I learned the Sha style of bagua from Shifu Jonathan Wang. This is the master who created the form...
Sha Guo Zheng was born in 1904 in Shandong, China. He studied many styles of gong fu from an early age, and it is said he became proficient at the spear form called Liu He Jiang (Six Harmony Spear).
Sha Guo Zheng was born in 1904 in Shandong, China. He studied many styles of gong fu from an early age, and it is said he became proficient at the spear form called Liu He Jiang (Six Harmony Spear).
His first bagua teacher was Wang Che Cheng who was a student
of Wang Li Ti. Wang Li Ti was a student of the famous Dong Hai Chuan, the
founder of bagua zhang. Wang Che Cheng was most known for his Lion Style bagua.
Sha studied with Wang for 4 years, but in 1924, at the age of 20 he moved to Tianjin
where he met Jiang Rong Qiao.
Jiang is arguably the most important martial arts
scholar of the twentieth Century, and Sha became his top student living in Tianjin from 1924 to 1930. It is said Sha also traveled to Beijing frequently where he studied Sun Lu Tang’s bagua and xing yi.
Sha moved to Korea in 1930 to spend more time studying with
Wang Che Cheng who had moved to Inchon. Sha’s reputation grew while living in
Inchon when he defeated a Japanese solder in a sword versus spear duel. Sha wielded
the sword even though he was already an expert in spear technique, and easily
defeated the Japanese soldier. Sha also led the Chinese resistance against the
Japanese in Inchon’s Chinatown.
Sha also learned the Eight Immortals sword set, said to have been passed down from Grandmaster Dong who had learned it from a Daoist priest.
Sha returned to China in 1933 after Wang passed away. He
studied further with Jiang Rong Qiao in Wuhu for 6 months of intense training
and research. In 1949 he was made an official martial arts instructor by the
Chinese government, and spent the rest of his life training and improving his
art. Sha passed away at the age of 88 in 1992.
Professor Kang Ge Wu was one of Master Sha's most prominent students and he himself is acknowledged as an important martial arts scholar.
This is a video of Master Sha at the age of 84:
And early video:
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References:
http://www.plumpub.com/kaimen/2011/sha-guo-zheng-and-sha-style/
https://books.google.com/books?id=2scbFe2HTlQC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=sha+guo+zheng+bagua&source=bl&ots=PgkZvAKVzD&sig=A8CagpoTvNKFcQc8v53qASGJWmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHs8-ulZ3RAhUhj1QKHQ6JCN8Q6AEIXDAP#v=onepage&q=sha%20guo%20zheng%20bagua&f=false
