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Sometimes
known as, ‘Pa Kua Chang’ or Ba Gua Zhang or Ba Gua or
Eight Trigram Palm. Baguazhang, along with Tai
Chi and Hsing
Yi, is regarded as one of the internal
martial arts.
The familar aspect of bagua is circle
walking. The practitioner walking
continuously in a circle. Changing direction using a short sequence
of movements. A palm
change is a short form that reverses the direction of circle
walking once completed. Bagua embodies its principles and techniques
in palm changes. Movement in terms of continuous flow is what gives
bagua its hypnotic beauty.
The most popular style
in England
and Scotland is the Gao Yi Sheng style as taught by Lou
De Xiu and his representatives to Europe, Aarvo
Tucker and Ed
Hines
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