Can you teach yourself Baji Quan?

Yes.

The main core theory of Bajiquan is "six openings" and "eight strokes".

The six openings are: top, hold, single, lift, crotch, and wrap; they refer to the different methods of force generation in the practice and application of boxing.

The eight striking moves are the eight parts of the human body: head, shoulders, elbows, hands, hips, knees, feet, tail, etc. In the practice of Bajiquan, especially in the application of combat techniques, the eight parts of the human body combined with the "six major openings" produce the technical theory of the ever-changing and infinite technical strikes.

In addition, Bajiquan has a lot of practicing methods, such as piling (standing pile, piling, leaning on the pile, walking on the pile, etc.) such as hard work (Iron Sand Palm, Iron Arm), other unique practicing methods such as walking qi method and a lot of instruments such as the Baji great gun, etc. ...... I'm not going to go into all the details here.

Bajiquan basic exercises

"Wen have Taiji peace world, martial arts have Baji fixed Qiankun", it can be seen. Bajiquan in the status of Chinese martial arts. In the history of eight-pole boxing. It is also famous. In order to meet the majority of eight-pole boxing enthusiasts on the support and love of this publication. Bajiquan is a famous and excellent traditional fist widely spread at home and abroad. It is famous for its obvious style of robustness and ferocity, and the characteristics of close-to-body combat such as being close to, collapsing, squeezing and leaning, and it is unique among the many schools of Chinese martial arts. Bajiquan is a complete system of schools in its history of more than two hundred years. From routine rehearsal, gongfu training to technical confrontation, it has never failed, when it is the embodiment of the excellent wisdom of the sages of Bajiquan and the crystallization of their blood and sweat. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, Li Shuwen (1862-1934), an outstanding representative of Bajiquan and the famous "Divine Gun", was famous in the martial arts world for his fine techniques and pure kung fu of close combat, and he developed Bajiquan to a new height by the subtle and exquisite skills of his great gun, which made him famous abroad. As a result, the reputation of Bajiquan has risen both at home and abroad, and people seeking the art of Bajiquan are like crucian carp in a river.

Because Bajiquan is a combination of "fitness and combat", the natural energy of the innate, the spirit and body of the person and practice, internal organs and external body repair, stronger and more coordinated. After systematic exercise, can make people energetic, full of energy, the human body inside and outside the effect of strong health. In terms of practicality and fully demonstrates the traditional martial arts of the profound, rigid and flexible and subtle and exquisite root and the soul of the martial arts. Many martial arts experts and scholars at home and abroad have visited the birthplace of Bajiquan many times in recent times to search for the root, explore, excavate and organize Bajiquan, and seek the connotation of its gongfu training system and technical system with strong combat effectiveness, so as to make use of their own advantageous scientific and technological training facilities, and get its great success.

