LiuHeBaFa-exercise system, the creation of Wu YiHui: The modern
mixed internal-principle exercise Liu He Ba Fa is generally accepted as the creation of the Nanking Academy of Martial Arts
Director Wu YiHui, who claims to have been taught by three teachers in 'Pianliang'; Pinyin adjustment makes it plausible that
this was a mis-spelling of Pianling, which is only about 60 miles of Wu's hometown, Tieling; this can be considered as the
'input' from 'water'-style exercise to the HuaYu-XinYi-LiuHeBaFa-boxing-system which is of Nanking.
<1> Yan,
GuoXing, (Yin, KwokHing)
<2> Chan, GuangBi, (Chan, KongDai)
<3> Chan, HeLu, (Chan, HokKung)
[also considered the prior lineage holder]
It is generally surmised that upon qigong principles and forms,
the LHBF of Wu YiHui includes elements from LiuHe-XinYi and its' auxilliary 'animal' forms, elements and principles from taichi
and from MiZong-I BaGua; additional external exercises where adapted [to internal], from several southern 'swimming-dragon'
styles incusive. This collective body of exercises is now only taught by lineage successor Choi WaiLun as taught to him by
Chen YikYan of HongKong.
Emergence:
exercises are widely taught in Shanghai and Hongkong with style-variations (taiji-, xingyi-, bagua-) all called LHPF
in principal and form, but visually not equal:
- LHBF in xing-yi-style by Chen YikYan; this LHPF-style is
taught by: Choi WaiLun ..chosen sucessor to Chen; ..alternate: David Chan, Manilla, Phillipines
- LHBF in TaiChi-style by teacher Fang PakXing (HongKong)
- LHBF in BaGua-style by teacher Liang ZhiPeng
(HongKong)
- LHBF--the PRC version by teacher Liang ShouYu (Beijing-Canada)
- LHBF--the spinal-torque version by Moy LinShin
(International)
- LHBF--'waterstyle' intermixed with hun yuan: this seems
to have been taught numerous students by a 'taoist' monk from Shanghai.
- HuaYo-TaiChi, matrix of LHPF-styles plus the yiquan+zhan/qigong
of Han Xing-Yuan, and the Hun Yuan-spiraling by John Chung-Li (Boston); known in Denmark as HuaYue-TaiChi.
Hun Yuan was not generally taught by Li with this. [This embodies a most advanced system of principles.]
Tai Tzu Chang Chuan
Reputedly, Chen Po met Emperor Chao, Kuang Yin, in
960 AD, The two stories are:
Chen Tuan taught King Chao an exercise to maintain his health:
tai chi-chih, the ruler-method of taiji-principle practice. The taiji-ruler exercise then came under then Chao
family lineage for its transmission; it has been taught under the same name by many in America, but has been either incorrectly
interpreted/taught or reworked into a 'kinder-gentler' taiji in comparison with the Yang-family version of taiji-principles
which have a long history of development from principles introduced into and mixed with Chen-family exercises.
King Chao is also credited with developing Tai Tzu Chang Chuan .
"The original style was a 32 move Long Fist form, but eventually
grew to have as many as 100. Tai Tzu Chang Chuan is also said to be one of the early influences on the Chen style of Taji
Quan, and an influence on Northern Mantis and Ngo Cho Keun as well. It is a powerful style with flowing movements,
it's popularty rivales that of the Shaolin in the Ming dynasty and was standard military training during that time.
As a student of Chen Po, Emperor Chao also created an internal version of the system based on Chen Po's teachings. During
the Southern Sung dynasty, his descendants created another exercise with the same name, shorter and with more upper
body emphasis than the original. As they are complementary, both are taught side by side today." Excerpted from
Royal Dragon, Downers Grove, Chicago
http://www.royaldragonusa.net http://waterspirit6x8.tripod.com/id9.html
Quote re: tai zu mantis
... Spiral Form, Waving Form Tai Chi =Taiji
The motions of vibrating, waving, or spiraling are intrinic
to waterstyle-6x8, but appear and are utilized ocassionally or extensively in other exercises; this is discussed and presented
in the claimed WuTang-sourced Tai Chi by Erle Montaiue.
