This is Baji Quan

This is Baji Quan
八_極_拳

[@GameleiraNoChao]

Before I found a Baji teacher and had learned about the style, I would watch all the videos I could and this was one of the first that I came across. Many years later I'm still amazed at the skill of the practitioners in this video.

[@Livingtree32]

Same for me. Which lineage you practice now?

[@GameleiraNoChao]

I train under the Wutan lineage. How about yourself?@@Livingtree32

[@lostharper]

God, the movement, the exactitude, the timing between moves, the shoulders' position, the speed used for each movement, the strength, the precision... im speechless. I've practiced Wushu Kungfu for 5 years and Wing tsun right now, and yeah, im speechless, only someone who has practiced it and tried it can know how hard actually is to reach that level of mastery.

[@ImmaculateM1Garand]

I still watch this video every once in a while, I really enjoy it. Thanks for the upload.

[@BajiFreak]

Performers are : 1) Yang GuoMing (杨国明) student of Li JunYi, himself student of Wu LianZhi, doing XiaoJia1Lu 2) Yang Jie (杨杰), student of Wu LianZhi， doing XingPi 1Lu 3）Chang YuGang (常玉刚), student of WU LianZhi, doing xiaoJia 4Lu 4) Xu RuiCai (徐瑞才) student of Feng JingShan (student of Wu XiuFeng) doing XingPi 5) Chang YuGang, doing SiLangKuan 6) Wu HuanCai (吴焕才) & Yang GuoMing doing TieShanKao 7) unknown guys doing DuiDa 8) Wu HuanCai & Yang GuoMing doing FuShou

[@atomictraveller]

with all respect, instead watch chang long ba ji quan kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZzbnIFroK5mo6M and witness refinement that is rare in the world and learn more than you expected

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@atomictraveller I watched your link, i think it looks too rigid, it lacks flowing and reminded me of karate (not a good thing). I prefer this video where graceful and fluid movements alternate with decisive pwerful strikes. It has the perfect balance of Yin and Yang.

[@chenzenzo]

Thank you so much. I spent many years studying Bajiquan and to see these practitioners is beautiful.

[@berndg5018]

Have you ever heard of Shifu Long Jin Ju?

[@Livingtree32]

@@berndg5018Fragst du wegen Ismet?

[@MichaelHarto]

this is the best baji presentation! the form, the power, the stomp.

[@ming01]

I started with Traditional Wushu when I was a child. Moved onto TaeKwonDo in my pre-teen to teen years. Currently learning Wing Chun. Started long range style fighting and moving into closer range. All the my masters/instructors were skillful in their arts but not all of them were good teachers. Guess sometimes the champions don't make the best teachers.

[@ISkandarash]

Many little "martial experts" in the comments, who still shit in their pants when these men already mastered their art to perfection...

[@hemispace641]

Absolutely beautiful! Much respect to the performers and people responsible for recording and posting this video!

[@songoku6596]

Wow 14 years ago! This is beautiful 🤩

[@teobaldolendario8880]

what I'm doing here

[@songoku6596]

Wat

[@teobaldolendario8880]

Wat

[@paerarru]

Beautiful. Watch the whole thing and don't doubt, they are learning how to kick ass in style.

[@andoncroft5154]

This guy is no joke, I've seen enough material arts over the years to KNOW this guy is real pro. The power of the punches the coordination the grace of his moves, it's powerful in any ways😇

[@redbeast13]

Who here has heard the saying: when pigua is added to baji, gods and demons will both be terrified. when baji is added to pigua, heroes will sigh knowing that they are no match for it?

[@ism94786]

This is true. There is a saying that states to the effect of- skill overcomes power and mastery overcomes skill. This indicates the importance of repetition. Our kungfu school's motto is 'I do not fear the ten thousand kicks that you've practised once, I fear the one kick you've practised ten thousand times!'

[@fazares]

Bruce lee saying

[@quanfa88]

Absolutely fantastic! This is true technique. Perfect balance and structure, smooth transitions, very fluid, excellent rooting on each strike/block. The subtitles indicate this is in China, Hebei, Cangzhou. While that is a good city, it is still not as developed as many other areas. This proves that superb martial arts needn't require specialized facilities or expensive equipment. All of us can learn from the practitioners in this video. Xie xie.

