"Training martial arts ceaselessly is inferior to walking the circle. In Pa Kua Zhang the circle walk practice is the font of all training."
-Dong Hai-Chuan
"To protect the center line of one’s own and to control that of the other’s are for the purpose of coping with any possible situation."
-Wang Xiang-Zhai
Prerequisite: You must start with Level I and progress to higher levels.
Level I: Basics
- Standing
- Waist strengthening
- 2 basic hands
- Medicine ball, sand ball, bean bag
- Circle walk
- Hook step & swing step
- Palm strikes
- Low kicks
- Single palm change
- Bridge hands
- Trapping
- Double palm change
- Ch'in-Na joint-locking techniques
- Blocks & defenses
- 8 inner palms
- 4 basic sticking hands
- Master Choi's weight routine
- Master Chan's forearm conditioning
Level II: 64 Palms
- Original 64 Palms
- Yao San Sam Sao
- Pa-Kua deer horn knives
Level III: Swimming Dragon
- Swimming Dragon Form
- Chase Hands