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8. CROSS AND PUSH (Figs. 56-59) your left side, thrust your right arm obliquely to the left (Fig. 57).
This exercise must be mastered if the postures are to be done cor- Pulling your right hand back toward your right side, take a short
rectly, for it enters into most of them. First take the straight-ahead step forward with your left foot, turn to the right and crouch as in
posture (which actually is the hsing-i basic posture), with your left Fig. 58, both fists at your sides. Finally (Fig. 59), take your right
foot ahead. Your left arm is slightly bent and your eyes focus on foot forward, put it down so that it is perpendicular knee-to-toes,
the fingertips. Your right hand is open protecting the groin. Forty stretch your body, and push upward, both hands held close together
percent of your weight is on the front foot and 60 percent on the (you may interlock the thumbs). Your left leg is nearly straightened
back foot, which is turned 60° outward (Fig. 56). (Hereafter this is by the expansiveness of the move. Alternate sides after mastering
called the 4-6 posture.) Now as you pull your left hand back to the initial action.

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