This Kung Fu System is NOT What You Think
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I am so thrilled so share with you guys this episode! I met a Baguazhang teacher from China! Unfortunately, he does not speak much of English. But I was able to communicate and sub the video for you guys!
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I suppose from the foot sweeps and his reference on throws that he is from cheng bagua
When you asked about the particular striking style, maybe try it yourself. If you find a heavy door, better use one without glas, try such a reeling silk move with the door, you are going to notice it is is like the wing chun inch punch, you can transmit masses of power within a very small frame. Why no door with glass you gonna experience after trying it and doing it correctly.
BOSTA FU ... INUTIL CONTRA ALGUEM QUE SABE DAR PORRADA
All of Kevin's content about MMA, combat sports and self defense was the gateway drug to get into Traditional Kung fu.
Sneaky....
Competing at Wong People tournament in DC, and this comment made me appreciate this channel so much more even than I already did! Subscribed!
Going back to bull shito?
@@AbdulGhani-vm6oq I am open minded about this. There is always something new to learn from the ancient arts.
@@lorenzozapaton4031 I hear you. Traditional is a scam . They teach ridiculous forms that have no relevance to real combat.
To keep the student coming in paying the money. Only thing good about traditional martial arts are hand body strength and conditioning exercises. The rest is a money making scam.
This Bagua Master is a safe and controlled teacher. He doesn't throw his students forcefully to the ground to make himself look good. Respect.
I don’t think he knows how to throw properly.
@@timm285 These moves are not dissimilar to Judo in principle. Perhaps if they focused more on paired application training during group sessions and reserve the forms for home training.
His control itself is what makes him look good but maybe only to the trained eye
@@jarrodpelrine7229 💯
We live in an amazing time. 30 years ago this information was so much harder to find and share. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort
I agree!!
Ba Gua is still a mystery to the west, it is the least documented style in the west. Most of the teachings are only available in chinese.
You got that right. I remember when a VHS video tape would cost 50 bucks or more. That's like 120 with inflation.
Couldn’t agree more!
unless you live in a big chinese population City like San Francisco, yup it’s hard to
I appreciate the sifu's taking time to state that every lineage of bagua has great things to offer. So often we see political and lineage rivalries that it's a breath of fresh air to see him praising other methods!
Yes, the divisive lineage crap has to stop. If anything kung fu could use some more unity like the Guoshu institute did back in the day. One thing I loved about my Sifu was how open he was to altering a form based on functional application.
This is what all martial artists should aspire to. I know I fall short myself, but many I see are much worse than me. MA is about self improvement, the fighting is the vehicle to get you there. These days there are so many guns and cops and lawyers, we can't just get into fist fights all the time, unless you enjoy visiting hospitals and prisons. If you aren't improving your mind, body, and spirit, you are wasting your time playing fantasy street warrior.
Yes you get so sick of saber rattling.
Yeah indeed, is sickening.
Couldn't agree more! It was so refreshing to see him do that.
Rare to see Ba Gua: thanks for posting!
My pleasure!!
Ba Gua is probably my favorite martial arts in regards to the beauty of the movements.
Those master did nothing but try to perfect their style, that’s all they did. Their students did the same. Some arts have a hundred or more years of nothing but that. All that’s left is what works.
As a Mandarin learner, it's really awesome to have access to subtitled content I'm interested in. This is useful for me in a bunch of different ways! Thanks Kevin!
Man if u could get longer podcast style interviews with some of these guys and their life story/thoughts on combat sports/martial arts would be great
That would be amazing!
Such a beautiful art form. This man's heart is bigger than his fist. His kindness is obvious.
I have a friend who practices Bagua, which he learned in China. His training is crazy, he does a variety of conditioning, a lot of forms, and so much drills. We go to an mma gym to spar, and he always beats us.
Please make a video of it and upload it!
Of course he does 🙄🙄🙄
@@AbdulGhani-vm6oq Get out of here, Racist
@@ambulocetusnatans people can write anything on RUclips.
I once say a Chinese Bagua Master beat Godzilla in a power slap competition using an ancient and deadly technique called hundred hand shuffle 👋😂
@@AbdulGhani-vm6oq Just like you who says anything u like
Ever noticed how, no matter how cool and exotic the underlying forms look, once a school starts demonstrating technique, or even sparring, all the effective fundamentals turn out to be the same across every martial art?
