fundamental practices of Cheng style baguazhang

[mixjourneyman]

http://internalstyle.com/index.php?opti ... es&lang=en

A little article written by yours truly on some of the important practices and routines in Cheng style.

Enjoy!

[ParryPerson]

these are important practices and routines in Fu style as well, and I'm guessing many other offshoots.

[mixjourneyman]

these are important practices and routines in Fu style as well, and I'm guessing many other offshoots.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Fu has a lot of Cheng style influence in it.

[mixjourneyman]

Now some asshole at martial arts planet is accusing me of plagirism

[qiphlow]

Now some asshole at martial arts planet is accusing me of plagirism

it's a well known fact that canadians are notorious for plagiarism. and becapitation.

nice article, james.

[ParryPerson]

these are important practices and routines in Fu style as well, and I'm guessing many other offshoots.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Fu has a lot of Cheng style influence in it.

I never thought about that, I wonder how much it has in it, time to do some research! Even the teaching method is the same (walking, 8 palms, etc). I am fairly new so I figured there would be a lot of offshoots of cheng style that had the same kind of stuff, but now I'm curious.

[mixjourneyman]

Almost every bagua style is either from Cheng or Yin.
I think Fu style has a little of both.

[ParryPerson]

Almost every bagua style is either from Cheng or Yin.
I think Fu style has a little of both.

I'm sure it does, I guess I should read more about Yin style, I know we don't use a piercing palm (that I know of!). I see a lot of conflicting information on who Fu actually learned from, the only constant is Cheng. My school says he learned from Ma Gui, Cheng, and a "Chia Ching Ta". I've seen other sites say he learned from Cheng and Ma only, and I've seen sites that said he learned from Cheng and Yin.

Questions best saved for another thread I suppose... sorry for the hijack.

Loved the article.

[Chris McKinley]

Good article....it made me want more. Such as embedded video demos of the various aspects of the art that you named. Yeah, I realize I'm just being greedy, but I bet if it were logistically possible, it would do more for garnering new student interest in the Cheng style than a hundred well-written articles.

[shawnsegler]

Almost every bagua style is either from Cheng or Yin.
I think Fu style has a little of both.

I'm sure it does, I guess I should read more about Yin style, I know we don't use a piercing palm (that I know of!). I see a lot of conflicting information on who Fu actually learned from, the only constant is Cheng. My school says he learned from Ma Gui, Cheng, and a "Chia Ching Ta". I've seen other sites say he learned from Cheng and Ma only, and I've seen sites that said he learned from Cheng and Yin.

Questions best saved for another thread I suppose... sorry for the hijack.

Loved the article.

Fu style has a yin style form in it, or they both have the same form or whatever. That Leopard form in Fu style is our Lohan Pao Chui.

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[mixjourneyman]

Good article....it made me want more. Such as embedded video demos of the various aspects of the art that you named. Yeah, I realize I'm just being greedy, but I bet if it were logistically possible, it would do more for garnering new student interest in the Cheng style than a hundred well-written articles.

My teacher and his students doing some application practice


Myself doing single and double palm change about five months ago (not so good. I have improved drastically since then and will put up a new video around January).

[edededed]

There are other luohanquan forms in the various other baguazhang lineages - would be interesting to compare with those as well (I haven't learned any myself, so don't look at me... )

As for the article, most of what it says would work with other styles of baguazhang as well (except for the routine names). But what do you mean, "no pun intended?" Of COURSE you meant it!

[mixjourneyman]

But what do you mean, "no pun intended?" Of COURSE you meant it!

Of course, but I'm just humble like dat

[edededed]

Being punny is not a sin.