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Ultimate Chinese Martial Art, The: The Science Of The Weaving Stance Bagua 64 Forms And Its Wellness Applications
Li Jun Feng | Ge Chun Yan | Luo Tom Tong
(2017)
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Prologue | vii | ||
| From the Art of Killing to the Art of Outliving | vii | ||
| Part I History and Philosophy of Chinese Martial Arts | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 Taoism and Confucianism: Two Major Pillars of Chinese Rationalism | 3 | ||
| History of Taoism | 4 | ||
| Yin and Yang: A Chinese Perspective of Change | 8 | ||
| A Few Key Things to Know and Remember About Taoism | 6 | ||
| Staying in the Middle of the Road: A Chinese Attitude of Facing the Unknown | 16 | ||
| Chapter 2 Further Development of Chinese Martial Arts | 23 | ||
| All Martial Arts Come from Shaolin-天下武功出少林 | 25 | ||
| The Evolution from Outer School to Inner School | 27 | ||
| The Development of Bagua Palm As the Newest Traditional Chinese Martial Art | 33 | ||
| References | 38 | ||
| Chapter 3 How would Sir Isaac Newton Interpret Chinese Martial Arts: A New Scientific Approach to the Understanding of Chinese Martial Arts | 39 | ||
| Axiom 1: Force Is a Vector (The Σ: Direction Matters) | 39 | ||
| Why is it Possible for the Weak to Defeat the Strong, The Slow to Defeat the Fast, And the Old to Defeat the Young? | 40 | ||
| Why do we See so Many Circular Movements in the Practice of the Chinese Martial Arts, Especially Bagua Palm? | 41 | ||
| How is the Maximum Speed in a Strike Generated? | 43 | ||
| Axiom 2: J = ΔF/ΔT (Jing is the Real Killer) | 46 | ||
| What Helps us to Avoid Damage? | 54 | ||
| What Makes a Chinese Martial Art Blow so Damaging? | 56 | ||
| Axiom 3: The Δ and Σ Both Come from Your Liver | 58 | ||
| Part II Taoism in Action: The 64 Forms of Bagua Palm | 61 | ||
| Chapter 4 Basic Principles for Practicing Bagua Palm | 65 | ||
| Chapter 5 The Mud-Wading Steps | 79 | ||
| Key Points for the Mud-Wading Steps | 81 | ||
| A Detailed Illustration of Mud-Wading Steps | 83 | ||
| First Step: Wading in a Straight Line Without Arm Movements | 84 | ||
| Second Step: Circular Wading | 85 | ||
| Third Step: Full Practice (Green Dragon Shows Claw) | 89 | ||
| Key Points | 94 | ||
| Appendix | 99 | ||
| Chapter 6 The New 64 Forms of Weaving Stance Bagua Palm | 101 | ||
| Brief Introduction | 101 | ||
| List of the 64 Forms | 102 | ||
| Starting Form | 104 | ||
| Preparatory Posture | 104 | ||
| Starting Form: The Sink Palm | 105 | ||
| Key Points | 106 | ||
| 1. Sink palm | 107 | ||
| 2. Left push palm | 110 | ||
| 3. Inward-latching step with shielding elbow | 115 | ||
| 4. Crouch step with forward-lifting palm | 116 | ||
| 5. Step forward with swaying palms | 117 | ||
| 6. Smashing palm with a left turn | 120 | ||
| 7. Left and right blocking palm | 122 | ||
| 8. Smashing palm with a right turn | 124 | ||
| 9. Inward-latching left slipping palm | 126 | ||
| 10. Right push palm | 128 | ||
| 11. Inward-latching step with shielding elbow | 131 | ||
| 12. Right stealthy tuck-in backward palm | 132 | ||
| 13. Forward-step piercing palm | 134 | ||
| 14. Right-turn cover palm | 135 | ||
| 15. Stride and tuck-in striking palm | 136 | ||
| 16. Turn with whirling arms | 138 | ||
| 17. Back-hand thump | 139 | ||
| 18. Cloud hand right tuck-in palm | 141 | ||
| 19. Turning cloud palm | 144 | ||
| 20. Squat hugging palm | 146 | ||
| 21. Piercing palm with left knee lifted | 147 | ||
| 22. Forward right thrust palm | 148 | ||
| 23. Turn to thrust palm left and right | 149 | ||
| 24. Backward-leaning plane turning palm | 152 | ||
| 25. Withdraw step tuck-in palm | 154 | ||
| 26. Forward-step piercing palm | 157 | ||
| 27. Turn for wiping palm | 158 | ||
| 28. Hugging palms to roll | 159 | ||
| 29. Withdraw-step diverting palm | 164 | ||
| 30. Forward-step pressing palm | 167 | ||
| 31. Paring and wiping palm | 168 | ||
| 32. Side thrusting palm | 169 | ||
| 33. Forward-chopping palm | 173 | ||
| 34. Front cross-step chopping palm | 173 | ||
| 35. Open stance rightward pairing palm | 174 | ||
| 36. Inward-latching step rotate body | 175 | ||
| 37. Lean back kick with double thrusting palm | 177 | ||
| 38. Crouching stance piercing palm | 179 | ||
| 39. Heaven drilling palm with side-by-side foot stance | 181 | ||
| 40. Tuck-in and left-and-right bumping palm | 182 | ||
| 41. Outward-swing and inward-latching steps and cloudy palm | 186 | ||
| 42. Horizontal opening chop with a turn\r | 188 | ||
| 43. Left stride tuck-in and bumping palm | 189 | ||
| 44. Join up and tuck-in leftward opening palm | 191 | ||
| 45. Right drilling palm | 195 | ||
| 46. Windmill-style chopping palm | 197 | ||
| 47. Lifting and bumping palm | 198 | ||
| 48. Right wiping palm | 199 | ||
| 49. Left wiping palm | 200 | ||
| 50. Right tuck-in palm | 201 | ||
| 51. Left wiping palm | 202 | ||
| 52. Right wiping palm | 203 | ||
| 53. Left tuck-in palm | 204 | ||
| 54. Joint holding palms | 205 | ||
| 55. Turn with drilling palms | 206 | ||
| 56. Holding up palms | 208 | ||
| 57. Joint holding palms | 209 | ||
| 58. Left heaven drilling palm | 210 | ||
| 59. Horizontal pushing palm | 213 | ||
| 60. Open stance up pushing palm | 216 | ||
| 61. Hugging palm with folded body | 217 | ||
| 62. Double-pressing palm after a turn | 218 | ||
| 63. Right piercing palm with inward-latching step | 219 | ||
| 64. Left push palm | 221 | ||
| Closing form | 223 | ||
| Appendix I: Key Notes on Martial Art Training | 226 | ||
| Part III The Applications of Bagua Palm — Physically and Mentally | 229 | ||
| Chapter 7 A Basic Conflict in Our Life: How the Ultraslow Evolution of Our Body Cope with the Lightning-fast Changes of Our Environment | 231 | ||
| References | 240 | ||
| Chapter 8 Anti-Fragile as a Concept and How Do We Understand “Strong”? | 241 | ||
| References | 243 | ||
| Chapter 9 Outlive as a Target and the Martial Art Renaissance | 245 | ||
| Epilogue | 251 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 253 |