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Title: The Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chang: The Methods of Lu Shue-Tien As Taught by Park Bok Nam. by Bok Nam Park, Dan Miller, Park BOK Nam ISBN: 0-86568-172-4 Publisher: High View Pubns Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: confusion with the volumes
Comment: For those that are probably confused: The First volume is the picture with Lu Shui-Tien- the guy in the house, and the Second volume is the picture of Park Bok Nam- the guy in the hills.
I don't know. I think that there is a bug, but I was able to find both volumes on this sight easily.
I may write a little later.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sorry, I don't trust bullies...
Comment: My personal feeling on "The Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chang" is that I wish another student of Lu's had written it; in essence, I wish an inherently nice person had written it. I glanced through both volumes of Park Bok Nam's "Fundamentals." If Nam had removed all the anecdotes and rhetoric spread throughout both volumes such as why Lu threw an Aikido instructor friend of his when he confronted Lu, he probably could have compressed all the information into one book.
In the introduction of the first volume, he is a confessed bully. He would use his training in Korean Karate to get into fights along side his gang during his younger days. Park Bok Nam would always fall back on his father, who was obviously rich because he paid for all his training - including that which he received from Lu. Nam's father told Lu what kind of trouble maker his son was. As a result Lu exercised special disciplinary action on Nam such as making him ask humbly many times to be admitted to the school and making him rake leaves in the rain for many weeks before actually allowing Nam to train in Pa Kua.
My experience with bullies is that once a trouble maker - always a trouble maker. No matter how reformed you think a bully might be after so much discipline - looming in the back of his mind are ways to get vengeance on the world for all his suffering. That's what Lu did to Park Bok Nam; he made him suffer. Nam paid special attention to write about all the ways Lu made him suffer. Nam did not write about Lu torturing any other of his students. My argument is that Nam's torture did not necessarily make him a better student. If you ask me, I believe Nam's father provided the financial backing, so he could find a segueway to an English publisher for getting rich off a two volume set of "Fundamentals." Nam's father being the slick businessman that he was probably suggested it and procured all the necessary professionals for putting "Fundamentals" together. Unfortunately, looming in the back of my mind is how Nam's trouble making ways may have sublimated into this book by missing or distorting a step some where in Pa Kua philosophy or stepping techniques.
Nam most certainly seeks to appeal to the Anglo-Saxon mind set with all his anecdotes and rhetoric. He knows how the Anglo-Saxon mind set enjoys "stories" and gossip a là "National Enquirer" or "Weekly World News." He knows that the convenience oriented, Anglo-Saxon mind set loves to get its information on a silver platter and think inside of a box, so Nam provided. Any Chinese martial artist will tell you that a book can only supplement one's training - never replace it. Nam seeks to replace live instruction and alternate points of view with his two volume set; one might say they're a "box" set because they teach inside of a convenient, "complete" box of thought. Kudos to Nam. His next book should be "How to get rich off martial arts books."
Rating: 5
Summary: A necessary book for the practice of internal arts!!
Comment: I've just started pa kua practice and bought this book in order to use it as a reference, but it became more than that! The examples are relatively easy to follow and the theory behind the art of pa kua is also explained very well. I never really understood the theories of "sung" or the "kung fu body" until I read this book. The examples in this book must be practiced, however, or else it will be of no use.
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Title: Ba Gua: Hidden Knowledge in the Taoist Internal Martial Art by Hsing-Han Liu, John Bracy, Li Zhong-Quan, Liu Men-Gen, Liu Xing-Han ISBN: 1556432763 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Xing Yi Nei Gong: Xing Yi Health Maintenance and Internal Strength Development by Dan Miller, Tim Cartmell ISBN: 0865681740 Publisher: Unique Publications Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Baguazhang (Chinese Internal Martial Arts) by Shou-Yu Liang, Wen-Ching Wu, Jwing-Ming Yang ISBN: 0940871300 Publisher: YMAA Publications Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Power of Internal Martial Arts: Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I by Bruce Kumar Frantzis ISBN: 1556432534 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body (The Tao of Energy Enhancement) by Bruce Kumar Frantzis, Husky Grafx ISBN: 1556431643 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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