Wudang Ba Gua Zhang

Me performing wudang temple's (lu shan tze's) ba gua zhang.

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• wudang
• ba
• gua
• kung
• fu
• ao
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[alex200688]

thanks for all the comments guys!!

[alex200688]

thank you to both johnson779 and secretsword .. i appreciate the input and compliments! and to seanceboy, it is Lu Shan Temple's style. (Lu Shan being Lu Mountain) Passed on thru wudang mountain predecessors

[vbywrde]

That was great to see! Very smooth and powerful. Thank you for posting it. How long have you been studying Bagua? Do you also study Tai Chi and Hsing Yi as well?

[arze1111]

so this is the real deal single palm change. I'm going to put this in my routine.

Thanks a million.

[seanceboy]

what wudang style is this? xuan shen round body, traditional? ;)

[johnson779]

beautiful

[alex200688]

but another thing is, yes it adds power to your strike, but if an opponent tries to push you away and backwards, since your toe skims and touches first, you'd only land on your heels giving you an unmoveable stance. And keep in mind, application demos are all planned. You can't base things like that off of if then situations. One technique or step will not always work the same way every time. It's also illegal to injure after you throw someone, its thought of as unnecessary force by the law.

[alex200688]

yes in fact i am talking about that. Those im sure are good reasons to do that style of stepping, and i do prefer that style of ba gua walking, but not for those reasons. If you get into the internal part of ba gua, it balances out your palm techniques since they are free and out in the air absorbing chi. This step is supposed to absorb chi from underneath and you breathe. But the main reason, is it keeps your footwork balance.

[kosovo83]

Are you talking about "mud-tread stepping"?

There are a couple reasons my Cheng style school practices this. First, you learn to feel the ground in front of you. This makes you focus on the expansion of all the leg joints. Secondly, after you throw someone, it's very easy to walk over their face with one of those steps. Have you ever seen bruce frantsis's taste of china demo?

[SecretSword]

Very cool form and well performed. I am still working on the circle stepping. It's allot harder than you make it look.