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Pakua Chang (also known as ”Baguazhang”) is one of the Internal Martial Arts. It features circle-walking and palm changing. An expert in Pakua chang can combine two movements and perform them at the same time.😎

Circle-walking🏃🏻‍♂️ makes Pakua Chang unique and distinct from other martial arts because it is difficult to find another martial art that focuses on moving to the right or left of the opponents.➡️🙋🏻‍♂️⬅️

As for palm changing, practitioners need to coordinate their hips and abdominals for the movements instead of just swinging their hands.

Pakua Chang is extremely useful when you are facing more than one opponent because you need to move around and fight your opponents.😎😎

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This is “Crossing” (橫拳), also one of the “Five Elements Fist”🥇🌲🌊🔥🏜️, which was originally designed to attack the opponents when they are on our right or left.👥👥

In a real fight, however, it's much better to move yourself swiftly and face your opponent again when he/she is attacking you from the right or left.🤼‍♂️

Still, this movement is still useful for practicing how to mobilize pectorals💯 （chest muscles) instead of using our hands. Being able to mobilize chest muscles is useful on another occasion which I may talk more about in the future.

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This is “Exploding” (炮拳)💣👊🏻, also one of the “Five Elements Fist”🥇🌳🌊🔥🏜️. We can learn how to attack the opponents as well as defend the attack from the front at the same time.

We should stretch our abdominal muscles and latissimus dorsi when performing this movement instead of just swinging our hands.

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“Chopping” (劈拳) is one of the “Five Elements Fist”🥇🌳🌊🔥🏜️, the fundamental movement of Hsing-I Chuan. Practitioners can practice how to mobilize their abdominal muscles through this movement.

When the coordination between abdominal muscles and back muscles has improved, the power of “chopping” will also increase.👊🏻

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“Drilling” is one of the “Five Elements Fist” 🥇🌲🌊🔥🏞️(鑽拳), the fundamental movement of Hsing-I Chuan. You can learn how to hit the chin of your opponent.🧛🏻‍♂️

It is important to mobilize your abdominal muscles for moving the hands upward instead of just swinging your hands.👋🏻 The use of core muscle can greatly increase the power and speed of the fist.👍🏻

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“Crushing Fist” (崩拳) is one of the “Five Elements Fist”, 🥇🌳🌊🔥🏜️the fundamental movement of Hsing-I Chuan. You can learn how to attack the opponent in front of you.

There are two fists in this movement, the former one and the latter one. Contrary to popular belief, both of them are aimed at attacking the opponent. You should rotate your hips, stretch your back muscles as well as mobilize your abdominal muscles when you are practicing the “Crushing Fist”.🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️

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“Bend Bow to Shoot Tiger” (彎弓射虎)🏹🐅 is a movement for practicing punching as well as body coordination.👊🏻

You need to rotate your hips and mobilize your back muscles to punch the opponent. If you want to hit his/her chin, it is necessary to stretch your abdominal muscles instead of just raising your hands.

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“Step back to ride the tiger” (退步跨虎) 🦸🏻‍♂️🐅is a movement for practicing how to step backward🦵🏻 when there is a failure on you attack😭 and your opponent takes this opportunity to fight back immediately. 🥺

What you need to do is to stretch your latissimus dorsi for attaching their hand and rotate your hips in order to step back. You should be aware that the distance of your step back depends on the force generated by your opponent.😎

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“Step Forward to Seven Stars” (上步七星)🏃🏻‍♂️✨✨🌟 is a movement for practicing blocking the punch and stepping forward at the same time.

You need to stretch your latissimus dorsi as well as back muscles to block the attack instead of using your forearms.👊🏻👊🏻

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“White Snake Spits out Tongue”🐍👅 (白蛇吐信) can be used for breaking the defense of your opponent and attacking the center line of his/her body.

This movement is similar to “Part the Wild Horse's Mane”(野馬分鬃)🐎🐎 but the latter aims to move the hand of the opponent away from the center line.

In order to perform the movement properly, practitioners are required to rotate their hips instead of just swinging their hands.👋🏻

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“Strike Tiger”(打虎式)👊🏻🐅 is a movement for practicing blocking🙅🏻‍♂️ the punch from high level as well as immediately fighting back 🤛🏻🤛🏻against the opponent.🦸🏻‍♂️ Practitioners are required to mobilize their abdominal muscles and rotate their hips to block the punch.

By making good use of the rotation of the hips, one can immediately fight back with another hand. The key to practicing this movement is to focus on the rotation of your hips.💫

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“Step Forward and Punch Down” (進步栽捶) 🏃🏻‍♂️👊🏻 is a movement for strengthening the abdominals and the spine.  In this movement, practitioners are required to mobilize their abdominal muscles as well as back muscles in order to move their upper bodies forward.🦸🏻‍♂️

This movement can also increase the coordination of the back muscles, abdominal muscles as well as latissimus dorsi. 😎😎😎In order to increase the power and speed of the punch, you need to synchronize the stretching of three parts of your body.💯💯

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