Bajiquan basic skills--Baji small frame

Anything has its unique form of movement in the process of development. Bajiquan, which combines the strengths of a hundred schools of thought, has gradually formed two forms of movement, confrontational and set rehearsal, during its development and evolution over the centuries. The routine is the main form of expression of martial arts, and its historical merit is that the moves of attack and defense fighting are strung together and systematically preserved, thus making martial arts a more complete system. The routines of Bajiquan from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present regardless of several major systems, in terms of the rehearsal of the routines are more or less the same. The main routines *** have a small frame (also known as the old frame), Bajiquan f also known as the big frame), singles (empty frame), six, eight moves, King Kong eight styles and so on. In addition, there are a variety of loose moves and loose hands. Then there is the apparatus drill system centered on the six big guns. From the early 1950s to the present, the Bajiquan apparatus routines have been changed into nearly one hundred sets. The small frame, which is the foundation of Bajiquan, is the original boxing style, the essence of the boxing style, which contains a wealth of gongli gongfa and varied techniques. When the predecessors of Bajiquan in the past generations started to teach boxing, they first took the small frame of Bajiquan as a very important training course, and the requirements were extremely strict. The so-called "foundation is not firm. The ground shakes". The small frame cultivation is rich Jl feast or not. Is the cultivation of eight extreme boxing system can reach a high level of the key. In other words, practicing Baji small frame is a crucial way to obtain the subtle true meaning of "combining fitness and combat into one furnace". The changes of small frame song, the essentials of small frame practice, the standardization of small frame walking style, the standardization of action requirements and small frame usage and changes, fully reflect the cultural connotation of Bajiquan. Bajiquan Genealogy: "The small frame is the basic skill of Bajiquan, beginners must start from the small frame, this road is good, and then practice Bajiquan small frame, although the full set of only more than twenty styles, the essence of the Bajiquan technique has been carried out in it, and the practitioners are more likely to take it as a simple style and belittle it, which is a lot of variations and summarizes the essence of all kinds of boxing skills.... ... "Bajiquan is an internal and external fist, which requires internal and external consistency, up and down, and completeness. That is to say, the person himself is a complete body, a line of action, internal and external must be consistent, up and down to follow, to use the "six" strength, that is, the intention and gas, gas and force, force and body of the internal triad, shoulders and hips, elbows and knees, hands and feet of the external triad. Requirements for internal and external unity, coherence and coordination, and emphasize the internal and external up and down to complete a gas, to the intention of the gas, gas catalytic force, gas and force unity. In the internal triad, the intention and qi, qi and force are required to practice the eight small frame, the internal organs of the human body to be stronger and more coordinated, in order to maintain strong energy, full of qi, that is, it is often referred to as the formation of the "dantian qi". Outer Sanhe is required through the cultivation of eight extreme small frame, the human body limbs all parts of the body coordinated to produce the overall strength. And to achieve "internal and external unity, up and down with a complete gas. The key to achieve "internal and external unity, up and down with a complete Qi. and gas catalyze the key to force is the force and body together. Because the power generated by the force in the fight is relying on the whole body limbs and eight sections of the transmission out, that is, the innate gas and after the exercise of the innate gas harmonization, the formation of the "Dantian gas", from the technical aspects of the fight, can not be a direct hit on the target, only through the body can be trained in the body of the Dantian gas released.

"The torso of the human body will be the body of the Dantian Qi and the human body shape of the various striking parts of the harmonization of the force generated by the integration of the formation of the Qi and the power of the unity of the body'' (<Bajiquan spectrum>), the formation of the target of the extremely strong striking force and their own resistance.

Bajiquan mainly practices four kinds of strength: rigid, soft, brittle and slippery. Rigid force practice clumsy force as crazy, that is, violent abnormal "rash force"; soft force practice soft closed dial, that is, clever energy; brittle force practice inch hit, inch cut, inch take, inch spit out, that is, attack in the defense, defense in the attack, both offensive and defensive, virtual in the real, real in the virtual, virtual and real, rigid and flexible, to play the fastest speed to maximize the effect of the blow; Slippery strength practice sinews, bones and skin, that is, the human body of the limbs and eight sections of the shape of the parts of the energy fusion, and the formation of coordinated strength. The best training method to get the four kinds of strength of internal and external unity is to practice Baji small frame.

