The Original Form Of Pa Kua Chang 

Let see what we learned from this video: Balance, control, sensitivity, chin na (Chinese Limb locking for those not in the know), Limb resistance (if you can't stand you can't strike) and breathing. What I learned from the comments below: Ignorance is really bliss....

Thanasis Koulis(Open Mind Designers IMA): The clowns,as you say, are practicing the exercise of blocking,deflecting and and applying kick in action and it is a part of the leg work.It can be practised as a two set exercise on other levels I believe as a transposition of concepts. Thank you for your comment

Baguazhang- there are a few different schools of this form of Internal Kung Fu, each placing more or less emphasis on various aspects of the art. Some are more geared towards fighting and self-defense and other schools are more meditative. Bagua had started off as a form of moving meditation and the fighting applications were folded in later, mostly by Dong Haichuan. Most Bagua schools trace their lineage back to him. In Martial Arts History, Bagua is a relatively young art. It is still somewhat rare in both the US. and Europe, it is much more common in China where it originated in Taoist Monasteries. A true Bagua fighting lineage is known for extreme speed, flexibility, the means to take on multiple opponents at once and the skill to use almost anything that can be picked up as a weapon. In that way it is a little similar to Arnis. It doesn't look much like MMA or Karate. It has some kinship with Chen style Tai Chi and most people who can fight with it effectively started with Xingyi Quan first. It is somewhat difficult to learn and quite demanding, also slightly addictive. For the skeptics and the ignorant, several schools will accept challenge matches. Most of the line that comes from Wang Shujin will be happy to put you on your backside. Wang had an extensive body count, mostly karateka who came from Japan and returned to Japan in a box. Also known for fighting is the line that comes from Liang Zhenpu, that lineage should also accept challenge matches. But they have nothing to prove. If you think you can teach them a lesson, you can go find them, they are not hard to find, you keyboard warriors. In this video, the two students are doing Rou Shou, Bagua's equivalent of Tai Chi push hands. It is not freestyle sparring, it's an exercise and they are working on certain body mechanics.

if you can do that,you probably become the next ufc champion of your weight class.. this is fighting/lerning to fight at its best! ..FUCKIN RIDICULOUS...i mean AWESOME

Nice dance......

and not only the schow of this is this as you wanted to

Can anyone who might have some knowledge about Baguazhang tell me what these guys are doing wrong since the are such clowns..?

@FabiusPyromanus Their step seems rather bad for traditional bagua. And they dont lower at all

yeah, this is lethal... no one could watch to the end... it's killing boring stuff... : )

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here you can see real famous pakua tradition without no lust anymore of special this and that so that ah only qick using remind can be they whole again here you say ballet maby cause others you get so here you say clown of don t be able to get ah harlekin anymore here you say work more it is maby that what without this beats you up and here you they bruce cause you alway beat the strongest who didn t i see very got pakua here are place free to step in different stept for secur free hand and no

the taller guy's hair cut was off putting. please get a modern cut.

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@Synalicious Why don't you show us how? Maybe you are the Karate Kid or Bruce Lee Roy, huh, killer? Always a Grandmaster Clown in the audience...WHEW.

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