[@blaserz]

i really want to learn this style. after taking karate for 4 years then suddenly stopping after the dojo was closed i forgot how much i loved it. This art is really nice and i would love to be able to learn it. even the first form would be enough for me

[@fudominechu]

Baji was the emperor's guard's routine. You don't do it in actual performance, but during practice, you hit your thighs and arms with some of the strikes. It toughens your skin. And they don't hold back when they hit too :P

[@siulumlion]

In my Sifu's village there was nothing to do but grow peanuts, practice Hung Gar Shaolin, and drink. They had a similar overall level of skill. Also the same landscaper.

[@OsmosisG]

Simply a marvel to watch. The very essence of grace and power...

[@rodgerbane3825]

There are different types of Baji, I studied a little of the Wudang stuff. I see elements of XinYi in this stuff.

[@archonofvoid]

True but the two styles have much in common

[@calymnis2204]

Do not underestimated this, it's forms may look like dancing but that's routine. It looks weak but it contain explosive inner power that posibly wreack untrained human in single blow. The true essense of traditional chinese martial arts.

[@chickenblood94]

Teddy Lim that's the beauty of it, though!

[@chandrasonic9997]

when i watch it at 1.5 speed. the dance become very powerful forms. really amazing.

[@jesper5456]

What do you mean it looks weak LOL

[@DLTRN1369]

@@chandrasonic9997 nah, if you move that fast in that form, your muscles and joints would be injured badly. Good forms are mean to be sharp and should support your body to move faster.

[@vincentsun886]

It doesn’t look weak at all folk. Baji is quite a mandatory course for high ranked politicians’ bodyguard

[@superfastway4345]

awesome and authentic martial art

[@beunbad]

I have a buddy who does MMA and cross trains with me. He also trains in BJJ and Muay Thai. He is one of the few with no bad attitude. And Ive managed to catch him with the ineffective traditional techniques that don't work ;-). Its a good exchange and we learn from each other..

[@newnairobi1]

Remarkable footage. Thanks again, k, you always post the good stuff.

[@TheVGViking]

He throws quite a few. Most kicks are thrown at the thigh, or shin of the opponent. Baji Quan is about short movements, high kicks and knees take a lot longer to pull off than a kick to the shin.

[@tsuikr]

No higher than groin

[@binxiazhang9216]

this just looks so powerful

[@Anyan2473]

Yes, it`s very amazing style! Very good!

[@crazyroosterfist]

@megadomonic baguazhang is the eight tri-grams palms,baji is explode in eight directions fist. it was once called pazi quan,meaning the raking fist.baguazhang is attributed to dong hai chuan.baji is from meng village,cang county.

[@mr.frozeman7115]

14 yrs ago damn

[@gladd8869]

The kid chilling out in the background while this man is styling is so funny to me.

[@angelstrife]

Wow the first guy got some strength in his moves!! he must have trained the basics for a long time!!

[@4Ever_2Eternitii]

this is a very intense very powerful art form matter of fact i have this class today

[@goognamgoognw6637]

oh good, have a good training !

[@seinundzeiten]

Very good Baji- powerful, fast and elegant.

[@anglersanon9261]

This is the real Baji

[@DaNeiJin]

very nice, very good, question for the ones who know this ppl in the video, is this all baji, or is ther also a xinyi liuhe set there? or are this two styles really so close?

[@mrblankface20002]

I didn't even realize that Leo or Akira knew Baji Quan, until I played DoA5 and saw Kokoro.

[@stardelta12]

i read from sources PAUL uses bajiquan in TEKKEN and when i see this vid, i believe it. It's powerful and deadly. The emperor/ dynasty army also practice this stuff.

[@BrownBomber20XX]

impressive fa jin and gongfu. crisp, explosive movements and all of you have a powerful zhenjiao. very nice.

[@TerraPrimeSwordLab]

Excellent show of good Baji!