Sure, but how you frame and conceptualize those fundamentals, what primacy you place on each of them, and what order you train them in is what distinguishes styles, and all of those have an enormous impact on what those styles are like for humans to learn and practice. Also, though martial arts with the same goals will tend to converge, it isn't really a given that all martial arts share the same goals. Competition, self-defense, combat, beauty, tradition, and philosophy are held in varying regard across styles, and within each of those categories the role of taste, weapons, and the social context that produced the styles often matter as well.
In the same way that three people can examine a piece of art with three different sets of life experience and three different critical frames and each have a unique experience of its meaning; the fact that the inspiring mechanics and biology are relatively universal matters, but doesn't override the fact that those observers are experiencing and learning and feeling distinct things as a result of it. A human lifetime is too short to master a single approach to martial arts, let along all of them, so styles still often matter even between practitioners with similar goals.
Bcause there was originally one style
The art of war
Then it splintered off into individual styles
Over thousands of years
If you have a big mountain ⛰️ there are different paths you can take to get to the top! But once you get to the top, the view is the same no matter how you got ❤there!!!
The human body is The same, that's why.
But it is like with the religions, you have a lot of times subtle differences that make it or break it. So not every school gonna bring you to the same destination. Or if you do not like the religion simile then take it like the flow of life. A lot of small choices change the whole course of your life, like the choice of your partner or if you put your clothes ready for the morning. Sometimes a time difference of just few minutes makes it if still catch the plane that crushes or miss it.
I like the extraordinary amount of care he takes with his students to catch them so they don't go flying.
I just commented on what a safety conscious teacher he is
Rare in MA.
Many would thoughtlessly toss students to make themselves look good.
The angles of Bagua compared to Xingyi makes me think of Wing Chun almost being a compromise between the two, and by that I mean stepping off the center line and then attacking directly.
Xing Yi doesn't really stay direct on line. It plays a more precise game, like a fencer. You always crash their arm at an angle it will make them fold their elbow, or turn their arm/chest- and then you drive through with your hit.
It's fair to say that many chinese methods are similar due to the nature of fighting in general, but many different practitioners did cross hands. Although history can't catch every "friendly" spar or bad intentioned fight.
Yes wing chun
Is based on the styles that
where based on styles
like
Bagua etc
All the techniques in wimg chun r from other fighting systems
Long fist is one of the oldest styles
All styles either came from long fist
Or they came after long fist
A Lot of wing chun is mantis snake and crane
These styles cane after styles like Bagua
I think the animal styles r southern styles
My Wing Chun/Animal styles training was “unique”. Before I learned to strike or redirect, I had to learn to move my body. Basically, i had to retrain my instinct to move back and flinch. My teacher taught me to always move laterally, to the outside. Always move, be flowing. Strangely similar to bagua 🤔.
Pairing Bagua with your Xing Yi is the standard for your journey down the road of Chinese internals.
More Bagua, Xingyi, and Taiji please🙏
I got a great Taichi video coming up!!
@@KevinLeeVlogmaybe you can meet with Tim Cartmell in socal sometime. He is a high level fight coach who also practices the internal Chinese arts. He trained for many years in Taiwan before coming back to the US, where he proceeded to apply those principles to bjj.
@@xKaidoh I will have to look him up! Thank you!!
@@KevinLeeVlog More Taichi is more good! Especially with a Wing Chun practitioner involved.
You could watch this master all day. Powerful, precise and compassionate. Bet he has developed spiritually as well. Good stuff.
Master Hu did an impressive feat at 12:15 , it shows years of cultivation of his breathing and inner strength. It is not easy to push opponent structure through a staff using Dantian. Most people would think it's purely muscle or body strength, on the contrary ... one must train for some lengthy amount of time to be able to do this. And for those skeptics out there, this technique is real. My Laoshi once threw me off with similar move using his Dantian.
Using this martial art to represent airbending was such a good choice.
Yep!!
Sun Tzu: "Practice Bagua...and buy "Factor" pre-packaged meals. They're yummy!" Note: my translation is probably inaccurate. Good vid, regardless.
The end fight in the movie the One with Jet Li against Jet Li is one of my favourite.
Your channel is really one of my favourites. Thank you for showcasing traditional kung fu.
