Blossom Fist | 花拳：形神兼备 收放自如

Blossom Fist is one of China's traditional martial art fist styles. It was created by Gan Fengchi, a martial arts master in the Qing Dynasty. The varied and changeable moves are a collection of many martial arts schools. With a history of more than 100 years, the fist was once prevalent in the area south of the Yangtze River and later spread to Beijing during the late Qing Dynasty. The Blossom Fist is distinctive for its use of the waist and legs. It is more of a practical fist with strenuous moves and clear rhythms. One of the meanings of the Chinese name for the Blossom Fist implies "change." It has a variety of techniques that change quickly to dazzle you. #Chinakungfu #十三亿分之一
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[@robertmiller8110]

I'm a Hung Kuen practitioner that moved to Hong Kong to learn. Over time, I've taken classes in Muay thai, Judo, BJJ and others as a way to learn how to apply the techniques and defend against the other styles. What I found was this: The shapes in the forms (taolu) in Chinese Martial Arts are so ancient that they can be applied across all of the arts that I have named. But, without actually practicing with a partner or other people then one cannot improve the actual roots of the system - just as we cannot become happier without others.

[@hemispace641]

That was profound. I absolutely love forms!

[@OzVegan]

I love that this woman is 73 years old and has flexibility that trumps most 18 year olds. The lesson to take away from many of these CGTN Kung Fu videos is martial arts will keep you physically fit and mentally alive. Considering the few number of fights one is likely to get into in most modern day societies, this is a really good reason to learn martial arts.

[@junodonatus4906]

That was the most intelligent comment under a martial arts video I have ever seen.

[@ErraticFaith]

I am in [somewhere] In China and we get into fights almost every other day. Sometimes with cheap weapons and knives. So your comment is nonsense. People get killed without any ability to fight.

[@OzVegan]

@@ErraticFaith Learn to read. "most modern day societies" is plural and your exception of somewhere in China doesn't make the rule. So your comment is nonsense.

[@topsecret4791]

UNBELIEVABLE!! A true priceless, living example of a heroine!!!

[@limroger]

Mad respect to her for carrying on the tradition of Blossom Fist into the 21st Century.

[@mingsj7224]

陶冶情操之拳，闲暇健身之舞。。找一方天地自娱自乐，陶醉而已。踞一些迷徒迷妹，打造烘托一些文化的气氛。当然，年龄到了。练武的心也就变了，所谓的拳也变味了。这就是我的观感

[@1888swordsman]

so grateful to see these skills

[@breckenpeter5343]

instablaster.

[@JuliannaHolmes]

This woman is my new role model! I want to be that flexible at 40, let alone in my 70s! ☺️

[@joaogirao4280]

Ive been blessed to see you do this with your body and mind - thank you

[@1234Brian.Street]

Shes like a 1000 watt Blossom Amp

[@hemispace641]

This Blossom Fist is absolutely fantasitc!

[@Herowebcomics]

This style is amazing! And this girl is so graceful and tough!

[@Molop87]

Only found this series yesterday, it's lovely

[@atukcool299]

Nobody wants to compliment this madam's flexibility?

[@ecnivmarng7163]

I want to.

[@Molop87]

Everyone wants to. I just feel slightly warm doing so about an 73 years old

[@Makinja]

It's impressive, but hyper-mobility can be a blessing and a curse.

[@markboudreau1410]

I must have missed something; was that 70 years old or 20 years old? It looks like 20.🙏❤️

[@davidnleeh4]

Thank you for posting this video!!!!🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@locojazz5770]

Wish I could learn from the madam

[@furai4640]

I never forget this style, the moves is so soft

[@云中客-i3s]

花拳和太极拳有异曲同工之妙。花拳是甘凤池所传，他本身就是内家拳出身，后来在内家拳的基础上融合进了少林拳的内容。而且花拳套路运动量大，养生价值比太极拳要高

[@ooiweikheng9938]

所有的传统武术都是异曲同工的，並没高低之分，也沒内外家之分，都是外练筋骨皮，内练一口气的，练对了，养生价值都是一样的。

[@PJ-kb6tp]

感觉就开头那句的意思 指上打下的吧

[@voltrondefofunv5708]

Oh yes i agree i was saying that about her yesterday😜

[@mingsj7224]

​​​@@ooiweikheng9938纵观评论區，你是阅历很丰富的明白人。不过真正的高人，不是现在市面上这些活跃的人。他们不屑于與俗人爭长短論雌雄，衹是害怕受到世俗的污染。

[@kfbooth0]

姐姐真利害, 想不到這個年紀也可以身手這麼好

[@vidalarturolopezjimenez1132]

Mis respetos, que gran maestra.

