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Allen Pittman is an American teacher and author of the Chinese internal martial arts, particularly Baguazhang and Xingyiquan. With Robert W. Smith he co-authored the Tuttle volumes Hsing-I: Chinese Internal Boxing and Pa-Kua: Eight-Trigram Boxing (1990), later reissued together as Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-i and Pa-kua.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Pittman began studying Pa Kua Chang in 1975, at the age of fifteen, after reading Robert W. Smith's Pa-kua: Chinese Boxing for Fitness and Self-Defense. Smith, who taught in Bethesda, Maryland, was the only teacher to answer the letters Pittman sent out from Atlanta, and Pittman travelled periodically to Bethesda to train with him over the following eight years.[1]
In 1982 Pittman went to Taiwan, where he sought out Hong Yimian (Hung I-Mien), then teaching in a local park, and studied Bagua and Xingyi with him in hour-long morning sessions five days a week over the course of a year; he also made periodic trips to Taichung to study with Ch'en Yun-Ch'ing, a son of Chen Pan-ling. After a period back in the United States, Hong sent word that he would teach Pittman his complete Hsing-I and Pa Kua systems if he returned; Pittman went back to Taipei in 1984, staying with Hong's relatives while he resumed his study.[1] Hong Yimian told the Pa Kua Chang Journal in 1993 that Pittman had been his last student,[3] and the journal's 1995 survey of the Zhang Junfeng lineage listed him among the instructors teaching in the United States whose written material and instruction shaped American understanding of Xingyi and Bagua.[4]
By the early 1990s Pittman was teaching in Atlanta, including a program at Georgia State University, and occasionally led Smith's former training group in Bethesda after Smith's retirement; he also adapted elements of his training into a course of apprehension and control techniques for law-enforcement personnel. In its January–February 1991 issue the Pa Kua Chang Newsletter devoted its cover feature to him, "Atlanta-based Pa Kua Chang Instructor Emphasizes Tradition and Authenticity".[1] He was later one of the teachers profiled in Jess O'Brien's anthology Nei Jia Quan: Internal Martial Arts Teachers of Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, and Ba Gua Zhang (North Atlantic Books, 2004).[5]
Writing
[edit]Pittman's two volumes with Smith appeared in Tuttle's Chinese Martial Arts Library in 1990; Pa-Kua: Eight-Trigram Boxing draws substantially on translations from Wang Shujin's 1978 Ba Gua Lian Huan Zhang.[6] The two books were later reissued in a combined edition as Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-i and Pa-kua.[2] Pittman has also contributed articles to the Journal of Asian Martial Arts[7] and the Pa Kua Chang Journal,[8] and in 2008 published Walking the I Ching: The Linear Ba Gua of Gao Yi Sheng.
Selected works
[edit]- Smith, Robert W.; Pittman, Allen (1990). Hsing-I: Chinese Internal Boxing. Chinese Martial Arts Library. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle. ISBN 978-0-8048-1617-5.
- Smith, Robert W.; Pittman, Allen (1990). Pa-Kua: Eight-Trigram Boxing. Chinese Martial Arts Library. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle. ISBN 978-0-8048-1618-2.
- Smith, Robert W.; Pittman, Allen (2006) [1989]. Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-i and Pa-kua. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-3824-5.
- Pittman, Allen (2008). Walking the I Ching: The Linear Ba Gua of Gao Yi Sheng. Berkeley, California: Blue Snake Books. ISBN 978-1-58394-214-7.
- Pittman, Allen (2016). "Single Palm Change: Bagua's Core Movement". Bagua and Xingyi: An Intersection of the Straight and Curved. Via Media Publishing. ISBN 978-1-893765-33-7.
- Pittman, Allen (2023). Young Atlas: The Training Path of Tim Geoghegan. Self-published.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Smith, Robert W.; Pittman, Allen (2006) [1989]. Chinese Internal Boxing: Techniques of Hsing-i and Pa-kua. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-3824-5. LCCN 2006040392.
- ^ Miller, Dan, ed. (July–August 1993). "The Hung Brothers of Taiwan". Pa Kua Chang Journal. 3 (5). High View Publications: 16.
- ^ Miller, Dan (May–June 1995). "An Introduction to Tang Shou Tao Internal Martial Arts". Pa Kua Chang Journal. 5 (4). High View Publications: 3, 5.
- ^ O'Brien, Jess, ed. (2004). "Allen Pittman". Nei Jia Quan: Internal Martial Arts Teachers of Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, and Ba Gua Zhang. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. pp. 219–242. ISBN 978-1-55643-506-5.
- ^ Howard, Kent (September–October 1995). "Wang Shu Jin's Ba Gua: Principles and Practice". Pa Kua Chang Journal. 5 (6). High View Publications: 17.
Translations of portions of this text make up the bulk of Robert Smith and Allen Pittman's Pa Kua: Eight Trigram Boxing.
- ^ Pittman, Allen (1999). "Combat Wrestling: Geoghegan's Blend from East and West". Journal of Asian Martial Arts. 8 (4). Via Media Publishing: 48–57.
- ^ Pittman, Allen (May–June 1993). "The Single Palm Change of Sun Lu-T'ang". Pa Kua Chang Journal. 3 (4). High View Publications.
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