My view of Internal Martial Arts-11/11

[alekswanson]

Yang Sifu is obviously very talented, but I find his insistence on practicing Bagua, Xingyi, and Taiji 'traditionally' and never changing anything odd. I can't comment on Hebei Xingyi, but the Chen family has changed Chen Taiji significantly since Chen Fake's passing, and Yang Sifu claims on his website that Cheng Tingua's Bagua is the purest because Dong Hai Chuan was his only teacher, except that Cheng Tingua was already well accomplished in Shuai Chiao when he began studying with Dong.

[papertiger7]

@alekswanson Some people are conservative with their training methods, while others are more "progressive" I guess. Maybe their just afraid that too much change might just dilute the whole art altogether. Just my 2 cents.

[No1Reviewer]

Excellent series of vids. Great information ,entertaining, very impressed and grateful for you guys taking the time. Many thanks

[TheTommy626]

thank you ,i have watched all eleven videos i am very new and they helped me make a more informed decision on choosing a school,good luck with your school and teaching and ill continue following your videos.

[TheTommy626]

thank you for all your advice i watched all 11 videos in this series, im very new and im looking for a school,and your videos have helped me make a more informed decision.i wish i lived in montreal but i have to find a sifu closer to me.good luck with your scool.

[vbywrde]

Thank you. Very good advice! Much appreciated your explaination and demonstrations.

[Aheyne]

Excellent interview.. thank you for sharing.

[Daibhidh646]

I completely agree with what you said about "The Frame". In Traditional Asian Classrooms students have a way of thinking.... "how can I change myself so I can fit into the role which has been laid out for me by tradition". In the west, many people think, "how can tradition change for me, so I don't have to adapt myself to tradition or any roles which people think I should live by".

Tradition is what makes society strong and stable.

p.s. I'm a white guy in New Zealand.

[theeightmice]

GREAT video!!

thank you

[Xingyi21]

I normally send youtube videos of martial arts on youtube to my teacher as a joke and to laugh at. This chap is one of the few exceptions. Fantastic and I'm just gutted I live in the UK and can't really train with you!

[whatisyournameya]

i have received this kind of e-mail a lot from my students who ask me advice of their finding.

i am lucky that my video is not the one you sent to your teacher.

[jotube22]

@whatisyournameya maybe he will

[ukguy]

i agree with alot of what this man says but i don't agree with him when he says you cannot do beng with different distance between legs, i practice song style xing yi and we do both the half step and regular step beng quan, there should not be just one fixed way to do each five elements there are many different variations of each element, we have more than 12 ways just to do pi, there is the fixed way and the changing way. fixed way is good for power, changing is good for fighting.

[whatisyournameya]

there are many ways for sure . But what i was talking in the video is: there is only the one way of walking in one routine. you can not use two kind of walks in one routine...

or you believe whatever you want.

[hilaryhearts]

You guys are lucky to have a teacher that speaks english so well. If we get confused in my class, it means someone's about to get a 'demonstration'. x_x

love.hils

[brentpieczynski]

Does this mean the teacher has plenty of experience, in actual fighting?

[whatisyournameya]

what does the "actual fighting" mean by you?

[brentpieczynski]

That term actual-fighting is a form of baiting a person, inside of American-Culture. This baiting is to allow the term to allow the situation to become redefined into one, which is a cosmetically correct contest. With real fighting, as I define it, all participants are likely to suffer serious injury, or even death.

[whatisyournameya]

the term actual-fighting means street-fighting. not that kind of serious injury or even death. I will not take the kind of risk for sure.

The reason: it is very simple, because my life is not for that purpose!

[brentpieczynski]

Most of the time it is good to avoid real fights, the group of attackers between a person and the only exit, which desire to do serious harm is what a real fight is about. That is much different than an arranged duel with arranged rules, complete with people to stop the fight, if things go wrong.

[sizzla123]

r there subs for this guy?

i turned the sound off, cudnt understand his thick mandarin accent anyway^^

[silentjosh847]

great video series. Thank you very much.

[thehymner]

he speaks well yes. it'd be even more interesting if he could put his knowledge to the test

[mentallpayshunt]

Great interview. Obviously this master is good and knowledgable. The only thing I have to say is that if Cheng Ting Hua and Yin Fu took his advice of not changing with "tradition" then all bagua would be the same. The 8 palms change with almost every master. Tai Chi has a form and so does Xing Yi but Bagua Zhang only has 36 songs and 48 methods there are no specific palms across all teachers. As long as the principles of Bagua are kept in tact it is Bagua.

[isiko000]

Thanks so much for this series. I truly hope to be in Montreal someday to train w/ Yang shi fu.

[Jamesuni]

Great interview. It was like hearing a great book being told to me. Thank you very much. Continue to train.

[l1hao]

:D lol

[l1hao]

So true

[sunnyphoenix]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience, it is enlightening. I am very new to Chinese martial arts - I have just begun practising Yangjia Michuan Tai Chi Quan - and have learnt a lot from listening to you and watching your videos. Thank you.

[taijitaijiquan]

Mix, Juan, you guys are lucky to have Mr. Yang as your teacher. Thanks to you guys, as well, of course, to Yang Hai for this interview.

Cheers,

Pawel

[KlausBeckEwerhardy]

Now, that was a very instructive and informative interview - all eleven parts of it. Any chance to get this as a DVD for a German player (in a legal way, mind)? Especially I like his openess and flexibility in his answers. And his demonstrations in their differentiation.