Fan Zhang Private Lesson Part B

This second part of this clip will show how fan zhang is the entry-way to Baguazhang's version of clinch fighting. I was originally taught the solo version of bagua fan zhang by my first gongfu instructor Sifu Glenn Wright. Sifu Glenn is the senior student of Master Park Bok-Nam in North America. While the stuff in the first clip are things you might see in some bagua schools very few will explicitly show the clinch stuff in the second clip (assuming they realize it's there!), probably because it's not really needed until you have to train or spar with grapplers (which is where I figured it out!). Keep in mind.. this is not a "how I defeat a grappler with my mighty gongfu" clip. This is a "how is the baguazhang art applied in a context of clinch-fighting". All it does is show clinching as an extension of fan zhang and the basic upper body postures found in "Dragon Extends it's Claws" or the basic circle walking posture.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Bagua
• Fan
• Zhang
• Clinch
• Partner
• Work
• Grappling

[masterbigeats]

i dont know who this is, or why he has Glenn Wrights name on as the title of this video

,but this is not Glenn Wright ,and this guy knows crap about the Pa Kua of master Lu Shui Tian

[fanfan33000]

@masterbigeats Of course this is not Glenn Wright haha. Glenn is much older than me and is African-American :D Also Glenn doesn't put things on youtube and is not really super technological! As I said very clearly in the video description I was originally taught the solo version of this exercise by Glenn. I've since developed it with my own bagua research. As far as "knowing crap about the Bagua of master Lu Shui Tien" you are quite right. I know *nothing* about Lu's bagua. I never met him.

[ksipa]

Great vid. I did a lot of grappling when I was younger - including judo as a kid and found Baguazhang incredibly smart when it came to the whole clinch concept. Amazing how the basics of Bagua have so much depth to them. Love it. :)