Qi Hongyu said: "Students, what we are going to learn today is the Nine Turns and Eight Steps of Dragon Heart Palm in Wudang Boxing. Wudang Nine Turns and Eight Steps of Dragon Heart Palm is a unique internal routine in the Wudang martial arts school. It is simple and classic. In cultivating elixirs and enlightening the Tao, maintaining health and self-defense, this skill is about walking lightly, like a swallow skimming water, like an ape leaping, doing whatever you want, like walking on flat ground, and the footwork is all based on the Tai Chi diagram, the Yin and Yang diagram, the Bagua diagram, and the Five Elements diagram. It is particularly in line with the principles of Tai Chi. Its boxing movements are elegant and beautiful, and have a sense of being free from the world. Practicing this boxing will make your body light, your feet strong, and your mood happy. The movement of the boxing and the refining of qi are combined, and the sense of qi is strong. In a short period of time, The Dantian is full and the Qi is transported throughout the body. It can receive the effect of boxing Qi and has the dual effects of martial arts and health preservation.
Let me explain below, what is the Nine Turns and Eight Steps Dragon Heart Palm in Wudang Boxing? The so-called "Nine Turns and Eight Steps Dragon Heart Palm", nine is the largest number, and rotation is the root of change, which means that this fist has many rotations. This is the most important, so it is called the nine turns. The eight steps are the circle of the Eight Diagrams, and they walk in the shape of a yin and yang S, also known as the eight steps. Nine turns and eight steps are intertwined, like a flying dragon, like a snake entwining. During the fist and walking steps, "the waist is like a dragon and a snake turning left and right, passing through and wrapping around the body." Do whatever you want, so there is a saying. In the practice of this boxing, there is no fist shape with the hands, but with the palm shape. Because the palm resembles a dragon's claw, it is called the Dragon Heart Palm.
Qi Hongyu continued: "The eight-step dragon heart palm of Wudang should be in accordance with the astronomical symbols, which is in line with the way of natural evolution. Tai Chi is born from Wuji, and the number of changes in yin and yang of the five elements is derived from the natural symbols of Bagua; it can provide insights into the meridians and the movement of qi and blood in the human body. The method is based on the principle of the mutual roots of yin and yang in the five internal organs; the earth can benefit from the qi of the four seasons, and the five grains will be born, the green mountains will not grow old, and the green water will flow forever. Use its natural way to transport its natural body, move its natural momentum, and restore it. It has a natural childlike body. It integrates the Yi Jing, the founding masterpiece of Chinese traditional culture, as well as the classics of the Five Elements Symbol Theory such as the Nei Jing, Ling, and Su, and integrates them into the superior legacy of Taoism.
The main moves of Wudang's Eight-step Dragon Heart Palm are as follows: the wind blows the lotus flower from left to right, and it spins left through the clouds with great speed. The movements of this move are required to be like flying clouds and flowing water, stepping on the feet and hanging in the air, with continuous penetration. It pays attention to slow and fast strikes, and a circle of eight methods. The boxing skills must be light, flexible, smooth, floating, unrestrained, well-proportioned, and without interruptions. Where they continue, there are no sharp points, just like clouds soaring, like water gurgling, crossing each other irregularly, connecting continuously, and the flow never stops.
The second main move is to turn the fish into a dragon and move around with a roar, and Chunyang throws his sleeves and flicks for more than ten feet. The movement of this move requires holding the chest and back when walking and punching, with Qi sinking in the Dantian, hitting slowly and quickly, with the feeling of being light and airy, like a white crane flying high, and feeling like an ethereal spirit. Boxing skills should enhance the internal strength of the legs and the smooth flow of qi and blood, so that the qi can stick to the lower burner and prevent the qi from rising up and going against the chest. It should penetrate the Shen Jin, Ming Jin, and internal and external Jin, so as to achieve the interdependence of the spirit and form, the upper part is empty and the lower part is solid. The result and state of ecstasy.
The main technique is to turn right through the clouds three times, capture the snake from the bottom of the sea and take it with you. This move emphasizes the word "quick", which requires stopping, swallowing, rotating, turning over, winding, rolling, caressing, and flexibly. It requires swallowing the body and shrinking the momentum, avoiding and accumulating, and entering into the lightning whirlwind. The bounce is like a whirlwind. , so that there is a way to pass through and turn, there is yin in yang, and there is yang in yin. If you advance, you will advance. If you cannot advance, you will lead. If there is a leading hand at the back, there must be a follow-up. It is designed to be worn in and out, and can be used front and back, up and down, left and right.
This boxing technique requires the ability to attack in every section of the body, to understand and integrate all kinds of techniques, and to roll the body forward. It only uses rolling to introduce misses, to take advantage of the trend, to be calm and calm, and to wait for the whole body to be full of energy. It has both spirit and form, and energy. Shun Er Shou Xia Jiao Cai's hands are clear, so that there is the wonderful combination of yin and yang and the overlapping use of hardness and softness.
