The Full System
Names of Palms in Gao Style Bagua Zhang        


 
 A  Xian Tien 先天  B Hou Tien 後天

Meaning:
Meaning:
Former Heaven, pre-birth, prenatal, Later Heaven, after-birth, postnatal,
For Strategy, flexibility of the body For Tactics, usage of attack & defence
in Circle Walking Method in Straight Line Method


 
1. Basic Exercises 
    1.1  Start posture 
              1. Static stands
      2. Mud walking,  Five Element Walk
    1.2   8 Basic Stretches 
    1.3  10 Heavenly Stems  - Tian Gan (十天干) 
           1. Ban - Parry            2. Kan - Chop       3. Tiao - Ladle   
           4. Zhuang - Crash      5. Kou - Lean           6. Beng - Smash  
           7. Zhua - Grasp          8. Ye - Thrust       9. Cuo - Rub 
           10. Song - Relax
 2. Basic Forms - Turning Forms (轉掌) 
    8 Mother Palms: (八母掌)
    1. Fierce Tiger descends the hill 
    2. White Monkey presents the peach 
    3. Huge Roc spreads wings 
    4. Lion Opens mouth 
    5. Push window to glance at the moon 
    6. Holding the moon to the chest 
    7. Point to heaven & pierce to ground 
    8. Black Bear stretches arms 

 3. Main Forms - Changing Forms (換掌) 
    8 Big Palms: (八大掌) 
    1. Snake Form: Follow shape palm 
    2. Dragon Form: Piercing hand palm 
    3. Tiger Form: Return & Strike the Tiger palm 
    4. Swallow Form:Overturns covering the hands palm 
    5. Turn-around body over the back palm 
    6. Twist the body & pat the horse palm 
    7. Turn-over body & Rear Insert palm 
    8. Stop body, Parry & Hook palm 

 4. Beginning and Ending Palms: 
    1. Single Change Palm 
    2. Double Chang Palm 
    3. Five Dragons Palm 
    1. Black Dragon swings tail 
    2. Green Dragon stretches claw 
    3. Yellow Dragon turns body 
    4. White Dragon splits the water 
    5. Red Dragon clings pale 
    4. Black Dragon swings tail through the forest set 

 5. Ho-Tien 64 Palms (後天六十四掌)
    1. Solo Forms 
    2. 8 continous series 

 6. 12 animals (十二地支--象形) 
    1. Ape 
    2. Dragon 
    3. Lynx 
    4. Tiger 
    5. Eagle 
    6. Bear 
    7. Snake 
    8. Chicken 
    9. Horse 
    10. Phoenix 
    11. Lion 
    12. Leopard 

 7. Push Hands and Attack & Defense

 8. Weapons Form  
  • 1. Sabre
  • 2. Sword
  • 3. Pole
  • 4. Spear
  • 5. Moonknife


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