Ba Shou ( 8 hands ) Video (2.5 Meg)

Ba shou is a cycle of 8 hand positions.

This is a very addictive little cycle with lots and lots of things to explore. If anyone out there can be bothered to lean the cycle with the hands ( deceptively complex - took me about 4 weeks of 1 hour / day to get through without stopping ) then send me an .mpeg or .avi and I will be motivated enough to explain the foot movements!!

This is done here in a hard static style so that you can see the moves. You can take any of the sections and rework as 1 single move using the better flow to explore. That should keep you going for ...... ohhhh quite a long time.Oh dear - my 8th move on different on both sides...back to the drawing board!

How to do it...

Here are the 8 positions:
SideFont
Position 1
Position 2
Position 3
Position 4
Position 5
Position 6
Position 7
Position 8
Then do this: