Going to continue to talk about how to kick with the heel. Now in tai chi as we know there's a lot of mind intent involved it's not just physical movement. So where do we put our mind in the body as we're doing these movement. So as I'm drawing up I'm thinking that everything is drawing into my center. Drawing into my dan tien so I'm gathering in, gathering in, gathering in and then just like a sun exploding outward, that sun moves out, out, out, out, out. So everything ends at the same time. However, we have to be very careful, what's very common when we do a kick is that we loose our root. So that when, if we kick with our root, if we kick the person that we are kicking will not move. We will bounce backwards just as we would with push. So when we are doing this motion of expanding outward, we have to also be thinking we're expanding down, we're expanding back, we're expanding up, it's like a ball or I like to see it as a sun exploding outward. So I'm gathering in, gathering in, gathering in and then out, out, out, out, out from the center. So it's kicking outward, this comes out and that comes out, and that goes down all at the same time.
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