One-source-four-images exercise:
Fu Yonghui's "Si Xiang Boxing"
Fu Style martial arts (Tai Ji Quan, Liang Yi Quan, Si Xiang Quan, Xing Yi Quan,
Ba Gua Zhang. There is great variation in
the movements between different styles
of Bagua as taught by Tung Hai Chuans.
He would accept only students who
already had skill in other styles; he
would then analyze their movement and body type, and give them things to work
on
which fit in with their person. Therefore, each student tended to be
taught different types of movements, and each master
developed a distinct
personal style.
Of the best BaGua Proteges, Yin Fu's style uses a great deal of piercing palm
attacks, and is light and quick in nature. Chang Jung Chiao's style, in contrast, uses more heavy, palm heel
type attacks, and features more low, solid rooting type stances.
Yin Fu went on to develop an 'imperial' style of bagua.
Gong Ting BaQua Quan
Imperial Palace Ba gua Quan http://www.imperial-bagua.com/
Sources of information:
Fu sheng long, Vancouver,
Canada,
Master Victor, S.L. Fu, 6195 Dumfries Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5P 3B2, Phone: (604)779-0450
Email: fustyle@fustyle.comBow sim mak, boston, Mass.
Shannon Kawika Phelps,
Temple of the full autumn moon, del mar Calif.
Journal of Asian Marital Arts, v.7(4) 1998, pp. 61-81
VOLUME
7 ~ NUMBER 4 ~ 1998
Phelps, S. "One source, four images: Fu Yonghui's sixiang boxing"
Articles about Fu Style have appeared in Martial Arts Directory
and in
the Chinese Wu Lin magazine, the book, Famous Martial Artists in China,
American magazines Pa Kua Chang
Journal (Vol. 2 No. 6 Sept/Oct 1992; Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan/Feb 1995; Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan/Feb 1996; Vol. 6 No. 6 Sept/Oct 1996),
Tai
Chi (Vol. 20 No. 2, Vol. 20 No.3),
Journal of Asian Martial Arts (Vol. 5 No. 2 1996; Vol. 7 No. 4 1998)
| I-Liq-Chuan |
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| Msr. Sam F.S. Chin |
"literally translates as Mental - Physical Martial Art,
is an art of cultivating consciousness based on T'ai-Chi and Ch'uan (Zen) principals of non-assertion and non-resistance,
harmony of yin/yang, oneness and present moment. Tai Chi (The Tao) the way of nature as it is. In the universe all things
are created by conditions. The whole universe has yin and yang energy. When Yin and Yang energy merge, they are harmonized.
Students are taught the art through philosophy and a series of exercises thus you learn to recognize and discipline the inner
energy flow (ch'i). Developing this art benefits the whole nervous and intrinsic systems to bring total control, harmony,
and awareness to the mind and body. By understanding the harmony (yin/yang) of the body, and recognizing the limits of the
structure movement in each of the three dimensional plane of cycles, by transforming the internal energy to internal power
by accumulating the ch'i which propels the natural body movements; I-Liq Chuan makes you aware of your strength, its limits,
and how best to use that strength for self defense."
The history of I-Liq Chuan is ....
Chin Lik Keong is the
Founder of the system.
He studied martial arts from Lee Sum in Lee Style, Len training Phoenix Eye (the striking
of meridian points), and Lee Kam Chow training Feng Yang Lu Yi.
'Some people called it Lu Yie Pa Kua,
Hsing-I Pa Kua;
Some people called it Liew Mun Pai (nomadic clan).
"It was a hidden martial art skill used
by these nomads to protect themselves on the open roads and was not open to the public, and only passed down secretly. The
higher levels of skill were kept for the family members only.
Through his years of training Chin realized and dissolved
all the arts of his former training to the basic movement according to the nature of the human structure"
Chin Lik Keong continued his research and expanded
on what he had learned. He came to the conclusion that it was an art of self-recognition and self-realization of both the
mental (I) and the physical (Liq). Feeling uncomfortable with naming the art under any of the styles he named it I Liq
Chuan. In 1976 he formed the I Liq Chuan Association in Malaysia.
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