@ChamorruWarrior I use Wing Chun and Bagua. Bagua does expand on Wing Chun movement and angles. An ancient China art Zhuan Zhang means turning palm. Some think Bagua, Wing Chun and Choi Li Fut came from Zhuan Zhang. Bagua can fight from inside or outside a circle or free controlling the circle. Wing Chun also attacks the central line (toward the center of the target) same with Bagua.
Strong Dragon form. Balance, speed, rhythm. Great performance. Thank you.
Very interesting martial art! It's not as usual as Tai Chi Chuan for us in western world. Someday I'll be a student at your school! Thanks for sharing!
@ssbreon: This forms name is Longxing Baguazhang, means Bagua in the shape of a dragon or dragonstyle bagua and it's origin is longmen pai, the dragongate lineage.
@laagi83 Thanks for the info. The form looks beautiful and very interesting. It would be fun to learn it someday at your school in Wudang, although I'm sure it is difficult and challenging to learn.
@laagi83 Thanks for the info. The form looks beautiful and very interesting. It would be fun to learn it someday at your school in Wudang, although I'm sure it is difficult and challenging to learn.
@ernstism circle walking isnt really used in actual application its mainly used to develop internal energy....but in an actual fight u still circle around ur opponent
@ernstism you can defend yourself with bagua,, but not by circling your opponent like this .. this is a circular form which has more to do with structure and mindfulness.. linear forms are practiced for more martial applications ..but those applications are also expressed in the circular form.
it is a misconception that you would circle your foe with your body twisted. but it helps your bagua/body.
No, Bagua's not extinct. It's extremely hard to find a good teacher, though. Hell, it's hard to find a good, traditionally trained teacher for any style of Gong Fu...
But that's another story. Bagua is still alive and kicking...I practice it myself
Wudang is internal. To explain it in modern thoery. Think of it as a Counter-puncher in boxing. You dont need alot of strength to hurt an opponent when you counter. Where the softest looking punch does incredible damage. That is Wudang.
Shaolin is the opposite. Think of it as the aggressive boxers like Pacquiao. Cause external damage that you can obviously see.
Wudang is just a type of anceint schooling. Teaching you how to cause damage with little effort/energy. To do that it targets vitals.
Wǔdāng Shān or just simply Wudang is a mountain in the Hubei province of China
which became known as an academic center for the research, teaching and practice of Chinese martial arts, it has five martial arts schools on it that all learn different forms of Wudang such as Wu- tang, Wudangquan, Taijiquan, Baqua, and zhang, best place in the world to learn martial arts because of the altitude and teachers.
@ukguy changes relating to palm forms and the I Ching in terms of Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Wood, Water, Fire, Mountain, Lake. Ba Gua, Pa Kua mean the same thing respectively. Deviations do occur though do to the many forms of chines dialect. So it is entirely possibly that we are both right.
It is highly disrespectful to say someone else's training is not worth anything. Even MMA fighters are highly respected for their work outside the ring. Without understanding, there can be no appreciation. But you say that understanding these arts are useless. Then you are repeating a 5000-year old mistake barbarians once thought the civilized West or East, in which they suffered greatly for their ignorance.
If you have never done real martial arts you wont understand the power being generated. This is a lot more effective than UFC. Your confusing power with strength..like most Americans.
if you have never actually fought a resisting opponent you won't understand that this is only a form, and in no way resembles fighting (nor is it intended to). These movements have never, and will never be used like they are here in combat. You're confusing preconceived movement with effectiveness... like most OTHER Americans.
no doubt that an opponent resisting changes everything. The idea is to practice your movements in from your forms against someone who is resisting in order to clean up the kinks and loop holes in your style. But most times when individuals try to adapt there style they take on the likeness of kick boxing which actually reduces the quality of their technique. By the way I am an American..I just haven't met to many Americans that can fight well.
if you have not understood yet then if that style dosent have any real training which can produce real fast fighter then all this comedy is just ballet!ideas you are talking about are zeros then!
This is actually the fighting style Jet Li uses in The One, and if you watch that you won't have any doubts about the combat efficiency of Bagua Zhang.
someone you can hurt even without that!but i understand you, this is very deep thing but for as are given only comedy! were i can see the reality of that!or does it exsist at all!or we just dream that this is something special!
That's you opinion and i respect that. But why go around degrading things that others hold special to them? why waste the time or energy?if anything, you should try something before you knocking it down the way that you do.
OK chinese culture destroyed by cumminism lol. what a sham. if you go to china you will see skyscrapers. magnetic trains. in all this wu shu has survived and martialarts still strive and thrive... this guys is just trying his best to understand his own broken culture... shame on you for judging... and no some of us chinese(USA)... still believing in taoism and wudang is just one of the taoist that is preserving martial arts inspite of people like you.
This is pretty good, the moves are smooth and fluid. Just as they should be. As martial artists, we are more qualified to talk about quality than those "so-called arm chair experts". If one can't do anything like that, then the pie hole should be closed.
