Zhandouli Qigong
Zhandouli (Combat-Effective) Qigong is the qigong category responsible for developing martial prowess. The purpose of these methods is to strengthen the mind and body for combat. This is done via the sophisticated use of visualizations, breathing techniques, stretches, and synchronistic movements that activate and balance the cerebral hemispheres, enhance cerebellar function, increase tendon strength, and train the nervous system to build awareness, flexibility, speed, acceleration and power.
Yi Zhang/ Yi Xin Gong
This is the Jiulong Baguazhang method of Zhandouli Qigong training. It begins with Jing Zuo (Quiet Sitting), Dao Yin (Daoist Yoga) and Three Powers Standing (San Ba Xing Zhan Zhuang). The Li family called this training method Yi Zhang, or Intention Palm, when relating it to Jiulong Baguazhang. Shifu Painter has compared the principles of the Li Jia Yi Zhang to those of Wang, Xiang Zhai’s Yi Quan (Intention Boxing) and feels that his teacher’s father, Li, Zhang Lai, or his teacher, Li, Long Dao, likely exchanged ideas with Wang or some of his students before the family moved, in 1945, to the U.S.A. from China. Shifu Painter has since refined and improved these methods. He now calls these training concepts Yi Xin Gong, or Intention-Attitude Skill. Yi Xin Gong has been integrated into the curriculum of all of the Daoqiquan arts and is able to stand alone as a complete martial art, Yi Xin Quan.
