Luo DeXiu London seminar 2013

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Book & Pay NOW for Luo DeXiu London seminar 28/6/13 - 1/7/13

Very excited to announce that Luo DeXiu will be joining us from Fri 28th June to Monday the 1st July for a weekend seminar of Gao style Bagua Zhang. Luo Laoshr's mastery of the internal arts and his generous approach to teaching have made his seminars a must for internal martial arts practioners. Limited to the first 30 paying students to register as per below instruction.  

Evening of Friday 28th June -  3 hours of Fighting methods
All day Saturday 29th June - 6 hours of Houtian (Post-Heaven) Line 1 - Guiding principles
Morning of Sunday 30th June - 3 hours of Chi kung
Afternoon of Sunday 30th - Bagua wrestling/throwing
Evening of Monday 1st July - 3 hours of Xiantian (Pre-heaven) circle palm changes

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Strictly limited to first 30 practitioners - So don't miss out :)
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About Bagua

Stolen from the website of my baguazhang class in Chorlton, Greater Manchester
(see http://www.manchester-bagua.org/)

Baguazhang is an "Internal" Chinese martial art that has constant change as it's defining principle. It is one of the 3 main styles of internal martial art along with Xingyiquan and Taijiquan. Bagua involves training various types of stepping on a circle with changes of direction called "palm changes" that involve twisting, turning and spiraling the body in order to challenge the practitioner in different ways. Emphasis is placed on developing fluid connected movement, mental calmness within that movement and on building structure and "whole body power".

There is much more to a complete system of Bagua than this classic circle walking practice however, and more "external" body strengthening exercises, single movement drills, angular stepping, fast mobile footwork, standing grappling, throwing and striking must all be trained and properly developed.

Indeed, the particular style of Bagua we study is called Gao style and comes to us fom Gao Yisheng - a Bagua practitioner who explicitly separated his training into Xiantian or "Pre-heaven" practices (the circle walking, palm changes, swimming body practices etc) and Houtian or "Post-heaven" practices (short linear "forms" similar in approach to Xingyiquan which more obviously address combat application and are concerned with developing solid structure and whole body strength) it is through training both the Xiantian and Houtian approaches that we develop both a strong , supple and healthy body and also develop usable combat ability.

This material was learned from Gao Yisheng by Zhang Junfeng to whom he gave the generation name Yizong. This was also the name of the school where he taught many students on Taiwan including the Hong brothers - Hong Yixiang, Hong Yimian and Hong Yiwen. It was in Hong Yixiang's Tang Shou Tao school that Luo De Xiu was introduced to the Internal martial arts and he became one of Hong's top fighters in full contact fighting competitions. Later he studied with the other Hong brothers as well as seeking out as many of Zhang Junfeng's original students as possible. Luo Laoshi also studied with Lui Qian a direct student of Sun Xikun in his investigation into baguazhang and is now regarded as one of the foremost practitioners of internal martial arts in the world.

Luo Laoshi continues to teach the Yizong material of Gao Baguazhang, Hebei Xingyiquan and Chen Pan Ling TaijiQuan in Taipei Taiwan and travels to England regularly to teach seminars.

For general information and links regarding more styles of Baguazhang, its history and practitioners please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baguazhang