Description
A complete training guide for beginners and advanced practitioners of Baguazhang.
This revised edition includes a complete redesign with an emphasis on reader usability and modern Chinese typography.
Packed with over nine hundred photographs, this comprehensive text offers theory, martial applications, sequences, Qigong exercises, weapon training, and is an indispensable resource for those serious about Chinese martial arts.
- Translation of ancient Baguazhang documents
- Baguazhang Qigong
- Basic Training
- Body Conditioning
- Eight Palms sequence and fighting set
- Swimming Body sequence and martial applications
- Bagua Deer Hook Sword sequence and martial applications
Author: Shou-Yu Liang, Jwing-Ming Yang
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 564
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.50w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781594391132
ISBN10: 1594391130
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Martial Arts | General
- Self-Help | Safety & Security | General (See Also House & Home | Safety
- Health & Fitness | Tai Chi
About the Author
Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming is a renowned author and teacher of Chinese martial arts and Qigong. Born in Taiwan, he has trained and taught Taijiquan, Qigong and Chinese martial arts for over forty-five years. He is the author of over thirty books, and was elected by Inside Kung Fu magazine as one of the 10 people who has "made the greatest impact on martial arts in the past 100 years." Dr. Yang lives in Northern California. Liang, Shou-Yu was born on June 28, 1943 in the city of Chongqian, Sichuan Province, China. When he was six he began his training in Qigong, the art of breathing and internal energy control, under the tutelage of his renowned grandfather, the late Liang, Zhi-Xiang. Mr. Liang was taught the esoteric skills of the Emei Mountain sect, including Da Peng Qigong. When he was eight, his grandfather made special arrangements for him to begin training Emei Wushu (martial arts).