meeks wrote: I started training with him back in the mid 90s after learning bagua elsewhere, and had my own school. After I met Yang Shifu I closed my school and brought all my students to him. They eventually faded away and left.
I stayed on for quite a few years before he told me to re-open my school and start teaching his bagua, which I did before eventually moving to China for work. I now live in Vancouver, BC, Canada again. wanna be facebook buddies? (just kidding)
Alexander wrote:Hey all,
So I was curious as to how to treat your circle walk. Do you treat it as a Qigong exercise (E.g. do it as the last part of your training, feel the Qi going into your hands as you shift into each posture), or do you simply treat it as an exercise in stability in motion, constant change, footwork, conditioning, etc.?
I always treated it as a "Lemme vary up my speed and make it interesting so I get some serious cardio out of this, while improving footwork" exercise.
Regarding the (cloudy) origins of the walk -- is it supposed to have a meta-physical component, or was it simply there to train the aforementioned physical qualities, and to encourage the practitioner to keep moving?
Interested in hearing some ideas..
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