Shifting Weight forward during straight line walking.

Try to point your tail bone towards the forward foot and have it in your mind that it’s doing a downward arc under the ground. I think the issue is that as you put weight on the front foot you come up on that leg (hip tension?).

I think smaller steps are good initially. A lean of your torso is maybe not so good because from my experience a lean will introduce tension around your vertebrae in order to maintain the lean rather than your spine supporting itself. That may not be the case always. Just my beginner’s observations.

Another big thing that I found myself doing was forgetting to sink down the front leg. If I don’t sink into the front leg I find that my hip locks up somewhat, which makes the tailbone go back when I step. Not only that, but without sinking and relaxing you can’t really get good balance.

In order to rectify it I do the following…

1) Start with both feet together like normal. Sink down the significant leg such that your leg and all its joints are relaxed.

2) Step out

3) I broke the weight transfer into 2 stages. Firstly I did it like tai chi: Sink down the back leg to transfer to the front leg. It seems like bagua is the opposite though, so once you get the feeling of physically sinking from the back leg into the front leg you can then add on the energetic rising over the physical sinking (twisting upward etc).

4) Once you transfer to where the front leg wants to take over, do not step onto it until you’ve started sinking otherwise it may lock up somewhat. As you step down on the front foot make sure it’s sinking. Compare this to not sinking and you’ll likely find there is a massive difference in terms of maintaining your alignments and also in terms of balance.

5) Fully sink down the front leg and bring the rear leg forwards. If you lose balance you aren’t relaxed enough.

Don’t take that as advice. Just as things to try, since I’m only a beginner as well.