Short Form #1
This form teaches blocking while retreating and introduces us to:

• Plus sign (four angles of attack)
• Point of Origin
• Basic Stances
• Neutral Bow
• Step Thru
• Cover Step
• Cat Stance
• Star Blocking Set blocks
• Rear Elbow
• Major/Minor moves, a.k.a the double principle

1. From a meditating horse stance, step back with your left leg into a right neutral bow while doing a right inward hammering ¹ block with a left rear elbow.
2. Step thru reverse into left neutral bow while doing a left inward thrusting block with a right rear elbow.
3. Step to 1:30 with your right foot (cover step) while doing a right inward block (transitional) and unwind counter clockwise into a left neutral bow facing 9:00 while doing a left outward block with a right rear elbow.
4. As you step thru reverse into a right neutral bow, do a left inward block (point of origin from the outward block) into a right outward block with a left rear elbow.
5. Step to 7:30 (cover step) with your right foot while doing a right inward block and unwind counter clockwise into a left neutral bow facing 3:00 while doing a left upward block with a right rear elbow.
6. As you step thru reverse into a right neutral bow, do a left downward elbow (point of origin from the high block) into a right upward block with a left rear elbow.
7. Step to 1:30 ² with your left leg while doing a left inward, downward palm up block and unwind clockwise into a right neutral bow facing 6:00 while doing a right downward block with a left rear elbow.
8. As you step thru reverse into left neutral bow, do a right inward downward palm up block into a left downward block with a right rear elbow.
9. With your right foot planted, step clockwise to 9:00 with your left foot then turn your body (and right foot) to 12:00 into a meditating horse stance facing 12:00.
10. Slide your left foot up to your right foot into an attention stance.

Footnotes For Short Form 1

1 Hammering method of execution because we're starting from above our waist. The remaining blocks are thrusting method of execution because we're starting from our hip.

2 We have to step back, away from the attacker because we don't have a clear field of vision to 6:00 due to our right upward block...and we don't want to step blindly into the unknown.

Long Form #1
This form show us blocking and countering while retreating. It takes Short Form 1 a step further. You'll notice that the first 1/3 of this form is really nothing more than Short 1 with counter strikes. The second 1/3 of this form (the triple blocks) shows us Short 1 left side with extra blocks. The foot movement and angles of that section of the form are identical to Short 1 left side.

In this form we're also introduced to:

• Horizontal Thrust punch
• Forward Bow
• Upper body isolations
• 90 degree and Uppercut punches
• 45 degree punches that foreshadow the new angles we'll see in Short 2
• Inside Downward blocks
• Pushdown Block

