Bagua linear and angular stepping drills?
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:07 pm
Hello,
I was thinking back to some books I used to have of Park Bok Nam’s. I remember that he spent a long time teaching various linear, angular and pivoting stepping drills; I believe before he even taught basic circle walking. Also, many of these were similar to boxing footwork, where the lead leg stays in front the whole time (eg in moving forward the front foot moves first and the back foot moves second, ending up in the same stance you started I ).
I’m my (extremely limited) experience, I generally see mud stepping taught linearly first and then circle walking and that’s more of less it, with other steps built-in to the palm changes or linear forms.
I’m just curious if the first approach is common in many Bagua schools. I think I read somewhere that it was a characteristic of Yin style Bagua, is that true?
I was thinking back to some books I used to have of Park Bok Nam’s. I remember that he spent a long time teaching various linear, angular and pivoting stepping drills; I believe before he even taught basic circle walking. Also, many of these were similar to boxing footwork, where the lead leg stays in front the whole time (eg in moving forward the front foot moves first and the back foot moves second, ending up in the same stance you started I ).
I’m my (extremely limited) experience, I generally see mud stepping taught linearly first and then circle walking and that’s more of less it, with other steps built-in to the palm changes or linear forms.
I’m just curious if the first approach is common in many Bagua schools. I think I read somewhere that it was a characteristic of Yin style Bagua, is that true?