Yeung wrote:From Sun Lutang's Study of Baguaquan (translated by Paul Brennan):
To begin, first your waist sinks, then your right foot steps straight forward, so that your feet make a diagonal rectangle, as in the photo. The distance between your front foot and rear foot depends on your height, and is ideal if it does not cause the succeeding step of your left foot to require extra energy. The bend in your legs should have a rounded fullness, and must not be a dead bend. Your heels both have an energy of twisting outward, and your legs are as if in a horse-riding posture, having an intention of closing inward, but must not noticeably do so. In the beginning of the training, your body must not go too low and should probably even be rather high. Being too low is very strenuous. When over time your skill becomes pure, then you can do it at whatever height you please. The posture of your legs, before you turn and walk, has your left hip and left foot aligned with each other. Then when you turn and walk, the tip of your right hip twists until it is aligned with the roundness of the forefinger of your front hand. The posture of your right knee and heel is that they are in line with each other above and below.
edededed wrote:I never read Park's books, but I learned various stepping drills in (Liang) bagua.
meeks wrote:I'm a Cheng style bagua guy. We have a variety of stepping exercises but the cotter pin of these drills is circle walking. By this I mean there is no general "you must start with this one first" exercise, you can learn any of them in any order, but generally the daily goto includes some degree of circle walking - 1 hour, 2 hours... up to you.
Climb-up wrote:but this guy is not doing footwork drills,
johnwang wrote:Climb-up wrote:but this guy is not doing footwork drills,
He is doing different footwork for each of his drills.
Drill #3:
- Step in front foot, back foot follow.
- Step in front foot again, back leg attack.
Drill #6:
- Reverse shin bite.
- Cover step.
- Stealing step.
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