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Sun Luc-tang’s Eight Essentials of Baguazhang
1/. The waist lifts up so that the coccyx lifts to join the ‘DU MEI’ (An im- portant acupuncture meridian of the eight extra family which runs up the back bone and over the head to the roof of themouth fromthe coccyx).

Although we aren’t left with much to go on in the way of documented drawings of the postures we are left with some of the classic sayings by some of the greatest Baguazhang masters and this is all we have to lead us through what is generally a maze of evolved information.

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Inside And Outside Turns of Baguazhang ,Once the walking has been achieved with an amount of stability, we go on and learn the inside and outside turns. In Bagua we never back off from an attack but rather turn to face the opponent.

Baguazhang is truly an amazing art once you get past the basics. It, like Tai Chi, was invented by people of genius to incorporate healing as well as deadly self defence methods. Each of the major postures from Bagua have a hidden meaning, either for the healing benefits or for gaining of power for the [...]

The great benefits to health are not as well documented, as for the mother art of ‘T’ai chi ch’ uan but none the less, Bagua does have great benefits. If we look at the documented ages of many of the Bagua masters we have a fairly good indication of the healing benefits of the art.