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Being nowadays one of the most well-known Internal Martial Arts styles, Ba Gua Zhang became famous for its circular and beautiful ways of motion as well as its efficiency in combat. Through the creation of spiral energy not only graceful motions are created but also the ability to create a controlling power against one or multiple opponents. Having its origin in the teachings of Cheng Ting Hua, who was famous for his wrestling skills, WDP Ba Gua Zhang as well is a wrestling-oriented style in application. This means that most motions and principles are used for grabbing and throwing techniques, instead of making use of striking and kicking. In four full days of full-time training, we will dedicate ourselves, following the traces of the past while observing how Ba Gua motions become a grappling-based system of combat that can be beautiful and efficient at the same time.

Finally it’s time! Our new shirts a there. For quite some time students asked me again and again when we would finally have some new t-shirts available. Trying for 3 years to find the right design which could represent the minimalism yet depth of the Xuan philosophy all my tries were simply not convincing enough. But now finally with the help of full-time student Nicolas we managed to find something that in my opinion does perfect justice to what I feel about our school. See in this video what stands for us behind the new design and how the handmade shirts were finally done! Feel free to send me a message if you want to order one for yourself!

Inner Martial Arts teach us how to become the brush for our own life. Giving us the chance to paint and express ourselves in the way we wish to. The Five Animals give us on that journey 5 different colours to our painting! In the last 5 Animals Camp 2021, we had the chance to learn more about our own colours by practising and deepening this very unique Qi Gong and Life Art. It was a great pleasure to meet and train with our family that meanwhile comes from all over Europe and to have this special 5 days together. https://www.xuan-gongfu.de/

We all carry our own inner fight of life and death in us. While this might sound very harsh, fighting is nothing bad, but only the seek for harmony. The moment we recognize that, everything becomes a fight, and every fight the opportunity to attain harmony. To fight means therefore simply to balance two opposite forces – it means to play with yin and yang in order to archive Tai ji. The ways to approach to our own inner fight can be very various. Some find their tools of balance in religion or phylosophy, others in all kinds of arts. Our tool is the art of fighting. While we learn to handle physical confrontation with body motions better and better, we practice attaining as effortless as possible harmony facing a partner. Our partner simulates for us the unpredictable life that we all are confronted with and teaches us like that, that the only way to take control of life, is to take control of our own inner fight. The less we fight in ourselves the better we can adjust to the circumstances our partner or later also life offers to us. This makes the art of fighting, Martial Arts, another art of inner balance and peace. The better we get, the less we need to fight. Seeking to bring our attention to that inner confrontation we invited our students into a 100 Man battel. The extreme confrontation with never-ending coming opponents for around 3,5 hours, forces the practitioner to reverse the view to the inside.

After a great first year of our Teacher Training Program, our first season comes to an end. Students from all over the world dedicated themselves to our second most intense frame of practice, in order to build up step by step a solid foundation of the Internal Martial Arts of Wudang Principles. Even the Covid 19 Pandemic situation couldn’t stop our work together and instead helped us to develop the program further so that now our training is always held online and offline. This opens the space for students from even farther away to join us. A good time now to look back and review how the last year went with one of our students. Andre is sharing with us in this video his experiences of the program. With his history in other Gong Fu schools as well as joining us online and offline, he brings a very wide view of the program and was, therefore, a very nice companion to talk about our last year. Thank you very much Andre for your time! And of course also a big big thank to all the other Teacher Training Students that gave everything the last year and brought all that motivation and work that made all of this possible!

Xing Yi Quan is the art of Shape-Shifting. Imitating the qualities of the 5 Elements and later on even the spirits of 10 Animals, Xing Yi Quan practitioners not only develop the ability to bring relaxed explosiveness into all directions and angles but also to fill the body with different movement qualities. In order to dive with us deeper into these concepts join our upcoming online 3-month course, in which I will teach and explain to you the basics of Wudang Principles Xing Yi Quan in a weekly 1 hour Xing Yi Class. Sign up at:

XING YI QUAN ONLINE COURSE