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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Baguazhang

Tai Chi Chuan, Baguazhang & Hsing-I comparison and contrast (part 3)

  BA Gua athlete is known for walking, biking and loops ranging from very tight and close circles to circles of approximately 30 meters in diameter and walking circle is a signature of the practice of Baguazhang.  In as much as Hsing-I am very confrontational Baguazhang is very evasionary.  In an epic battle between Dong Hai Chuan and an Hsing-I, master Kuo Yun Shen supposedly the fight went to 3 days before Dong Hai Chuan finally landed a hit on Yun Shen Kuo.  (Of course if the 3-day part of the story is true, then it was more likely a friendly sparring and compare methods and techniques than a struggling match).  After "game" two became great friends and was said to train with/from each other becomes reasonably skilled in the art.  If you have read the previous post on Hsing-I, then you may have had questions about how someone can also fight against such an art, not to mention turn it.  Basic answer is simply "Move" and "Evade".The best way to beat a straight line is to evade by moving in a circle around it; This is the Forte of Baguazhang. 

  The actual name of art, Ba Gua Chang, which translates as 8 Diagrams (shape) Palm.  Baguazhang is a mix of hard and soft often use force but sometimes use softness as an art.Circles in all shapes and sizes from small non-scrubbing flip and pivot to quickly navigate around a large area such as a 30-foot circle are trained; Many different types of stepping are trained and internal energy policies are trained as well.  In Baguazhang are many internal training methods including special types of energy Palmer as iron palm, vibrant palm, poison hand, penetration palm, crushing palm and others. 

  Tax evasion and accompanying measures movement skills is the primary movement of Ba Gua.BA Gua soothe and then immediately landed a devastating hand strikes which is supposed to finish the fight while still moving so that if the recipient actually survive strike and continues to attack they will still find Ba Gua physicians find it difficult to meet or even touching the circle walking and flanking remain constant until the situation has been completed; Art is entirely different and there are many different styles, moved and patterns can be found in the art of Baguazhang. The most common moves/methods are different types of circle walking and with an emphasis on education, diversity and quick way to change direction.Only Palm change is the most common move found in all Baguazhang system, even though most of the different styles of Baguazhang has its own version of the move that is slightly different from everyone else 's.

Of the 3 major internal arts, Baguazhang the most obvious physical complex patterns by hand and movement; This is not to say that it is better than the other two arts.Efficiency has fortunately not is complicated on the surface to work well in practice; So, do not exclude or underestimate the mere appearance of Hsing-I, or flowing movements of Tai Chi Chuan precisely because they are not physically appears as sophisticated as Baguazhang. There's a lot more happening in internal art than what meets the eye.

BA Gua is a barbed wire ball refers to the idea that a good Baguazhang practitioners break and you feel like you have only tangled with a ball of barbed wire, you do not have to bear it, but it is over you and even if you grab it somewhere, you may still be worse; the center of the ball and where and how the ball is striking, you can easily change at any time, you can only find softness you cannot hit with no effect, and every time you hit it with hardness as you cannot stop.

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