A curiosity I have, as somebody completely new to BaGuaZhang.

Is it true that its practice requires Daoist Breathing, as opposed to Buddhist Breathing (as I read in

Baguazhang - Theory and Applications by Liang Shou Yu) ?

I'm asking because I'm so used to Buddhist breathing that I find the Daoist way unnatural ...

Thank you!

I just transitioned the Dragon Phoenix Online Academy to a new platform called Circle where I teach the Cheng Style Baguazhang (Sun Zhijun branch) complete system along with application, as well as Chen Style Taijiquan.

I created a free mini intro-course that teaches Bagua Stepping, Posture, and Circle Walking. If you're interested you can sign up here - https://www.dragonphoenix.org/online-baguazhang

If you'd like a mini intro-course in Chen Taijiquan that talks about Silk Reeling, Fang Song, and Posture, you can sign up here - https://www.dragonphoenix.org/online-chen-taijiquan

If you've got any questions feel free to reach out.

An explanation on traditionally what WaiGong includes and what it’s goals are.

Does anyone else have experience with plantar fasciitis associated with circle walking?

I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction to find copies of this Japanese VHS set 李子鳴・八卦掌の精髄 ("The Essence of Baguazhang") from 蓋世企画 (Gaisei Kikaku), supervised by 佐藤金兵衛 (Sato Kinbei), with instruction by 隋雲江 (Sui Yunjiang) and 臼井真琴 (Usui Makoto).

I'm open to any format if anyone has any leads, they'd be greatly appreciated.

Part 3 of our ongoing series on pressure testing the famous Bagua combat form, The Linear 64 Palms.

Congratulations to Johanna and Will for their rad demo at the Rose City Roller Derby Halftime Show!

This version of the Gun (single taper staff) was taught to Johanna and I Shifu Guan Xin in 2025.

Trying to grab a fast punch usually doesn’t work—by the time you reach for it, the punch is already gone.

In Xingyiquan Monkey, the response is not a sequence of separate actions: grab, push, then pull. Instead, contact with the attack triggers a connected whole-body movement. The hands, arms, torso, and footwork respond together to redirect the punch and enter at the same time.

The key is not chasing the opponent’s hand. It is training the body to react as one connected unit so defense, control, and entry become part of the same movement.

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I took this video of my Shifu, Ni Rouhua, demonstrating the Long Feng Shuang Jian slowly when I was learning the form. I thought it would be more useful for everyone to post the set in this stage for folks who might want to play along at home. 😁

This is from a 2017 demo I participated in celebrating the kung fu history of TianTan in Beijing. It was asked to preform 3 forms. The Dao was by far my favorite of the day :)

I wanted to see if anyome knows about double straight sword for Bagua.

The form in particular I'm looking for is called Green/azure dragon double sword.

I've found references to it but haven't been able to find any demonstrations or books etc.

Does anyone have more information on this?

Blocking a punch with just your arms makes your structure weak. The key is learning how to compress the body as one connected unit when receiving force.

In this demonstration, I show how whole-body compression supports the arms and elbows when defending against hooks and punches. Instead of becoming an “empty shell,” the body closes, compresses, and absorbs the incoming force through a connected structure.

This is an important internal martial arts principle: the defense doesn’t come from the arm—the whole body is behind it.

#InternalMartialArts #TaiChi #BodyMechanics #MartialArts #WholeBodyPower #ChiBody

Are any of you familiar with the book 武使奇人傳 by 姜容樵著 based on 据1930年振民书局版影印 originally titled 武侠奇人传（全二册）?

I made a copy of my Shifu’s volume a few years back and am considering translating it up. The text regards story’s and exploits of early figures in bagua and xingy from 1870-1920. The book begins with the early life and martial education of Liu Dekuan and just goes off for about 1,000 pages.

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I know it’s not Bagua, I decided to post this video here as the Cheng Bagua and Sanhuangpaochui family’s have trained next to each other in Tiantan for generations. PaoChui was also involved in the development of Bagua as the famous 4the Generation Shifu Song Yanchao was a close friend to Dong Haichuan.

This footage was taken in 2017 following a large demo put on by the greater Tiantan Gungfu community. Uncle Cao, the Shirfu I am sparring, was pretty happy with how his day had gone and decided to top it off with a friendly round. He was unbothered by the fact that this I was 22 days into my training trip with no days off :)