Pakua vids

[chen zhen]

I'd like to see some video clips of pakua in action,in a fighting situation. I've never really seen how it looks like, it's supposed to be effective:cool:
so, some links please:)

[Rockwood]

I haven't seen very many Bagua tapes. I've never seen any with unrehearsed fighting on them.

The one the best illustrates Bagua fighting methods is Luo De Xiu's tapes on Gao style Bagua.

You don't need to see full on fighting to see that this stuff is brutal.

www.plumflower.com

-JessO

[lstern]

Go to www.blacktaoist.com for practical Bagua information. Can't beat it.

Larry
lstern@twcny.rr.com
www.northernwu.com

[chen zhen]

thanks, but you know it's quicktime or realplayer clips I'm searching for, right? It's not VHS videos:)

[lstern]

Right. If you browse that website you'll find a lot of animated GIFs with Bagua applications.

[chen zhen]

thanks, didn't see that:)

Is that blacktaoist from the forum's website? that's a cool site;)

[chen zhen]

"Keep the Tao real"

;)

[blacktaoist]

Chen Zhen,

Go to empty flower. An empty flower member named John Wang posted a video clip of
this guy utilizing pa-kua in a Taiwan martial art tournament. In my opinion the BaGua was all right, but he was fighting too much in a fix circle walking method at times doing the match, that was his down fall.

Also he should have applied more throws, and takedowns as well cut the circle when he was counterattacking. If the ba gua guy had use more leg locking and throwing skills he would have won this match with no question in my mind.

But I take my hat off to any BaGua practitioner that step in a ring no matter what the skill level. It shows these guys are out there trying to master their art, so people have to respect that.

The links are below:


The links are below:

16. A Bagua guy fought in a Taiwan kungfu tournament. No head contact for that year. I have a lots of this kind movie clips and will add more to the list if people are interesting in it. (http://16. A Bagua guy fought in a Taiwan kungfu tournament. No head contact for that year. I have a lots of this kind movie clips and will add more to the list if people are interesting in it. )


http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=vids;action=display;num=1053540197 (http://http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=vids;action=display;num=1053540197)

[chen zhen]

I did see the links on empty flower, but they did'nt work for me, and the first link you posted there does'nt work either.

[RAF]

The links didn't work a couple of times for me, however, when I got up at 6:30 am EST, today, the links worked fine. It may simply be that too many are trying to watch them at the same time. Now, the links don't work.

Keep trying.

[cmorey]

Theres a great clip on B.K. Frantzis' site www.energyarts.com - navigate to the Bagua section - then to fighting and click on the image.
It's vs a taiji guy who won a competition that Frantzis' was helping judge.

[chen zhen]

Nice clip at the frantzis site.
But the other clips does simply not work, I think I've tried it a hundred times. It says that the server does'nt exist or something.:(

[chen zhen]

OK I try again.. help!

[Beth S.]

Chen Zhen, those clips were moved to
http://emptyflower.stanford.edu/

Cheers.

[Ka]

While I enjoyed Frantzis books(while I have never meet the man but have trained under a teacher who completed the Wu short form teacher course), I find this demostration(yes I know its meant to be unrehersesed) rather strange to watch.Particularly that the argressor (as per all demostrations its not the master) starts his attacks 2-3 metres from his opponent.That and the condsiderable body mass difference.
just an observation that bugs me about many Demos

[chen zhen]

Beth S., those clips does'nt work either, a screen full of javascript comes up when I click them, and it loads for hours.

[Beth S.]

Oh, sorry. It works for me, so I'm not sure how to fix it. Can other people use that link or not?

[northernJump]

try doing a right click on the link and select "save file as" to save to your local disk. Thats not javascript you're seeing its the binary contents of the wmv file displayed as text.

[chen zhen]

Thanks! i'm downloading them right now, so they should work now.:)

[chen zhen]

That is some really bad-looking fights. It looks like little kids fighting in a schoolyard.:rolleyes: