An Wushu - Bajiquan - Xiao Jia Form & Application 

well okinawan 'masters' paid their tuition @ fujian and brought the art back to their homeland

I read about paranza and was quite fascinated by what I read and saw. Wish there was something like that in my area 😉

Really appreciate this post! Right on

Totally agree

Ti help spread this wonderful message to all those carpenters who complain about their tools.

and that's why you train, so your muscles can remember the movement without having to consciously think about it.

you must practice for real life self defence situations, it means not practicing defense from martial arts attacks, but from how a thug would attack you on the street

Yes, it was, and is still used like this in Taiwan (last I heard).

Bajiquan

Kenji is how I found out about Bajiquan actually. That manga brought a great deal of detail on so many legit martial arts systems and had many real and respected teachers as characters. Loved it for the most part. :)

Hi Toby. Thank you for your kind words. I understand! We will maybe offer videos/online teaching (Skype) in the future, as there are many people like you who are dedicated but cannot come to China easily. Please send an email to learnkungfu AT anwushuchina.com if you would like to be notified about this. All the best to you and your kids. Peace & Respect from An Wushu

which country you in?

Are there people with only 4 to five hours a day????? What is the secret? I need 8 hours somehow:( I would Der what Chinese traditional Medicine knows about this! Congratulation to Baji master and to you. With only 4 hours a day!!!Dear Lord!!!

Thank you :) We are moving the school right now! When we are set up, we will begin to make videos again.

Great to hear :)

An Wushu Kung Fu thank you Sifu!

keeping the body tense will tire you down even before the fight

Hi Neldolas, yes, Bajiquan is not as well-known as some other martial arts... but it has much to offer. Thanks for watching.

Neldolas yes, and it was used by chinese special force and even NATO

An Wushu Kung Fu many of the Chinese Emperors and their bodyguards were usually Baji practitioners! But yes, it’s not popular as other Kung Fu styles, but it’s more effective than people know! I would like to come and learn it, after I trained so many years at Shaolin Henan Temple.

@@cristinelgheorghiu5294 Hi Cristinel. Sorry, we missed this comment somehow! In the future when it's easier to travel here, you are very welcome

Thank you very much. Don't worry, we will never stop practicing Bajiquan! We are in Shanghai.

Why in the ring, why not just in the street? Real combat is in the street not in a ring

Yes real combat is in the street

@@watersports1381 in the ring when the fight over, you're done. In the street when the fight over someone might end up dead. Or the winner might get shot. Or go to jail for killing someone. So yeah the ring is better choice

Something about the baji guys I've seen. There is a spark there of something I can't quite articulate.

@@Seantorky3 he def got the juice but the move are too compassionate compare to MMA where they trained to knock you they FUCK OUT in 30s.

Thank you... glad you are enjoying the videos and were able to learn some Baji. I'm not familiar with that teacher, but am sorry for his passing. All the best.

@@AnWushuKungFu He was a student of Tony Yang. Tony Yang was a student of Liu Yun Qiao(sp), student of Lu Shu Wen.

@@rodgerbane3825 Thank you for letting us know.

Thank you!

Mauricio Vega Rodríguez Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. Always nice to hear about their Baji schools; there are far too few.

Thank you, Michael! An Shifu would love to teach in the USA. Please send us an email to learnkungfu@anwushuchina.com

Thank you :) Glad you are enjoying the video!

Thank you :)

Gracias!

That's right!

You can do it! Understand the principles within your style's basics and train very hard.

你瞎吗?!

@@user-steven2022 哇喔好久以前的留言了，那時候其實看得不多啦，可能不是很了解才會覺得不錯 請問有沒有更好的可以推薦呢～

Hi Sony95, thanks for your question. The simple answer is that the An Family value not only health, combat effectiveness, etc, but also performance: sharing the amazing culture of Chinese Wushu with others! An Shifu has spoken to us many times about the importance of evoking a strong emotional reaction in someone watching when you perform. So, the forms are purposefully practiced in such a way that they will be enjoyable to watch. The jibengong (foundational methods), applications, and other parts of the system, are NOT practiced in this way, so that An Family Wushu is still effective.

Thank you! We will.

Hahahaha, yes, we laughed very hard at this - when you grow up training this way (and speaking Chinese), you don't realise quite how it sounds. But it is a MUST to generate power!

