“To shoot down the delusions within oneself is to have a
total solution to the cares and sorrows of life.”
Pigua Quan, or Axe-Hitch Boxing, was known in ancient times as armor wearing boxing. General Qi Jiguang included the move of putting
an armor while fighting. In the early 1900s, Ma Yingtu and Guo Chang Sheng revised the art by adding more speed and explosive power in
the practice of its forms.
The execution of Pigua Quan requires accuracy, fluidity, agility, speed, power, flexibility, and uniqueness. Whether the practitioner is
learning single moves, combination moves, or the entire routine, Pigua Quan requires a learning process that ranges from simplicity to
complexity. Pigua Quan also concentrates on combinations of movements that are complementary to one another.
The main characteristics of Pigua Quan include abrupt starts and stops, powerful axing and hitching, straightening arms, holding arms an
connecting wrists. The execution of techniques includes tumbling, strange holding, axing, hitching, chopping, and brushing to name
some. Pigua Quan is performed in some Wushu demonstrations or tournaments.
Pigua Quan is practiced mostly in the northern part of China. There are few qualified masters of this style that teaches outside of China.
Although it is a rare style of Kung Fu, it is still and effective and deadly art.
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