[@crappo8459]

Wow this woman is incredible

[@ShenChang]

Hello guys. does anyone know where this style is still taught in China? I learned that the Beijing Huaquan Research Association has unfortunately been closed

[@lonewolf5896]

Amazing woman..

[@mattnobrega6621]

I am amazed and greatly impressed with the flexibility and grace of this elder who practices this art. She seems like a gentle sweet lady.

[@mehdihoseyni97]

Did u c the stretching? Waow

[@chip877]

She's adorable !

[@hemispace641]

Would love to have this woman as my Sifu!

[@AMMA-Das]

She is absolutely amazing and such great grounded life long practice and flexibility!

[@中华民族復兴强国梦]

因何只有花拳，但秀腿跑到那里？

[@nellycuellar2268]

Hermoso,mucha perseverancia....

[@yymjyyobjka1302]

kungfu de flores----est un slang por insultados, pero es ist un stilo. Perderame por mi espangnol

[@Herowebcomics]

¡Sí, esto es genial!

[@thkun33]

敬佩

[@weiang820]

七十一岁的年纪看起来像六十，身手矫健，膝盖不疼，是真功夫。

[@SundayBoy72]

Brilliant

[@cirlandantas]

Gratidão

[@leonardchaves3128]

Beautiful!!!

[@jerichotam1360]

since it is dancing instead of martial art

[@nandomericoni4457]

@@jerichotam1360 If your "point" is that this is martial arts so there's no concept of beauty in the movements, you are wrong and you wasted your sarcasm. If instead it's that this is not martial arts because it looks like a dance, see above.

[@LunaticReason]

Is this Meihuaquan? Plum Blossom Fist?

[@interqward1]

Looks very similar to Mui Fa Kuen of Choy Li Fut. In fact it looks exactly the same.

[@Cyclonus5]

Both this and the CLF forms are derivatives of the Shaolin plum Blossom. Where CLF added the signature moves like the Sau, Jong or Kup this form seems to simplify a lot of the Shaolin internals and twisting to something easier to transmit, which makes sense if this was codified around the time of the cultural revolution.

[@a.s.d.feniceedragone4580]

no, is flower fist.

[@醫武傳承者]

讚讚讚

[@TheStrataminor]

Okay I would like to see other 71 one year old people be as flexible as this....goodness! I am only 44, and I am not this supple..

[@robertmiller8110]

Agreed. I'm Canadian and unfortunately, everyone is obese and diabetic by 30. Haha.

[@timesgoesby8665]

Me with my mid 20s watching how flexible this Lady is.

[@MaharlikaAWA]

I want to be dazzled by this!

[@mengwolong5651]

在巴西有華拳風格的代表嗎？

[@yuzufequiz9883]

💖🦋🦋💖

[@user-alex8to7q]

1:42～2:09 これだけでも十分にスゴい。

[@磊杨-d4p]

小时候，听过这个拳

[@TariqBusy]

Love it, somebody tries to take her purse and will be sorry.

[@石山博幸-y6e]

好了😊😋😂😁😄😆😭💖

[@yymjyyobjka1302]

Praise

[@1sunstyle]

I want to drink ginseng tea with other masters.

[@zhenyongtan457]

花🌸拳可以混合八卦掌或形意拳，应该会更美。因为柔中带刚，以柔克柔，以刚克刚，花拳柔中化刚。

[@金明明-w9y]

八卦掌 形意拳 傳聞是清末民初的假大師所創，用來街頭賣藝表演用的，花拳我看也差不多，什麼剛柔講的那麼厲害，吹牛吹上天了

[@aguywithananimeprofile8950]

I wanna see buddha palm technique

[@voltrondefofunv5708]

Im going to practice martial arts to my old age just so i can do what she was doing reciting something gansta from Maoism or Taoism

[@marcturcotte559]

是花拳还是华拳？

[@ShenChang]

花拳 flower fist.

[@СергейШатенев]

Думал,что отломает себе ножку!...молодец!

[@bjaMoke]

Auntie has more speed than lads my age

[@masterkoi29]

During the Qing Dynasty, practicing martial arts was prohibited that is why many people created their own fist style mostly based from the Wudang Style fist as the Qing doesn't know the Wudang Style fist. Blossom Fist comes from Tai Chi style fist which was based from Wudang Style fist creates by Taoist monks.

[@ericchow18]

呵呵，我是绣腿传人，请指教

[@wasabi-in-my-eye3134]

Hadoken!!!!!!

[@adamzhang2874]

我真的不相信她能打过一个170的正常男人

[@bw5020]

I didn't know the Chinese government funded it. Awkward. I didn't know where were so many Kung fus systems. I kinda wish that they still sparred more.

[@secutorprimus]

That would be helpful, it would begin the process of removing impracticality. Though, it would be nice if cultural movements remained after purging the art.

