Great explanation and drills. Basics, basics, basics... It's all you need. Just as you've mentioned, being able to take a shot, especially in a fight is WAY more important than throwing out punches and kicks. A person who isn't trained and is wanting to "fight" you; lasts about 2-3 minutes on average before they gas out and give up. If you can successfully defend yourself without throwing a single attack, you're correctly practicing self-defense and you're pretty amazing.
Many thanks for watching and commenting. Yes, I have seen some schools that teach only attack (constant work on the pads and bags) but never teach defence. Defence is the more important skill.
Excellent video as always. In my own southern mantis practice I always find the most richness is held in the basic exercises. Always tweaking and incrementally improving. The advanced forms are mostly fluff
Thank you for sharing Ngo Cho material and your thoughts. 💪 I remember my dad telling me when they started in BakMei in the 50-60s some Sifu would have them hangMa/walking in stances for weeks/months before teaching them Hand techniques. Test of patience and engrained basics. I see sport Karate now and get annoyed that's how most people see Karate. Then I see an old master from Okinawa do it properly and see their decades of internal/external training ❤
Many thanks to you for watching and commenting! As far as I can see, in Chinese martial arts, people are not interested in any kind of training that is not going to look spectacular in a forms competition or a Sanda match. As one "Shaolin Temple" instructor in Spain said to me last year, after I explained to him how Wuzuquan *systematically* progresses from form to combat: "So you practise forms for application, not for exhibition." And he said it as if it were a novel concept to him.
Jibengong, trabajo básico. Eso que antes se ocultaba a los extraños, para que no pudieran "robar" nuestra habilidad y que era el auténtico "secreto" a conseguir. Hoy es ese conocimiento en riesgo de desaparecer, porque no es ni vistoso, ni agradable de practicar y que por lo tanto nadie quiere "sufrir". Y encima existe esa creencia cada vez más extendida, de que es algo de principantes, a evitar cuanto antes, para poder optar al "conociiento superior" 🙄 Gran video, que todo el mundo debería ver...
What are you doing to absorb those strikes? It doesn't look like mere conditioning, your limbs don't seem to move at all with the force. As a taiji practitioner I'm intrigued, I'd appreciate it if you could explain it for me :3
Thanks for watching and commenting, Dani. When Wuzuquan is done correctly, all our forms are Neigong. By coincidence, I met a Taijiquan instructor recently who commented on the firmness of my midriff (despite my ice-cream belly) and asked what Neigong I do. I told him that all our forms are Neigong. Anyway, all Neigong is fundamentally about developing connectivity. Thus, when we generate force, we generate from as much of the body as we can (rather than focusing on a few muscles) and transfer that force via the fascia. Conversely, when we absorb force, rather than absorbing it locally, we use the elasticity of the fascia to absorb it with as much of the body as we can. Stability is also a key factor and you can see in the video that an instructor tests the student's stability while the latter executes the form. I don't do any conditioning, by the way. All the best.
The Taiji Master Cheng Man Ching offer one of his students to hit his underarm against his. It did hurt a lot and the next day it turned black. He was also a doctor in chinese medicine and treated his underarm. This had nothing to do with conditioning.
Indeed, Raulito. But the get the results, most of the time we are drilling the exercises and because they often don't look anything like "fighting", people think it is rubbish. So, it can be hard to promote this type of martial art. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Merci d'avoir regardé et commenté. À mon avis, ceux qui ne s'intéressent qu'au combat devraient pratiquer un sport de combat et ceux qui ne s'intéressent qu'à l'art devraient pratiquer le Wushu moderne, ou peut-être la danse. Je ne suis pas un combattant mais je crois que si vous pratiquez un art martial, vous devez avoir un minimum de capacité à appliquer cet art dans son but combatif. De plus, il ne faut pas avoir peur de la douleur ou des coups.
Great explanation and drills. Basics, basics, basics... It's all you need. Just as you've mentioned, being able to take a shot, especially in a fight is WAY more important than throwing out punches and kicks. A person who isn't trained and is wanting to "fight" you; lasts about 2-3 minutes on average before they gas out and give up. If you can successfully defend yourself without throwing a single attack, you're correctly practicing self-defense and you're pretty amazing.
Many thanks for watching and commenting.
