Portland Bagua Martial Arts

Bagua Zhang is a Chinese internal martial art with Daoist origins. The core of the system lies in the practice of walking the circle. However, many generations of practitioners have added significantly to the system increasing the broadness of its content.

In the Yi Zong branch of Gao Style Bagua there are three components to the system Pre Heaven Bagua consists of two elements, circle  walking and Pre  Heaven Palm Changes.

Pre Heaven Palm Changes:

Single Palm Change

1. Smooth Body Palm (Snake)
2. Piercing Body Palm (Dragon)
3. Returning Body Palm (Tiger)
4. Overturning Body Palms (Swallow)
5. Turning Body Palm
6. Twisting Body Palm
7. Behind The Back Palm
8. Spinning Body Palm

Black Dragon Swings it’s Tail

Post Heaven Bagua is composed of eight sets of straight line forms each containing eight movements

Line 1 – Guiding Principles
Line 2 – Hitting Methods
Line 3 – Clever Methods
Line 4 – Subtle methods
Line 5 – Elbow Methods
Line 6 – Leg Methods
Line 7 – Stepping Methods
Line 8 – Body Methods

Auxiliary Training consists of basic hand training, body training, stepping methods, as well as internal work (nei gong).