Wave Hands Incorporating Footwork Exercise in Chen Style Taiji

4. Wave Hands Incorporating Footwork Exercise
1) Stand upright with your feet together. Hang both arms naturally downward at the sides of the body, with the entire body relaxed. Eyes look forward. Relax the right hip, turn the body slightly to the right, keep the weight on the right leg, lift the left foot and take a step leftward with the heel of left foot landing on the floor, the toes of the foot lifted upwards. At the same time, move the right palm leftward and upward with the arm rotating counter clockwise and then ward it off upward and rightward. Move the left palm forward to the front of the abdomen so it is facing right. Eyes look forward left. (Fig 2-65) 

2) Continue from the previous movement. Turn the body slightly to the left and shift the weight on the left leg. Draw the right foot to the inside of the left foot. At the same time, move the left palm upward and leftward in an arc with the arm rotating clockwise. Close the right palm downward and leftward in an arc in front of the abdomen so it is facing left. Eyes look forward left. (Fig 2-66)

Repeat this movement eight times, and then change this movement to the other side as well. Take a step to the right, the essential points of the exercise being the same as described above, simply reversing left and right as mirrored movement. The footwork should be light and natural.