Position just standing, we normally have an S-shaped backbone. This takes the bumps and grinds throughout the day. It's our suspension, if you like. But when we bend the knees, the backbone should be straight, there shouldn't be any sway in the back and particular here.
In order to see this posture, what I tell people to do is to lie down on the ground, draw your knees up and see if you can get your hand through them. If you can then you should be trying to push it down on to the ground because that's the correct position for the backbone in a bent kneed position. It is straight here. Now, see that's incorrect, see how the bumps stuck up? That's just as bad as -- that see how the bumps tucked under too much. A lot of people actually do Chin Gum, Disco is one of the classics from Chin Gum Sau and Taiji says that the buttocks must be tucked under.
But if you bend your knees that naturally tucked under, just natural, they naturally want to fall forward and under, like that; you don't push them forward like that, nor do you go like this and stick your bump out, of course. So when you sit down, you just sit straight down. Now the amount of squat that you take is that the knees have a straight line with your front toes, with your second or rather your big toe. And if you put a straight edge down there, it should be vertical, touching your knee and touching the front of your toe.
Now, if I look straight down here and I do this, I get up -- there is a parallax and so I am not really -- my knees aren't really over my toes but I think they are. So when you look downwards, just take your knees, say about, a-half-an-inch more than over your toes and that will be correct because there is a Parallax over there.
So now you see that's absolutely correct where the knees are positioned now. So you are just standing up and you simply bob your knees down and just allow your buttocks to just naturally tuck under. The ways -- this part of your back here, the sacrum area, everything below the sacrum and below is considered to be your hips, everything the sacrum and/or just above the sacrum is your waist. So we can like in, for instance, Taiji, we can have moves where the hips and the waist turn together, or we can have moves where the waist turns independently of the hips and the hips don't move, so it's like that sort of thing.
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