[@HanCavalry]

If you are interested in dancing, then go watch some dance videos by all means. This is a martial arts demonstration video.

[@celtislam]

The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú, Xiaoerjing: حُوِ ذَو ) are a Chinese ethnic group, typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. They form one of the 56 ethnic minority groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.

[@papertiger7]

A lot of kung fu forms have additional movements just to cover up the real techniques, that's how they prevent people from stealing moves.

[@tonyroman100]

Read a manga called kenji

[@sunyah4058]

tonyroman acosta very good call

[@Horrorvault._]

tonyroman acosta awesome manga, my favorite

[@RasAnnunaki]

Play a game called Shenmue.

[@modkfmartialarts8663]

Such an amazing manga that will never get a anime

[@N2RECON]

Ras Annunaki wowwww dreamcast man what .. took me back yo

[@biglalways]

Akira YUKI....

[@meltup3668]

Seeing the Chinese practice their martial arts is proof that ancient Chinese culture lives on.

[@Flowgamer17]

i came here because of Leo

[@kennyecabrera]

I came here because of li shuwen from fate extra.

[@michaelingco4287]

KENNETH CABRERA Kokoro from Dead or Alive

[@iriff782]

me too

[@MrWasGehtSieDasAn121]

Leo too :D

[@phantom_mist1726]

Michael Ingco akira from virtua fighter

[@vorpal83]

Kyokushin's most important kata is... sanchin kata. Gee, I wonder where that comes from?

[@matthewshimabuku]

you can never understand martial arts, until you understand peace.

[@Arylukii]

Bajiquan and Xingyiquan are not "soft" styles of Kung Fu. They are both "hard" styles, however, they are both "internal" styles as opposed to "external" styles.

[@bartdude82]

Akira Yuki is a badass video game character. I love this martial arts style!

[@Residenteviladicted]

Hey its Kokoro's fighting style aswell! :O

[@humanusername5732]

Virtua Fighter - Akira. made me interested first time lol

[@HamsterPants522]

@@humanusername5732 Same here. Was curious about it. It looks like a cool chinese style of kickboxing. Could definitely be combined with boxing and muay thai to really bring out its potential for real fights.

[@roninstoff]

Nice...I've seen a little Taiji and wave-type movement in my time and enjoyed it in this..and fa-jing type movements...really enjoyed this..the two-person form especially. For the detracters..get over the dust, the world is not all green grass and McDonalds

[@younglink615]

:D this stuff is awesome. i love how they always finish where they began

[@ieltsurumqi1453]

I like the nitty gritty down home China style. Nice to see these guys training out in the hinter land.

[@tigerpanda5911]

when he throws a punch, i can feel the power as if i got hit. just like bruce said: gongfu punch is like a iron ball atteched to an iron chain, whack

[@goognamgoognw6637]

bones are hard but not iron. Bruce lee was a honk kong cinema punk with a break in LA.

[@tongsifu1128]

Excellent! Excellent indeed!

[@gromorob]

This is too awesome. What a beautiful and devastating art. Any body know what part of China this video was recorded in? I am in Xi'an right now and currently looking for a Baji teacher. My last was nearly 1000 miles away in northern China and I'm aching to find a new one.

[@fernandomauriciodasilva9123]

Perfect. I want to learn.

[@teobaldolendario8880]

Fizeram até um Pokémon baseado nesse estilo, o Urshifu kkk

[@lowengkok3562]

Bajiquan is great👍👍👍

[@user-mg4eq5eq4f]

这才是真的,现在没了这样的真正的拳、功了😢

[@Livingtree32]

他们的后代还在练，没有失传

[@putusudiantha]

Kenji goh .. I like that manga.

[@MrAbsbvbsdfbsdfvbdab]

+putu sudiantha i learned of this martial art from that manga as well!!! :'D

[@goognamgoognw6637]

This style comes from coolies carrying heavy weights on their back on both sides of a pole. The two extended arms on each side of the pole here are used powerfully. The feet are solid on the ground and stable as when carrying weights. Brisk movement corresponds to offloading the cargo or transferring carried weight. Another hypothesis is the movements come from imitating the male bird parade during the mating season. The feet movement are very beautiful. I would like to learn this style.