Yes, I have seen some schools that teach only attack (constant work on the pads and bags) but never teach defence. Defence is the more important skill.
very interesting, i think very good for grounding
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Indeed, grounding (or "rooting"), is the basis of this ability.
Excellent video as always. In my own southern mantis practice I always find the most richness is held in the basic exercises. Always tweaking and incrementally improving. The advanced forms are mostly fluff
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I rarely practise anything other than the first four forms in our syllabus.
Thank you for sharing Ngo Cho material and your thoughts.
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I remember my dad telling me when they started in BakMei in the 50-60s some Sifu would have them hangMa/walking in stances for weeks/months before teaching them Hand techniques.
Test of patience and engrained basics.
I see sport Karate now and get annoyed that's how most people see Karate.
Then I see an old master from Okinawa do it properly and see their decades of internal/external training ❤
Many thanks to you for watching and commenting!
As far as I can see, in Chinese martial arts, people are not interested in any kind of training that is not going to look spectacular in a forms competition or a Sanda match.
As one "Shaolin Temple" instructor in Spain said to me last year, after I explained to him how Wuzuquan *systematically* progresses from form to combat: "So you practise forms for application, not for exhibition." And he said it as if it were a novel concept to him.
@@WuzuquanSpain 🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂
Kudos! I'm from Lo Ban Teng Wu Zu Quan Association, Indonesia .
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I recall my teacher observed that the trouble with 5 Ancestors is that they are all dead and buried!
The “Five Ancestors” in “Five Ancestors Fist” does not refer to five people. It refers to the five “ancestral” systems on which Wuzuquan is based.
Jibengong, trabajo básico. Eso que antes se ocultaba a los extraños, para que no pudieran "robar" nuestra habilidad y que era el auténtico "secreto" a conseguir.
Hoy es ese conocimiento en riesgo de desaparecer, porque no es ni vistoso, ni agradable de practicar y que por lo tanto nadie quiere "sufrir". Y encima existe esa creencia cada vez más extendida, de que es algo de principantes, a evitar cuanto antes, para poder optar al "conociiento superior" 🙄
Gran video, que todo el mundo debería ver...
Looks like it’s based on crane kinda like wing chun.
Baihequan is one of the five ancestral systems that Wuzu ("Five Ancestors") took its principles from.
What are you doing to absorb those strikes? It doesn't look like mere conditioning, your limbs don't seem to move at all with the force. As a taiji practitioner I'm intrigued, I'd appreciate it if you could explain it for me :3
Thanks for watching and commenting, Dani.
When Wuzuquan is done correctly, all our forms are Neigong.
By coincidence, I met a Taijiquan instructor recently who commented on the firmness of my midriff (despite my ice-cream belly) and asked what Neigong I do. I told him that all our forms are Neigong.
Anyway, all Neigong is fundamentally about developing connectivity.
Thus, when we generate force, we generate from as much of the body as we can (rather than focusing on a few muscles) and transfer that force via the fascia.
Conversely, when we absorb force, rather than absorbing it locally, we use the elasticity of the fascia to absorb it with as much of the body as we can.
Stability is also a key factor and you can see in the video that an instructor tests the student's stability while the latter executes the form.
I don't do any conditioning, by the way.
All the best.
The Taiji Master Cheng Man Ching offer one of his students to hit his underarm against his. It did hurt a lot and the next day it turned black. He was also a doctor in chinese medicine and treated his underarm. This had nothing to do with conditioning.
Great video! Congratulations
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They make sense when applications are seen.
Indeed, Raulito.
But the get the results, most of the time we are drilling the exercises and because they often don't look anything like "fighting", people think it is rubbish. So, it can be hard to promote this type of martial art.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Very well done
Molte grazie, Pasquale!
Est-ce que vous accordez beaucoup d'importance au combat ?
Merci d'avoir regardé et commenté.
À mon avis, ceux qui ne s'intéressent qu'au combat devraient pratiquer un sport de combat et ceux qui ne s'intéressent qu'à l'art devraient pratiquer le Wushu moderne, ou peut-être la danse.
Je ne suis pas un combattant mais je crois que si vous pratiquez un art martial, vous devez avoir un minimum de capacité à appliquer cet art dans son but combatif. De plus, il ne faut pas avoir peur de la douleur ou des coups.
Great video Declan, very helpful for my training, cheers! 👍
Many thanks, Dave!