Pa-kua: Eight-trigram Boxing (Chinese Martial Arts Library)

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• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.24

  Unlike most martial arts, Chinese internal (soft-style) boxing does not depend upon muscular strength. The secret behind its power lies in the cultivation and practical application of internal energy - ch'i. There are basically three soft-style martial arts: T'ai-chi, already well known worldwide, and Hsing-i and Pa-kua, relative newcomers to the West. Although they are essentially not fighting arts but living arts, they are devastating as systems of self-defense.