Baji Zhandao
A modern Chinese system founded in 2007 that combines bajiquan with other styles. Practiced empty-handed and with weapons, from the dagger to the spear.
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About Baji Zhandao
Baji Zhandao is a modern Chinese combat system created in 2007 by Chen Fusheng. Its base is bajiquan, the fist of eight extremities, to which the founder, in his own words, added elements of seven further directions, among them piqua tongbei, bagua, tai chi, and xingyi; he devoted fifty years to training in them. The system itself explicitly describes itself as a new school rather than an inherited tradition. Its curriculum comprises six empty-hand forms, a dagger form, a form intended for sparring, and a two-person paired exercise; among weapons it trains the saber, the spear, the long sword, and the staff. The system is not fencing in the narrow sense of the word. The only available source is the school's own materials, that is, a source about itself; we have not so far been able to find independent confirmation of either the founding year or the true scope of its training, and we keep looking for it. According to the school's materials, the founder received his training from five teachers; he died in March 2022.
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