Thank you very much. I have enormous respect for my teachers, and I am grateful that you acknowledge them based on what you see here. You do me great honor by saying so.
You are breaking down bagua in a wonderfull way that depicts the art as it was ment to be used.The drills that you so generously demonstrate, are pure gold. Kudos and again Kudos
Thank you very much. We're glad you are enjoying this intro. For the good stuff though, check out the Bagua Basics: www.clearsilat.com/bagua/bagua-basics-package-8932.html
Richard, that chasing drill while the two of you are touching wrists is awesome. I made up a few touch drills as a result of a lack of instruction, and I am always looking for things like that. I'll try to post a video and share my stuff. Thank you for making this available to the public.
you have a very high skill level!!you also broke down the Ko Bu-Bai Bu in easy to understand format,everything you touched on was exactly as my Sifu showed me,our GM was Madame Wang-Jurong
You walk very well - who taught you? you seem to have learned from the same kind of people that I did but I did my stuff a half century ago. PAGUA is for multiple opponents. Where is your school?
They are both great arts for self defense. They just have different approaches. In our Street Kung Fu program we study and apply both systems at different stages in the training.
Forget the 64 changes and the many variations. Everything comes down to the Single Change.. Don't tell anybody, though - martial arts instructors have a living to make. It took me decades to realise this - let them figure it out for themselves!
Do you happen to know if any teachers exist in the Indianapolis area? If I could find someone who can in person see my stances and form to correct it that would be amazing.
Fun to play with. To make the circle bigger or tighter by turning your feet just a bit more or less. Makes me think of "spiral in" attack footwork and "spiral out" retreat footwork. I get dizzy pretty quick though with the real tight circles.
With practice the Circle Walking will train your inner ear so that you no longer get dizzy. Once you've done that there is training you can do that uses this to make the attackers dizzy. (we'll be introducing this at the Bagua Intensive workshop in September.)
hrm interesting. I never really tried keeping my knees that tight together. It almost feels like you are riding your knees like a fine-steering vehicle and can turn faster with control. Pretty interesting to experiment with.
Clear's Internal Combat Arts Its very interesting. Ive always been a huge fan of "hopping" my 75% open stance more than walking in a fight. But in sparring/practice ive been using quick, adjustable duck walks and it definitely has its good moments. Ill have to work on my flanking turns instead of lateral and away. Make my duck walk tighter.
Make sure you've done the drills in lessons 18 - 20. In the next few lessons we'll get more into the palm changes and how to apply this movement more. Of course the Bagua Basics package goes into much more depth and will greatly accelerate your use of this type of footwork against 4 - 6 opponents: www.clearsilat.com/bagua/bagua-basics-package-8932.html
Go back and watch the first 20 lessons! We do not teach forms in our system, either before or after Circle Walking. Our training focuses on the fighting art of Bagua, not on forms. We only teach the practical skills that people need in order to use Bagua for realistic self defense. Our full Bagua curriculum is very extensive, and what you see here on RUclips is the very beginning of the basic part of the training. This is a very early lesson in our full program.
the 8 basic forms and palms are useable in actual combat senerios...also the core of the fighting style in bagua is circle walking because it trains the muscles to strike and move with greater power and allows for continuous movement without the loss of power. no offense but you but you footwork seems very poor probably because of the lack of emphasis on circle walking.
I looked at your other videos and I still think it is very watered down. I trained in mud dragon style for 6 years by the way so I'm not talking out my ass.
1) Circle walking is a critical part of our training. As I said before, this is a VERY early lesson in our full program. 2) The forms are USEABLE in combat, as you said, but learning the forms will not get you combat ready. If you want to learn flowery forms or perfect stepping, there are plenty of teachers out there who would be happy to teach you nothing but that for ten or more years. Your movements will look great, but it won't help you fight. We teach fighting FIRST, then refine it.
Our students can use their Bagua under full pressure for real self defense in 1-2 years. We have seen far too many Bagua students who have trained forms and stepping patterns for a decade or more and yet still cannot fight with their Bagua. You yourself trained for 6 years. In our system you would have been fighting ready at least 4 years ago and refining / enhancing your art ever since.
The front knee should never pass the rear knee. This is a general idea but there are exceptions. Chinese "show Ba Gua" uses mud stepping but theses are merely exercises to strengthen the legs. I never realised that "real" Ba Gua had made it this far west!,
Superb - What a teacher you must have had! I keep coming back to this video. Everything begins and ends with the Single Change.
Thank you very much. I have enormous respect for my teachers, and I am grateful that you acknowledge them based on what you see here. You do me great honor by saying so.
