Baguazhang - Basic Body Method 

Thank you 🙏🏻 This is one of the major distinctions where my view differs from many others

Id love more about bagua on this channel. It'll be a few years before I get through current curriculum and can get your program

Damn... And I thought I was so quick

The Yi should be inside for a long time, until the Qi is organised. Then the body starts to connect up inside :) The moving of the body as a single unit arises after the body has learnt to separate all of the individual internal regions. Things must be pulled apart before they are put together :)

@@LotusNeiGong The pulling and stretching can hurt like you know what and take awhile through an area with a previous injury. However I seem to be going through multiple stages at once. What do you think? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-26gzxm6O28I.htmlsi=hcwX_6GwFQ0uPyBH

Definitely in the southwest

They do not clash, no :)

​@@LotusNeiGong great.. One more question if you will.. Say I've spent a few years properly developing the tai chi body, would I then need less time to develop the bagua body or would I need to "start from scratch"? Are the 3 body developments independent of each other or is there some degree of overlap? Thanks again for the podcasts. Very insightful 😁

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas 😁😁😁

The eight directions, as used in Bagua, are not a major part of NG though there are a few similar components :)

Hand leading insides is indeed a stage

And yeah, -- we don't go outside until the sun goes down, (if we can help it).

It changes so that you can do Bagua :) this makes the body able to mobilise as it should according to the style. This is the nature of Chinese systems, they should be performed with the right conditions present in the body. If you are asking deeper, as to why somebody should even do Bagua, then that is personal choice and interest mostly :)

@LotusNeiGong makes sense. I guess my mind always tries to find some desirable payoff. Neigong, for example, and taichi to some extent, seems to have "benefits" in life that go beyond the art itself. For better or worse, turns out I belong in the group of people you've mentioned that seek the art to enhance their life/path 😅 Still, the way the body moves in Bagua is fascinating. The shape itself is very pleasing and the mechanics, from the little I know, make more intuitive sense than taichi's (for me at least).

Some things should just be done for the sake of the love of doing 😁😁😁

@@LotusNeiGong I know! Alas, I'm young and immature haha

Well, I’m just immature 😂

It is ‘basic’ for Bagua. This is a part of why the style is so difficult. Other systems may begin with things like posture and alignment but Baguazhang assumes you already have this. Qi is the start point for Bagua. This is why it was not seen as an art that you start with. Nothing weird about that 😂

@@LotusNeiGong I studied Bagua for over 15 years and I’ve studied 3 different Bagua styles, all of them have very different approaches to body method and beginners practice. What you are talking about is definitely NOT standard beginners practice in any of them. Generalizing all Bagua into one style and method is also completely wrong.

@@LotusNeiGong I am not arguing about the content of what you teach here, it’s fine. But I object to teaching this to beginners or as “basic” method.

You can object all you wish. My view is different to yours and, to me, this is where Bagua begins, anything less is not really Bagua, no matter how many years you do it 🤷🏼‍♂️