Essentially this can be looked at as the first 3 wedges of the form.
As your training partner grabs your arms, make sure your three anchors are working. Also make sure you have 'heavy' elbows. This is done by keeping the arm muscles relaxed, but using the shoulders and lats to keep the arms from being lifted. Your arms should be out in front of you and you make contact before the opponent enters past your 'borders'.
This first contact is the first upwards wedge of the form. Now use your right arm to elbow over towards his body. Keep your right hand forwards and let it travel along the border towards the left side. Dont let it collapse towards your torso. The wrist area should also sink and the forearm should force his hand/arm down somewhat.
At the same time, your left hand will attempt to go over and onto the top of his wrist. If he is strong this is accomplished by letting your elbow and shoulder rise slightly. Make sure that even though they go up, it doesnt make your bodies center of balance rise much, if at all. The left shoulder can retreat lightly to help this action, but dont turn too much.
Next you use the low wedge. You bring the arms down so that your arms are in the top position.
From here you use the quan sow, the circling arms back up to wedge in high, controlling the opponents arms and striking.
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