The fourth main trick is the dragon walking and the snake walking on the branches, while the beautiful girl shuttles around in all directions. The movements of this move require the hand circle to be connected during walking and punching, the waist circle to rotate during movement, the leg to bend to walk into a circle, the circular movement of the six major joints of shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and body, the heart, The unified concentration of mind, energy, strength, momentum, vitality, concentration, softness and spirit.
Boxing should be done at will without any fixed posture, and the movements should be repeated and unsteady, so as to form a flexible and changeable, smooth movement of the whole body.
After Qi Hongyu said this, he also explained and taught Wudang Boxing's nine-turn eight-step Dragon Heart Palm martial arts routine.
After introducing the Nine Turns and Eight Steps Dragon Heart Palm, Qi Hongyu immediately took off his shirt, revealing his bronzed muscles that were like snakes and pythons swimming all over his body, and asked his classmates to learn boxing with him.
Then I played a complete set of Nine Turns and Eight Steps Dragon Heart Palm, and so many times after that.
After Qi Hongyu led everyone to punch a few times, he asked everyone to practice individually, while he guided and regulated the students' movements.
However, if boxing doesn’t work, the school’s teaching results must be reviewed!
"Which classmate wants the teacher to check how well they are mastering?" Qi Hongyu gathered everyone together and asked.
The elegant bird makes no sound, you can even hear a pin drop.
"Since no one is willing to let the teacher inspect the school, the teacher should call the roll! Qi Hongyu spoke again.
"Yamada!"
"arrive!"
"You come out and let the teacher check it! Oh, by the way, classmate Zhu Yu is also asked to come out. You two will use the content of the Nine Turns and Eight Steps Dragon Heart Palm you just learned to compete."
Zhu Houzhao and Yamada are about to compete in martial arts again. This is another time that the two leaders in the martial arts class of the graduate school are going head-to-head with each other. However, this time is slightly different from the past. This time, Zhu Houzhao is hunting for treasure in the Himalayas. After returning to martial arts class, the two had their first martial arts competition.
"Zhu Yu, I heard that you went to the Himalayas to hunt for treasure?" Yamada said coldly.
"Why, you know this too?" Zhu Houzhao responded simply.
"If I don't want others to know, I won't know about anyone or anything in school unless I don't do anything about it." Yamada said with a grim smile.
"What a shameless guy, so you know when I poop and fart?" Zhu Houzhao sneered.
"Don't talk too much! I also know that this time you searched for the Qiankun Sutra, you just found a tattered book without words, right?" Yamada raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
"I see you're still showing off, looking for tricks!" Zhu Houzhao was no longer too lazy to rub shoulders with Yamada, sneered, lowered his head, sunk his knees, spread the five fingers of his right hand into the palm of the dragon's heart, moved forward and upward from the bottom of the right side, and passed inward through the chest forward, draw an arc downward toward the abdomen, and then draw an arc with the left hand upward, inward, and downward, crossing the arm to the lower abdomen of the Dantian. At the same time, turn the waist first to the left, then to the right, and make a wind blow of the Dragon Heart Palm with nine turns and eight steps. The lotus swings left and right, the cloud piercing left spin comes quickly, the Dantian is hugged and walked, the Ba Bagua travels around the five lakes, and the moves suddenly hit Yamada.
Not to mention this move, just looking at this body technique is a bit sharp and lightning fast.
Movement and footwork cannot be generalized. Footwork focuses on small-scale dodges, while bodywork pursues movement speed. People with fast movement can completely strike first, leaving their opponents with no chance to react.
Obviously, Zhu Houzhao's moves are not only powerful, but he is also very accomplished in body skills. The two complement each other and are enough to become a nightmare for many people.
Unfortunately, this does not include Yamada.
Zhu Houzhao has quick moves and body skills, but Yamada's reactions are also quick.
"A good one who is learning and selling now?"
Yamada was a little surprised and a little angry. He didn't expect Zhu Yu to take action without saying hello, but he still quickly lowered his body, hugged his Dantian, inhaled while standing, drew arcs on both sides of his arms, and exhaled when his legs sank down. The appearance is as soft as a lotus blown by the wind, the strength of the legs on the lower body is doubled, the Dantian gradually becomes as hard as iron, the internal energy is abundant, and the rebound internal force is exerted. A nine-turn eight-step dragon heart palm's fish transforms into a dragon chant and goes left and right, pure Yang Zhu Houzhao was able to parry Zhu Houzhao's blow with his internal and external defense moves.
"Zhu Yu, it would be better if your moves and movements could be faster."
Yamada sneered.
"What? Don't be too happy too early, you will still suffer!" Zhu Houzhao's face turned red with anger, and he roared in the sky.
