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Nice! You should find some dachengquan (yi quan, not xing yi quan) masterst! Like guo guizhi and cui rui bin or some youngers. I think yi quan is the most effective of the inner arts, you will be surprised :)
Hi Andy, great video on Shifu Hu. However, you did not cover his specialties. I know you just covered Xing-Yi recently. However, his "jin" is incredibly powerful. You should have him demonstrate on a tree which he can iron palm it to death within a few days. Also, he can create "chi" sound by grinding & rotating his dain tian. His no stance Wu style push hand is on another level. Instead of looking at his big fist/palm. you should take a look at his back tendons. They're like 2 giant metal cables. that's where he's getting a lot of his "jin" from. Lastly, his rooster/mud stepping stance are very powerful. he can crack 4-5 inches cement floor by using these steps. These are usually things you don't see from everyday Shifus. Hopefully, you're still around the area where you can do another interview.
What is the kick where you step in with your back foot and then chamber with the lead and kick out while rotating the hips? The 'Bruce Lee kick' or the one Morpheus does in the Matrix dojo scene?
Thanks for this video. i really appreciate Master Hu's quality teaching and matter of fact approach. I also love hearing him explain in Mandarin as it allows me a little listening practice.
Love this! There’s a lot of bullshito around so I always thought those videos of Taichi masters pushing people lightly and sending them flying was staged nonsense too. Until I trained with this Taichi master. He was in his 70s, a full head shorter than me. He would tap my elbows and my knees would buckle. It was mind blowing. It took me a long time to understand that he was able to leverage the internal structure of my body to transfer force, so even a small amount of pressure created a big effect. I was basically falling over myself.
Modern Bagua circle the hands face the center of the circle. So old people didn’t hurt their backs. Traditional Bagua hands faced as far to the rear as shoulder blades allowed. One primary purpose of Bagua is to defend against attacks from the rear.
When the so-called master entered to deflect his opponents arms, he didn’t grab anything to pull or drag the opponent which is a hallmark of traditional Bagua and Hsing-I (5 elements and animals) for that matter. Chen Pan-ling, Wang Su-chin, Gao I-sheng, Sun Lu-tang, Rose LI, Paul Kuo, all taught this.
When you asked, what the spinning and turning does. Maybe learn the big saber of ba gua. To me it is the most iconic weapon cause this weapon teaches you how to use power correctly and feel the flow of energy. Once you practice the giant saber you gonna know what is up with twisting and turning.
Regarding your question if to use fist or palm etc. Maybe ask for the fighting theory explanation. You have the Yin/Yang Theory, Five Elements and the I ching. The Yin and Yang all alone is pretty vast. You use fist on soft parts of the body to complement soft and hard and mainly use the palm on hard surfaces to complement hard and soft. But this not where it stops, you can use yin and yang to parry attacks to slip past your opponent or to neutralize attacks through complementing. I think seth has a systema video where it is explained how to get hit and not getting hurt by it, this would be a very basic example. You can develop individual skills to an expanded field. Palm and Fist play another different role, you need the tiger mouth shape in hand for right qi circulation, you have certain prerequisites to circulate qi the right way, you can test that these things are real with electricity from electro therapy. Some of the styles are made in a way to move qi and charge parts of the body while fighting, so people can become kind of stronger the longer they are fighting.
Kevin, honest question. With all the coverage of traditional marital arts, especially Chinese ones, what do you think of Xu Xiaodong? He's been exposing traditional martial arts and their masters. Do you think traditional Chinese martial arts is obsolete?
Interesting :D Thank you for sharing! I "figured out" a mild version of the Mud-Wading Step through my Taiji practice, by trying to remain song chen (relaxed and sunk down) while walking, (Taiji is not as well-known for footwork as Bagua is, because Taiji tactics prefer to walk less, but the principles are still there) And I can confirm that it does indeed make your locomotion smoother and faster, because it eliminates all the up-and-down bouncing that usual running generates, and instead allows you to "glide" forward (or in the case of Bagua tactics, around the opponent) in a *really* smooth trajectory. Another beneficial side effect is that it allows you to absorb force by "drifting" away, like you're floating on water, so you get displaced but not unbalanced. Useful in Moving-step Push Hands, but obviously not so much under Fixed Step rules, haha.
