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The simple answer to this question is that Brushing the Storm is a preview of things to come for the following form.

 

The more complete answer is that it also fits into the major theme of the form, take-downs; and it compliments (e.g. the opposite) Defensive Cross of Form Four. How so? If one were to analyze the destabilization variations of Form Five, one would eventually determine that Brushing the Storm adds to the category of destabilization by taking away the potential opponent's base from the rear with a single hand to a single leg. Something not done elsewhere in the form. When compared with Defensive Cross (of Form Four), one can see that Defensive Cross destabilizes the potential opponent with two hands to a single leg, pulling from the front; where Brushing the Storm applied the same general concept to the back of the potential opponent; thus, making them opposites to one another.

 

One may argue that Brushing the Storm could just as easily been placed in Form Six. But, considering the forms division as a whole, the choice to place this sequence in Form Five was a better decision; fitting more closely with the themes and concepts of Form Five - while maintaining the offering of a preview into its successor form.