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Han Fang Rui
By Hanan Magidovich |
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Today Mr. Han is over his 80's
His training in Martial Arts started at the age of 18 in the Xing Yi Quan system. After 3 years of training, in one of the usual trainings, Mr. Han and his fellow practitioners exercised the special 'Heng Ha' training ( a training focuses on breathing and strike conditioning), this was a two person drill which one strikes his partner and the other absorbs it, emphasizing breathing (the first fist is targeted to the connection area of chest and shoulder, and absorbed by the sound Heng, and the second fist aims the abdomen and absorbed by the sound Ha).
While Mr. Han was training to absorb the blows, his training partner missed one and stroked him right in the solar plexus resulted in 2 broken ribs. During the recovery from this injury Mr. Han didn't train in Xing Yi Quan. At the time one a visitor told to Mr. Han about a Ba Gua Zhang (BGZ) teacher, and the health benefits of this Martial Art, thinking that this will help his recovery, so Mr. Han decided to try and learn it. |
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His BGZ teacher was the honorary Liu Fang Cai, which was a nephew and the first student of Gao Yi Sheng, the creator of the Gao style BGZ. Mr. Han trained with Liu 20-25 years and was one of his favorite disciples (according to other fellow practitioners and Martial Artists at the time). |
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Mr. Han used to say that during the Cultural Revolution in China, training in Martial Arts was banned by the government, since Martial Arts were also regarded as a cultural remnant from the Imperial era of China. During this period they used to train in hiding, early mornings or late night (04:00am/23:00pm). During the Cultural Revolution Mr. Han worked as a bus driver.
After the Cultural Revolution period Mr. Han and his gong-fu brother (Wang Shu Sheng) used to teach BGZ at the Nankai University in Tianjin, during this period of time they had few hundreds of trainees, only few of them practice the art today.
Mr. Han also learnt Traditional Chinese Medicine (but never opened a clinic) in order to understand the linkage of body mechanics and physiology from the TCM point of view, knowledge that later on helped him to understand the healing potential in training BGZ. In years to come Mr. Han treated many people with various health problems via BGZ training. |
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