MengCun Baji Quan Training Center


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  Программа Mengcun Баджи Quan Учебный центр ..
$ 643
  Программа Mengcun Баджи Quan Учебный центр ..
$ 643

MengCun Baji Quan Training Center



MengCun Baji Quan Training Center
 

 

The MengCun Baji Quan international training center (孟村八极拳国际训练中心) was built in 2006. It spreads over 6660 square meters, with a huge outside training ground and an indoor training hall that covers 520 square meters + a fight training room equipped with a fighting ring.  The center includes about 20 standard rooms clean and fully equipped (cf. the "Terms & conditions" paragraph below). The center also comprises a common dining room, a couple of offices and a small shop where you will find everything you need during your stay (drinks, food, training clothes and shoes, weapons, etc.). You can also find some shops in Mengcun city center itself, only a short walk away from the training center (see Travelling to Mengcun section for travelling infos).
 
Most international students will train in the training hall. Training hours are from 9H-12H en 14H-17H, but “die hard” Baji fanatics will be pleased to know that you can also participate to  an evening trainings.
 
Terms & conditions
Lodging standard conditions : 2 person room with heating, air conditioning, private bathroom and toilet, drinkable water, satellite TV and WIFI. For people wishing to stay in an individual room, an additionnal fee of 500 RMB/month is applied.

The above mentioned fees have to be paid monthly, or as a lump sum when entering the school. In the latter case, no refund will be granted if a student leaves the school in the  middle of his training period.
Payment can be done cash (RMB or Euros) or via bank transfer (contact us for more information).
In terms of origin, the most established consensus is that Bajiquan is traced back to Mengcun county, Cangzhou city, Hebei province, China; the other belief is that Bajiquan originated from the Yueshan Temple in the Henan province.  There is also the debate of whether or not Bajiquan comes from Shaolin (少林;Shàolín) or Wudang (武当;wǔdāng), which is ongoing and has not been settled.  Although there is no confirmation as to who the founder of Bajiquan was, it has long been established that the earliest known practitioner of Bajiquan was Wu Zhong.  In olden times, the style’s name was “Baziquan” (巴子拳; bāziquán or 鈀子拳; bǎziquán), which translates to “rake fist”; this is based on the shape of the fist in the style itself, which in most traditional branches of the style, is held loosely, and therefore likened to a rake.  Its alternative, or rather, full and “original” name, is “Kaimenbajiquan” (开门八极拳; kāiménbājíquán, literally “open doors/gates Bajiquan”).  The first two Chinese characters of 开门 (kāimén; to open doors/gates) in this full name have an analogous meaning, where the second character 门 (mén) means “door” or “gate”, which in the culture of Chinese martial arts, refers in turn to vulnerable areas of attack on the body, divided by height and side.  In this context, the first character 开 (kāi; literally to “open”) refers to the opening of the various 门, which can be translated as “opening” areas to attack.  This concept evokes what kind of fighting ideas and strategies are involved within Bajiquan training and techniques.  The term Baji (八极; bājí, Eight Extremes/extension in all directions) itself comes from the Chinese philosophical book of Yijing (易经; Yìjīng, Classic/Book of Changes) and Chinese and Daoist philosophy, like Taiji (太极; Tàijí, grand ultimate), Wuji (无极; wújí, extreme emptiness), and Bagua (八卦; bāguà, Eight Trigrams), which also refer to styles of Chinese martial arts.
 
In the traditional Chinese martial arts community, Bajiquan has an established and well-respected reputation.  In Chinese history, Bajiquan was the known style taught to the bodyguards of Pu Yi (the last emperor of China and the Qing dynasty), Mao Zedong, and Chiang Kai-shek; this has made Bajiquan known as the “style of bodyguards.”  In popular media, Bajiquan has also been prominently featured in Japanese games such as Virtua Fighter and Shenmue as mentioned before, as well in the Japanese manga (漫画; Japanese comics, also the term for the original Chinese “mànhuà” genre of literature) Kenji (拳児) by Ryuchi Matsuda, who has studied and practices Chinese martial arts.  Bajiquan seems to have a special place of respect in Japanese popular media, and is translated in Japanese as “Hakkyokuken.”
 
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