spiraltao

Thanks!!

This is still an urge that I deal with and.chewing too fast doesnt allow for correct digestion

Kind sir would you know if the us date will be in August as well?

I do not think you will regret it!

i use DGS' kymq as my sitting. I warm up my diaphram with around 30 minutes cave breathing. My kymq usually lasts for an hour and half. I dont do it every day. My ZZ standing is my daily static meditation method with pole star circle walking as my favorite.

there are TCM rxs that are walking meditation methods that tonify different oqgans via breathing patterns and mudras in Jerry Johnsons TCM book.

This is circle walking's aim in the bgz. For me I feel the walking meditation building energy much more in the beginning. I do now have sitting meditation method that does indeed build energy. ,i do feel both are required.

Might I ask a silly question? Why is it bagua quan instead of baguazhang?

One of the best descriptions I have read.

I learned awhile back that there's eight types of mud stepping Each serve a peculiar purpose ie vibration healing fighting I am familiar with the pole star stepping. I was interested in imput from practitioners of any of the other types.

That is the pole star step. Like gliding across a very thin layer of mud, or visualize glass, still lake, ice... etc. The best I can figure is that it is about transformation more than anything. Empty/full, open/close. What brought all this up was BKF's three and four part stepping in which I heard him say that it was a monastic tradition. I knew he was Cheng but the step was highly different than the grinding step as I see Liu Jingru do, the moving foot stays only a few cm off the ground in BKF's three and four part stepping. Mast Liu Jingru's grinding step is just that, the foot drags as opposed to glide. Then we can examine Erle Montagu's step! All are correct according to the old master . All are also mudstepping. Still waiting on to learn the name and function of each of the eight.

Ok, looks like this is an area of not such well known info. Kunlun is where this originated. Wudang/Wu Family. This guy knows whats up. BKA: I DID ASK! LOL Still waiting for an answer.

Well the grandmaster said there were eight different kinds of baguazhang stepping. ALL as a group are called mud stepping. Each variation of stepping has it's particular usage. I suppose it could be unique to the system, i didn't mean to confuse. I understand your argument, but you must realize the grandmaster has yet to be wrong. Here is his direct quote and I won't use his name as I have not asked permission "Each type of the 8 footwork is for different reasons, all called mud stepping. People do forget that there are 8 types of stepping with variations for each, for vibration healing fighting, etc"-Direct quote from the lineage holder. Maybe its a system thing?

I meant that alll stepping in baguazhang is really mudstepping and there are 8 different types. in all. ...and I would imagine the foot slide thing you are talking about is the pole star stepping. I asked my sifu to elaborate on my lunch break yesterday, but lost him when i got to the oil lease. Pulling steel will give you iron hand. I think the big stuff weighs 68 lbs a foot. hehe Around the rig, I really have to use my stepping, and that is what brought up this question was walking in different types of mud and ground. My root was strong enough to lift a man off the ground while I was pushing a nipple into the flow line. LOL He was cool though, could not believe i called him sir. Said he hadn't heard that in years. lol. Wow that was off topic. Apologies.

ok. not sure what your post meant at first, but that is a crucial part of mudstepping though, is the visualization of one's self. The visualizing where your back has been as opposed to where the front is going is much easier for me, anyway. I was hoping to learn more about the crane step, grinding step, through the water step, lion step. Well how about this. Can anyone list all eight kinds of mud steps? I can only come up with six or this is a big "DUH" moment being in the AM. lol This knowledge should be far more common.

I was meaning actually using the physical body. Eight different ways to step and they are called mud step. The pole star step is a transformational step. Heel of foot is jing, sole is qi and ball of foot is shen. Done correctly I learned the pole star step should be like walking on a mirror or lake, glossy and calm with pure mind and heart. The idea is to "tune in" to the opponents heart energy only. Is about something magical. Locking on to a center of your circle and staying connect the whole time, thru the changes, everything we always stay connected with this magical space in the center of the circle. I hope this made some sense, this is the first time I have tried describing this. This is the type of information I would be interested in exchanging.

Hope for a speedy recovery for ya Zero

not taking away from ramsey's break at all, but zeros is right scott broke a cap block with an 8 oz drinking glass, which better shows the martial purpose of vibration palm. IMO its hard to show VP with an iron palm break demo. Kudos for using red brick.

His books in my experience are worth every penny! All mine are PDFs. i feel we are super lucky to still have youtube access to his old baguazhang vids...

I am going to give the whole a collective a big thank you and I am not so sure I would have progressed in my baguazhang journey so well without the help from the people here like Zero, Trunk, RV, JB, I mean all of you guys have helped me in some fashion. I rarely read a post without learning something, whether I want or not. hahahahha I am just feeling full of light and love this morning. I prayed for Samurai Mountain Man last night, then I included everyone else I could think of.

Hello there Pythagoreanfullotus !

Why thank you! I will let her know that you wished her well . She is doing well and really into implementing her Dalai Lama's Little Book as of now. I'm still working with the Hua Hu Ching. Seems she is quite gifted at implementing what I consider difficult methods, lol. ...or maybe I just don't quite get it, hahaha.

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