Warfox Bagua 錦園八卦掌

It is never easy to get up early before work or waiting till after work to squeeze in a few hours of training time. Especially if your working on movements or techniques that are not "the fun part" of kung fu i.e. stances or whatever. Knowing that the key to perfecting a technique only comes from doing the same thing over and over and over and over.....(I get tired sometimes just thinking about some exercises) This is usually a point where martial arts practitioners can have a "mid life crisis in their style" and seek new intrests outside of what they are studying. There is nothing wrong with dabbling in other styles but the unfortunate truth is learning a little bit of everything will hinder you from ever mastering a style. Or another way to say it is not being rooted in any style asures that you are easier to knock down. Dont worry there is no such thing as an ultimate style. Every martial arts that has survived till now has endured the test of time which means it...

Wu Guo Zheng's Classes 吳國正的課 Taipei City Xin Dian Highschool 新店高中 Sunday at 3:30 禮拜日 15:30 Warren Fox's Classes 孔太龍的課 Taipei City Zhongxiao Fuxing Mrt near exit 14 忠孝復興捷運地下街 靠近14號出口 8pm to 9:30 pm Tuesday and Thursday 禮拜二四 晚上 8點

Section two of the post heaven movements or applications. This is not like sparring but a very effective method that teaches the timing of the movements and has an endless amount of variations that can be practiced. This is consideed one of the most complex parts of Gao bagua and should only be practiced after the post heaven movements are done smoothly

This was a wonderful experience in Taiwan to be able to be surrounded by so many masters. I saw masters of every internal style along with up and coming masters in the external styles. Truly a blessing to be in Taiwan for me now.

一、持刀式 Holding Blade Technique 二、獻刀 三、 Offering Blade 舞花左砍（左） Dancing Flower Slash 四、別刀右砍（左） Right Dividing Slash 五、背刀式（左） Back Blade Style 六、獻刀式（左） Offering Blade Technique 七、大舞花（挨右） Big Dancing Flower 八、獨立後搗 Single Back Thrust 九、獨立前摩 Single Forward Grind 十、撲刀式 Pounding Blade Style 十一、轉身觀風 Turn and Face the Wind 十二、古樹盤根 Roots of the Old Tree 十三、透步別刀 Through Step Dividing Cut 十四、蹋步下砍 Deep Step Downward Slash 十五、蹲步挑抱 Crouching Plunge 十六、回身掃膛 Turning Sweep 十七、推窗望月 Push the Window and Gaze at the Moon 十八、、輪花撲刀 Rolling Pound 十九、背刀式 Back Blade Style 二十、騎馬下撩 Riding Horse Rising Blade 二一、騎馬蓋頂 Riding ...

My master demonstrates the movements of engagement. The rest can be found on youtube. Sorry there all in Chinese

In gao style bagua there are 25 different variations of footworked designed to close the gap and apply the technique The Twentyfive steps for engaging 走式變換名詞 1 Stationary Step 不動而走 2 Stationary Leaping Step 不動跳步而走 3 Forward Left to Right Step 向前左右一步一走 4 Forward Left to Right Multi sStep 向前左右多步而走 5 Forward Left to Right Low Step 向前左右蹋步一步一走 6 Forward Left to Right Low Multi Step 向前蹋步多步而走 7 Spinning Step Left to Right 轉身左右一步一走 8 Spinning Multi Step From Left to Right多步轉身左右而走 9 Rotating Low Step 翻身蹋步一步而走 10 Leaping Rotating Low Multi Step 多步跳躍翻身而走 11 Backward Step From Left to Right 倒步左右一步一走 12 Backward Multi Step From Left to Right 倒步左右多步而走 13 Backward Low Step 倒步蹋步而走 14 Leaping Step From Left to Right 跳步左右一步一走 15 Leaping Low Step 跳步蹋步而走 16 Straight Forward Step 向前直步一步而走 17 Backward Leaping Step From Left to Right 後退左右跳步而走 18 Straight Backward Leaping Step 後退直跳一步而走 1...