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Da Bei Quan (Great Compassion Boxing) – Qiao XiuquanA 3 VCDs set that teaches this unique system of Da Bei Quan – which is a combination system of Taiji, Bagua and Xingyi. Some applications are demonstrated as well. Da Bei Quan (Great Compassion Boxing) is a rare style which was passed in Beijing by Buddhist monk Qi Yun (1904-1966), who created it by combining some of the basics martial methods of the central plains such as Chaquan, Hongquan and Huaquan he studied in his youth with some Buddhist ideas, thus, whilst slow like Taijiquan, its movements contain structure like those parent styles. Since after marrying in his twenties, his wife passed away of illness, Qiyun did not know how to care for his daughter so he took her to his family home and then left decided to become a monk at Fayuan Temple. He had much regrets and was saved by the Great Compassion Sutra (Da Bei Zhou) which he then took as the symbol of his boxing practice, thus Dabei Quan was founded. (Another story tells about him as learning from other monks and that he was the last descendant of this dying art but this is less likely)…In the 1960’s it became nicknamed as Shaolin Rouquan (Soft Boxing) which this name also prevailed in 1980’s when Shaolin was trying to re-construct its lost arts. Today it is also known as Chanmen Taijiquan (Zen style Taijiquan) or sometimes as Fomen Taijiquan (Buddhist style Taijiquan). It exercises the body, and the mind, with stress on the latter. The movements combine hardness with softness, stretch tendons and relax joints, movements are connected, light and open.Uploader’s Note: Entire material is in Chinese with subtitle in Hanzi, but the teachings are as usually very visual.I found some information about the forms at: http://www.fungie.info/DaBeiQuan.htmlIt does exist also a site in Chinese for the ones who know the language: http://www.dabeiquan.com/Video: DivX 5 288×224 25.00fps 394Kbps; DivX 5 320×240 25.00fps 401Kbps; DivX 5 320×240 25.00fps 395KbpsAudio: MPEG Audio Layer 3 24000Hz stereo 64Kbps; MPEG Audio Layer 3 24000Hz stereo 64Kbps; MPEG Audio Layer 3 24000Hz stereo 64Kbps