1. From a meditating horse stance, step back with your left leg into a right neutral bow while doing a right inward hammering ¹ block with a left rear elbow followed by a left horizontal thrust punch with a right rear elbow as you move into a right forward bow.
2. Slide your right foot back into a transitional 45 degree cat stance, do a left inward block.²
3. Complete the step thru reverse into left neutral bow while doing a left inward thrusting block with a right rear elbow followed by a right horizontal thrust punch with a left rear elbow as you move into a left forward bow.
4. Step to 1:30 with your right foot (cover step) while doing a right inward block ³ and unwind counter clockwise into a left neutral bow facing 9:00 while doing a left outward block with a right rear elbow followed by a right horizontal thrust punch with a left rear elbow as you move into a left forward bow.
5. As you step thru reverse into a right neutral bow, do a left inward block (point of origin from the outward block) into a right outward block with a left rear elbow followed by a left horizontal thrust punch with a right rear elbow as you move into a right forward bow.
6. Step to 7:30 (cover step) with your right foot while doing a left side elbow (towards 3:00), pull your elbow down to your side and torque counter clockwise ⁴ into a left neutral bow facing 3:00 while doing a left upward block with a right rear elbow followed by a right horizontal thrust punch with a left rear elbow as you move into a left forward bow.
7. As you step thru reverse into a right neutral bow, do a left downward elbow (point of origin from the high block) into a right upward block with a left rear elbow followed by a left horizontal thrust punch with a right rear elbow as you move into a right forward bow.
8. Slide your right leg to your left leg into a transitional right cat stance while doing a left inward, downward palm up block, then step forward to 6:00 ⁵ with your right leg while doing a right downward block with a left rear elbow followed by a left horizontal thrust punch with a right rear elbow as you move into a right forward bow.
9. As you step thru reverse into left neutral bow, do a right inward downward palm up block into a left downward block with a right rear elbow followed by a right horizontal thrust punch with a left rear elbow as you move into a left forward bow.
10. With your lower body in place, do left/right/left inward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the punches coming from 6:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm. ⁶
11. Step Thru reverse into a right neutral bow and, with your lower body in place, do right/left/right inward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the punches coming from 6:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
12. Step to 4:30 with your left foot (cover step) while doing a transitional left inward block, turn clockwise into a right neutral bow facing 9:00 and do right/left/right outward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the punches coming from 9:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
13. As you step thru reverse into a left neutral bow, do a transitional right inward block into left/right/left outward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the punches coming from 9:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
14. Step to 10:30 with your left foot (cover step) while doing a transitional left inward block, turn clockwise into right neutral bow facing 3:00 and do right/left/right upward ⁷ blocks, turning your upper body to meet the overhead strikes coming from 3:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
15. As you step thru reverse into a left neutral bow, do a transitional downward elbow into left/right/left upward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the overhead strikes coming from 3:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
16. Step to 4:30 with your right foot (cover step) ⁸ while doing a right inward downward palm-up block, turn counter clockwise into a left neutral bow facing 12:00 and do left/right/left downward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the kicks coming from 12:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
17. As you step thru reverse into a right neutral bow, do a transitional left inward downward palm-up block and do right/left/right downward blocks, turning your upper body to meet the kicks coming from 12:00. With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
18. Slide your left leg up into a horse stance facing 12:00 and do left/right/left inward downward palm-down blocks that go to the opposite side of your waist. ⁹ With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
19. Do right/left/right inward downward palm-up blocks. ¹⁰ With each block is a rear elbow with the opposite arm.
20. Do left/right/left pushdown blocks that start at the chest and finish just below the solar plexus.
21. Do right/left horizontal thrust punches to 12:00.
22. Do right/left 45 degree horizontal thrust punches to 10:30 and 1:30. ¹¹
23. Do right/left horizontal thrust punches to 9:00 and 3:00.
24. Do right/left uppercut punches (stopping at solar plexus level).
25. Your right hand punches into your left palm (into meditating position) then slide your left foot over to your right foot as you move up into an attention stance.

Footnotes For Long Form 1

1 Hammering method of execution because we're starting from above our waist. The remaining blocks are thrusting method of execution because we're starting from our hip.

2 This is the first time in a form that we're in a forward bow so we're showing, in slow motion this time only, how we'll transition from the forward bow back into a neutral bow. Every second block/strike pair contains this transition.

3 This inward to outward (see note 2 above) pairing on each move is showing the double principle. We're actually doing 2 blocks on the strike.

4 Remain in the reverse bow until you start the upward block then turn into the neutral bow.

5 This is a variance from Short Form 1. We can v-in and v-out to 6:00 with our right leg, stepping into the attacker, rather than having to step away as we have been doing because we have a clear field of vision to that angle. In Short Form 1 we were doing a right high block when we moved, didn't have a clear field of vision so we didn't step into the unknown...

6 To make the rear elbow effective in these isolations (the second 1/3 of Long 1), your upper body must turn to meet the strike. Concentrating on making the rear elbow work helps to ensure that your upper body is in the correct position for the block.

7 Each upward block begins as an uppercut and finishes as a high block. As the blocks switch, the arm comes down as a downward elbow.

8 The second set of Long 1 is really Short 1 left side with additional blocks. Here, unlike the first set in Long 1, we step away from the attacker because our field of vision is obscured by our left upward block.

9 Do not stop between the strikes, have the next one beginning to flow as the first one completes.

10 As with the inward downward palm-down blocks, have the next one beginning to flow as the first one completes. Prior to each inward downward palm-up block, cock the striking hand to your ear (showing full range of motion).

11 A preview of the angles to come in Short form 2.