The Way of Bagua - TCBG A523
By Li Yun Zhong
$17.95 Traditional Chinese Characters
152 pages, photographs, softbound
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This is a book from a grand student of the famous teacher, Cheng Ting Hua. Besides some good photos of the turns in this style there are interesting text sections of Li's teacher, Lu Xue Xi and grand teacher Cheng. (see translation below)

Other features include:

Pictures of Lu Xue Xi

Photographs of Single Change Palm, Double Change Palm, Comfortable Change Palm, Turn Body Change Palm, Rotate Body Change Palm, Twirling Change Palm,Fist Spinning Palm, Spinning Change Palm

Comments on Bagua Patterns Three Threads Palm, Millstone Palm

Free forms: Even Holding Palm, Round Ball Palm, Holding Ball Palm, Holding Palm, Penetrate the Forest Palm, Horizontal Opening Palm, Driving Stake Palm, Double Flapping Palm, Searching Palm, Slanting Palm

About Cheng Ting Hua

Li Ren Ping also talks about Wushu's origins and Bagua's Dao

1.First get a master who understands the principles whether you start early or late.
2. Unify the breath and you have bagua.
3. Unified breath becomes 8 trigrams, 4 shapes, twin powers (yin and yang)
4. From Yin and Yang through Bagua to Non-Duality.
5. Then the 64 transformations and the 72 hidden steps are mutually useful.
6. Structure is use, use comes from structure, usage is the originationg, movement is the way. and numerous other topics.

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(Bagua Fighting) TCBG-826
by Yen Te Hua
$12.95

This text is the famous "Bagua Applications" one, the same as Lion Books #LBBG-B302 below. For some reason it is occasionally titled as a Shaolin book, Break the Wall. Wonderful line illustrations show spinning, whirling and twisting Bagua fighting with an inspired style to the art that makes each drawing as unusual as the style it illustrates. The techniques here were reproduced in such well-known books as Li Ying-Arng's PaKua. Wonderful old fashioned illustrations and some classic Bagua teachniques ...

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Bagua Linked Palms 八卦連環掌 - TCBG 810
By Wang Shu Jin 王樹金
$14.95 Traditional Chinese Characters
102 pages, photographs, softbound

Very little has to be said about this famous instructor, who is still respected at his grave site twice a year in Taiwan. This is a nicely reproduced text with pictures of Wang himself demonstrating the title form. A good addition to a martial library as Wang was very famous indeed and is still well known.

BaGua Swimming Body - TCBG 701
By Wang Shu Jin 王樹金
$15.95 Traditional Chinese Characters
87 Pages, photographs, softbound

Here is a very famous book in the Ba Gua Zhang world. This is the first text written on the "Swimming Body" Ba Gua. It was produced by the well known instructor Wang Shu Jin. These old photos show Wang himself . Wang was considered by some to be one of the best fighters in Asia. His BaGua was extremely powerful and is recorded by a number of martial artists, Asian and Western. Here is an edition of his book with photographs of Wang himself posing for the postures.

In this handwritten text the Cheng Style Ba Gua Saber is shown with illustrations and explanatory notes. The illustrations, though they are small, are very clear and show a lucid indication of the sword angles. The last page of the book is a typical foot pattern chart. This is Ba Gua though so any help is useful.

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DRAGON Shape BaGua Swimming Body Palm - TCBG 321
by Dian Hsiao Tian
$13.95 Traditional Chinese Characters

260 pages, Softbound Photographs
This book is by the author of the Xing Yi Ten Animal text we sell (TC 106). The photographs are not old but clear showing strong form. Each circle is explained with clear, columnar Chinese characters and about two photos per page so they aren't two small. The practitioners form is good and highly demonstrative. We have very few copies of this.

Yin Yang BA PAN ZHANG
-TCBG 311
by Ren Zhi Cheng
$12.95 Traditional Chinese Characters

Published first in 1937, Ba Pan refers to "eight flat things"and can translated as levels. This lineage claims Yin Fu. Whatever the exact lineage, this is one of the most flavorful representations of BaGua you'll see. The twist are extreme and exciting. The spirit of the BaGua completely realized with tremendous monkey-like actions. Just for the photographs, a treasure. Contents include: Explanation of practice, Big BaGua, Ba Pan holds, Ba Pan Saber, Ba Pan Spear, practice drills, four generations of Ba Pan. Special items mentioned are Monkey and Chuan Lin (Forest Penetrating) movements. We have the same thing in our LION Books reprint (LBRP-C034) —elsewhere on this page— format which is larger and has notes but this is a neatly done edition with a beautiful cover.

Dragon Form Bagua Palm- TCBG 205
by Wang Bai-Nien
$12.95 Traditional Chinese Characters

58 Pages Paperbound. Photographs.
This book has been reprinted many times. It is one of the first ever published on the art of BaGua. What's unusual about this thin by very nicely done edition is that, unlike so many of the others, this one contains the original PHOTOGRAPHS not the line drawings taken from them. And what's even better is that some of the photos are not even bad. This text is by Wang Bai Nien student of Li Cun Yi, a famous second generation student of Dong Hai Chuan.

