Formosa Neijia

Today’s post vanished into the ether. I’ll have to re-type it. The perils of blogging. Instead, here’s a portrait of Hong Yi-xiang I haven’t seen before:

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This is the Gao style of baguazhang as done by an acquaintance of mine Warren Fox. Warren is very physically gifted and had studied otherstyles of baguazhang before dedicating himself to the Gao style as taught by Wu Guo-zheng. I wrote about this version of Gao style here.
Warren isn’t just showing form, though. His […]

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I raved about Wang Ping’s performance of this bagua sword form here. Now you can see it on youtube.
See what I mean?

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Glad to see something from Liu finally out on the net. This is a long time in coming. Many younger IMA players may not be aware of who Liu is. He was a major figure in the Beijing baguazhang scene until his death in the mid-90’s(?). His style is significant for the amount yijing […]

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More video has been made available of the GuoShu leitai fights:

This clip comes courtesy of Mike Patterson and showcases his fighters in the 1996 and 2000 competitions. The footage from the 2000 event is the arena with no people. Some good combos and solid training in there.

This clip is form the 2004 competition. […]

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This looks interesting: a four DVD set on the Gao style baguazhang of C.S. Tang. Here’s a preview:

This is a great idea for people that want to compare what are others are doing to what they do.

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This follows on the heels of the last post. I didn’t know that Lu was on youtube. All I can say is that this isn’t what I expected to see. I assumed this would be very similar to Sun Xi-kun’s BGZ considering they had the same teacher. Chen Pan-ling also learned from Cheng You-long. […]

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I just stumbled across some great info. There’s a branch of Cheng style baguazhang 程派八卦掌 through Cheng Hai-ting 程海亭 (aka Cheng You-long 程有龍) here in Taiwan that I didn’t know about.
He had a student named Lu Hong-bin 盧鴻賓 that came in 1949. He was a fellow student along with Sun Xi-kun 孫錫堃 and had arranged […]

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I’m not usually impressed by the many VCDs that come out of China. I have bought about a hundred of these things, and I’ve seen so few that really impress me. At least until yesterday.
Wudang stylist Wang Ping (王平) has an older series out that just blew my mind. I’m so glad I picked his […]

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Xingyi’s zashichui in the Shanxi style

Sun style taiji
This is Feng Zheng-bao, an excellent teacher that moved from Shanghai many years ago to get his PhD. in Japan. He ended up staying there and runs a kungfu school in Tokyo.
Feng is a bit of a personal hero of mine. I have almost all of […]

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