Kung Fu Dragons of Wudang - Baguazhang, 8 Pattern Boxing

[@samisinspace3682]

the most impressive internal artist i have had the honor to meet made everything he did look like an 'empty dance' and yet i have never met anyone else as powerful.

[@Internalflow33]

Who is it? Awesome flow.

[@Aheyne]

Yup, agreed. This guy is just going through the motions, he doesn't even pay attention to center, and nothing comes from his whole body movements.

[@pranakhan]

Wudang's training philosophy for most of its martial practices has a strong foundation in Tai Chi Chuan. For this reason, they teach through forms. They wont isolate movements for application or power generation. Wudang skill level is directly linked to how long you have been performing the specific form. Thats why Wudang Baguazhang looks different than other shools, and may appear to lack martial efficacy. My opinion, though.

[@brullki]

Thanx to put this on you tube!! save the mistery of baqua!! ;)

[@jimmyjamesWang]

Ba gua literaly means the Eight Trigram which is, above all, a philosophical and metaphysical concept of daoism.

[@ChineseOpera8]

This is 'Traditional' true Ba-Gua Zhong,..not competition (incorrect slang-term) Wu-shu form. The intention is not on releasing brute-force to one area at a time,..it is on joint-locking and wrapping in a confusing, coiling pattern, plus his use is small-frame on top of the platform. To entangle the opponent. In this variation no fa-jing or explosive power is issued. It is hidden until nesessary. There are 'many' different types/styles of Ba-Gua zhong!

[@maylaaaaaa]

The last Airbender brought me here!!! :)

[@C-MOG]

I can totally see Air Bending forms in this!

[@JeffBrownThe10th]

so awesome! i wanna go there and learn!!

[@Akaoushi]

Wow that was amazing, this is something I have been wanting to learn for a few years now but theres no one here that teaches Bagua.

[@MaoDao1369]

There is a place called five immortals temple in wudang mountains.

[@Buzztooth]

The opening pattern is pretty standard. It was the eight patterns all linked together. The performance was ok. Looked like Cheng style, not wushu.

[@Bastion83]

admittedly you have a point but you can also see hes holding back. I subscribe to blacktaoist and you are right but I really do get the feeling this guy is intentionally holding back fa jing.

[@AndyRaslan]

That's Wudang BaGua. The documentary is about Wudang Gong Fu.

[@paulkagondo3993]

The first voice was Jackie Chan

[@jiujitsu77]

no I don't think so. the voice was too high hete

[@alexlaxson3261]

@@jiujitsu77 it sounded exactly like Jackie Chan

[@IronPalm]

This is a rather wushu-ish demonstration of the "Original Form" that was developed by Jiang Rong-Jiao. It is not a form developed in a mountain temple, and is actually one of the most well-known baguazhang forms. The Nine Palace exercise is certainly part of baguazhang, but the way it's done here is more for flashy demonstration purposes. Can these guys Use their skills for fighting? Depends on if they Practice fighting! They move nicely, but so do ballerinas. I see a lot of overextention...

[@JeffBrownThe10th]

@GunslingerX92 yes, it is much tougher. i study this, and my teacher has it down pretty well. but he says it took him 5 years just to get the footwork down. but as long as you keep improving from wherever you are, you will pick it up eventually

[@Square41]

@Taisykis hahaha nooo way dude. it just so happens that i ran into the right guys to learn from. you know, guys like the turtle from kung fu panda. anyways, empty bagua is like an interpretive dance and has no real jin; no internal connectivity, no turbulence of deep muscle contractions. full bagua comes from your gut. all the movements of your arms and legs feel like an unstoppable force -and they are. your ribs open and close, your spine is elongated and sometimes you understand the universe.

[@AndyRaslan]

If I had a dollar for every time a comment on a martial arts video made me think "these people should watch less anime", I'd probably be richer than the ones behind the anime industry.

[@Elbottoo]

That was just sick.

[@monkeyking32]

yea i agree. but its a shame though, most schools today, in ny at least teach only the forms as wushu performance, they don't break down applications and purposes

[@Ryooken]

They are equal. Shaolin style and Wu Dang style are equal in every way as they are ying and yang?

[@JosephHickman7]

does anyone know the name of this form?

[@vishesfishes]

@Taisykis :) all ways question anything you come across. i was trained by a greek & a brit but its true things can be hidden in the movement by the looks of this person it is a speedy mix of dragon movements. thay r good just sloppy in some spots but nice of corse. it can take many years to get all of a form smooth & fast.

[@bigfatdick5000]

I wonder how does the fighting skills of Wu tang practitioners compared to Shaolin monks ?? We've never seen wu tang practitioners in action.....

[@micsir888]

Great idea! I love Bagua! To bad for the circuventing of the opponents there at thte end tho. Fail!

[@SunRhythms]

the 9 pieces of 8

[@SunLutang06]

typical wudang wushu but then again you dont see any apps

[@biedronec]

wow, wow, wow

[@bowser8375]

Style has nothing to do with it. It is based on the skill of the person.

[@gamer7916]

baguazhang isnt really from Wudang, as in Wudang mountains, its from Dong Haichuan, who mixed circle walking exercise from Wudang training with his southern martial arts like Hung Gar and Shaolinquan

[@NirrumTheMad]

heh, Description "trigrammatastic"

[@C-MOG]

Air Bending anyone?

[@quanjiahao87]

lol the guy doesn't even look in the right direction when he does the single palm change nor does his hand come back to the center of the circle wow =.=''

[@dougrhess]

But it doesn't go over the trigrams at all (mabye later but not here). The person doing the solo is good at wushu performance (very good) but not really at demonstrating what the point of it is. It's just talk. Please note that I'm not attacking the style, just this presentation and the narration.

[@jeffdoeskungfu]

@jacksawild Yeah, losing testicles sucks.

[@Square41]

aw, maaan... another guy doing empty bagua? this kind of publicity just makes bagua seem like something it isn't... looks like a formal documentary too. whatever you guys do, don't look at this for "real bagua". check out guys like david harris or bruce frantzis. they're legit. another one would be david meikle in vancouver or vince black in arizona.

[@jimmyjamesWang]

dont call it bagua, bagua is a slang for gossip. call it baguazhang.

[@skeletorrobo]

Show it in a real fight.

[@jaxom]

Weirdest DDR ever

[@AndyRaslan]

You're clearly not a dragon in grammar, spelling and punctuation.

[@HessOnChess]

This is a really awful introduction to Bagau. It's a shame these martial arts are being reduced to silly routines for cable tv shows.

[@DerUberGaijan]

This is the most sorry demonstration I've ever seen...I don't want to knock the martial arts style, but hopefully this isn't what it looks like normally. Half the time she's just walking around the circle normally and making vague gestures that don't seem to have any practical purpose towards a human opponent. I don't know..maybe if the point was to waft away some smoke...