I heard this style fights off the center line, I wonder if someone learned Wing chun and Ba Gua, they could fight from every angle haha
ChamorruWarrior 2 months ago
@ChamorruWarrior I use Wing Chun and Bagua. Bagua does expand on Wing Chun movement and angles. An ancient China art Zhuan Zhang means turning palm. Some think Bagua, Wing Chun and Choi Li Fut came from Zhuan Zhang. Bagua can fight from inside or outside a circle or free controlling the circle. Wing Chun also attacks the central line (toward the center of the target) same with Bagua.
Strong Dragon form. Balance, speed, rhythm. Great performance. Thank you.
Bagua2pnt0 1 week ago
for someone seriously wanting to study the Wudang way, but without teachers near us, what could you suggest as a reliable resource?
DhuTurlough 3 months ago
Very interesting martial art! It's not as usual as Tai Chi Chuan for us in western world. Someday I'll be a student at your school! Thanks for sharing!
jlbellan 8 months ago
WOW nice my friend next year i ll join master wangs school
Turoklex90 11 months ago
Very impressive performance. Does this form have a name?
ssbreon 1 year ago
@ssbreon: This forms name is Longxing Baguazhang, means Bagua in the shape of a dragon or dragonstyle bagua and it's origin is longmen pai, the dragongate lineage.
laagi83 1 year ago
@laagi83 Thanks for the info. The form looks beautiful and very interesting. It would be fun to learn it someday at your school in Wudang, although I'm sure it is difficult and challenging to learn.
ssbreon 1 year ago
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@laagi83 Thanks for the info. The form looks beautiful and very interesting. It would be fun to learn it someday at your school in Wudang, although I'm sure it is difficult and challenging to learn.
ssbreon 1 year ago
i always see those circle walk videos but can you defend yourself with it.
Please let me know
ernstism 1 year ago
@ernstism circle walking isnt really used in aplication....though u sticle circle around ur opponent
cjamessimon 1 year ago
@cjamessimon @noklarok
Ok thx guys
ernstism 9 months ago
@ernstism circle walking isnt really used in actual application its mainly used to develop internal energy....but in an actual fight u still circle around ur opponent
cjamessimon 1 year ago
@ernstism
cjamessimon 1 year ago
@ernstism you can defend yourself with bagua,, but not by circling your opponent like this .. this is a circular form which has more to do with structure and mindfulness.. linear forms are practiced for more martial applications ..but those applications are also expressed in the circular form.
it is a misconception that you would circle your foe with your body twisted. but it helps your bagua/body.
a seven star movement is used.
you do fight 'off' the centre line.
hope that helps.
noklarok 10 months ago
Wow, that's impressive, I give it 8 palms!
slipmat707 2 years ago
lol very clever.
GeneralArrow 2 years ago
lol
1465225568 2 years ago
did bagua zhang extinct? i mean all i see is people teaching tai chi and other kung fu...
MichaelTheInfamous 3 years ago
No, Bagua's not extinct. It's extremely hard to find a good teacher, though. Hell, it's hard to find a good, traditionally trained teacher for any style of Gong Fu...
But that's another story. Bagua is still alive and kicking...I practice it myself
theMAG101 3 years ago
good luck and hope you become a good traditionally trained kung fu praticer :D
MichaelTheInfamous 3 years ago
Thank you very much, I appreciate it :-)
theMAG101 3 years ago 2
great footwork
thanks for posting
abraxas444 3 years ago
Because this is called Wudang, I guess that the form is based on the Five Elements?
mushinbujin 3 years ago
wudang is from Wu-Tang Shan (i think it's translated as the five peaks mountain)
windrider970 3 years ago
I got the impression somewhere that Wudang is also the name of the Chinese theory of five elements, or something along those lines. I could be wrong.
mushinbujin 2 years ago
Wudang is internal. To explain it in modern thoery. Think of it as a Counter-puncher in boxing. You dont need alot of strength to hurt an opponent when you counter. Where the softest looking punch does incredible damage. That is Wudang.
Shaolin is the opposite. Think of it as the aggressive boxers like Pacquiao. Cause external damage that you can obviously see.
Wudang is just a type of anceint schooling. Teaching you how to cause damage with little effort/energy. To do that it targets vitals.
GreatestCreation909 2 years ago 3
I am a wudang kung fu practitioner, I think that is true.
xMELEEMASTR24X 2 years ago
BA gua (like Bagua) means the five elements
Wǔdāng Shān or just simply Wudang is a mountain in the Hubei province of China
which became known as an academic center for the research, teaching and practice of Chinese martial arts, it has five martial arts schools on it that all learn different forms of Wudang such as Wu- tang, Wudangquan, Taijiquan, Baqua, and zhang, best place in the world to learn martial arts because of the altitude and teachers.
