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How Ba Gua’s 12 Standing Postures Open the Meridians
One of the interesting things about the Chinese internal arts is the many different levels of practice possible even in the most fundamental exercises. Ba Gua’s 12 Standing Postures are a good example of this. Each of the twelve postures builds strength and develops power by creating spiral twists that run through the whole body. These lines of torsion increase the power at the endpoints (for example: the extended hand, or the foot rooting into the floor) by “lining up the body” to create a unified structure.
The twelve postures also open and close the “cavities” of the body – the spaces that hold the organs, and through which Qi and blood flow. A specific posture guides, or draws, the Qi and breath, so that it flows more to one area than another. Through a similar mechanism, the postures also open and activate the Jing-Luo (channels and collaterals) or meridians. Each posture opens and activates a different meridian or group of meridians.
This article makes the assumption that you are familiar with the Jing-Luo and their general pathways. Much of this material is covered in some detail in the book, Ba Gua Circle Walking Nei Gong – the Meridian Opening Palms of Ba Gua Zhang. The Circle Walking Nei Gong posture
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There is a tendency in the Chinese, and increasingly in the Japanese, martial arts to venerate “standing post” training - what is known as zhan zhuang (站樁 - literally “standing like a post”). In particular the internal arts of China are known for this practise. Even more particularly, the art of yiquan (意拳 - literally “concept fist”) focuses almost entirely on this as a martial training method.
Yiquan, which is also called “da cheng quan” (大成拳 - literally “great achievement boxing”), was developed by xingyiquan master Wang Xiangzhai(26 November 1885 - 12 July 1963). One of his students was the Taiwan-based martial artist Wang Shujin(a master of xingyiquan, baguazhang and taijiquan who happens to have also been one of my grandmaster Chen Pan Ling'smain students).
In Japan the yiquan tradition was continued by Kenichi Sawai, founder of the school of taikiken (体気拳 - literally “mind and spirit fist”).
So what is the point of “standing post training”? Can it have any martial function at all? Clearly Wang Shujin, a respected and well-attested and experienced full-contact fighter, felt so. However things tend to get more than a little clouded when