Baguazhang articles for the week ending 3-30-2007

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http://www.whitemountain-tao.com/html/bigs.html
The Bagua Big Sabre

Excerpt:"Now THIS is a knife" - When I first held my Bagua Big Sabre, Crocodile Dundee's famous line came unbidden to my mind. Five foot long and eight pounds in weight, it is a heavy beast of a weapon, and yet, as any good sword, it plays like it is alive in the hand. Bagua Zhang (Eight Trigram Palm) is one of the rarest of the Chinese martial arts. And one of its distinctive modes of training for which Bagua is famous in China is the use of unusually large and heavy weapons.

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http://www.whitemountain-tao.com/html/eight.html
Eight Animal Postures of Yin Style Bagua


Excerpt: A common feature of almost all Bagua styles is a training method known as the Eight Mother Palms (Ba Mu Chang). These normally consist of Eight Postures, which are used while walking the circle. They are used as a preliminary training method before introducing a student to the practice of the moving palm changes. The purpose of this article is to introduce this training method as it is practiced in the Yin Fu Eight Animal System as taught by Dr Xie Peiqi.

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New Baguazhang articles for the week ending 3-23-2007
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http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/fu_style/rss
New Fu Style Yahoo group

Excerpt: Site for sharing information about the Fu style internal martial arts created by Fu Chen Sung (Fu Zhen Song) including tai chi, ba gua zhang (pa kwa chang), leung yee chuan, and hsing yi chuan. Fu Chen Sung was the head instructor for ba gwa at the Nanjing Central Martial Arts Academy (Chung Yang Kuo Sho Kuan) in the 1920's, during the period of the nationalist government.

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http://www.wle.com/resources/art036.html
"The Single Palm Change: Baguazhang's Fundamental Movement" by Mark Jensen -- Student

Excerpt:
Since I have been practicing Baguazhang (Eight Trigram Palm) at Lam Kwoon, I have had other students come up to me and ask "What the heck are you doing?" They see me walking around in a circle, making a few movements, and then walking in the other direction. What is it? Surely it's not Hung Gar or Shaolin. Is it Tai Chi? I guess I have to laugh when I think of it from their viewpoint.

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http://www.21bowu.com/english/Master/showmaster.asp?id=2
History

Excerpt: Dong Haichuan (about 1813 - 1882), originally named Mingkui, also called Hai, styled Huichuan. His original family home is in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, and his family lived in Wen¡¯an County, Hebei Province. He was fond of studying both literature and Wushu. He has a strong constitution, long arms and un-comparable force and is good at various boxing weapons, especially at Erlangquan, Luohangong, and mastering the attack skills of what is known as the ¡°suppress quietness with movement¡± stance. His name became well known in the villages, even during his youth.

Baguazhang articles for the week ending 3-16-2007

New Baguazhang articles for the week ending 3-16-2007

Here is the best of what we have seen this week...

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http://www.emptyflower.com/xingyiquan/crushing/journal/article01.html

What is a "Complete System?" by Dan Miller

Excerpt:
Complete Ba Gua Zhang systems are comprised of step-by-step, progressive, balanced curriculums which expertly combine all aspects of internal martial arts training. They are designed by an experienced teacher who will guide each student's individual development as it is appropriate for each unique individual. Any complete Chinese martial arts system will include a thorough and integrated training curriculum which incorporates wai gong, nei gong, and qi gong training methods

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http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_Jones_0601.htm

Standing Like a Stake: Internal Pathway to Power by Michael W. Jones

Excerpt:
Although Universal Post standing may be practiced generally by Taiji, Xingyi and Bagua stylists, Xingyi training traditionally focuses on a specific standing posture known as San Ti Shi (3 body posture).

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http://www.taiji-bagua.co.uk/Bagua.htm

Baguazhang is a Dim-Mak art by Eli Montaigue

Dim-Mak literally means "Death Point Striking" whereby the practitioner is taught to strike to either one, or multiples of dim-mak points in the human body causing effects that range from a simple knock out to maiming and death, or even effects that manifest many years from when the strike was felt.

Every movement in Baguazhang has a meaning and is aimed at the dim-mak points. Bagua is often referred to as "the art of overkill".

Zhang San Feng Festival info

Information for the NYC - Zhang San Feng Festival available. Can now be viewed at: http://www.taichifest.com.

Of special interest to the group may be a visiting Master from China they have this year who will be doing a workshop on Dong style baguazhang. There will also be a coupleworkshopsin Nine Dragon bagua.