Well, another important stroke of Routine one. It appears 7 times in Routine one so it makes sense to learn it well. The whip is a kind of weapon used in chinese marital arts. The two outstretched arms in the final position of this stroke looks like a whip, long and stretched but yet flexible to strike in a deadly manner.

Some of us do it with a dan-tian rotation with the left hand before it goes in a arc movement to the left. When done in a natural way it is very graceful. For beginners, my advise is to avoid doing it if you can rotate your dan-tian .