The Way through Baguazhang - 八卦掌道

Sometimes I wish I could tell people that once you have discovered the Tao, your life will miraculously get better and that everything that has happened in your life prior to enlightenment would have been worth it. But the truth is, the Tao professed in spiritual circles is a lot more exciting in The Imagination of Beforehand , than when you actually get there. Part of the problem stems from seeki...

Weeks, months, days and years. Our sense of time has been distorted by the mechanical clock. And in this modern world, we live in an impatient timescale. Everything has to be short and concise, otherwise we get bored easily. It has been eighty-four days and our weiqi (go/baduk) game has been going strong through the social media platforms. But because we both only make one, single, move per day -...

In the Baguazhang Art of War series, there are at the moment four titles available. The first title is called ‘The Baguazhang Art of War’. The second title is called ‘The Baguazhang Qigong Illustrated through 64 I-Ching inspired Postures’. The third title is ‘The Baguazhang Tao of War’. And now there is a fourth book in the series called, ‘The Baguazhang I-Ching of the Genchitaofu Way’. This fourt...

Well, it has finally happened. I have died and come back. And through it all, I just kept on playing the game with my American opponent. One move per day: One black stone for him and one white stone for me. Now, I didn’t actually die but an attempt to shut the game down was made. It came from a source that on one level had nothing to do with the game, yet the signs were there in hindsight. So now...

I am truly glad and grateful that my baguazhang martial arts journey initially had nothing to do with qigong. If it did, I think I would either be a tree hugging peace loving hippie or trying to cultivate enlightenment on a diet of meditations, pine nuts and springwater. But as the universe would have it, there is nothing in the cosmic rulebook that says it has to be so. Nor do I want it to be so....

It's been fifty-one days. Fifty-one days of fifty-one black stones and fifty-one white stones vying for control over the weiqi (go/baduk) board. That is longer than the recent hot war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. And we are still going strong. Which is a good thing because both of us would love to drop a daisycutter on each others' asses, but the ratings seem to favour death by ninja stealth mo...

My articles and podcasts on the 'gong' part of gongfu, have been to my readers and listeners both clarifying and disappointing in equal measure. For those seeking clarity, it had helped to give a distinct clear watermark on how to measure 'gong' as a definable outcome. And for the rest, it has been disappointing because now they know that there is no way to cheat the process. Either you are in it...

Dealing with ghosts and demons - And the usage of 'spirit swords' in one's baguazhang sword form practice.

So much of martial arts these days is focused on the physical. Can a person kick, punch and wrestle to overcome their opponent (if there is one)? Yet, as I play weiqi or Go against my American opponent, I start to understand that the over-reliance on the physical, is just a mask. A mask to hide deep fundamental flaws in one's training. And that flaw is the rejection of what it means to be human as...

So recently while playing against my American opponent, we both have come to enjoy the pace of our game, with each of us making one move per day. This gives us both twenty-four hours to ponder over our moves before we must place a stone on the board. And despite the thousands of mental calculations possible, both of us settle down to a handful of possible moves. And it's really a case of hypotheti...

Thanks to the success of my little book '圍棋戰聖: The Weiqi Art of War', it has inspired people to pick up the game, and use playing the game as a way to develop their strategic thinking in business, life, war and in areas of life I would not of thought of being related. Well actually... When I think about it, it should not surprise me at all. The game of weiqi (go/baduk), after all, is a form of...

I know for a fact that many of you are struggling to come to terms with the 'gong' of gongfu and qigong. I know this because my podcasts around gongfu are nearly always my worst performing podcasts. It seems to me that most of you don't like the hard work involved to reach mastery, and you think that by listening to my podcasts and reading my books will give you the 'secret' to easy ambitions. But...

Nobody can tell you how hard you have to work. Nobody can tell you how much effort you have to put into it. And nobody can tell you how to do it. But the numbers never ever lie. If your goal is to be a gongfu master as in what gongfu actually means, then you will have to face the truth and the facts. And just because baguazhang is an internal martial art, that is no excuse for not putting in the w...

Welcome to the circus. There is a rare Chinese martial art called Dog Style Kungfu or Dog Style Fist. It is an external martial art and the practitioners move around like domesticated dogs. Now, for most of you, when I say Dog Style, you are thinking either about guard dogs, working dogs or the dogs used in illegal dog fights. But the movements are none of that. Logically our default images make s...

Wow! It's been an amazing eight months. In those eight months, I have published four books around the martial art of baguazhang. No. 1: The Baguazhang Art of War; No. 2: The Baguazhang Qigong illustrated through 64 I-Ching inspired Postures; No. 3: The Baguazhang Tao of War; and... No. 4: The Baguazhang I-Ching of the Genchitaofu Way. And for those of you, who are reading them, you will have notic...

It's been another five months, and while 2020 is turning into a stressful year for a lot of people, I have found my own experience being something closer to boring. Okay, well maybe not totally boring: I published six books on Amazon.com, and started an international weiqi game that you can follow on Instagram as part of The Weiqi Art of War, made visual for the people who don't read or listen to...

After I did the podcast 'Daddy..., You're just no fun anymore', I showed the transcript to my daughter. She asked me if people would listen to it, and I told her it would make her famous. For the next few days after that, all was quiet. Peace returned to my home and I took my wife's advice to not start any more wars against my children. Then after a week of peace: Whack!! My daughter punched me di...

This is a long-ish podcast. About 9 minutes long. I wasn't intending it to be this long but on Facebook I was asked why I spell it with a 'T' instead of a 'D'. I hope this episode makes sense to all of you who want to know.

A thank you to Master Neil Andrew Ripski in Canada and all who purchased "The Baguazhang Art of War" on Amazon.com. I have now followed it up with "The Baguazhang Tao of War".

To answer a few questions in one hit, the Genchitaofu Baguazhang system is about allowing the baguazhang practitioner to experience baguazhang in their everyday life outside of the dojo club or boxing ring. When I first began baguazhang, my goals centred around wanting to be a bonafide martial artist, and healing my body from the corruption of the modern consumerist lifestyle. Compared to most peo...

The traditional Chinese character for qi is made up of two parts. The first upper part is the character for air. The second lower part is the character for rice. For a lot of rice eating countries, rice is the staple and represents earthly qi; earthly nourishment. And by further extension: A person's wealth. From time to time, you will notice that I will talk about qi and wealth combined. They are...

Well, I did it again. I published another book in this fine month of August, two thousand and twenty. Three books in a row this month. The first book is called The Weiqi Art of War. The second book is called Suntzu's Art of War in Thirteen Acts. And now I present to you The Baguazhang Art of War. And all are available on Amazon.com. My latest book, The Baguazhang Art of War, is for people that wan...

For those of you who want to know, this is what it's sometimes like raising martial art daughters. It just makes me proud to know that when they grow up they will hold their own. 🙂 For those of you who want a taste of the life, this is what it's like to live in a martial arts family raising daughters. This morning I woke up my youngest daughter with the threat that she was gonna go down this morn...

YAY! My second book Suntzu's Art of War in Thirteen Acts is now available on Amazon.com This book is for all you higher flyers out there who don't have the time for long winded academic sludge! This book is very short and very sweet. Written by me. A guys who actually knows what he's talking about: Experience!

Thank you Edwardo (not his real name) for your question. Why should you indeed. Hmmmm... Here's my reply mixed in with a "wait, but there's more" sales pitch! But seriously, you purchase the book on Amazon.com Just click on the link to take you directly there 👉 https://www.amazon.com/圍棋戰聖-Weiqi-Art-Peter-Hainzl-ebook/dp/B08FCLFLS9/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1597300208&refinements=p_27%3APete...