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Title: Pa-Kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness & Self-Defense

Author: Smith, Robert W.

Published: 2003

ISBN: 1556434391

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PA-KUA

CHINESE BOXING

FOR FITNESS & SELF-DEFENSE

Robert W. Smith

North Atlantic Books

Berkeley, California

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Table of Contents

Cover design by Jan Camp

Printed in Canada

Pa-Kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness & Self-Defense is sponsored by the Society

for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation

whose goals are to develop an educational and crosscultural perspective linking

various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sci-

ences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the

relationship of mind, body, and nature.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

IN PLACE OF AN INTRODUCTION

BEGINNINGS AND BACKGROUND

The Name and the Philosophy; Origin and the Great

Masters

II.

A BEGINNING METHOD

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The Eighteen Exercises; The Forms and Functions;

Afterthoughts and Examination

III. THE CLASSICAL CIRCLING EXERCISE AND ITS

MODIFICATIONS

113

Kuo Feng-Ch'ih's Advice; The Main Principles;

Other Principles to Master; Things to A void;

To "Feel"; The Concept of the Circle; Quiet

Standing; Beginning to Move; Single Palm Change

(Tan Huan Chang); Double Palm Change (Shuang

Huan Chang); Shake Posture (She) ; Lion Posture

(Szu); Standing Palm Posture (Li Chang); Dragon

Posture (Lung); Hawk Posture (Yao)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Robert W., 1926-

Pa-Kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness & Self-Defense I by Robert W. Smith

p. cm.

Originally published: Tokyo : Kodansha International, 1967.

ISBN 1-55643-439-1 (pbk.)

1. Kung fu. I. Title.

GV1114.7 .S5415 2003

796.815'5—dc21

2003036006

CIP

1234 5 6789 TRANS 07 06 05 04 03 02

Preface to the New Edition

Acknowledgments

No ONE, least of all the author, would have thought that a book

written and first issued thirty years ago would be republished in a

new century. Pa-Kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness and Self-Defense

was the first book on "palm boxing" to be released in English.

Over the years it gained many readers and helped to introduce

this art to the western world. For many, it would be their first notion

of Chinese internal boxing (nei-chia). Taiji and Hsing-i combine

with Pa-Kua to make up the internal or soft boxing system as dis-

tinguished from the hard boxing usually subsumed under the name

Shaolin.

I had studied all three under top-drawer teachers in Taiwan

(including Paul Kuo, Wang Shu-chin, and Hung I-hsiang). What-

ever proficiency I gained was because of their skill. I was very lucky.

Now so many years later, I'm pleased to see Pa-Kua emerge

again. I hope it helps a new generation to find joy in this old but

evergreen art.

THE AUTHOR thanks the following persons for their assistance in

the preparation of this work:

Editorial review: E. Gunberg and T. Stanhope

Functional review: B. Fusaro and D. Slater

Graphics: R. Mischke, W. Neisler, and R. Denny

Typewriting: S. Jackson

Others helped. The Davis Library in Bethesda, Md. provided

serene surroundings and librarians whose eyes diplomatically

dodged each time the author bounded from his chair to "walk

through" a tactic. The author's wife proxied for him in building

the patio and painting the house, further diminishing his prestige

with his neighbors, but giving him time to write. The greatest debt,

however, is owed Kuo Feng-ch'ih, his Pa-kua teacher in Taiwan.

Paul (to use his Christian name) Kuo not only taught me the rudi-

ments of the art but also posed for many of the photographs and

reviewed the manuscript. To all who helped, the author says with

H. Belloc:

For no one, in our long decline,

So dusty, spiteful and divided,

Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,

Or loved them half as much as I did.

—Robert W. Smith

Hendersonville, N.C.

2003

In Place of an Introduction

THERE ARE few books even in Chinese on Pa-kua Chang (palm)

or Pa-kua Ch'uan (boxing). This is not only the first book on the

art in a foreign language, but also the first to present the circling

method with its functions balanced against a more linear method

which initially may have more appeal for Westerners. The more

linear system is the result of three years of study under Huang I-

hsiang ( ), senior student of Chang Chun-feng ( ), one

of the leading boxers in Formosa. For the classical circling method,

I have used extensively the two best books written on the art to

date, Sun Lu-t'ang's Pa-kua Ch'uan Hsueh ("Study of Pa-kua Box-

ing," Peking, 1916), and Huang Po-nien's Lung Hsing Pa-kua

Chang ("Dragon Shape Pa-kua Palm," Shanghai, 1936). Master

Sun, whose "eyes were very high" (meaning he stood above most

boxers), is known and revered by many Chinese. His book forms

the basis of the circling system presented here. Huang's book re-

veals how the art had been modified in the twenty years following

issuance of the Sun text. To show the present circling methods, I

have used the teaching of Kuo Feng-ch'ih ( ), my personal

teacher; Chen P'an-ling ( ), the world's leading authority on

Chinese boxing; and Wang Shu-chin (

ter Chang Chao-tung ( ).

Why write a book on a subject about which even few Chinese

know? Simply, to inform Western readers about a discipline

worthy of far wider recognition than it now has. Although Pa-kua

is self-defense par excellence, it is also an excellent system of ex-

), pupil of famed Mas-

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