Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua:

Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua: Principles and Practices of Internal Martial Arts Lu Shengli, Zhang Yun
Publisher: Blue Snake Books

JC: No, I practice stances without pre-exercise. This workshop gives students external methods to develop these key foundational skills as a means to enhance their internal practices or prepare them to study internal arts in the future. In our Xing Yi training we focus on the Internal Principles and the Fighting Methods first. You cannot say In combat it looks like a golden rooster that fights - it stretches the head up. A strike in Xingyi is rather full. The other internal martial arts Xingyi and Bagua do not use this differentiation. We find this is a much more effective way to learn Xing Yi than starting with forms and postures. I was studying xing yi quan from the wife of Chang Chunfeng and from a disciple of Chen Panling, when I met Gong Baozai. The Five Elements You learn how to combine the Pi and Tsuan methods and use them together. Fighting Secrets of the Internal Combat Arts: Tai Chi Chuan, Kun Tao Silat, Qigong, Xing Yi Quan, Baguazhang, Self Defense & Healing. (2) - I once heard a neijia master say that xingyi is hard, linear and deals has vertical circles, bagua is neither hard as xingyi nor soft as taiji and deals with horizontal circles, and that taiji is soft and deals with oblique circles. You can demonstrate a technique. First, I have no experience in Taijiquan, Baguazhang, or any "internal" martial art for that matter. Training the Xing Yi Nei Gong and the abridged Yang style Taiji form is an excellent way to both introduce a beginner to the practice of internal martial arts as well as refine a more experienced practitioner's understanding of the internal principles that unite Taiji, Ba Gua and Xing Yi.