BaGua Kung Fu

Ba Gua Kung Fu Ba Gua palm is such a fist focusing on circle walking. Its creator is Dong Hai chuan who was born in the third year of Jia Qing emperor in Qing Dynasty, and died in the eighth year of Guang Xu (1797-1882), in Zhu jia wu of Wen'an county, in Hebei province. He had been interested in Ba Gua palm since he was very young. He visited many famous artists of martial arts and absorbed the essence of them, with inspiration from “Zhou Yi” theory, he created a set of completed Kung Fu movements, which became what is known as Bagua Palm now.

Thetrigrams and their corresponding animals in martial arts are:

Animal	Trigram
Animal		Chinese	Pinyin
Lion		乾	Qian
Snake		坎	Kan
Bear		艮	Gen
Dragon		震	Zhen
Phoenix		巽	Xun
Rooster		離	Li
Qilin		坤	Kun
Monkey		兌	Dui

　　
Ba Gua palm focus on palm. Firstly walk, then turn body following the palm, and the steps move following body. The route of Ba Gua palm is a circle which is made by eight places. In order to practice the spirits and guide qi, the practitioner walks along the circle. The main step is“Tang Ni Bu”(Walk in Mud), namely foot is to move levelly. It is stable and powerful. The gravity center of body is on back like sitting on the chair. The step technique is “one leg on the inside circle moves straightly, and the other leg on the outside circle is buckled, so the step is also called “ Li Zhi Wai Kou（inside straight while outside turn）”. Another step is Crane Step which looks like a red-crowned crane when turning round; it is like chicken when raising leg; it is like a crane when stretching leg; it is like a camel when landing. Breathe in when raising leg, and breathe out when stretching leg, breathe out after breathing all the qi. The whole body needs to be relaxed, stable, slow, and even. It is a effective for improving health to practice in such a way. You can not practice the palm until practice you step well, because you can not coordinate with the whole body when practicing palm if the Kung Fu of lower part of body is not practiced well.

Ba Gua Kung Fu

There are many key points during the practice of Ba Gua, for example, look forward levelly; the neck is straight; the tongue is against the upper jaw; the back is straight; relax shoulder; the knees are inward buckled to protect the crouch; ten toes buckle into the ground. The three empties: chest is empty, the center of hand is empty and the center of sole is empty.

Three against: head is against the neck, the tongue is against the tongue, hand is against outside. Three rounds: thetiger mouth pointof handis round, the crouch is round and the back is round.Body, step and palm techniques coordinate each other. The most important principle is to twist waist and harmonize arms. The power is used through foot. You need to keep calmed, agile. Qi drops to Dan Tian, and seek the still condition when doing the walking movement. The main eight palm are eight firm palm(Ba Da Mu Zhang), 64-hand, You Shen Lian Huan palm forms, etc.The weapons are Ba Gua broadsword, Ba Gua straightsword and other Ba Gua special weapons including Ba Gua Kylin mandarin ducks, etc.