Yin-style baguazhang

Yin Fu (尹福) after separating from Dong Hai Chuan (董海川) went on to teach multiple students.

Due to his closed-door methods of teaching, he did not have as many students as directly associated with Cheng Ting Hua (程廷華) and others.

The Li Bao Sen lineage of Yin style was eventually handed down to Xu Shi Xi who gained a notoriety for being quite skilled at both his fighting abilities and teaching Baguazhang.

Included among Ma Gui's students were Wang Peisheng, who is more famous for his Wu style taijiquan, and Liu Wanchuan.

Most information that comes down from students of Dong Hai Chuan suggest that he did not call the art '八卦掌' BaguaZhang to begin with but rather '轉掌' Zhuan Zhang or rotating palms referring to the circling nature of practice.

It second generation of teachers, those who learned from Yin Fu, Cheng Ting Hua etc who openly described the system in teaching and writings as BaguaZhang and associated it more strongly with the 8 trigrams.

The following table describes this relationship:[2] Each animal is a complete system in its own right, possessing its own personality, skills, applications, and functions.

There are four basic practice methods in Xie Peiqi's Yin Style Baguazhang: standing, turning, striking, and changing.

The lion's eight striking methods are: sweeping, cutting, chopping, hooking, shocking, blocking, seizing and grasping.

The Snake's striking methods are: shoulder, elbow, knee, hip, shooting, binding, entrapping, and grasping.

The style is characterized by a smooth and flowing motion of the force-palm, with many of the strikes targeted at vital organs.

The Rooster's striking methods are: dodging, extending, lifting, shifting, entering, whipping, rushing and stabbing.

While not much is known about Li Bao Sen's personal life he trained a number of students who went on to win large national fighting tournaments during the Republic era.

Meng Lian Fu studied both Yin Style Baguazhang and his family's 孟氏太極拳 Meng family taijiquan system and went on with his younger martial brother Zhang Qing Lian to represent the Beijing Martial school (at the time called BeiPing Martial School) and win the 1923 Nan Jing National Guo Shu tournament which included them fighting in empty hands and weapons fighting categories where Meng Lian Fu won in empty hands using the short staff and Zhang won empty hands fighting.

According to his daughter he had a life long habit of rising at 4:30 every morning to train Baguazhang until about 8 am, where then he would get ready and go to work.

He privately taught a number of students but ultimately passed down his lineage of Yin Style Baguazhang to Xu Shi Xi (徐世熙).

Shortly before passing away Zhang hand wrote a large manual on Yin Style BaguaZhang.

Xu Shi Xi taught openly in Beijing's in Temple of Heaven Park until January 2020.

It is said Yin Fu had a base in Shaolin martial arts whether taught to him by or before he met Dong Hai Chuan.

Each of these sets have multiple levels of training with the techniques evolving over time as the practitioner's body methods and abilities advance.

He rarely trained the 64 in the manner his teacher Zhang Qing Lian documented them in his book as Xu was known to say much like palm changes they were merely for memorization like understanding a dictionary which lists the basic techniques and those techniques should be also extracted and reshuffled many times over to become natural in any variation and combination for any situation.

Many breathing techniques to open up the chest, ribs, diaphragm and abdomen while circulating Qi in the Dantian and the channels.

One particular method which Xu Shi Xi taught as advanced DaoYin training for BaguaZhang martial development was 丹田運轉 Dantian rotational training where the person trains their dantian to the point is acts as a ball rolling and rotating throughout the body eventually joining these movements of the abdomen with the movements of the whole body to create a strong dynamic power that helps to drive all the movements of the body.

He learned Yin Style BaguaZhang privately from Zhang Qing Lian starting in his teenage years.

Xu Shi Xi was about 5' 5" much shorter than Zhang who stood closer to 6' according to his daughter therefore some of the overhead chopping and high techniques were much more difficult for Xu to pull off leaving him to develop aspects of techniques that looked to strike from underneath a person's line of sight or further develop body method skills that increased the power and leverage of a person when in close to be able to seize, control and topple their opponent with greater speed and ease.

Xu Shifu took a special interest in 快跤 Fast wrestling techniques and Qinna in Bagua and became very adept at them in an effort to help in defeat opponents who were much taller and bigger than he was.

Through his exchanges with Taiji practitioners and other martial artists in Beijing, he became very adept at push hands and closing the distance using applications of BaguaZhang's fast wrestling.

Later he took the core principles of the Yin Style system he learned and modified aspects of areas of practice to better fit his size and skills leading to variations of the 8 Animal/Moving palms and the 8 fixed postures.

Others include Huang Zhicheng of Shandong, He Jinghan of Taiwan, Michael Guen of California and Tu Kun-Yii of New Jersey, US.