😂😂😂

It depends on the style, instructor, and training method. This video is just a demonstration for RU-vid, the real training for this movement would be perfecting the form, then many repetitions in the Sanda gym. Thanks for your comment!

Thank you :) The thanks goes to my father and grandfather for training me!

i wish i could learn this , i live in london and i have desperately been searching for a school that teaches it . i love it

You are welcome any time, Freddie. :) We have had several people from England/the UK come and train here.

Freddie hey, i study kung fu in essex but i know of a few different places where you can learn bajiquan or other internal styles in london. one to consider is bajizhandao.co.uk who i believe are in battersea. he teaches a more modern curriculum titled bajizhandao, it is a combination of traditional bajiquan with tongbeiquan, xingyiquan, taijiquan, and bagua zhang. another is the tang long martial arts school who teach traditional bajiquan, shaolin quan, taijiquan, and 'sanshou'.

Freddie hi there. Apologies for not replying sooner. I was actually training in Dezhou with An Shifu when you made it! Our training group is based in London, and trains Tuesday's and Saturdays in Leicester Square and on Clapham Common respectively. although we train predominantly using material from Lü Baochuns Baji Association, I also have a fairly large amount of material that I was taught by An Shifu which I would be happy to share with you, while you figure out a way to train with him personally. Please get in touch.

Hi Chendra. Unfortunately we don't, but hopefully one day! If you would ever like to come to China, you are very welcome. Right now we have a 1-Month Intensive coming up: www.anwushuchina.com/chinaworkshop

Hi, the link you provide doesn't work. Do you have any workshops coming up soon? And what's the cost for the workshops? Thanks.

Jakarta ada 2 perguruan yang mengajarkan Bajiquan

@@xXxCLAUDEOxXx dmn lokasinya?

Thanks!

@@AnWushuKungFu Your welcome!

Absolutely!

There are definitely some similarities between Bajiquan and Xingyiquan and/or Rou Quan, such as Shaolin roots... but that's quite a broad question - hard to answer! As for what to learn, it's hard to say without knowing you, but there are people in their 60's and 70's who start Bajiquan here in Dezhou, China; just with much higher stances, gentler stretching, push-ups against the wall instead of on the concrete, and so on...

​@@AnWushuKungFuAwesome! Thanks for the reply. I guess the best way to proceed it pick a random sequence, break it down into the seperate movements, learn it and THEN go on to the next. And maybe visit Asia sometime in my life. 👍🏻

It's very hard - probably impossible! - to really pick up the foundations of gongfu via watching videos; the shapes of the movements are (generally) quite simple, and it's the internals that give any form of gongfu its essence... but(!), in terms of building the body, practicing the movements will certainly be helpful, until you can find a teacher :)

​@@AnWushuKungFuI agree! I have been very lucky to have met amazing teacher in 2020. He taught me Qi Gong, philosophy and Yang style Tai Chi. Including focusing on the Tai Chi classics! He retired now, but we still hang out and watch Kung Fu movies together. Yes, our relationship is much like Karate Kid. 🥰We also have a third, a common friend, who has his own Tai Chi school. Together we rehearsed Xi Yang Mei. If you wanna check it out, I soon will make our video public on my channel!

Thanks, we appreciate it :) Yes, you are right with regards to the Xingyi. In An family system, it can be considered 50/50 external/internal, whereas most modern Xingyi is far more internal than that. We don't have any Xingyi apps up on the channel yet, I don't think, but there are some old Taiji vids if you'd like to see An Shifu performing some softer stuff.

@@AnWushuKungFu XingYi in my family is not soft, its executed very intensely. When my teacher taught Tai Chi , the forms were taught with the flow we see in most Tai Chi schools, but the applications were brutally executed, also. I think he taught Wu family Tai Chi. I dont get why people think that if an art isinternal, it's a substitute for the softest Yoga you can find with very little applications. I appreciate your attention to people's inquiries and will continue to look forward to seeing some applications by that man when it comes to Xing Yi.

Yes, one day. The An Wushu includes a fair bit of Chang Quan.

Hi Ryan. We're in Dezhou, Shandong province, which is about a 1-hr train ride from Beijing.

An Wushu Kung Fu I'm in Shijiazhuang

Close enough! Hope you can make it down one day.

