dedicated to the discussion of the chinese internal martial arts of xingyiquan, baguazhang, taijiquan, related arts, and anything else best discussed over a bottle of rum
I define internal martial art as unusual muscle recruitment and leave it at that. If my definition is incomplete, at least it is correct so far as it goes.
+1 on the Ministry of Silly Talks. I've often told bagua practitioners, "Well, you have a silly walk, now you just need a silly hat and you are in business."
Seen some bagua walkers wearing som ”daoist” hat, maybe not silly but i don’t know the purpose of that headgear
John Cleese's silly walks can be described as a combination of bagua's crane walk (but mostly left-leg first only) and middle basin walking methods. There is also a weird koubu variant as well.