Baji small frame practice

Bajiquan small frame practice and rehearsal is divided into two stages (some teachers have high level of teaching, coupled with good student understanding, can not be divided into phases, in short, according to the individual, step by step). The first stage, mainly according to the teacher to teach, standardize the action. Each action of the fist type, palm type, step type should be in place, and then, the number of exercises to increase, enhance the degree of proficiency. After the proficiency is increased, the teacher is then allowed to condition the movements one by one. This stage is called fiddling with the frame. Boxing Recipe Day:. Baji frame fixation is extremely important, the fundamental of this boxing." The second stage is the rehearsal stage. When practicing Baji small frame, it is required to have a clear distinction between movement and static, as quiet as Taishan, and as dynamic as lightning. Quiet, chest and waist, that is, the chest is loose and natural (not hunchback), lumbar spine natural vertical relaxation long; bladder root sinking head on the sky, that is, the head such as the top of the object, loose shoulders is to facilitate the qi ShunDa. Tongue against the palate to contain the gas, is to shut up the tongue licking in the mouth where the palate. Containing gas is breathing in and out of the nostrils, with the intention of attracting gas, gas transportation body, breathing naturally, gas storage Dantian. Shenshui Sanjiu is practicing with a sense of impatience, and the qi cannot sink into the dantian, so one can use the self-generated fluid in the VI to swallow three times, while the upper plate is completely relaxed. Tighten the buttocks, i.e., the tailbone is hooked upward internally and cannot be cocked backward. Lift the anus, i.e., the anus is contracted. Toe Grasp, that is, the two toes slightly inward to grasp the ground. Three tips aligned crotch round, that is, horse stance action state, elbow tip, knee tip, toe up and down a vertical line, the crotch is natural and round. When moving, the hand is like a shooting star and the eyes are like electricity. That is, the hair should be extreme, change should be fast, fixed should be stable. Fist and palm should be intention to attract gas, gas to attract force, to force the fist, two eyes open, hand to eye first, can not look at the west, to eye with the hand together. Stomping feet such as through the stone manhole force through the foot, breaking step such as a meteor to catch up with the moon, line boxing trend to be ten thousand force in the waist, line as a dragon, moving as a tiger, step as a monkey. Attack as fast as lightning, retreat and defense as fast as an arrow. When sending out strength, we should send out the six-hexagonal strength, and at the same time blowing gas to promote the force, sound to help the fist, gas to generate power, inside and outside the upper and lower to complete a gas. Boxing spectrum day: "the power of the hair also, must be commanded by the intention, luck to promote force, rooted in the feet in the legs, the main waist up to the shoulders, out of the toes and fingers, gas and power complementary, gas to promote the power to go, power from the gas, a pole movement hundred pole response, one does not have the marrow of the loss of their own ......" should be noted that It should be noted that the most taboo of practicing frame and practicing Bajiquan are: shy chest and waist, open knees and hips, shrugging shoulders and shrinking strength, the body is not correct, internal and external incompatibility, up and down do not follow, the upper body is too big and practicing empty and do not store the intention. When practicing the movements of Bajiquan, according to one's own understanding and one's own ability, one should appropriately master the speed of connection between the movements, and at the same time master the amount of movement and grasp the quality of movement. According to the conventional requirements, do each action, that is, when the static time is not limited to time, when the lower disk muscle support to the limit. Then change the next movement. From static to dynamic changes, the force should not be too violent, as long as the intention to move, work hair, force can be reached. When practicing movements, the procedure of close coordination of breathing from static to dynamic and from dynamic to static is as follows: inhale before moving, breathe in the middle of the movement, and inhale after the movement while naturally relaxing the whole body, so as to naturally distribute the breathing and avoid closing the breath. In the practice of Bajiquan, not only do we have to fight "rash" (giving people the feeling of ferocity), but most importantly, we have to practice "live". Practicing live is to do in the process of boxing walk waist and body live, footwork live, with the intention of line gas, gas catalytic force, force out of natural, not stiff and not stagnant. Out of the force to be just in the soft, soft in just, just and soft is the most force of the road. Boxing spectrum in the day: "the body is not leaning not biased, under the plate stable strength hair eight sides, the tail of the gate in the right direction, before and after the left and right, in and out of the use of freedom, so that there is a cross force of real power, do not cause a side of the force, so that the change can be flexible. To waist-based, drive the limbs, have swallowed a spit, have stored a hair, shrugged powerful, rigid and flexible, change to fast, from beginning to end of the force to be crazy, fixed to be stable, rhythm is clear."

