Yin Style: Yin Fu 尹福
Yin Fu (1840-1909) was Dong's earliest disciple in the Prince of Su’s palace, and later became personal bodyguard to the Empress Dowager. Yin styles include a large number of percussive techniques and fast striking combinations, explosive movements and very quick and evasive footwork. Variations of the Yin Fu style have been passed down through his students and their students, including Men Baozhen, Ma Kui, Gong Baotian, Fu Zhensong, and Lu Shuitian.
Yin style Baguazhang includes eight sections corresponding to eight distinct animal styles, each with eight postures. The sixty-four posture palm change is practiced in circle walking. Each of the eight animal styles is related to one of the eight trigrams of the I Ching
Each animal is a complete system in its own right, possessing its own personality, skills, applications, and functions. Each of the eight animal systems contains eight striking methods, and each striking method has seven strikes, making a total of 448 unique strikes. In addition to the eight animal systems, Xie Peiqi's Yin style includes several "unorthodox" systems, such as the Penetrating Palm and Backhand systems. There are four basic practice methods in Yin Style Baguazhang: Standing, turning, striking, and changing. These practices are the basic pillars of the style, and are all considered equally important.
Cheng Style: Cheng Ting Hua 程廷華
Cheng Tinghua (1848 – 1900), the fourth disciple of Dong Haiquan, was shot while resisting German soldiers during the Boxer Rebellion. Due to Cheng Tinghua's extensive background in shuaijiao (Chinese wrestling) throwing techniques, Cheng style emphasizes throwing techniques.
The special characteristics of Cheng Style Baguazhang are a stepping method that uses a small hook step and a large swing step, and the Dragon Claw palm. In the Dragon Claw palm, the thumb is spread wide, the tiger's mouth is curved and pushed up, the second, third and fourth fingers are slightly spread apart, and the little finger and fourth finger are in contact with each other.[15] Each Cheng substyle uses as its technical basis eight basic palms (Badamuzhang 八大母掌), from which more complicated linking forms are derived. Of the eight basic palms, only the first three (Laosanzhang, 老三掌) are considered to have been passed down by Cheng Tinghua himself.
These three palms are:
Single Change Palm (單換掌)
Double Change Palm (雙換掌)
Smooth Posture Palm (順勢掌)
Jiang Style: Jiang Rong Qiao 姜容樵
Jiang Style Baguazhang (姜氏八卦掌) is the style of Baguazhang (八卦掌) taught by Jiang Rong Qiao (姜容樵, also anglicized as Chiang Jung Ch’iao, 1890-1974) was a student of both Zhang Zhao Dong and Cheng Tinghua, both of whom were formal students of Baguazhang founder Dong Haiquan (董海川). Jiang Rong Qiao's Neijia kung fu is the most widely practiced combined style of Baguazhang and Xingyiquan in the world today. Jiang’s Bauguazhang is distinguished by an emphasis on efficiency of movement and an ambidextrous approach.
Zheng Dinghua styles of Baguazhang include palm changes which are done in a smooth and flowing manner, with little display of overt power (Zheng Dinghua's movement was likened to that of a dragon soaring in the clouds). Popular variants of this style include the Gao Yisheng system, Dragon style Baguazhang, "Swimming Body" Baguazhang, the Nine Palace system, Jiang Rongqiao style (probably the most common form practiced today) and the Sun Ludang style.
Liang Style: Liang Zhen Pu 梁振蒲
Liang Zhenpu (梁振蒲) (1863-1932) had little martial arts training before studying under Dong, and his Baguazhang shows little influence from other styles. He studied with Dong for about five years and also learned from Dong's other students including Cheng Tinghua, Yin Fu, Shi Jidong, and Liu Fengchun.[18] Liang Style Baguazhang forms are the most circular in nature among the Baguazhang variants. The Liang Zhenpu style was popularized by his student Li Ziming (1902-1993), who was the president of the Beijing Baguazhang Association for many years and who did much to spread his style around the world. It ia largely practiced in Beijing.
Gao Style: Gao Yisheng (高義盛)
Gao Yisheng (高義盛, 1866-1951), originally studied with Song Changrong (宋長榮), and later studied with one of Cheng's students, Zhou Yuxiang,(周玉祥). Gao style is one of the most widely practiced Baguazhang styles in the West; there are also many practitioners in Tianjin and Taiwan. The Gao style system, because of Gao's own martial progression over time, has a number of different permutations. Gao style divides training into two categories: Pre-heaven (先天) and post-heaven (後天). Pre-heaven training includes walking the circle and practicing changing palms on the circle; this material is similar to that found in the other Cheng styles. Post-heaven training consists of 64 linear palms (六十四掌) said to be passed down by a man known as Song Yiren (宋益仁); these palms are unique to the Gao system.
Fu Style Fu Chen Sung (傅振嵩
Fu Chen Sung (傅振嵩, 1881-1953) was a third-generation baguazhang instructor from Henan, and a soldier under Sun Yat-sen. When the Central National Arts Gymnasium was founded in Nanjing in 1928, Fu Chen Sung was made Chief Instructor of Bagua, emphasizing in his teachings fast precise footwork and waist strength. In late 1928 or 1929, the Central Gymnasium sent Fu south to teach at the Kuang Hsi and Guangzhou provincial school, called the Liang Kuang Kuo Shu Kuan (兩廣國術館) (The Two Kuang's Martial Arts School). Fu Chen-Sung was the first master to teach northern internal styles like taiji quan and baguazhang in Canton.
Shi Style
Yin Yang Style (Tian Style)
Sun Style: Sun Lu-t'ang
Liu Style: Liu Bao Zhen 刘宝珍
Scusa se ieri non ho postato questo ma ero stanco morto. Non e' il top ma e' preciso.
PS: non prendere per certe tutte le info, sono generalizzazioni. Ad esempio lo stile Cheng avvolte e' visto diversamente e cosi' anche gli altri.
ciao
M.