This interview is from the book BaguaDaoyin, written by Master HeJingHan
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20190524 八卦套路教學 影片內容簡述 part2
20190524 八卦套路教學 影片內容簡述 part1
My personal opinion on the nomenclature of Single Change Palm and Double Change Palm
身體基本的筋（勁）路系統
身體基本的筋（勁）路系統
一、話說四年前
拙作「騎馬步要領」（以下簡稱「騎文」）在2001年發表於「台灣武林」第六期，四年來輾轉流傳，引起一些注意和討論，有些同好反應：「此文偏重在下半身襠的筋路連結，那麼上半身如何呢？」，事實上上半身的筋路系統比下半身複雜多多，不容易說明白，但是既然有人不恥下問，我只好野人獻曝，略提一下個人的心得，一來對求知者做個交代，二來也算是增補「騎文」的續集吧。
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Translated by David Alexander
The process of studying Baguaquan is first to train ability and then to study methods of application. Ability includes basic ability -i.e. basic skills – and applied ability – i.e. forms, San Shou, weapons etc. If applied ability is insufficient then the student must backtrack to reinforce basic ability and go to and fro like this several times, like kneading dough or forging steel. When the student is proficient in ability the teacher will introduce methods of application and do some demonstrations of applications so that the student can learn by analogy and understand fully without the need for words while being flexible and adaptive.
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Translated by David Alexander
Bagua Quan is a teaching system (I believe that other martial arts should also be like this). In my first book (Bagua Quan Foundation) I explained things through the medium of text and illustrations. However martial arts is like a kind of pictorial language in which knowledge depends entirely on ‘physical experience’, Words and illustrations are only a way of noting things down and do not make it easy for a person to understand. Consequently I am making public (via youtube video clips) the principal empty-hand training forms in Bagua Quan. I hope that those interested will be able to study them further.
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Image and action are two separate things
When in earlier times I studied ‘Later stage Bagua Quan’ my master often said “Image and action are two separate things ”. For a long time I didn’t understand. Afterwards I gradually caught some of the meaning and then passed over the threshold of ‘Later stage Bagua Quan’.
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Chinese martial arts: an investigation into how they developed from hard to soft and into their current status
Continue reading “Chinese martial arts: an investigation into how they developed from hard to soft and into their current status”Conversation with He Jing-Han, on 1/7/01.
The Chinese martial arts are not for creating fighters but for training human ability (human potential) in the abstract. Actually the character wu is inaccurately translated as “martial.” The word “martial” in English has to do with war, but the word “wu” in Chinese is one part of the wen/wu dichotomy. This wu means the basic ability of the person. Then wen is the biaoxian, the “demonstration” of this basic ability.
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