[@alvinkoh5556]

花拳不能无秀腿。 Can 花拳绣腿 fight and win a professional MMA champion?

[@interqward1]

Easy. Just get ANY MMA champion of 71 years of age and match them.

[@ecnivmarng7163]

@@interqward1 u r so wise !

[@ecnivmarng7163]

Mma? Mma的！甚麼都mma的！mma people of 71 may have died already

[@interqward1]

@@ecnivmarng7163 Oh jes, I em berry berry wyse (joking!) ; ) All jokes aside however, this lady is outstanding. And I have a small tiny tinsy little bit of background in this field with which to offer a paltry judgment.

[@bw5020]

I HIGHLY doubt it but I don't believe that should be an L on her part. I'm learning that while I have gripes about Kung fu becoming more of a visual art vs self defense pressure testing, I can appreciate it for what it is. She doesn't seem to be hard stressing it as like the ultimate defense anyway. She doesn't come across like some of these wing chun guys and Tai chi folks who have never sparred. So if they don't come come arrogant with skills they don't have, I'd let them be.

[@amnas3201]

董文玉 - Beijing Xicheng Sports Committee

[@lyndonho65]

🙏🏻

[@saquibmohammed2077]

mei hua quan

[@ShenChang]

No, it's not meihua, it's huaquan 花拳

[@金明明-w9y]

這運動很好，不如叫花之早操，你這個別說拳擊手，普通人的快拳你都擋不住，實戰的時候誰會跟你撸手玩繞圈圈,兩個老人家在玩遊戲叫實戰嗎？

[@zokon53]

@4:08 burrito fist 🌯

[@davidfamffindo8837]

China kungfu for healthy and longlife not for fighting..

[@power279]

nowadays myb..but not in the past..

[@taoist32]

David fam ff indo Dumbdowned since the government took over in 1949. Reason? So people can’t fight back against the government.

[@ProtoIndoEuropean88]

see, that's the problem, believing seriously that kung fu is not for fighting kung fu means acquire great skill through hard work. yes it is for fighting and for health conditions, many kung fu practitioners don't live long because of smoking habits and some because of bad Qi gong practice that leads to strokes.

[@Herowebcomics]

Actualy, by fighting, you CAN live longer!

[@junodonatus4906]

@@Herowebcomics Actually you can live longer if you avoid fighting 😉

[@arcticfox9857]

花拳繡腿

[@ecnivmarng7163]

秀腿花口-------你呀！ 衰仔！

[@freshday633]

love the art but like most of these arts they lack power. bruce lee was the one who showed how hard you must train to achieve this you must train with diffrent styles of fighting like ju jitsu or mma or any other art learn different techniques to overcome weakness in your art we need to modernise these arts to keep up with the western arts

[@junodonatus4906]

This old woman trained harder in her life than Bruce Lee ever did.

[@流浪猫-f3w]

就当体操练练挺好，别提实战😰

[@ecnivmarng7163]

若魁梧身體練著，一定打瓜你！

[@流浪猫-f3w]

Ecniv Marng 身体已经魁梧了还用练这玩意才能打人？😰智商堪忧……

[@jmscheerleadr]

可以練柔軟度，預防運動傷害

[@春蠶至死絲方盡]

@@流浪猫-f3w 人家都已經是個老奶奶，在跟她爭什麼東西啊

[@backpackpepelon3867]

Good dance move, terrible martial art. So much useless movement of spinning shit.

[@Herowebcomics]

The spinning is to parry attacks!

[@eleethtahgra7182]

Now have them do mma with mma regulation. Or else you gonna have some mma guy chalenging wushu guy to trash wushu. Kinda like muathay. Its a martial arts, its also a competition. You study it and then you go to the ring. Same with boxing. Theres ni such thing for wushu, theres no habit of going into the ring.

[@kulanihagemann-frank5043]

You know some people don't give a damn about MMA and this has nothing to do with MMA at all. I wanna learn these types of martial arts but I don't give a damn about MMA or even interested in MMA. Ik it's mixed martial arts but I don't really care about that

[@junodonatus4906]

I study Kung Fu to overcome my own physical limitations and for health and longevity. I personally don't care about mixed martial arts and hand-to-hand combat in the modern world is obsolete.

[@xyzxyz1908]

Even the show itself is no good. That "fist" is useless in a real combat.

[@bajifist9727]

Keep sayin' so.

[@junodonatus4906]

Real combat is useless in the modern world. Who are you fighting every single day? I train for physical fitness and longevity.

[@virginiaalmon8389]

No, this isn't real combat! This is Practice using the forces and forms that would be used in real combat.

[@owl77]

有花拳，那么他会绣腿吗?