Monday, October 15, 2012

Starting the Circle Walking

While looking around the internet, I found this article on circle walking and some of its benefits. Here is the url for the article, it's on another blog. I don't think and certainly hope the owners of the blog don't mind. My thanks to you for posting it.
http://boulderinternalmartialarts.blogspot.com/2011/05/circle-walk-practice-of-ba-gua-zhang-by.html

Yesterday was my class on bagua and I spent the vast majority of my class time learning to do the circle walk. I found it quite challenging actually. My balance was not always good, and I began perspiring shortly after starting the practice. The step that I learnt yesterday involved 4 steps in one direction and a turn. Initially, one of the seniors showed me how to position my hands, then the teacher taught me to practice with my hands on the hips, and then, back to the initial position taught, and then, she showed me some hand ex's to practice to cultivate chi into the fingertips, and then I was taught to do that same circle walk with the hand ex's as well.

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