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Any CMA people ever hear of an art called Ship Pal Gae? Pal Gae is Korean for Bagua I believe. I have some forms called Pal Gae 1, 2, 3, etc. There are supposedly 8 of these forms. There is the standard Bagua palms open "on guard" position in a few moves. These forms are not linear or circle walking of nature. The stances are performed very much in place taking only single steps out from the center starting point in different directions. Pal Gae 1 for example has 16 moves. I learned these forms while mixed up with the Wacky Chung Moo Quan bunch and these forms are one of the few reasons I stuck around for awhile. The forms seem of a Taoist Yoga origin and they really twist/open the joints. A lot of twisting. The history of MA, as told by CMQ, is all maligned and just plain not true. I would really like to find the TRUTH about these forms and where they came from. They are not like anything I have seen in any Bagua/CMA reference thus far. They do enhance mobility very well.
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