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Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua by Lu Shengli

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Overview

Fighting techniques of Chinese internal martial arts were suppressed and ultimately lost during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.

Specifications

Binding	Paperback
Publisher	Blue Snake Books
Country of Origin	USA
Number of Pages	371
Pubilcation Date	2006
Condition	New

Product details

Tai Chi Book
by Lu Shengli
Ba Gua ang Hsing I too
Thick Book
Great read

Combat Techniques of Taiji Description

The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.

Author Lu Shengli has spent his entire life cultivating the skills of the internal styles of taijiquan, xingyiquan, baguazhang, and other traditional martial arts. Starting in the 1970s, he studied internal martial arts with master Luo Shuhuan and grandmaster Wang Peisheng. He has taught in Beijing since 1984, where he is a martial arts instructor of the Beijing Wu Style Taiji Quan Association and an instructor at the Beijing Information Technology Institute.

Translator and editor Zhang Yun, from Beijing, China, is a student of Luo Shuhuan and Wang Peisheng and lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has taught internal martial arts in the United State since 1989 and is the president and head instructor of the Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association, North American Headquarters. He has published more than fifteen articles and is the author of The Art of Chinese Swordsmanship: A Manual of Taiji Jian.

Translator and editor Susan Darley, Ph.D., has studied taijiquan with Zhang Yun since 1995. She assists Zhang Yun in teaching classes and seminars and writing books and articles.

'On the Back' of Combat Techniques of Taiji

Fighting techniques of Chinese internal martial arts were suppressed and ultimately lost during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. However, the Beijing lineage of grandmaster Wang Peisheng survived. In Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua, his teachings are revealed to intermediate and advanced Western students for the first time.

Grandmaster Wang's longtime student Lu Shengli shows practitioners how to attain a new level of practice. Learn to use your skills to bring forth a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced technique.

The book includes:
Over 500 illustrations and photo sequences demonstrating each form, its lineage, and theoretical basis
A sixteen-posture form never before published in the West, that integrates the most important fighting techniques from each of the three major internal martial arts
• Core movements from the fundamental fighting techniques of each art
Powerful tools to recognize and use the unique strategies and skills of each style
In-depth practical and theoretical explanations of martial applications
History and analysis of basic martial principles
Essential movements, including fist, hand, shoulder, hip, and knee skills, stances, and steps
Basic post-standing practice of each art, and usage of Fa Jin (explosive force) in each

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