GONG BAOTIAN BA GUA COMBAT SET TUTORIAL part 1

This form accentuates the style of combat taught by Gong Baotian. Gong Baozai, who grew up in Gong Baotian's village and trained with his family up to age thirty-three when the village got dessimated, emphasized that in advanced traditions physical combat and human relationships share the same governing principles. My hope is in this series the proper rigor with which traditional forms are researched is demonstrated. A philosophical concept, "ba gua" is a "treatment" applied to existing Luohan martial art structure and form. Techniques are more so to engender in the student seed impressions, only secondarily designed to impart repertoire. Movements are revisited again and again, with varying interpretations on the same theme. Note the attention paid to posture, footwork and mechanical-energetic connection, and that within seemingly ornate movements, fundamental rules of hand-to-hand combat still apply. Key terms: plum flower step, open-extension strength, principled change. Filmed: September 2007

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Sports

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• Yinfu
• GongBaotian
• GongBaozai
• MichaelGuen
• Combat
• Application
• Bagua

[zanghi79]

I trained gong bao tian bagua for 6 years and never saw any of these movements nor does this look anything like Bagua Zhang. :/

[principledpower]

Hi @zanghi79,

That's not surprising. Many people have expressed this opinion. Bong Baozai grew up in Gong Baotian's family village and studied extensively with Gong Baotian's wife and daughter. So I think its pretty authentic. Would you care to disclose your sources?

Thanks, Michael

[lukeman3000]

So, my question is, how much of this translates into functional skill? A street fight isn't going to look like this, so is purely for ceremonial and tradition purposes?

[principledpower]

Hi,

I'm sure you've probably viewed other martial arts 2-man fighting forms and had a similar question. Street fights will not look like this. I'd say that all traditional forms have a ritual component - that reinforces a style's identity - and a combat component - providing general fighting repertoires. Training and fighting are completely different activities. I elaborate more on this idea in "Tai Chi Power Pushing Vs Ba Gua Palms

[Joelius777]

oh ok sorry i didnt realize.

sorry

[principledpower]

It takes courage and integrity of character to correct oneself as you just did. Very impressive for a 14 year old! You're a good role model for older people.

Thanks.

Michael

[zanghi79]

@principledpower yea Ive studied from adam hsu's gbt style and spent some time with gbt kung fu grandson Ming Qian Bo in shanghai

[vishesfishes]

@lukeman3000 no not at all. all of the moves in the internal heal & hurt mattering how you use them so you train the in-between technique is grater then strength chi is what you are trying to build up in training

[UberHyperSugarFiend]

ooooh! I wanna learn this! But I live all the way in Canada, and I don't know any places that teach this...

[RageMysterio]

beautiful, ignore the dumb insults, takes real toughness too learn this way

[GhostHunter1986]

this is the avatar this is this style martial art holy shit. i would not mind learning this at all.

[trensteel]

nice moves!!!some movements, specially at the end looks very similar to wing chun movements,almost like doing chi-sao, is there any relationship between these two styles??? by the way , i practice wing chun.