<span class="chinese-post-title">歌訣五、連步法 </span> Fith Song. Continuous Step Method from <span class="chinese-post-title">八卦掌實戰四十八法歌訣</span> The Forty-Eight Songs of Application of Baguazhang

歌訣五、連步法

連步必三費功夫，
使手要簡自然無。
搭手轉手是空手，
機會恰巧是江湖。

"Linking steps take longer than a single step,
All techniques have to be simple, natural and efficient
Turn the body and make the attacker fall into emptiness
Taking the opportunity is the real skill. "

Based on the translations by 楊俊敏 Yang Jwing Ming and 梁守渝 Liang Shou You in 峨嵋八卦掌 "Baguazhang - Theory and Applications" and by Frank Allen and Tina Chunna Zhang in "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang"