Tai Chi - Hsing Yi - Bagua - 1 (out of 5)

[geodiomio]

for friends of the martial arts note that the entire extraordinary BBC seres can be viewed at ovguide.com

[magickalcat83]

Does this have anything to do with people walking along, swimming their arms which hit in the front and back or patting themselves as they walk? I see that a lot and would really love to know why they are doing it.

[jacksawild]

I'd never heard of this. Good stuff.

[melbournaut]

0:33 "2 weeks"

[joncobber]

oh rite, ok

this interseting but seems bit unusual (no offence)

[williamwilson666]

@joncobber It does look a bit weird I'll grant you, but he saw Judoka using the system of grading levels of practitioner by belts and the formality of the gi.

[joncobber]

wots with the karate suits at 4:31 ??

[skytte71]

Grand master Hung I Hsiang, liked some of the Japanese way's/traditions, and adopted/incorporated them into his own teachings.

[noklarok]

nice

[jjgeezer78]

Thankyou for putting these videos up skytte71, they are a true treasure!

[Rxnszjcd]

i agree

[cuevasdecamuy]

"this was not filmed in slow motion"..hillarious

[DonniiV]

Nice lifestlye

[bccritters]

i hope one day i can become a master like him, and have his unique body form... (that was a joke)

[RisingfireX2]

why is your grafic so shit

[skytte71]

What do you mean?

[xxdesiredloginnamexx]

Because it used to be on a VCR tape, I believe.

[skytte71]

oh yes, of course! Doh :-P

Its from an old videotape (VHS), which has been converted to digital media.

The original (VHS) is actually worse, on some parts.

[incredibleyinyang]

I loved that series when is came out - they should do a new one and revisit these arts

[skytte71]

In a way they already did, with the series: Mind, body and kick ass moves...

But you where probably reffering to the exact same arts, as in the old series: The way of the warrior. :-)

Yeah that would be pretty nice, to see wheter or not, they have been able to "preserve" their arts in their "original" form, or how much they may have changed, over the last 25 years...

[cloud0123]

Thanks for posting this finally! I find it interesting how they had karate like gi's, and black belts. Did they do it, because at the time the common thought of Westerners was that high-rank= black belt, and karate stereotype applied to other martial arts.

[Jamesuni]

Maybe they did it in acordance with the strong Nihonjin influence in Taiwan. I dont really know but maybe.

[JOBEBOBE]

style starts at hypothesis.Also that if people have six arms and legs then we can have different types of fighting.check out game of death dvd with extras bruce lee interview.very deep & insightful.

[Indra420]

JOBEBOBE, I have seen this interview many times and there are helpful truths contained in it, but is important to realize that Bruce was not the forefront of martial arts in his day, he was simply the most famous. Many many masters twice his age were much more skilled and insightful, especially internal artists

[guynamedtroy]

The Japanese style Gi is worn because Hong Yixiang and many Taiwanese at the time had studied a lot of Japanese arts prior to learning the IMA's. Plus Japan occupied Taiwan a period of time and outlawed Chinese Martial Arts. This, at least, is what I have been told.

[TheaSinensisSerpenti]

@guynamedtroy

Actually he studied Southern Shaolin (mainly crane) as was the tradition in his family before he learned the internal arts. He started using the Gi's after he traveled to Japan and Okinawa and was impressed with the discipline and systematized teaching methods.

[jervis8784]

i read on wikipedia that hung i hsiang adopted japanese style of teaching because he liked the way it was systemized

[TheaSinensisSerpenti]

@cloud0123 Yeah that's partially true but mainly he liked the discipline and systematized teaching methods used in Japan. My teacher studied with him in the late 60's and he knew that in the west at that time westerners associated Asian martial arts with Karate and that Xing Yi and Ba Gua were unknown. He also knew that most people associated mastery with a black belt.

[TheaSinensisSerpenti]

That's why when he left to return to the U.S. master Hong gave him a certificate saying that he had a been given a master level black belt in Xing Yi "Karate" and permission to teach the system.