9. Single whip
Push posture, you will transfer your weight to left foot with setting back, and allows your hands to drop until your forearms are almost parallel to the ground. Move away from your hands and allow your elbows to bend somewhat more. When almost all of your weight is on your left foot, begin to turn your body and left your right toe toward corner. Turn your body as far as it can go toward the left. Arms and heads as your body turns. To perform this movement correctly, arms and hands must follow the rotation of the body and point straight toward the direction you are facing. In the tai chi form, the nose and navel usually remain lined up vertically, it is necessary making the head as the body turns. Transfer your weight to your right foot. As the weight shifts, rotate your body slightly to the right and draw your hands to your right side. The right hand, as it withdraws, forms a kind of hook, with the fingertips together lightly touching, pointing downward and the knuckles higher than the waist. The left hand moves, palm up, to a position near your right hip and just below the right hand. Note that the right elbow is lower than the right waist and that the hands are not touching. With all of your weight on your right foot, begin to turn your body toward the left until you face forward. As you turn, pivot on your left toe and allow your right hand in its bent position to move diagonally toward the right side. The right hand rises slightly until the upper surface of the right wrist is at shoulder height. Take a big step to the left and slightly forward and place your left heel touching on the ground first, and empty of weight, relaxed and not rigid. Shift the most of your weight to your left foot then to bend the left knee, simultaneously bring your left hand forward, palm facing you. When almost of your weight has shifted, rotate your body and head turning left until you face directly forward, turn your right toe inward proper angle, and turn your left palm outward as your eyes follow the palm turn. The right hand moves very little as your body turns. Its movement terminates at a point slightly on your right side. This action stretches and helps relax the shoulder joint.
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