Siryellowsplicealot 2 years ago
Siryellowsplicealot: Ba Gua means "eight trigrams"....not "five elements" (wu xing). Five elements is more commonly associated with Xing Yi.
theMAG101 2 years ago
Ba Gua Zhang = 8 Trigrams Palm.
AndyRaslan 2 years ago
@AndyRaslan It's translated most commonly as Circle Walker, though.
DclaireTheWinner 1 year ago
@mushinbujin ...
wu xing is 5 element theory, wudang is purple cloud.
@ Siryellowspicealot .... Ba Gua means Eight diagrams.
ukguy 2 years ago
Actually Ba Gua means eight changes.
GeneralArrow 2 years ago
@GeneralArrow no it doesnt lol, ba = eight, gua = trigram zhang = palm
ukguy 2 years ago
@ukguy changes relating to palm forms and the I Ching in terms of Heaven, Earth, Thunder, Wood, Water, Fire, Mountain, Lake. Ba Gua, Pa Kua mean the same thing respectively. Deviations do occur though do to the many forms of chines dialect. So it is entirely possibly that we are both right.
GeneralArrow 2 years ago
That would be Wu Xing. Wu Dang means "appropriated (possessed by someone) martial arts". Wu Xing means 5 elements.
AndyRaslan 2 years ago
Is bagua from Wudang?
XhessCake 4 years ago
you are most close to truth:)thank you:)
supralee 4 years ago
i read your comment carefully and find that my onsided comment was partial;)
supralee 4 years ago
Great video for Bagua practitioners or those interested in martial arts. Not appropriate for societal failures or small children.
Enerjen 4 years ago
It is highly disrespectful to say someone else's training is not worth anything. Even MMA fighters are highly respected for their work outside the ring. Without understanding, there can be no appreciation. But you say that understanding these arts are useless. Then you are repeating a 5000-year old mistake barbarians once thought the civilized West or East, in which they suffered greatly for their ignorance.
Enerjen 4 years ago
If you have never done real martial arts you wont understand the power being generated. This is a lot more effective than UFC. Your confusing power with strength..like most Americans.
warfox777 4 years ago
if you have never actually fought a resisting opponent you won't understand that this is only a form, and in no way resembles fighting (nor is it intended to). These movements have never, and will never be used like they are here in combat. You're confusing preconceived movement with effectiveness... like most OTHER Americans.
vaundawg 4 years ago
and I say this as a gungfu practitioner
vaundawg 4 years ago
no doubt that an opponent resisting changes everything. The idea is to practice your movements in from your forms against someone who is resisting in order to clean up the kinks and loop holes in your style. But most times when individuals try to adapt there style they take on the likeness of kick boxing which actually reduces the quality of their technique. By the way I am an American..I just haven't met to many Americans that can fight well.
warfox777 4 years ago
if you have not understood yet then if that style dosent have any real training which can produce real fast fighter then all this comedy is just ballet!ideas you are talking about are zeros then!
supralee 4 years ago
This is actually the fighting style Jet Li uses in The One, and if you watch that you won't have any doubts about the combat efficiency of Bagua Zhang.
sparbeque 4 years ago
can one fight like that!how!it is not possible!
supralee 4 years ago
These are just the moves, the application is what your talking about and yes you can hurt someone with these moves after learning the applications.
LOCCDOGYY 4 years ago
someone you can hurt even without that!but i understand you, this is very deep thing but for as are given only comedy! were i can see the reality of that!or does it exsist at all!or we just dream that this is something special!
supralee 4 years ago
That's you opinion and i respect that. But why go around degrading things that others hold special to them? why waste the time or energy?if anything, you should try something before you knocking it down the way that you do.
LOCCDOGYY 4 years ago
so i must try this form`!good!useless in real fight!what next!
supralee 4 years ago
*yin and yang.
blackjamm 4 years ago
THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL
LOCCDOGYY 4 years ago
OK chinese culture destroyed by cumminism lol. what a sham. if you go to china you will see skyscrapers. magnetic trains. in all this wu shu has survived and martialarts still strive and thrive... this guys is just trying his best to understand his own broken culture... shame on you for judging... and no some of us chinese(USA)... still believing in taoism and wudang is just one of the taoist that is preserving martial arts inspite of people like you.
CHARTERWUSTYLE 4 years ago
completely bad... Wudang is like Shaolin, Chinese cirkus now ? Chinese lost their culture, so bad !
WE are lucky cause We have now teachers who lives their country. Search in chinatown , and you'll see...
chines just want your money they don't give a f... about martial art and enlightment... So ok with isooi
LokhapalaH 4 years ago
really awsome footwork !
abraxas444 4 years ago
please enlighten me. fei hua... shenme?
usawudang 5 years ago
This is pretty good, the moves are smooth and fluid. Just as they should be. As martial artists, we are more qualified to talk about quality than those "so-called arm chair experts". If one can't do anything like that, then the pie hole should be closed.
BritishRacingGreen 5 years ago