When you practice Baguazhang, your attacker will be confused because he cannot know what you will do and you also will not know what you are about to do but your body will know instinctively how to react.” Li, Long-dao Martial ability (zhandouli ) is a term we use frequently in Jiulong Baguazhang. At...
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Jiulong instructor Bobb Maio from Nashua, NH has a great article on the Kungfu Magazine site about “Cross the Great River”. This foundational Jiulong concept is an important understanding of the term “double weighted” and is a must read for any serious internal arts practitioner. There are many ideas and terms that confuse and...
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Illness comes to us all at some time in our lives. There are hundreds of mitigating factors that cause it to appear in our bodies. We can talk about the nerves, the flow of blood and lymph and how to adjust these things and that is part of what good daily circle walking especially...
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Ok, so the title is stating the obvious, right? Of course it’s is a martial art. What I want to emphasize is the art portion and the significance of the structure of Jiulong. As I have an extensive background in music, drawing analogies between it and Jiulong was clear to me from the beginning,...
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by Dr. John P. Painter International Copyright IAM Co. 2008 All rights reserved please do not distribute without permission of author. thegompa@aol.com The principles of Baguazhang are not exactly the same as that of Taijiquan.
The two arts share some similarities and common words. One of these words is
sung. Finding sung for internal...
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