I have experimented with different qigongs through out my martial arts experience.  I have found one to be nearly all inclusive.  This is baguazhang circle turning in a fixed posture or ding shr.  By learning the animal postures and how to interchange between them we learn our very first palm changes!  Many schools go straight to the form which would be a bad approach in my opine.  It's the foundational things that must be mastered prior to any palm change that can make one's baguazhang powerful or empty.  I have heard many say without xingyi I would never get strength thru baguazhang.  This did not make sense to me as the five elements are manifested in the lower basin.  After a knee injury it took me nearly three months to get my stepping back up to par, so to speak.  So I just want to say the old saying "like riding a bike" is not really true.  During my time off to heal my knee injury I forgot some of the body requirements that can't be thought about, only done.  This will offset one's whole baguazhang play.


To paraphrase Chaung Tzu to find a man who makes use of uselessness, would indeed be a sage.  Is it that these ideals are so hard to reach?  NO!  It is our own will or lack thereof that prevents us from doing anything.

If we visualize it, we can do it.


BAO QUAN TO MY GUNG FU BROTHERS