How to make your own Bagua Circle Walking Pole
by Julie Hinder
1. Get an empty glass olive oil (or other culinary oil) bottle - the type with the plastic pourer. 250 ml is the smallest size I would use - the larger the bottle, the better the stability.
2. Carefully lever out the pourer with the handle of a spoon.
3. Wash both the bottle and pourer in hot soapy water to remove any remaining oil. You can also soak off and remove the labels if you wish. Leave to dry. Replace the pourer.
4. Stand a bamboo cane or length of dowelling in the bottle. The cane should be roughly your height and should fit snugly in the stopper. If it doesn't, you can wrap some sort of sticky tape around the portion of the pole that will be sitting inside the pourer to pad it out and make it stand nice and vertical.
5. Voila! You can now walk in Bagua circles!
Tai Chi / T'ai Chi / Taiji
- What is Tai Chi?
- T'ime to Get T'ough Campaign
- How Taiji Lost its Quan
- The Rise and Fall of a Martial Art
- The Case Against T'ai Chi for Special Needs and Falls Prevention
- 3 Things You Are Going To Hate About Tai Chi (for new students)
- "Why Do I Need To Be Relaxed?" by Julie Hinder
- Picture Essay: Peng Is... by Julie Hinder
- Last Night I Dreamt I Had...
Tai Chi Fundamentals - Youtube Video Series
- 1a) Double Heavy and Double Light
- 1b) Double Heavy and Double Light (continued)
- 2) Twisting and Reeling Silk
- 3) Flow and Counterflow
- 4) Rending Silk and Tongbei
- 5) Inside and Outside Guard
- 6) Straight and Curved, Intention and Methods
- 7) Using 4oz to Divert 1000lbs
- 8a) "Dantian Rotation" (part 1)
- 8b) "Dantian Rotation" (part 2)
- 8c) "Dantian Rotation" (part 3)
- 9) Substantiality and Sensitivity
Baguazhang and Xingyiquan
Common aspects of the arts
- It's Internal Jim, But Not As We Know It
- Aggression and the Animal Mindset
- Oriental Mysticism and Magic
- Who's Afraid Of The Big, Bad Wolf? by Julie Hinder
- Who, What, Where, When, How and Why?
- Lineage
- What Is Your Intention? Part 2: Conflict Resolution
- Waxing Philosophical
- Will The Real Reeling Silk Please Stand Up?
- Kung Fu Cornerstones
- 4 Dangers of False Kung Fu (sequel to above article)
- Rules Are Made To Be... Obeyed
- Fajin
- Way of Water
- Six Harmonies
- 8 Uses for Reeling Silk
- What Is Your Intention?
Tough on Qi (Chi or Ch'i)
- "100% Qi-Free? How Can That Be?!"
- A Practical Guide to Qi
- The Trouble With Qi
- What Are So-Called "Qi Sensations?"
- Double-Standards
Other articles (on Plum Publishing website)
- To Push, to Stick or to Hit?
- Five Steps
- Purpose, Quality and Direction
- Gentle Persistence Brings Just Reward
(for instructors)
Animal Rights Links --->
- Watch the film "Earthlings"
- Animal Aid
- PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
- IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
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