Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Sun Zhijun

Sun Zhijun is a well-known present-day teacher of baguazhang, living in Beijing, China. Born in 1933 in Cheng Village, Shen County, Hebei Province, Sun began his baguazhang training under Liu Ziyang , disciple of Cheng Dianhua . Later, he also had the opportunity to study with Cheng Yousheng and Cheng Youxin in Beijing. Today, he has many disciples teaching his baguazhang around the world.

Besides traditional baguazhang, Sun has also taught baguazhang to modern wushu players for competition, training over 10 baguazhang national champions in the past 20 years.

Championships:

* 1. 1964 Beijing Martial Art Championship Champion
* 2. 1983 National Conventional Martial Arts Championship Champion
* 3. 2004 World Conventional Martial Arts Festival Champion

Coaching Achievements:
* 1982 Coached Beijing Municipal Women's Martial Art Team
* 1982 Coached at Eastern Municipal Martial Art Institute
* 1983 Obtained National Coach of Excellence's title
* 1983 2 Academic visits to Japan for Ba Gua Zhang exchanges
* 1992/93/2005 3 Academic visits introducing Cheng style Ba Gua Zhang to Singapore
* 2006 Coached Cheng style Ba Gua Zhang in Korea

Publications:
* 1983-86 Was appointed by the Chinese Wu Shu association, as an exclusive commissar of Cheng style to compile information on Cheng Style Baguazhang and weapons.
* 1990 Conventional Chinese Martial Arts VCD
* 1992 Ba Gua Zhang
* 1992 Cheng Style Ba Gua Zhang
* 1994; 2004 Swimming Body interlinked Ba Gua Zhang Book
* 2001 Swimming Body interlinked Ba Gua Zhang VCD
* 2005 Ba Gua Zhang Counter-Attack VCD
* 2005 Ba Gua Saber Counter-Attack VCD
* 2005 Elaborations on the Applications Of Swimming Body Interlinked Ba Gua Zhang VCD
* 2005 Hei Bei Xing Yi Boxing VCD

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