Fa Jing - Butterfly Form

here's a version of the butterfly done in Moscow by Master Sam F.S. Chin.

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[hsingstye]

Interesting...Just wondering whats the lineage and style of martial arts that falls behind your butterfly form. Best regards.

[ashehiggs]

it comes from a style of xingyi-bagua, which was also called lu yi (as you wish) bagua, with some elemnets of feng yan 鳳眼 (phoenix eye) and Li style shaolin. My Sigong distilled everything he learned from his teachers and decided to call his art I Liq Chuan 意力拳. it a family style out of malaysia.

[hsingstye]

Thanks. I was curious because in the style of hsing yi in which I practice has a double butterfly form. My siong was Kenny Gong. There were some small distinctions on the fluidity of your form as compared to how my sigong practiced. Peace.

[ashehiggs]

i actually know some people from the kenny gong line and train with them fairly regularly. there are many similarities between the two arts. they're both basically a xingyi-bagua, but i liq chuan has a hakka influence.

[notyourmind]

I can attest that Mr. Chin's push-hands are superb!

[fallingleaveskungfu]

@lebarosky - yes, that's an excellent observation regarding structure. In this case my Sifu stayed facing forward for the benefit of the TV crew who were video-ing him. Normally this form is done with more shuffle stepping and two full 180 degree turns in direction.

[lebarosky]

@fallingleaveskungfu : I meant that the form is done facing in only one direction. Not as a criticism. It seems from other videos of this sifu that the style is internal, by that I mean power is not generated from muscle tension, but rather from structure, leaving aside Taoist ideas of building up internal chi in the dan tien.

[fallingleaveskungfu]

@lebarosky - there's really no such thing as internal or external, but generally speaking most people would consider us more "internal". not sure why you think it's 'one dimensional'...

[lebarosky]

Is this an external or internal style. It looks in many ways like a small frame taiji form except it is very one directional.

[9thDrunkenImmortal]

Very cool! I do a style called Damo Butterfly Style and perhaps should be done a bit like this. Im not as loose though from my Hung Ga background, but betting better.

[jozio333]

SAm CHIN !!!