Baji Quan’s external appearance is rather simplistic while the usage of internal body mechanics is quite sophisticated. It is characterized by being practical and powerful. As a close range style, Baji Quan uses all eight locations of the body to deliver cruel and painful strikes. The eight locations of the body, head, shoulders, elbows, hands, feet, buttocks, hips, and knees, are trained to their extreme perfection.
The practitioner of this style would approach an opponent from a long-range position and close to a body-to-body contact distance. While getting closer to an opponent, the eight locations of the body are continuously employed in all directions, and every technique becomes faster and more powerful than the previous. Baji Quan is a very fierce and ruthless style of Kung Fu.
In using the drunkard style, users' falter, waddle, fall and sway just like drunkards. Execution demands extreme flexibility of the joints as well as suppleness, dexterity, power and coordination all of which can be developed in the course of practice. The main feature is to hide combative hits in drunkard-like, unsteady movements and actions so as to confuse the opponent. The secret of this style is maintaining a clear mind while giving a drunken appearance. Users are required to be responsive with good eyesight and fist plays. They move in unconnected steps but with a flexible body combining hardness and suppleness. They have to be fast to get the better of their opponents but their main tactic is to feign defence while trying to attack and aiming in one direction but attacking in another. Various degrees of drunkenness are demonstrated by different ranges of movements and expressions in the eye
He began to teach Masahide the art of Baji Quan at a young age. He thought that his son would take after him and his own love for martial arts and perhaps even seek to become a fighting master. While Godo did enjoy martial arts, he was not so fond of the strict training regimen that was required. He practiced day in and day out, always training to become better. Somewhere along the line, his father lost focus and only wanted his son to be the best. Masahide's grandfather saw this and tried to point it out, but the father was blind to it and disregarded the older man.
When Masahide turned twelve, his grandfather began to secret teach him the art of drunken boxing. The two would begin to spend a great deal of time together, training away from the watchful eyes of his father. Their bond grew more and more as the days went on and Masahide rediscovered the fun of practicing martial arts. His father soon found out about their secret trips however, and forbade Masahide to continue training with his grandfather, saying that drunken boxing was a fool's art. This angered Masahide and he began to debate running away from home. His grandfather told him about an old academy that was a haven for fighter's from all over the country. After his 15th birthday, Masahide packed up his belongings along with some money from his grandfather and headed off to the Toudou Academy to have some fun while furthering his training.