Way of the Warrior: Tai Chi, Xing Yi, Ba Gua (2/5)

[joylaval]

forget about the wearings, it's all about techniques.

[pacificimporters]

it's cool to hear that the book changed your life, did for me also. I was interested in kenjutsu, and the chapter on Katori Shinto Ryu get me involved back in the early 90's. I've had the book for about 2 decades now, but I'd never seen the documentary until youtube. Good stuff. 

[Nhia89]

why are they in karate gi's??

[sbho]

i m from hongkong and i learn taichi. there are 2 chinese character in their "robe" which is 唐手, which is the old name for karate (空手道）. 唐手 walk the hard way, the external style, which is opposite to the internal style, like tai chi

[Frequent2001]

even their tai chi looks different than everything else i saw in Tai Chi Chuan or Tai Chi Yuan..

[Frequent2001]

not only they wear a gi but even the movements look a lot like karate... what they teach to kids anyways.

[MrOphachew]

I just wish they weren't wearing the Japanese Karate Gi's while doing Chinese MA. That can be confusing to the uninitiated.

[TaoBoxer]

Tae Kwon Do is very common in Taiwan, since all members of the Taiwan Marines are trained in it, and I believe military service is mandatory in Taiwan much like in Israel. Also, Hung Lao Shi respected the strict systematic style of the Japanese Karate Assoc. and adopted many of their training methods. And since kara te was brought to korea from japan from okinawa from china by tang dynasty merchants trading with the ryukyu kingdom It's all just kung fu anyway, isn't it? ;-)

Lewitt

[MrOphachew]

Not when you look on the back of MA magazines today and see ads depicting Karate uniforms and Kung Fu uniforms. There is a difference.

[TaoBoxer]

Of course.... My mistake. I didn't realise I was dealing with a scholar and fellow sinologist. Qing Dynasty Chinese clothing, as documented in the advertisments in magazines, is the natural choice for all "Kung Fu Masters."

Lewitt

[MrOphachew]

How come the students are wearing Jap Kara Te GI's and Hung is wearing a Chick MA uniform?

[mjufpn]

@TaoBoxer according to that logic elephant is a horse and horse is a mouse and mouse is a fish

[rekcufeht]

if you pay attention, you will realise that there is an opening before executing the tiger push. he floats the opponent before pushing him

[randyds5]

this xing yi branch, looks different, like more external. @__@ but still good

[MrKevMan]

7:50

Ive seen a lot of martial arts schools that the master gives a small shove to the student and they go flying, because they are taught to, not because the master really has that kind of force behind his push. I hate that crap. There is mystisism and there is actual physics. So many fake schools brainwash students into the first.

[specterprime1957]

in regards to the push at around 8:00....please keep in mind that Mung is large for a Taiwanese(about 5'10 and 230lbs) a good friend of mine was a student of his back in the 1960's, even though it looks soft....he has a lot of momentum

[hbadra]

great post TaoBoxer. Thanks!

[honzannohayabusa]

Some ppl really need to do proper research before posting comments. Just because they are wearing a dogi and xing yi looks more linear than ba gua and tai chi, they call it karate. And yes, most Okinawan karate derives from White Crane kung fu

[nicky666]

Five Ancestor Fist

[25500]

yes, it looks a lot more like karate.

they gui they use, the moves...and I think I heard them counting in japanese at 2.45.

[TaoBoxer]

Nope.... Counting in Taiwanese... EE, Er, San... not Ich Ni San....

Lewitt

[DreamyEyedChild]

Thanks for adding this video. A few remarks regarding the forms in this part:

First is master Hong, with son A-Han, teaching Ba Bu Da.

Second is the long practice of Pi Quan.

Third is girl preforming Da Peng Zhan Di (great eagle displays its wings).

all the best, Abi.

[OmarAlcazar]

come on, this is not kung fu. this is karate :-S

[TaoBoxer]

What exactly makes you say that?

[kokuma1]

Where do you think the Okinawans learned the fundamentals of Karate?

[WarriorOfTheBlackSun]

Well from what I have studied from books videos and watching Okinawan Karate, I would say alot of it came from china, I think more or less the external kung fu. But there is internal as well. You dont see that in japanese kung fu, but in okinawan kung fu you see more of the qi/ki and internal parts. Its more complete. In my opinion at least.

[compsog9845]

little girl at 2.40 wernt fuckin about

[armleglegarmhead]

i wonder what happened to the young girl at 3:10