Walking the I Ching The Linear Ba Gua of Gao Yi Sheng

Ba Gua Zhang is one of the "internal" styles of Chinese martial arts. Developed in the early nineteenth century, it has profound cultural and philosophical roots that ground it in the ancient principles of Taoism and the I Ching. Although Ba Gua is most often taught in circular forms, Walking the I Ching describes sixty-four unusual sequences of movements performed in straight lines, each of which is presented to the public for the first time with its matching I Ching hexagram.

Allen Pittman began his training in Eastern martial arts at the age of 12. The author of Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-I & Pa-kua; Pa-Kua: Eight-Trigram Boxing; and Hsing-I: Chinese Internal Boxing, he practices and teaches in the United Kingdom.