<span class="chinese-post-title">起平落扣，連環縱橫</span> Raise levelly, Drop and Hook; Continuously Move Unhindered from <span class="chinese-post-title">八卦掌真理篇</span> The Real Theory of Baguazhang by <span class="chinese-post-title">薑容樵</span> Jiāng Róngqiáo

起平落扣，連環縱橫

起平是將腳提起時也要像足心涵空那樣平。落扣是說落步時不僅要平落，還要使腳裡扣。連環是不斷的意思，意識不斷，勁力不斷，動作不斷，從連環中生出縱橫，上下左右四面八方一氣連環。

薑容樵

“'Raise levelly' means that while liftting the leg one shall shall make the heart of the foot empty and that is level. 'Falling and hooking' means that the falling step not only must fall levelly, but also must hook inward. 'Continuous' means uninterrupted intention, unceasing awareness, constant force and continuous movement; from within continuity is generated the vertical and horizontal, the above and below, left and right, the four sides, the eight directions and the unified qi, all interconnected.."

From the book Bāguàzhăng Practice Method (八卦掌練習法), by Jiāng Róngqiáo (薑容樵), based on the translation by Joseph Crandall