Yin style Bagua and Yin style kicking methods-By Osmosis
Yin Fu was the greatest of Dong Hai Chuans disciples in the art of Baguazhang.
The Yin style of Baguazhang is very combat oriented and effective. It doesnt mess around. Some of its strongest traits are the Ox toungue palm which originally derives from Shaolin and can be used to strike the opponents eyes, throat, or body. Another strength is the Yin Fu wrist grip. It is extremely hard to break. Yin Fu's grip was so powerful it was said to be almost like handcuffs, and could put a man to their knees simply by grabbing the enemy wrist.
Since Yin Baguazhang derives from Shaolin it also has powerful kicking methods. One of the most underated aspects of Yin style Baguazhang is it's wrestling and Qinna methods. Yin Fu, and most likely Dong Hai Chuan for that matter, were both Shaolin masters. What Baguazhang did, and what makes it so great, is that it softened the Shaolin. Yin style Lohan Quan sets in the system, and 8 basic Yin style Baguazhang palm change- demonstrated by Yin Baguazhang practitioner Malcolm Wadley -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VioFDeHwXxA Coach Novell Bell shows kicking methods of his branch of Yin style Baguazhang-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-iCxVE1bDk Here is a site I found with a pretty comprehensive lineage chart for the branches of Yin style Baguazhang.
- http://www.8gua.info/html/yin_fu_disciples.html#Liu%20Zhenlin The sytem in the videos above is of the Cao branch of Yin style Baguazhang 64palms, everything I have seen of Cao style Baguazhang I saw as an practical & effective fighting method.