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A Simple Mission :
This site is to serve the interests
and needs for accurate data regarding the Chinese Internal Martial arts exercise: Liu He Ba Fa Chuan, 意六合八法拳
[Cantonese: LokHop PatFat] and its associated principles and forms.
It is not limited to usual published stock of stories
offered without much thought to their veracity or lack of supportive prima facia evidence. Peripherally linked data is also given to consider the subjects
context and historical timeline.
The LHBF exercise is often now called 'water-style'
boxing, which is incorrect historically, but can be said to be true in principle; this has also been done for marketing
and for personal interests. Thus there is altering use of this word.
The LHBF exercise has also been renamed due to redesign by some
teachers with the objective simplifying its' name to the general public as Hua-shan Tai-Chi- or as Hua-Yue Tai-Chi- [ 華嶽太極拳 ] ; contemporary styles often have elements of Yi-chuan 'intuition' boxing as set down by
reknowned teacher-founder Wang Xiang-zhai; notable among the yi-chuan enhanced LHBF is Zhu-ji Chuan. 築基拳 and Pan
Yan Flow =LHBF 潘炎流 六合八法拳
created
by Pan1 Yan2
Liu2 潘炎流 .
There appears also to be prototypes of LHBF [not called as such] prior to its first
public teaching in Shanghai and its academic teaching
in Nanjing. These seem to differ in number [96-form or 104-form series] or due to provincial locations, Shandong and Henan.
[both 95-and104 form styles continue to be taught].
. Some teacher have sought to emphsize
health-related aspects, ie. Yuan Tong Ba Fa ( 元通八法 ).
Although this site discusses LHBF, its true interest is in the concept of change,
flow, and continuity; water is usually taken as a metaphor for this: thus water-boxing, this does not
apply to LHBF, but to older styles and also to the archaic
concept of 'tao' or literally, a traverse, a way, a course, or a path or a track.
Life is born in water, intrinsically it understands its' fluidity
and its' dynamic connection to 'spirit' and to 'source'. As in ancient times, we also use these feelings and ideas in
our name title :waterspirit; we also use them separately as a 'water' style
and 'spirit' style kinesthetics, energetics exercise.
The addended numbers -6x8, or 6-by-8, that I have chosen,are a reference to a simple and basic set of ideas codified as a teaching
aid by the Chinese, called the Liu-He-Ba-Fa verses, thesix-harmonys [combinations] and the eight-methods [standards].
Thus, when brought together, we have the title of this website and its guiding tenets: water+spirit+6x8.
The origins of these verses is questionable, as all Chinese martial arts utilize them. The numerics chosen and the style were
a trait of the Song Dynasty but this does not fix them as from the Song period.
An alternate title for this teaching would be : Intuitive-water-spirit-standard-method or Integral-knowing-intuitive-feeling orPsi-Force
Awareness Skill. All are and would be modern ways of identifying and describing them. Proven methods of intuitive intellegence are used that you can be assured
of as correct to a 'standard'; its' skills goes beyond intuition.
In
practice, the exercises taught here in are a reengergizing experience, a 'qi-gong' [chi-kung]; they
can also be fulfilling as a spirit-renewing endeavor, a 'shen-gong' for medical-health improving/ balancing, and
if wished, applied to preserving and defending life as it was in ancient times; this application has been often called martial.
The martial methods are inherently limited by physical and hyper-physical teaching, practice methods; a step up
would be intuitive; a next step would be noetic, which the Chinese call ling shu, or ling-gong,
'empty' force way.
Martial
art is not an 'art', it is a skill; military action is a serious affair, requiring a 'heart of stone' and a 'mind-sword';
it is not in anyway an exercise of boxing or competition. This is why, at this website, we will will not discuss
this aspect with this as a goal. We will only discuss the potential of your intrinsic-dynamics and your spirit-force. Martial
art is a low level application that will only result in impeding yourself; it is skill attenuating. It can be easily
shown that spirit- or qi-inspired practitioners easily outlive martial-practitioners. It can also be shown that noetic or
psi-force exercise guides skill development better.
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