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Yue Long Hayes
Author: drunken dreamer under the coconut tree
About baguazhang
Updated on August 5, 2008 13: 40: 23 words: 1583
Bagua Palm, also known as Swimming Bagua Palm and Bagua Chain Palm, is a kind of boxing with palm change and turn. Because of its crisscross movements, it is divided into four directions, four corners and eight directions, which is similar to the eight diagrams in Zhouyi, so it is named Bagua Palm. Some old boxing scores of eight diagrams palm often use hexagrams to explain boxing theory, and eight hexagrams represent the basic eight palms.
Baguazhang is a kind of boxing widely spread in China. It is one of the three famous internal boxing in Wudang, and it is also the embodiment of Taoist health, fitness and self-defense. It takes the eight-pile method as the palm work, integrates eight hands into one, and is based on one to eight steps of swing, buckle and forward footwork. It takes walking in circles as the basic movement route and palm technique as the core. In the process of turning around, the whole body is one step, and the steps are like running water. Posture requirements are: twist and turn to be coordinated and complete, walk like Youlong, and turn like an eagle. The main techniques are: stabbing, inserting, splitting, pulling, crossing, bumping, buckling, turning, supporting and so on.
As for the origin of Bagua Palm, according to research, Dong Haichuan (about 18 13 ~ 1882), a native of Wen 'an County, Hebei Province in the Qing Dynasty, was inspired by Taoist cultivation and combined with martial arts. Dong Haichuan used to be the Boxer Rebellion of Su Wangfu in Qing Dynasty, so Bagua Palm first spread around Beijing, and spread all over the country and abroad (such as Southeast Asia) for nearly a hundred years.
Baguazhang is characterized by its agile body, which changes as it goes, ups and downs when dealing with each other, and it is agile and changeable. The boxing proverb says, "It looks like Youlong, looks like an ape, sits like a tiger and turns like an eagle's plate". Its basic skills are mainly piling and walking. The body shape requires that the head should be vertical, the waist should be slippery, the shoulders should be vertical, the abdomen should be open, and the crotch should be lifted. Footwork requires smooth ups and downs, clear swing, clear distinction between reality and reality, walking like mud, walking like a sedan chair, and rubbing your calves when walking (ankles are touching each other). go to ...
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