Beijing Wushu Team --XuMingHu〔baguazhang〕八卦掌

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[theMAG101]

Ba Gua footwork isn't just walking or running in a circle. Every step should have the intent of a kick, a sweep, a trap. Traditional Ba Gua has core principles that need to be adhered to in order to be called "Ba Gua". Wushu Ba Gua never follows them, as wushu is a performance art and much more concerned with aesthetics. Again, no problem with that, I enjoy watching wushu performances (not as much, but still do). But if you want to know what a style "is", you don't watch its wushu variant.

[Jaygenius]

@theMAG101 Why do you say that? The movements and circular footwork definitely look like Ba Gua to me.

[gravitation1231]

這算哪門子的八卦掌??



[colopity]

i didn't see that coming, xu minghu performing bagua, very good, his fanzi is great too, ty for posting :))

[theMAG101]

This is a really impressive wushu performance, but it's not Ba Gua Zhang.

[lightsaberyou]

The important thing here is tai chi n ba gua are philosophy at the 1st place, then ppl use it as moves in martial arts. Tai chi's diagram is totaly circle, so it's move swirls round n round in defense n attack. the straight pushing itself doesn't seem to be a circle, but the energy that release out is still being in a circular shape. It's hard to explain here.

[AndyRaslan]

You mean the 8 trigrams of the I Ching? Yes, I've seen them. Still, Taijiquan is an internal style, and so is BaGua. This guy, although his skill in martial arts is extraordinary, doesn't seem to get the 'internal gong fu is soft' part. No offense for you or him. All I'm saying is that he made Bagua look like an external style.

I've started practicing Wudang Bagua, and, although I lack experience (my Shifu started teaching me after only 6 months of Wushu), I try to keep it internal.

[lightsaberyou]

Bagua came from tai chi, if u seen the picture of bagua u'll noe there is a combination of internal n external strenght.

[LiZhouChen]

nice!!

good site xu

see you!

[bonod1700]

Xu Ming Hu, you are a genius.