Very nice, congratulations !

It takes some time to film and edit, please wait with patience. Meanwhile, have you ever considered traveling to China and learn kung fu from real masters?

You can learn those basics and forms for free, shaolin-kungfu.com/training-plan/free-online-lesssons/

Malingshan Mountain in Xinyi city Jiangsu province in China. shaolin-kungfu.com/location/

We would recommend you to learn from the books written by Grandmaster Shi De Qian.

Yes, a small city here, but cozy and nice.🥰

Appreciate your kind words. 🙏🙏

Thank you 🙂

It's a difficult move, taking a lot of practice.

@@MalingAcademy I know.

Yes, there are.

@@MalingAcademy Show me so I can learn.

@@johnsantos507 Those movements are for the beginners.

@@MalingAcademy Really?

That's the first Shaolin fist form you learn.

@@MalingAcademy Wait. Did I?🤷🏿‍♂️

A very breif training, there's more afte that...

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I agree, looks kinda stiff

You can also hear his breathing is very heavy, and by the end he sounded gassed. That said, the video is simply titled "student grading", so I'm willing to bet he's more of a beginner/intermediate level practitioner, and if that's the case, he's doing very well and just needs to keep at it, build the muscle memory and focus more on his breathing techniques.

That's because Baji isn't about internal energy flow. Baji is an external art, and the taolu are meant to capture combat movements, not direct your energy or ground your spirit. Dan Da always looks stiff because of this. However, if you have ever seen sanda between traditional kung fu schools, you'll find that Baji is one of the more effective traditions at training students for actual combat. It is a form you learn for effectiveness, not beauty or peace.

Sorry, this video is from before, he is not available now.

@@MalingAcademy Really?!😱

@@johnsantos507 Yes, but we are planing to make more teaching vids, this one will be included.

@@MalingAcademy Hope you are right.

This is a pretty slow example of the form already. If i was you, I'd simply play it at .5x speed and pause at key moments.

We are too, looks amazing !

It's a metal staff

@@MalingAcademy Oh really?! Well it's a good I have a staff made of wood.

​@@johnsantos507 I second this

@@mouved1 Really?!

It's a metal staff, aluminum from the look and sound of it, but I'm not certain. It may be hollow, in which case the difference between that and a pipe is closed off ends. More likely has a wooden or light material core. Definitely not solid metal, that would be too heavy to move like that, much less to use as an actual weapon. You don't really need a metal staff though, it's rare to have it chopped through as long as you're deflecting instead of using a hard block, and when it gets too rough you just get a new wooden staff. Extremely heavy staves do have their uses in conditioning, but typically you accomplish the same conditioning with repetitive movements holding ordinary staves at one end, such as Wing Chun uses the dragon pole (long, tapered staff) to strengthen the forearm and elbow. (edited for clarity)

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That'll work

@@MalingAcademy Thank you sifu.🙏🏾

It's very common to travel with the bullet train now, even a county level city got such a bullet train station. It's fast, clean and comfortable.

@@MalingAcademy Wish I can go there, but I can't.😔

@@johnsantos507 Some day maybe...

With proper training, you will too.

@@MalingAcademy But I'm still have a long way to go.

@@johnsantos507 Most people do, just keep training.