Kamidake Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Do the practitioners rearrange all the furnishings in the dojo to face in more auspicious directions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolung Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 yes, it is the same word... bagua = 8 trigrams, baguazhang = 8 trigrams palm "It is not how much you know but how well you have mastered what you've learnt. When making an assessment of one's martial arts training one should measure the depth rather than the length". - MASTER "General" D. Lacey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommarker Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 bagua and the i ching make my brain hurt thinking just thinking about them. I'm no longer posting here. Adios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxerScott Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Bagua Zhang or Pa Kua Chang (all the same) is one of the three internal chinese styles. Bagua relies heavily on "circle walking", snake-like movements and palm strikes. It is the opposite to its counter part I Ching, which believes in a straight line as opposed to a circle. Both styles are very amazing. Make sure your teacher is legit though. -Boxer ScottBoxingIwama Aikido Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolung Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 i could be wrong here, but i believe you are referring to hsing-i chuan (xingyiquan) as bagua's "counterpart" ; as opposed to the i ching which is a literary text... "It is not how much you know but how well you have mastered what you've learnt. When making an assessment of one's martial arts training one should measure the depth rather than the length". - MASTER "General" D. Lacey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxerScott Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Sorry, your absolutely correct. -Boxer ScottBoxingIwama Aikido Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
focus102 Posted April 25, 2003 Author Share Posted April 25, 2003 Excuse my ignorance but are there Kata in Pa Kua? Are they called by another name in this style? I am obviously new to MA and I appreciate all the replies. "Nothing is impossible to the willing mind." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaiFightsMS Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Their are 8 techniques that are done walking around in a circle. Sometimes forward sometimes backward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paolung Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 there are several forms/kata in bagua, many depend on lineage. there are the mother palms, linear forms (especially in Yin Fu lineage), animal forms (snake, dragon, sparrow, hawk, bear, unicorn, lion, etc), single palm change, double palm change, etc etc. Cheng Ting Hua and Sun Lu Tang lineages are going to be more throw-based, as Cheng was a shuai chiao (chinese wrestling) expert, and Yin Fu lineage will be more strike based and linear because he was an expert in lohan gungfu before he learned bagua. there are also other lineages and variations such as Gao... "It is not how much you know but how well you have mastered what you've learnt. When making an assessment of one's martial arts training one should measure the depth rather than the length". - MASTER "General" D. Lacey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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