Interessante intervista
http://www.chusaulei.com/martial/articles/articles_bagua_interview.htmldalla quale copio un breve passaggio:
"Regarding Ba Gua, I know that you have studied different lineages of the art. Why did you feel the need to study various versions rather than sticking to one?
I actually had only brief exposures to other ba gua styles, most before I met Gong Baozai. Like many of my taiji colleagues in the 70's, I was fascinated with ba gua and took various workshops offered by different teachers.
Until I met Gong Baozai, none of the styles I studied put me in conflict with other internal styles. I could keep practicing ba gua zhang, taiji quan, qi gong, xing yi quan, all with no disagreement. However, the open body style Gong Baozai taught was so different from what I call the "turtle back" posture. Opening my chest, pulling in my abdomen and sticking out my buttocks seemed contradictory to what I had learned was "internal," and it at first made me feel weak. This is the reason I didn't practice his style seriously for many years; I didn't possess the emotional strength to hold my body open that way. Another reason was that because it was practiced so radically different from other internal styles, dedicating myself solely to ba gua quan would have alienated me from the greater martial arts community. "
Traduco la parte sottolineata:
"[...] Fino a quando incontrai Gong Baozhai, nessuno degli stili che avevo studiato mi aveva mai creato conflitto con [la pratica di] altri stili interni. Avevo potuto continuare a praticare ba gua zhang, taiji quan, qi gong, xing yi quan tutti senza alcuna contraddizione. Lo stile a 'corpo aperto' che Gong Baozhai insegnava pero' era cosi' diverso da quello che io chiamo postura a "schiena della tartagura" [hanxiong/petto concavo]. Aprire il petto, far rientrare l'addome e mandare in fuori il mio sedere sembrava contrario a quanto avevo appreso come "interno" [...]"
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