Friday, November 24, 2006

videos

i found some useful videos showing my instructor Jason, some of his senior students Jeff and Phunsak, and Liu Yun Chiao, who as Sifu Jason's instructor and founder of the Wutan Hall in Taiwan.

most of the videos are related to bagua--the style i'm learning at the moment, but a few cover baji. bagua, as you can see from the videos, is a softer, less physical style (hence one of the reasons it's classified as an "internal" martial art), while baji is a harder, more physically forceful style (and thereby classified as an "external" martial art.

note that the 2 videos of Jeff and Phunsak show them doing the same bagua forms. you can compare and see the differences in the way they are doing them. i haven't asked them--or Sifu--if this is something that is allowed in bagua, or if this is perhaps a product of personal stylization and customization of the underlying bagua techniques.

Jeff (i've never met him, but he appears to have been a long-time student of Jason):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beEixQe1T1o

Phunsak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq9nQSOEcs0

Jason Tsou:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI6v_WGl4Pc

Liu Yun Chiao:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pRepVNFolo

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