Laoshi Bell's manual is a great introduction to the Yin style of Baqua and I would recommend it to all martial artists regardless of their style. Laoshi Bell's emphasis on real time application and development of strong a basic foundation sets his work apart from other Bagua books that stress esoteric discussions of the i-ching trigrams and academic martial theory over the reality of baguazhang.

All serious martial artists should add this manual to their library.

Aaron "BaldMonk" Roberts
Eagle River AK

I've had this book now for a number of months now, worked through many of the exercises and I do think that it has been useful for me. I was first introduced to bagua back in '89 and have worked on trying to make it work for me with varying degrees of success. This is a practical book on the art and should be taken as such. I've met the author in person and I can say that both him and his teacher are very approachable and willing to share their knowledge. Give this book a shot I think it will show you just how practical baguazhang can be. Dan P. Canada