Liu Bin's Zhuang Gong Bagua Zhang

Liu Bin's Zhuang Gong Bagua Zhang

South District Beijing's strongly rooted style

by Jie Zhang
3/5
(16 votes)

Documents the style of Bagua Zhang developed by a top student of martial arts master Cheng Tin Hua, in a second volume that includes coverage of related history and culture as well as step-by-step instructions on the variations of the single palm change, the eight mother palms and the 24 movements of eight animals.

Original.

Format
232 pages, Paperback
First published
2008
Publishers
Blue Snake Books
Subjects
Hand-to-hand fighting·Oriental
Language
English

The author relies heavily on legend and hearsay for his history of baguazhang, most of which most modern martial arts historians have long disputed. I was excited the initial emphasis on core fundamentals in this book.

Good.

As the coauthor, im biased about this book, so you can take this with a grain of salt, but zhang was a rare person in bagua; a scholar of chinese culture, a healer, and a martial artist, who also had a good relationship with a top master of a strong style of bagua, and was able to study in a good environment with multiple good teachers involved and many great students. once I started studying with him, I felt very strongly that he had a lot to say about bagua from many perspectives, and also that he had learned it very thoroughly from good teachers, and was a very skilled teacher himself.

Jie Zhang

About Jie Zhang

Classical pianist based in Norway, born 1984 in Shandong Province, China....

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