10 Interlocking Rings~BaGua Partner Form~Gene Burnett

This is a demonstration of the "The 10 Interlocking rings" a short BaGua partner form. One person continuously applies joint locks while the other continuously thwarts or evades them. Neil Beutner and I are going through the form slowly and evenly in order to make it easier to see what we're doing. This is a great form to stretch and loosen the joints, study and embody principles of health and balance, better understand skeletal structure and to improve your posture and alignment. I learned it from Andy Dale and his student (and my good friend and practice partner) Joel Hartshorne, both of Seattle, WA. I occasionally teach this form in workshops usually with my friend and Aikido Shihan Darrell Bluhm. I teach the choreography and BaGua basics and he teaches refinements and variations of the joint locks. See www.GeneBurnett.com "Workshop and Performance Schedule" for more details.

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• yt:stretch=16:9
• interlocking
• rings
• T'ai-Chi
• BaGua
• Ba
• Gua
• joint
• locks
• Martial
• arts
• partner
• form
• Gene
• Burnett
• Andy
• Dale
• Joel
• Hartshorne
• flow
• balance
• skeletal
• alignment
• posture
• spiraling
• spirals
• Hsing-I
• Darrell
• Bluhm
• wrist
• twisting
• evading
• coiling
• releasing
• escapes

[GeneBurnett]

@4DJB25 That bow is my from my ace videographer Doug Cochrane who just tossed it in! I like it too. BaGua is not my specialty but the T'ai-Chi style I do includes several BaGua principles and movements. Master Tchoung Ta Tchen who put our system together liked BaGua and Hsing-I and so included them in his art. Our style is based on "Old Yang Style" and therefore has more in common with Chen style, which in turn has more in common with BaGua and Hsing-I than other more modern Yang styles.

[4DJB25]

That was cool. I had no idea you knew some Ba Gua.

Also an extra thumbs up for the camera bow.