Bajiquan, one of China's ancient boxing, originally circulated in the area of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, one of the Shaolin boxing, known as the "open door Baji". The "open door" means the attack method (familiarly known as the "six open"), destroying the opponent's "gateway" (defense frame). The "Eight Extremes" means that the power can reach all directions and far away. Its movements are simple and concise, fierce and brittle, with many shocking foot movements, so it has the metaphor of "shaking the bladder and knocking down the mountain, stomping the feet and shaking the nine states". Boxing proverbs often say: "Wen have taiji security world, martial arts have eight pole set the world."

Bajiquan is famous all over the world, began in the late Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the Republic of China. First, there was the "divine gun" Li Shuwen, who was famous in the north, and then there was Huo Dengge, who was the martial arts teacher of the last emperor Puyi, and his nephew Huo Qingyun, who was the imperial guard, and then there was even the "Central National Art Museum", which made the Eight Extremes Boxing as a compulsory program.

Bajiquan is now widely practiced in northern China and Taiwan. After it was introduced to Japan, it was regarded as the model of Chinese martial arts, and became as famous as Chen's Taijiquan in the Japanese martial arts circles.

Chinese martial arts are known for their long history, rich content, numerous schools, long history and profoundness. Bajiquan is one of these many styles and belongs to the northern styles. When opening the door to set up a school, it was called "Open Door Bajiquan", and as it spread far and wide, its name had many names, such as "Bazi Boxing" and "Baji Boxing",

BaZi Quan, "Eight Jealousy Boxing", "Put Kei Quan", "Sitting Fury Type" and so on.

The origin of Bajiquan is also as diverse as its name. The earliest version of Bajiquan was written by Qi Jiguang, a famous general in the Ming Dynasty, who was the first to fight against Japanese invaders, and was called "Bajiquan Stick", and whether it is Bajiquan as it has been handed down is difficult to conclude.

Today, in the boxing world, there is a generally recognized saying that Bajiquan was started by Wu Zhong, a person from "Tianfang Church" in the early Qing Dynasty, who was trained by the hermit "Lai", and then refined by his elder brother "Fetish". Fetish". Fetish" gave Wu Zhong the secret of Eight Extremities and taught him the secrets of the Eight Extremities Gun. Later, Wu Zhong used his skills to travel across the world and gained the reputation of "God Gun". In his later years, he taught his students and created the gateway of Bajiquan. Therefore, "Lai" was said to be the first ancestor of Bajiquan, and "Fetish" and Wu Zhong were said to be the second generation, and Wu Zhong was the first ancestor of the establishment of Bajiquan.

Bajiquan has been passed down since its foundation, and its fundamental basis is based on actual combat, and the fame of Bajiquan in the martial arts world in the past two hundred years is also based on actual combat. The fact that this boxing method can be passed on from one generation to the next is also due to the fact that it has not been discontinued. Whether or not practicing Bajiquan, as long as we talk about Bajiquan, we must talk about actual combat. Otherwise, it is deviated from its origin, for delusional sycophancy.

Bajiquan, take the idea of boxing eight extremely far away from the ground also. The practice of Bajiquan pays special attention to the release of various strength exercises, especially the release of "cross strength" and "sinking strength" to the avalanche of shock and surprise prevail. This can be seen in the mnemonics of Bajiquan practice requirements. The theory is as follows: one practicing clumsy force like madness; two practicing soft and closed dialing; three practicing taking and receiving inches and spitting out inches; four practicing free stand of lazy friendship; five practicing heart, liver, spleen, gallbladder and kidney; and six practicing sinews, bones, skin and flesh together. ...... Practical combat techniques pay attention to: next to the bladder, crowded against, three discs of continuous strikes, all encounters are hit, hit no fixed place, hard to open and hard to enter, inch to inch to take and other techniques. Bodywork pay attention to: step steady body live, inside the round outside the prong (square), rigid and flexible, such as surging like a wave, and there are: eight poles, eight poles, feet do not leave the ground; said.