We run a full time kung fu school in China :) You can read more at www.anwushuchina.com

I recommend Wu style, it’s the original style and many things were never taught to outsiders, so if you want a complete system and authentic teaching, that would be the place to look.

YIQUANONE Of course! This is just for demonstration. Thank you.

What happen?

This is baji quan; a different art

different; bagua=8 trigrams; baji=8 ultimates, 8 directions, 8 poles, 8 co-ordinates, symbolizing very far, far in application

Sorry, we don't understand

:-D we are in Shanghai

Haha! Hilarious. No offense taken, looks like RU-vid is not so good with An Shifu's accent. Better turn them off!

An Wushu Kung Fu YEP! Amazing video though, Keep it up!

Thank you! Glad you are enjoying them.

@@AnWushuKungFu If an English-speaking person speaks Chinese, the standard is worse.

We like them too :)

Of course. An Shifu had a Sanda career when he was in his early 20's.

这傻逼练的不是八极拳, 他练的是风骚........哈哈哈哈哈哈........

We are not sure who you mean 😁

Sorry, we try Google Translate, but cannot understand

日本人的英語更差！

是的，是殺人的功夫！

Wong Sauming ：那樣的打法，實戰並不好用的，因為敵人的拳頭遠比他們想像的快！！！

We do Taijiquan too ;) The expression on An Shifu's face is due to Bajiquan utilising the spirit in a certain way to produce its characteristic power. Each style is more than a unique collection of movements: there is a spirit and principle to it.

@@AnWushuKungFu I think he meant that some people commenting were angry, not you, sifu. You are superb.

Pono, If you have, ride on your pony and go

Yes, you are right on both forms; though to that point, gongfu that has survived to the current day in its classical form is useful in combat too. Yes, we will have to add more sparring videos, you can see from the comments that a lot of people who watch this video don't realise it's only meant as an example of Baji, not real training in any sense.

Pradal Serey from Cambodia also uses elbow movements, it's interesting

@@AnWushuKungFu I don't mean to be disrespectful, but i highly doubt you will be able to use these techniques you've shown here effectively against a competent thai/western boxer... catching a punching arm, forearm to body.. (too much full body commitment required only for low percentage damage/annoyance).. I'm sure there are other useful techniques in wushu (sanda doesn't count).. i'm sorry but i just don't buy this one. I'm not an expert or anything and if I am wrong, please do correct me though. But on a wider scale, i do believe that all martial arts have their uses. The way i see it, these punches and kicks and grappling.. they are all tools and it's the training, conditioning and exposure of the fighter to other styles and fighters, that's the most important of all. The simplest tools are, more often than not, the most useful and enduring of all, because it's the training, the conditioning and mentality that makes a good fighter. Give a sickle to a farmer, he'll use it to farm his land, give it to a warrior and he'll use it to kill the enemy. The biggest problem, as i see, with most martial arts training and especially those of Chinese origins are that you guys are too content within your own styles. Instead of making "demonstration videos" over and over again, why not show it off in the ring or something or against, let's say, a properly trained boxer in an UNSCRIPTED, friendly sparring session or something (i felt the need to bold that letter because people tend to do that so much. They'll pay some guy to represent a certain art or pick/gaud a poorly trained fighter to represent his particular art).. I've mentioned this in my original comment as well. A lot of the times i see Chinese traditional martial artist take to the ring to face boxers/kickboxers/mma, they'll get punch in the face and instantly, their style, reverts to something that somewhat resembles kickboxing or boxing..

​@@fela001 Sorry, I thought we replied to this! I absolutely get where you are coming from. An Shifu did in fact have a successful Sanda career, and did use Baji techniques. His opinion is that these techniques are definitely much more difficult to execute than, say, a parry and a punch like you'd see in your examples of boxing/muaythai, but that with a lot of training, it can be done. But, people talking on RU-vid is not useful! We will upload more sparring videos, and you are welcome to visit us in Shanghai and see for yourself :)

That would be a shame, however luckily An Shifu also had a succesful Sanda career :)

Bc the motions are supposed to be fast. If you read, the video says "application." He's not gonna stand there and actually hurt the person he's demonstrating with. Bajiquan is explosive fast movements, even if your opponent won't just stand there you will hurt them.

Obviously! It's just a video to give people an idea of Bajiquan :)