Beijings Indestructible Ba Gua and Xing Yi Instructor Liang Ke Quan
The information in this article was obtained during interviews with Liang Ke Quan in October 1992, April 1993, and September 1993. Special thanks to my translators Tim CartmeVi, Bill Tucker and Xu Yu Hong. The information about Liu Feng Chun was from an article in Martial Spirit magazine translated by Bill Tucker. Go ahead, you can hit me anywhere. Hit me here as hard as you can, right in the throat. You can try and strangle me if you'd like. Do you have a rope I'll hang by my neck for you....
Two Americans Admitted as 6th Generation Inheritors of Ba Gua Zhang
Fourth Generation Ba Gua instructor Liu Xing Han addresses the group at the ceremony. Fellow Cheng style practitioners Wang Rong Tang and Liang Ke Quan co-officiated the ceremony. On August 20, 1994, Eric Gulbrandson, 22, and Don Quach, 26, were admitted as 6th generation disciples and inner door students of Ba Gua Zhang under John D. Bracy in a special ceremony that took place in Beijing. Bracy's instructor, Liu Xing Han, officiated the ceremony. Liang Ke Quan, Wang Rong Tang and other...
Ba Gua Zhang in the Cheng Family Village
In the Pa Kua Chang Journal, Volume 3, Number 2, we explored Cheng Ting Hua's background, talked about a few of his senior students and discussed some of the characteristics of his style. In this article we will examine what may be the purest' branch of the Cheng Ting Hua style of Ba Gua, that which was taught in his home village in Shen County, Hebei Province. Although Dong Hai Chuan ic iMI was the man who founded the art of Ba Gua Zhang h IP , the one who was responsible for spreading Dong's...