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WUDANG ZHAO BAO TAIJIQUAN (ZHAOBAO)
| ORIGINS | LINEAGE | CHARACTERISTICS -I, II, III- | FORM |
ZHAO BAO CHARACTERISTICS (I)
Zhao Bao is a quite vigorous style and holds, externally, some similarity with Chen style but many are the aspects that make them different, one from the other. The method for the practise is not similar at all and differences are even more evident when comparing the theorical principles. Methods for the training of "xiu lian " (taoist cultivation) are completely followed within Zhao Bao style.
One of its seven rules, wich are detailed later, says that the knee must be kept perpendicular to the ankle, both of them within the same plan (different from yang style, where the knee may reach further, though, never further than the bigtoe). This requisite avoids the risk for damaging such a delicate joint. It´s in this way that time along with an improvement of kung-fu skillness will allow the achievement of such low postures that the knee touches the ground, as the ones you can see in the next pictures. No joint is damaged because it is the hip that works mainly; by the time this levels of practise are reached the hip is open and flexible already.
This style, as Chen and others, also has "zhan si" (silk rolling, sometimes written "chan si") but principles are different.
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Seen from the outside, Zhao Bao stands out for its vigour, plastic beauty and the apparent difficulty of its performance. |
The next ones are, more precisely, the main characteristics that define this style:
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