Flipping Tan Sao

With flipping Tan Sao the starting point is across the body. This technique uses speed and momentum to flip over the top of the attack. This technique is certainly the most aggressive of all the Tan Sao's used, but under certain circumstances extremely efficient. Applied against high straight punches or to creat an opening. Footwork must be applied otherwise you will open your centre.

Summary
It is certainly possible to make any one of the Tan Sao's shown to work for other cercumstances. In this way if you are shown flipping Tan Sao against round punch or sliding Tan Sao against straight punch and so on it does not mean they are wrong. It comes down to where you spend your time training, you can make vertually anything work if you train hard enough. On the economy scale though it may be worth looking at the different ways that a technique is applied, and if nothing else at least you can understand the mechanics behind them.

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