I always wanted to learn Bagua as a youngster, but it just wasn’t available in my area. I was very blessed to learn the Shaolin styles that I did have access to. In the video the master mentioned the founder, Dong Hai Chuan. He got a job at the Forbidden City in Beijing training the Emperor’s elite bodyguards, so all of his first generation of students were already expert martial artists. Dong Hai Chuan just taught them Bagua principles and footwork to polish them up. That’s why the different styles developed by his disciples are all very similar but each has the unique influences of that disciple’s previous training.
For stocky guys like me who don't have good reach, only moving forwards and backwards doesn't work - you have to circle/outflank.
The differences in their “Jin (勁）” contribute to the footwork as well. Xinyi and Baqua are 2 dimensional Jins. Xinyi is a straight line, Baqua in a circle, like moving from the x axis to the y axis. However , taichis Jin is 3D, which incorporates the Z axis along with X and Y, is also called uprooting. So when you get hit by a tai chi uprooting Jin, your feet will leave the ground, where the attackers punch may look like a simple straight punch. Sounds crazy, but I’ve been on the receiving end of them, not fun 😂
actually all three of them have 3D "Jins". They are just manifested differently. Xinyi feels way more like a wave than a straight line, bagua as a spiral rather than a circle. and you've already experienced the taijis one aparently.:P
Wow, amazing Bagua master with incredible skills. I really liked his Hsing-i as well. Twelve minutes was too short. I would have liked to have seen at least 30 minutes or an hour of this master talk and demonstrate. 👏👏👏👍
Oh my gosh I love this, I secretly wish that they were my neighbors! Once you mentioned the early time and a park, I knew you were going to get your Wudang on:) So very excited to meet you in Greece! Great video, looking forward to more.
Thank you!! See you in Greece!!
I’m working on a Bagua form and did some few Bagua drills to get the right feel and understanding on how to move and apply this very difficult style of TCMA.
Thanks for bringing these traditional styles to light and show them respect in how they can be applied in real life scenarios
This teacher is much kinder than most instructors, in that he doesn't just dump his students during a demonstration 😂 very informative 👍
This was such a blast to witness in person. Master Hu's footwork is truly next level & so inspiring to watch.
Great video Mr. Lee. Now we just wait for the comments that says "This won't work in MMA". But who cares, great forms and mechanical principles. I think as students of martial arts I'd love to study under Sifu
He is a very friendly and approachable teacher!
@Re-Booter Guess I'll bite. I agree that not everything has to work and it's perfectly fine to like and learn something if you think it's cool. I will say, though, that you should be honest with yourself and others about what works and what doesn't. As long as you are honest, you can practice and teach whatever you like, but if you aren't, that's how you get yourself and/or other people hurt.
@@munzutaiI guess the question is, does Kevin strike you as the type of guy who isn't honest about what works? If so, why are you watching?
@@redrenegade7724 No, absolutely not. My comment was in response to the original commenter, not Kevin (I just realized that that might not have been clear, so my bad.) Kevin is respectful and open to all arts and learns from all of them to see what works and what doesn't. He's the perfect role model martial artist and the exact opposite of what I was trying to criticize.
@@redrenegade7724 Kevin rarely comments on what works and what doesn't, just what from each style impresses him. As for him getting tossed around, that's him acting the uke, or as my teacher called it, fall guy. You give the teacher an attack to react to, then you're more focused on learning and / or helping showcase how to fall than actually resisting. To me, Kevin seems honestly interested in just about any new concept related to martial arts, but I don't believe he's claiming every style he features here is "100% street efficient AND perfect for MMA".
Styles have strengths and weaknesses, except for Ameri-Do-Te of course (best of all, worst of none), so what I interpreted @munzutai as saying was styles should be aware of and acknowledge those, in particular to new students, so they know what they're getting. There are too many McDojos and too much Bullshido around, we don't want people to waste years on following a "no touch knockout" style, or e.g. learning swordfighting for self defense, when they never will carry a sword in a self defense situation.
I mean, if I claimed ballet as a form of martial art (just look at those high kicks!), then you spent several years learning en pointe, you'd be pretty miffed when the local drunk round-housed you to the ground in one swing - especially when you could have been practicing the Hurticane all along.
I Love Ba Gua. So the more the better. Its all footwork and movement. Its great.
Thank you for posting. It’s rare to see posting about this form. I’ve been 20+ years in the art form. It’s as much science as it is mechanics. Again, thank you.
Then you must not miss the next episode!!