You are breaking down bagua in a wonderfull way that depicts the art as it was ment to be used.The drills that you so generously demonstrate, are pure gold. Kudos and again Kudos
Thank you very much. We're glad you are enjoying this intro. For the good stuff though, check out the Bagua Basics: www.clearsilat.com/bagua/bagua-basics-package-8932.html
Richard, that chasing drill while the two of you are touching wrists is awesome. I made up a few touch drills as a result of a lack of instruction, and I am always looking for things like that. I'll try to post a video and share my stuff. Thank you for making this available to the public.
you have a very high skill level!!you also broke down the Ko Bu-Bai Bu in easy to understand format,everything you touched on was exactly as my Sifu showed me,our GM was Madame Wang-Jurong
Thank you. :)
You walk very well - who taught you? you seem to have learned from the same kind of people that I did but I did my stuff a half century ago. PAGUA is for multiple opponents. Where is your school?
Do you know which is more reliable? Silat or Bagua?
They are both great arts for self defense. They just have different approaches. In our Street Kung Fu program we study and apply both systems at different stages in the training.
Forget the 64 changes and the many variations. Everything comes down to the Single Change.. Don't tell anybody, though - martial arts instructors have a living to make. It took me decades to realise this - let them figure it out for themselves!
Do you happen to know if any teachers exist in the Indianapolis area? If I could find someone who can in person see my stances and form to correct it that would be amazing.
Unfortunately I do not know anyone in the Indianapolis area teaching Bagua.
Fun to play with. To make the circle bigger or tighter by turning your feet just a bit more or less. Makes me think of "spiral in" attack footwork and "spiral out" retreat footwork. I get dizzy pretty quick though with the real tight circles.
With practice the Circle Walking will train your inner ear so that you no longer get dizzy. Once you've done that there is training you can do that uses this to make the attackers dizzy. (we'll be introducing this at the Bagua Intensive workshop in September.)
hrm interesting. I never really tried keeping my knees that tight together. It almost feels like you are riding your knees like a fine-steering vehicle and can turn faster with control. Pretty interesting to experiment with.
Yep, faster turns with better control and stability. Also, keeping the legs together like this helps protect the groin and the inside of the leg.
Clear's Internal Combat Arts Its very interesting. Ive always been a huge fan of "hopping" my 75% open stance more than walking in a fight. But in sparring/practice ive been using quick, adjustable duck walks and it definitely has its good moments. Ill have to work on my flanking turns instead of lateral and away. Make my duck walk tighter.
Make sure you've done the drills in lessons 18 - 20. In the next few lessons we'll get more into the palm changes and how to apply this movement more. Of course the Bagua Basics package goes into much more depth and will greatly accelerate your use of this type of footwork against 4 - 6 opponents: www.clearsilat.com/bagua/bagua-basics-package-8932.html
you teach circle walking after 20 lessons isn't circle walking supposed to me mastered before learning the forms?
Go back and watch the first 20 lessons! We do not teach forms in our system, either before or after Circle Walking. Our training focuses on the fighting art of Bagua, not on forms. We only teach the practical skills that people need in order to use Bagua for realistic self defense. Our full Bagua curriculum is very extensive, and what you see here on RUclips is the very beginning of the basic part of the training. This is a very early lesson in our full program.
the 8 basic forms and palms are useable in actual combat senerios...also the core of the fighting style in bagua is circle walking because it trains the muscles to strike and move with greater power and allows for continuous movement without the loss of power. no offense but you but you footwork seems very poor probably because of the lack of emphasis on circle walking.
I looked at your other videos and I still think it is very watered down. I trained in mud dragon style for 6 years by the way so I'm not talking out my ass.
1) Circle walking is a critical part of our training. As I said before, this is a VERY early lesson in our full program. 2) The forms are USEABLE in combat, as you said, but learning the forms will not get you combat ready. If you want to learn flowery forms or perfect stepping, there are plenty of teachers out there who would be happy to teach you nothing but that for ten or more years. Your movements will look great, but it won't help you fight. We teach fighting FIRST, then refine it.
Our students can use their Bagua under full pressure for real self defense in 1-2 years. We have seen far too many Bagua students who have trained forms and stepping patterns for a decade or more and yet still cannot fight with their Bagua. You yourself trained for 6 years. In our system you would have been fighting ready at least 4 years ago and refining / enhancing your art ever since.
The front knee should never pass the rear knee. This is a general idea but there are exceptions. Chinese "show Ba Gua" uses mud stepping but theses are merely exercises to strengthen the legs. I never realised that "real" Ba Gua had made it this far west!,