by Park Bok Nam & Dan Miller

This and Volume II are outstanding step by step guides for those interested in the internal Chinese art of Pa Kua Chang (Ba Gua Chang). If you don't have an instructor in your area, this is a good way to work on some of the basics. There are companion videos as well, but they are difficult to find. It probably helps to have a martial arts background before trying to learn through these books. I give this book five kiai.

GB31 The old "frog" point. Will cause a "dead" leg if struck hard enough.
Name Fengshi (city of wind)
Location Outside thigh about where middle finger touches with arms at side

Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub;
It is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges.

We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

We make doors and windows for a room;
But it is these empty spaces that make the room livable.

Thus, while the tangible has advantages,
It is the intangible that makes it useful.