[@jedimind5337]

interesting...but are you sure it came from the coolies?? also, how long ago did they conceive and develop the martial arts? and how did coolies become so wise?

[@Livingtree32]

@@jedimind5337 That’s actually just some made up pseudo history. Nothing to do with kulis.

[@xingyimaster1987]

this video makes baji look beautiful, wish someone taught it up here in london

[@ming01]

We know that saying too. Just replace "kick" with "move". I'm not putting down repetition. I practice each individual move as warm up. I'm just trying to emphasize the importance of real world application. It's like learning how to ride a horse through books, but until you saddle up and ride one you will never know where the weakness is. Another name for this is called "Combat experience". Also remember when fighting, most people get nervous and freeze up their first time. There is a saying to -

[@SunShingles]

Obsessed man. You can feel the Qi.

[@ph4tboy]

I always thought in kung fu movies a lot of fights took place in dusty environments for dramatic effect, but china is really dusty everywhere :)

[@Wavemaninawe]

Vacuum cleaners are overrated.

[@wtb6803]

It's country side, a small village. Here is your deodorant by the way

[@goognamgoognw6637]

Where chinese have lived, grass does not grow back. The ground is compacted, trees have all been cut to cook rice. This is not because of countryside, you are witnessing centuries of chinese impact on the land. If you ever wondered why chinese used to have floods, it's because for centuries they've cut down trees starting from rivers.

[@HamsterPants522]

@@goognamgoognw6637 Bro China is filled with grass and trees. Literally google image search photos of the country. lmao

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@HamsterPants522 You're uneducated if you think so. Centuries of systematic tree cutting turned china into a plain. Of course there are trees but few forest. And the proof right in your face is china suffers from chronic massive floods due to erosion from lack of trees around its river which were cut down by centuries of chinese. RFLMAO

[@liuchaquan]

yes, it's just a question of Romanization. Baguazhang was referred to as Pa kua chang (same ba/pa as in bajiquan, 八). The same way that Taijiquan has been written as t'ai chi chuan. (also notice the ji/chi is the same, 極 meaning "ultimate", or "extreme")

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

The first time i was exposed to Baji was Virtua Fighter....didn't realized Akira (japanese dude character) actually praticing chinese kung fu. I always thought his karate is very weird...until decades later only i realized it's a form of Kungfu called Baji when i watched the TVB Drama "A Fist withig the four walls". I was like....WTF....why are these guys fighting like Akira!!!!

[@goognamgoognw6637]

It looks like the sober version of drunken style. Also looks like bird techniques, chicken or goose. I love it.

[@box2896]

凄い、迫力がある

[@ming01]

Gotcha! I agree with you in that aspect. Often I'd watch MMA and think a drop elbow would break that hold or his jaw, but that move is illegal. But don't forget, same thing applies for all martial arts tournament matches. Elbows and knee strikes are taught, in Karate and TKD, but most of those techniques are banned from use during competition. I can see where they are coming from though; it's a sport, so they are trying to minimize serious injuries or accidental deaths.

[@perrypelican9476]

It's hard to tell what's going on behind the movements. The important thing is the energy behind it all, not the actual movements.

[@KyosaNimGe]

That was AMAZING!

[@carljohnson4285]

This is beautiful

[@adrianm5382]

Love Chinese martial arts its like a dance an art and loooks awesome. Fave styles is wing Chun and hung ga.

[@greg6509]

Agreed! KZbin search Chi Qingsheng to see some explosive Old Yang Style forms as his teacher was a discipline of Yang Shao Hou and Yang Cheng Fu. You'll find two beautiful Changquan forms of Old Yang style and one Yang Shao Hou small frame that is explosive with even a spinning jump kick. One of the ways Tai chi chuan was practiced. Liang De Hua is a disciple of the aforementioned Masters and is starting to teach it all online now including the Yang family Ba Duan Jin neigong and one of the Changquan fast forms to the public. They are beautiful and powerful. Love Kung Fu and authentic lineage results like in this video!

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Awesome!

