Tai Chi Chuan, Baguazhang & Hsing-I

I find that I tend to get asked a lot questions on 3 main internal art of Tai Chi Chuan, Baguazhang & Hsing-I. These issues include but are not limited to:

How are they different? How are they the same? is one of the internal arts better than others? which one of them is better to fight? as for the internal arts best regards internal energy to fight? are all 3 main internal art equally healthy you? which one should I study? which one should I study first if I want to or are planning to study for more than one? What are actually those art?can they work together?

I will try to answer some questions in my next few posts and shed some light on these arts at the same time. This will of course be a comparison and contrast of Hsing-I, baguazhang and Tai Chi Chuan but I hope to do a little more than that with this series of posts on these 3 internal art.

All 3 of these arts is Chinese internal martial arts that use education of special body mechanics including internal and external adjustments and the training of the peace of mind and chi energy. All three art has very different methods to combat but sometimes they are similar and will use similar motions to each other. When you have been trained in one of them and then try it on one of the other differences in approach and methods are quite obvious, and only after you have studied more in depth aspects for quite a long time do begin they seem to be more as part of the larger image.

Hsing-I is an art that is known as very linear in strategy and generally applied when we move forward with a proposal on the wave like a sine wave. BA Gua athlete is known to travel and move around in circles that vary from very tight and close circles to circles of approximately 30 meters in diameter and walking circle is a signature practices of Baguazhang.TAI Chi Chuan practitioners is known for practicing slowly because that is what the evidence usually public.Tai Chi Chuan practitioners to focus more on the idea that control the immediate space around them and although there are plenty of movement fighting method is best thought of a more stationary practices than Hsing-I, or Ba Gua. I plan to explore these ideas in future posts.

Of 3 internal art Hsing-I, which generally are used most and is more difficult; Baguazhang is often a mixture of hard and soft often use force but sometimes use softness. TAI Chi Chuan is can be difficult aspects of it, but the most famous and most widely practiced at a high level as a soft art where the application of hard power is recommended and softness is desirable.

I will leave you with this now; one of my teachers who knew all 3 internal art and had them all equally says he better liked. It goes as follows.

Hsing-I am a metal Ball.
Baguazhang is a Barbed Wire Ball.
TAI Chi Chuan is an Energy Ball.

Until next time.
Good education to you.
Have it so good.
Sifu

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