One of the things I miss the most about hanging out with older kung fu practitioners is this excited shop talk. They love to share techniques and talk ideas. Reminds me of family Thanksgiving and holidays. All the aunties and moms would gather and usually talk real estate and the uncles and dads would get together and talk martial arts. People would get excited, drinks would flow, someone would get thrown through a wall or accidentally break something. They always seemed to make the same sound effects and use the same expressions as this Master. And it was always just done on some patch of clear ground, often my Aunt's backyard and she'd get pissed that we ruined her lawn. Or sometimes in the living room, the garage or the driveway.
Chinese Martial Arts always seem to be done "in the moment" meaning in whatever you're wearing, and wherever you happen to be. I can't tell how many times my Dad would suddenly get up at dinner and just say something like "ok, if someone does this, then you want to cross them up and hit like this." Sometimes it'd be a 45 second lesson, other times it'd be an hour and Mom would get mad that dinner got cold.
'excited shop talk ' I hear you, up until my teacher 'retired' and moved away he used to tell great stories about the 'Tai chi lineage' he came from, some really interesting stuff that flies in the face of some of the information out there...
5.53 that double slap to the back of the head was great. Beautiful footwork too
I love the shuai jiao=chinese wrestling aspect because all chinese methods turn to grappling really fast because even long styles fight closely.
And as he said, Cheng style in particular utilizes shuai jiao - because that's what Cheng Tinghua trained before he met Dong Haichuan, and Dong would tailor his training to what his pupils already were proficient in.
It's the same reason he mentions Yin style focusing more on strikes: Yin Fu was proficient in Arhat when they met. (That said, Shuai Jiao is also very important to Yin style; I once heard my teacher call them "sister arts.")
@d.b.i.a. Yes, it's incredibly awesome how martial arts were tailored to what you were comfortable with and not the other way around. It truly is a process.
Thank you so much for posting this! I always love to see more information about bagua getting to more people.
YESSSSSS!!! You just did Baguazhang such a huge favor! Thank you! I love Baguazhang so much. We teach here in Vancouver WA! Cant wait for next week!
I love Bagua now and I would love to continue studying it!
@@KevinLeeVlog it really is a fun a cool martial art. The throws alone complements striking so much. I am not the best fighter but I also love the forms and weapons.
Some great details in here, a strong introduction to some of the foundational principles of Baguazhang. Being a practitioner now in Yin Style for almost 20 years, I still get confused how teachers can have so much crossover knowledge for the 3 Families (Bagua, Xing i, & Taichi); Baguazhang is so complex by itself I just can't imagine having the time (or the desire...) to dabble in the others. I suppose I try to synergize my training with other elements (movement culture, MMA conditioning, and bioenergetics), but this is all in relation to Baguazhang and the Book of Changes. He seems like a good teacher, knowledgeable and skilled. Hard to find that combination nowadays.
Kevin is bringing the content man! Great stuff!!!
Appreciate you exposing everyone to the traditional arts.
Thank you so much for covering this style! Many blessings to you & your loved ones ❤
Excellent video Mr. Lee. Your channel is great. We get to see so many great styles, that other channel s don't have.
As visiting master Wang Ysn Ji expressed when visiting the BCCMA seminars Tai Ji Quan energy is like a rubber nall Bagua like a Wooden ball Xingyi Quan like a Steel ball ! Good to see Kevin tbank you
Not "CRAZY"!
Especially if you are on the receiving end of Bagua.
This vid is "GOLD" after going on in circles for years watching circle walking teasers that rarely showed execution.
Thanks.
Great video and teacher! My teacher created an art named Lau Kune Do. His system incorporates Ba Guazhang, Xing Yi, Hun-gar, qi'gong and wing chun. I'm excited to see so many traditional techniques that I continue to study after 12 years at the LKD temple.
Fighting is poetry.
Stay strong Warriors!!
I've been waiting for somebody with a big channel to talk about this martial art for years, a friend of mine is a master in this style and he teaches me a few things when we meet for training. Thanks, Kevin!
Some of it looks sort of like the circle step in Wing Chun.
I love the way you're bridging from traditional Chinese arts back to practical fighting. Great stuff.
Ba Gua is the only style in my area- it is great to see, and learn more about this kung fu.
To me it looks like much defensive counters to sword strikes, evading the sword strike and knocking the aposing off balance , and eventually defeating your opponent by getting in his head by anticipating what sword strike is coming by paying attention to the legs as well as shoulder and arms. Very clever.
