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. The catalog previously listed the founder as Chen Xiaowang, which was a mix-up: that man is a master of Chen-style tai chi and has nothing to do with this system. 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, and the catalog therefore lists it as a modern synthesis rather than a traditional lineage. 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 earlier Czech name, Chinese Tactical Fencing, was therefore misleading, and the catalog has corrected it, since the system is not fencing in the narrow sense of the word. The web addresses remain unchanged. The only available source is the school's own materials, that is, a source about itself, and independent confirmation of either the founding year or the true scope of its curriculum could not be located; the catalog states this openly rather than presenting the school's own account as verified fact.
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