WuDang Bagua Palm- TCBG 204
by Yuan Chu Tsai
$8.95 Traditional Chinese Characters

56 Pages Softbound. Photographs.
These are collector's items for all those who used to hang around the Chinese bookstores collecting little editions of Kung Fu books. Yuan created a number of books like this on BaGua which have gone through countless editions. His most notable attribute is a horse stance that looks like two trees growing out of the soil. The photos are old, sometimes barely distinguishable but these little books take you back to early in the 20th century and the first attempts to really establish a popular library for students.

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BaGua Straight Sword
- TCBG 121
by Sun Lu Tang (also known as Sun Fu Chuan)
$9.95 Traditional Chinese Characters, click picture to enlarge

60 Pages Softbound - photographs
Here is a nice reprint of one of the key martial books of the twentieth century. This is Sun's version of BaGua sword with pretty well reproduced photos. A must have for some practitioners. This nice copy is in good shape with the characters from the original volume on the cover. Photos are about the best you can get considering the originals were taken.

LBRP-A522 $16.95

Cheng Branch Gao Style Bagua Palm
by Liu Shu Xing, Ge Guo Liang and Li Xue Yi
Illustrations and photos, around 239 pages oversized around 7 1/2 X 10.

Master Liu Feng Cai was a direct student of Gao Yi Sheng. He did a wonderfully organic and non-commercial Bagua. This is compiled of students of that style and is one of the major books on the Gao Branch of the larger Cheng style Bagua. This oversized edition is mostly line illustrations of the Pre Heaven Eight Circling Palms and the Post Heaven 64 "linear" Palms for which the Gao style is known. There are discussions of the style, lineage, fundamentals, weapons (not illustrated), notes on the "animal" palms, internal training and famous personages in the Bagua history. A nicely down book with front photos in color.

Classic Reprint: LBRP-C007 $13.95 Unpaginated, around 65 pages.
BaGua Palm Concise Course
by Yin Yu Zhang

This 1932 edition was reprinted in 2002. If you are a BaGua enthusiast, this is an essential text for your shelf, as it contains photographs of Yin Fu's son performing BaGua. Classic photographs illustrate positions from the Eight Palm Changes. Circular diagrams with red annotation show corresponding stepping patterns. Textual notes include many key points about footwork. A thinner than usual book for this price, but Lion went to great effort to add the complementary text and diagrams mentioned above. Just a classic.

Lion Books #LBBG-B302 US $13.95
(Bagua Fighting) ( Break the wall)
by Yen Te Hua

ShaoLin Po P'i. A famous text nicely reprinted. Though described in the title as "Shaolin Insights" this has for decades been considered one of the first illustrated manual of BaGua usage. The techniques here were reproduced in such well-known books as Li Ying-Arng's PaKua. A unique point: the explanation for each technique in its entirety is repeated completely at each step. Wonderful old fashioned illustrations and some rather trippy techniques...

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Lion Books #LBBG-B304 US $14.95
Swimming Body Continuous BaGua Palms
(Yu Shen Lien Huan BaGua Chang)
by Tu Chao T'ang

A reprint of a 1936 text on BaGua. Eight changing palms are presented and then a number of secondary exercises with concentrations such as BaGua kicking and elbow work. Written by a student of Gao Yi Sheng the illustrations are primitive but delightful. This is an early text in BaGua history and one of the primary examples of the Gao influence ...

Classic Reprint: LBRP-C028 $9.95 76 pages
True Writings on the BaGua ChiMen Spear
by Sun Hsi Kun

This is a wonderful early BaGua text by Mr. Sun a student of Cheng You-Long the son of Cheng Ting-Hua. The spear technique here is classic and well illustrated with these great old photographs. Originally published in 1930, this book shows solid technique. Movements with the staff correspond to aspects of the trigrams with actions of defense, attack, and sealing shown.

Lion Books #LBBG-A511 US
Dragon Form BaGua Swimming Body Palms
by Chen Yun Ch'ing
$8.95

This is by a student/son of the famous teacher and historian CHEN PAN LING, one of the top martial academicians of the last century . Clear illustrations and text with pictures of Chen and his complete lineage in the different arts. This book speaks about Chen Pan Ling's instruction and gives some key points on the practice of BaGua. Changing Palms pictured with directions...

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Classic Reprint: LBRP-C034
$13.95 Over 104 pages
YIN YANG BA PAN ZHANG
by Ren Zhi Cheng

Originally published in February, 1937: Tian Jin. Ba Pan refers to "eight flat things" like eight pans and thereby translates as 8 levels. This lineage claims to come from another origin than Tung Hai Chuan and is somewhat an item of controversy which has even created correspondence with our friend, the esteemed martial historian, Professor Kang Ge Wu of BeiJing. Whatever the exact lineage, this is one of the most flavorful representations of BaGua you'll see. The twist are extreme and exciting. The spirit of the BaGua a completely realized with tremendous monkey-like actions. Just for the photographs, a treasure. Contents include: Explanation of practice, Big BaGua, Ba Pan holds, Ba Pan Saber, Ba Pan Spear, practice drills, four generations of Ba Pan. Special items mentioned are Monkey and Chuan Lin (Forest Penetrating) movements. There are a number of reasons for the "Ba Pan" designation which you will encounter if you study BaGua long enough. One explanation is that the Ba Pan are the parts of the body. Another is that the Pan are the essential 8 coiling actions. Lineage: Ren Zhi Cheng learned from Li Zhen Qing who was supposedly a co-student of Dong Hai Chuan under Dong Meng Lin.