Shorth Form Developed by Hubert H. Lui
by: Judith Chambliss & Allan Bruce Zee

List of Moves

Beginning of Tai Chi
   Preparatory Period (N)
   Rowing the Boat (NE, NW)
    Diagonal Stretching with Twist (NE, SE, NW, SW)
   Waist Turn with Diagonal Stretching (NE, NW)
 

Three Palm Movements
   Climb Mountain on Tiger's Back (NW)
   Three Palm Movement with Grasp Bird's Tail (SE)
   Climb Mountain on Tiger's Back (SW)
   Three Palm Movement with Grasp Bird's Tail (NE)
 

Cloud Hands
   Pull Down (W, E)
   Single Whip (E to W)
   Cloud Hands (W to E), 3 1/2 times
   Single Whip (E to W)
 

Raise Hands
   Right Raise Hand (N to W)
   Stork cools Its Right Wing (W)
   Pull Down (S)
   Fan Through the Back
   Left Raise Hand (S to W)
   Stork Cools its Left Wing (W)
 

Brush Knee and Play the Guitar (W, E, N, S)

Fair Lady Works on the Shuttle 
   Roll the Ball (N)
   Pull the Rope (N)
   Row the Boat (N)
   Single Whip (N to S)
   Snake Creeps Down (S)
   Fair Lady (NW, SE, SW, NE)
 

Dragon Dance (NW, NE)
 

Continuous Punch (NW, SE, NE, SW)
   Snake Creeps Down and Lotus Fist
   Punch and Kick
   Reverse High Pat on Horse
    Grasp Bird's Tail
   Apparent Close-up
 

Yin-Yang Steps
   Subdue the Tiger (N)
   Three Yin-Yang Steps (E, W, E, W)
 

Carry the Tiger Back to Mountain (N), 2 times
 

Closing of Tai Chi and Back to Nature (N)
 

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