I really like this instructor. He is good and takes care not to hurt his students. I love the structure of the hsing yi to ba gua to tai chi lifetime development. It's all so perfect, what I love so much about ancient Chinese culture.
so weird ... I was literally practicing everything he was showing this morning and thinking about using my sand bag again.. and there's the same sand bag I have shown in the end .... looking forward to the next video ..... there circle walking is also for multiple attackers ... also ... to find someones blind spots .... the hit that knocks you out is the one you don't see coming
Thank you very much kevin and to the master teaching.
Sooo happy to see you working with a Baguazhang teacher! Thank you for delving into the neigong!!
I’ve been watching his videos for years. I’d love to see you do another with him going over Xingyi.
That teacher is the real deal.
Thanks for this video. i really appreciate Master Hu's quality teaching and matter of fact approach. I also love hearing him explain in Mandarin as it allows me a little listening practice.
Hell yeah let's go 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The application of this footwork almost reminds me of sanatan shastar vidiya, a martial system from India. There aren't circles outright in that, but the indirect line of attack and the actual footwork tactics look similar. This is really interesting.
Thank you Kevin for keep exploring this kind of traditional Chinese Martial Art, the system, skill, training, and philosophy are so unique and valuable for any martial art practitioner. Waiting your video, I really want to visit and learn from each of these traditional Chinese Martial art practitioners. Truely incredible.
Thanks Kevin! I'm a big fan of Chinese martial arts and I appreciate you interviewing knowledgeable and skilled practitioners. May GOD Bless you all! Jesus saves!
Interesting :D Thank you for sharing!
I "figured out" a mild version of the Mud-Wading Step through my Taiji practice,
by trying to remain song chen (relaxed and sunk down) while walking,
(Taiji is not as well-known for footwork as Bagua is, because Taiji tactics prefer to walk less,
but the principles are still there)
And I can confirm that it does indeed make your locomotion smoother and faster,
because it eliminates all the up-and-down bouncing that usual running generates,
and instead allows you to "glide" forward (or in the case of Bagua tactics, around the opponent)
in a *really* smooth trajectory.
Another beneficial side effect is that it allows you to absorb force by "drifting" away, like you're floating on water,
so you get displaced but not unbalanced.
Useful in Moving-step Push Hands, but obviously not so much under Fixed Step rules, haha.
Love it ! Keep it coming, Sifu Lee 🙇♂️🙏
It is so cool to see this information travel so far and still find people who want to learn and experience it. Thanks for sharing.
Great content! Thanks for sharing, master Lee.
Shame the weapon based stuff will be paywalled, as it's really the heart of this art, especially the deerhorn knives. One of my absolute favourite weapons. Awesome that you are showing this.
Baguazhang is a great effective martial art.
Ninjutsu has Baguazhang influences because Taoist sages that fled China and went to Japan applied Taoist movement principles with the samurais hand to hand combat method Jujitsu.
Also Taoist Yin and Yang philosophy was a big influence on Ninjutsu.
I was thinking the same. The traditional tai sabaki from gyoko ryu (aka basic movement, 8 directions) is super similar, just more liniar, thanks to the japanese influence.
Regarding your question if to use fist or palm etc. Maybe ask for the fighting theory explanation. You have the Yin/Yang Theory, Five Elements and the I ching. The Yin and Yang all alone is pretty vast. You use fist on soft parts of the body to complement soft and hard and mainly use the palm on hard surfaces to complement hard and soft. But this not where it stops, you can use yin and yang to parry attacks to slip past your opponent or to neutralize attacks through complementing. I think seth has a systema video where it is explained how to get hit and not getting hurt by it, this would be a very basic example. You can develop individual skills to an expanded field. Palm and Fist play another different role, you need the tiger mouth shape in hand for right qi circulation, you have certain prerequisites to circulate qi the right way, you can test that these things are real with electricity from electro therapy. Some of the styles are made in a way to move qi and charge parts of the body while fighting, so people can become kind of stronger the longer they are fighting.
When you asked, what the spinning and turning does. Maybe learn the big saber of ba gua. To me it is the most iconic weapon cause this weapon teaches you how to use power correctly and feel the flow of energy. Once you practice the giant saber you gonna know what is up with twisting and turning.
Very interesting. The footwork especially.
Ba Gua is ALL footwork.
