The mud stepping is a method of training that derived from Chinese Wrestling, which is why you see it more in Cheng Style, since that was his martial background prior to studying with Donghaichuan. Yin Fu was a Luo Han Chuan expert and that's why the walking method is more rolling than mud walking. I have heard the pure monastic circle walking that was mostly a chi gong meditation, which Baguazhang adopted as its foundation and mixed it with martial applications, originally used mud walking to learn to generate chi from the feet to the shins and directly to the hands. That Donghaichuan was frustrated at times with Yin Fu because he was only interested in his martial technique but neglected the meditation... ...take that with a grain of salt. That rumor stems from Cheng Family Baguazhang. I'm sure there's a lot of pride there between families that all like to claim "they got the real stuff". Don't get caught up in it. Just practice and develop the skill. People can either demonstrate it or they cannot, and what someone claims others did is irrelevant if it can't be reproduced today.
Thank you! Very clear instruction!!
Thank You, Sifu.
Yin Fu taught Gong Bao-tien. Gong taught Liu Yun- chiao. Liu taught Dr Leung Kay-chi, my teacher.
Is mud-stepping part of this style or is it normal to do a rolling step?
I learned the natural or rolling step with this set of 8
The mud stepping is a method of training that derived from Chinese Wrestling, which is why you see it more in Cheng Style, since that was his martial background prior to studying with Donghaichuan.
Yin Fu was a Luo Han Chuan expert and that's why the walking method is more rolling than mud walking.
I have heard the pure monastic circle walking that was mostly a chi gong meditation, which Baguazhang adopted as its foundation and mixed it with martial applications, originally used mud walking to learn to generate chi from the feet to the shins and directly to the hands.
That Donghaichuan was frustrated at times with Yin Fu because he was only interested in his martial technique but neglected the meditation...
...take that with a grain of salt. That rumor stems from Cheng Family Baguazhang. I'm sure there's a lot of pride there between families that all like to claim "they got the real stuff".
Don't get caught up in it. Just practice and develop the skill. People can either demonstrate it or they cannot, and what someone claims others did is irrelevant if it can't be reproduced today.
Good Instruction , but I don't believe this is Yin Fu baguazhang.
Belief aside, this is a well-documented lineage.
I lived in Boston when Leung was still teaching. He only taught forms.