[@KaedaShou]

Long & Shen long in bloody roar game is near to Li Shuwen baji quan style

[@ming01]

Well repetition is one thing. But you still need application. Try to find people who know the martial art and apply what you practiced. Best one to start off with is have the person do the one-two punch (left hand-right hand; since it is the most common first attack to any fight) and use what you learned to either block/intercept/counter. Different people = different height, strength and habits. Also don't be afraid to get hit. No matter how good you are at martial arts, you will get hit.

[@pwnagewithaknife3]

not necessarily a lot of martial arts are praised for their beauty and deadliness. Even Tai Chi in a master's hands can be lethal.

[@ming01]

I agree with the taught correctly. But I also want to add, understanding/comprehension on the students part. Lots of traditional arts mask their moves into what is mostly incomprehensible so ppl can't steal the techniques. What looked like a flailing arm in Wushu turned out to be 1 takedowns and 2 arm breakers (used as combo or separately; it's very effective). I would not have known that it was used in those ways if I did not think about how to use it and ask my Sifu to expand on it.

[@chiuansheng]

Another additional new Tekken 6 character Leo uses Bajiquan style, but in Japanese, it will be heard to be called Hakkyokuken. "Baji Quan" appears as one of Li Mei's fighting styles in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.

[@ism94786]

Yes. The style is an amalgamation of a few styles by Sifu Tony Leung (Sifu Tony Clements' sifu) and one it's aspects is chi development.

I learned it from Terry Bogard

[@magnusgranskau7487]

I feel like playing a michael jackson tune to this

[@robertvong]

Number 4, 徐瑞才 (Xu Ruicai) is really poppin' 👍

[@megafiremario12volt]

I learned from Akira, Leo, and Kokoro.

[@aleksandrgrigorev1329]

how you can learn baji from pc games? This kinda useless...

[@goognamgoognw6637]

beautiful movements. Also looks effective and powerful. In any case this is an excellent watch.

[@andreykantsarau2751]

В конце первой же проходки товарищ получает апперкот - даже кросс не нужен... На этом тао закончится )))

[@skoromniy3776]

Зачем апперкот?

[@andreykantsarau2751]

@@skoromniy3776 Не зачем, а почему. Посмотрите как он движется, на положение корпуса и головы. Как сказано в одном старом фильме, "блок мордой не ставят..."

[@skoromniy3776]

@@andreykantsarau2751Ну да кстати, сначала просто не обратил внимание

[@RickyC2107]

I love this martial art its so beautiful.

[@user-rk4rx3jl4d]

这一个是真正的八极拳，我也正在练孟村八极拳。 我的老师是李俊义老师。

[@himalayanspirit]

Standing meditation is used in Baji, as in other Chinese Martial arts. This exercise is originally a Taoist exercise if you research properly, and it was meant to be for spiritual development. Buddhists and Taoists also talk about the internal force Qi/Chi that moves in meridians in our body. So in that sense, these martial arts emerged from these 'religions'.

[@tricksterjwk]

The best technique of all time is "Man Runs Away".

[@mr.frozeman7115]

U still alive After 13 yrs?

[@iscrewyouall]

Gantz brought me here lol, surprisingly

[@waynesudoski871]

Great power! ☺

[@ukguy]

great to see some real baji for a change

[@jfuya2000]

How far does this martial art system date back to? Who are some of the pioneers of it?

[@erwinromadan85]

I came here because kenji and the history of master Li

[@tranglomango]

shaolin is just a temple, before a temple there was an army so, martial arts exists way before the shaolin temple, however the shaolin temple wasn't the only school at the time, there was wudang too, founded by shang san feng, the creator of Tai Chi Chuan, style wich he created because he had to pass a dangerous road wich was often place of bandits attacks... That's right he knew nothing about martial arts it was the FEAR FACTOR that ave him the original Idea of Tai Chi

[@tongsifu1128]

Great stuff! Very fascinating

[@Dan.50]

This is "How to Get Your Ass Kicked 101."

[@salcanzonieri]

Well, the Hui and other Chinese Muslims are from arabia and Persia originally, the traveled along the silk route into China and stayed there for centuries.