Nice video! Even if internal arts aren't street or cage efficient, there surely are principals, strategies and conditioning you might incorporate into your training - also they help fight the real enemies, stress and aging who you are certain to confront in the dark alley of your soul! They also look cool, not sure i could pull off the silk PJ's mind.....
Bagua is the martial art used for airbending in avatar series.
Great video. Good work!
There’s so much gold to be found in styles like this, but with respect I feel a lot of it is lost in unnecessary flowery movements…
The creation of angles here is nice. Some good opportunities for throws and outside foot advantages.
...honestly, feels a lot like Aikido. A bit less focused on throws, and of course different techniques, but the rhythm and flow feel like those of Aikido.
Probably very similar! I can’t speak for Aikido yet 😂
I've studied both, a little. There's some overlap, but the approach is different. Aikido tends to focus on destabilizing uke's center, where Bagua tends to work about the center to take the back.
Obviously a vast simplification by someone who is not a master of either art.
Always cool guests, thank you
This was fascinating and a wonderful exhbition!
The concept of going around your opponent so as to catch them from the side is very useful in combat sports too, like boxing!
Foot dragging was done to strengthen the hips for kicks. So-called mud walking was to develop a low kick to the toes or ankle.
Super nice interpretation of this style!
Teaches full field of vision when your flank is vulnerable. Drop to horse stance, lower your center of gravity, grab his shirt collar and his belt line and throw.
Thank you for all the Traditional Kung Fu content. It's great!
First time hearing your speaks Chinese. Very cool.
Can someone use those tactics to get back of the opponent who knows kick boxing? Can you us some ways?
All the master needs now is a flying bison.
That was terrific! Thanks! Where does this teacher get all that energy at 6am?!
He is used to waking up super early. They begin their practice at 5am on Sundays.
Just do not eat in the evening, if you stay hungry you wake up all on your own early in the morning from beeing hungry. Buddhist fasting rules to prevent sloth and torpor.
1. What is Mr Hu's lineage?
2. How much fighting experience does Mr Hu have?
3. I want to say, when fighting you do walk in a perfect circle.
Peace
look like wrestling with palm hit.
Many traditionnal look like ju justu, but in movie they show that like palms and fist fighting
AWESOME! Kevin, dude where is this master located? This is the first 'combat based Bagua that I have seen on YT yet! The application.
Kevin, honest question. With all the coverage of traditional marital arts, especially Chinese ones, what do you think of Xu Xiaodong? He's been exposing traditional martial arts and their masters. Do you think traditional Chinese martial arts is obsolete?
I came here to watch a video about martial arts, and ended up thinking about food because of the sponsor, lol.
Isn't this art use by one of the master while ip man challenge them on the table?
yes
Body positioning, sensitivity, leverage... all valuable lessons, if not identical to other techniques in other disciplines. Goes to show theres lessons to learn in every form of combat & not to limit ur scope of vision just cuz its kung fu or judo or some other school other than urs
Basic technique with most martial arts is circular and away from the attacker.
Thanks to finely show that kung-fu styles arn't usless, i pratique 11 kung-fu style for 14 years, i use them in every fight i did and never, lose, the only thing who mater in martial arts is your training and your Heart
wow...original straight line Bagua looks similar to Wing Chun
Xing Yi also looks like Wing Chun, a lot of Bajiquan and Taichi also looks like Wing Chun.
These arts have similar roots and were used and developed for almost the same things whixh would be using weapons and grappling while also using the techniques and concepts from their weapons for their striking, but the striking was usually a side thing, their maik plan was to have a weapon, if they didn't, they would grapple. But you they would of course teach striking as well, because real fights have no "rules" you should be able to use everything you can, it would be weird to not learn striking
great stuff!
Would be great to see you show a sparring after practicing something
Looks like he's the last Airbender
He might be 😅
Hi Andy, great video on Shifu Hu. However, you did not cover his specialties.
I know you just covered Xing-Yi recently. However, his "jin" is incredibly powerful. You should have him demonstrate on a tree which he can iron palm it to death within a few days.
Also, he can create "chi" sound by grinding & rotating his dain tian.
His no stance Wu style push hand is on another level.
Instead of looking at his big fist/palm. you should take a look at his back tendons. They're like 2 giant metal cables. that's where he's getting a lot of his "jin" from.
Lastly, his rooster/mud stepping steps are very powerful. he can crack 4-5 inches cement floor by using these steps.
These are usually things you don't see from everyday Shifus.
Hopefully, you're still around the area where you can do another interview.