Ba Gua footwork isn't just walking or running in a circle. Every step should have the intent of a kick, a sweep, a trap. Traditional Ba Gua has core principles that need to be adhered to in order to be called "Ba Gua". Wushu Ba Gua never follows them, as wushu is a performance art and much more concerned with aesthetics. Again, no problem with that, I enjoy watching wushu performances (not as much, but still do). But if you want to know what a style "is", you don't watch its wushu variant.
OMG I practice internal styles, and every signle move is supposed to be natural and internal, whereas this guy, although his form looks good, is not following that principle. 0:12 and 0:15 you don't breath like that in internal styles. What he's doing looks like a modified BaGua. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, though I doubt he's performing Bagua there as an internal style.
You mean the 8 trigrams of the I Ching? Yes, I've seen them. Still, Taijiquan is an internal style, and so is BaGua. This guy, although his skill in martial arts is extraordinary, doesn't seem to get the 'internal gong fu is soft' part. No offense for you or him. All I'm saying is that he made Bagua look like an external style.
I've started practicing Wudang Bagua, and, although I lack experience (my Shifu started teaching me after only 6 months of Wushu), I try to keep it internal.
The important thing here is tai chi n ba gua are philosophy at the 1st place, then ppl use it as moves in martial arts. Tai chi's diagram is totaly circle, so it's move swirls round n round in defense n attack. the straight pushing itself doesn't seem to be a circle, but the energy that release out is still being in a circular shape. It's hard to explain here.
Ba Gua footwork isn't just walking or running in a circle. Every step should have the intent of a kick, a sweep, a trap. Traditional Ba Gua has core principles that need to be adhered to in order to be called "Ba Gua". Wushu Ba Gua never follows them, as wushu is a performance art and much more concerned with aesthetics. Again, no problem with that, I enjoy watching wushu performances (not as much, but still do). But if you want to know what a style "is", you don't watch its wushu variant.
theMAG101 3 months ago
這算哪門子的八卦掌??
gravitation1231 1 year ago
i didn't see that coming, xu minghu performing bagua, very good, his fanzi is great too, ty for posting :))
colopity 1 year ago
This is a really impressive wushu performance, but it's not Ba Gua Zhang.
theMAG101 1 year ago
@theMAG101 Why do you say that? The movements and circular footwork definitely look like Ba Gua to me.
Jaygenius 3 months ago in playlist More videos from xuminghu
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LiZhouChen 2 years ago
Xu Ming Hu, you are a genius.
bonod1700 2 years ago
This clip really touched my heart.
It shows people that, the ultimate level of bagua is the same as Ultimate Taichi.
At Ultimate level you can not tell which one is which, because truth/science is itself, the one, and the only one.
Toryonline 2 years ago
OMG I practice internal styles, and every signle move is supposed to be natural and internal, whereas this guy, although his form looks good, is not following that principle. 0:12 and 0:15 you don't breath like that in internal styles. What he's doing looks like a modified BaGua. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, though I doubt he's performing Bagua there as an internal style.
AndyRaslan 2 years ago
You are correct. This is Baqua wushu style not traditional style.
xWUSHUDEMONx 2 years ago
It's more like competition based bagua zhang.
Wushu360 2 years ago
Bagua came from tai chi, if u seen the picture of bagua u'll noe there is a combination of internal n external strenght.
lightsaberyou 2 years ago
You mean the 8 trigrams of the I Ching? Yes, I've seen them. Still, Taijiquan is an internal style, and so is BaGua. This guy, although his skill in martial arts is extraordinary, doesn't seem to get the 'internal gong fu is soft' part. No offense for you or him. All I'm saying is that he made Bagua look like an external style.
I've started practicing Wudang Bagua, and, although I lack experience (my Shifu started teaching me after only 6 months of Wushu), I try to keep it internal.
AndyRaslan 2 years ago
The important thing here is tai chi n ba gua are philosophy at the 1st place, then ppl use it as moves in martial arts. Tai chi's diagram is totaly circle, so it's move swirls round n round in defense n attack. the straight pushing itself doesn't seem to be a circle, but the energy that release out is still being in a circular shape. It's hard to explain here.
lightsaberyou 2 years ago
dude that was great!!! really enjoyed it, looks really graceful/clean
Wushu360 2 years ago
If you want something really graceful, check out traditional Wudang wushu.
AndyRaslan 2 years ago