What is everyone here’s opinion on Tony Yang, is he a good Sifu to learn Bagua from?
Tony Yang is one of the nicest teachers I’ve met. I would learn praying mantis from him in a heartbeat.
I never learned any Bagua, but his Baji and Mantis are excellent. Great guy. I miss that whole crew.
Cheers
Jake 
Thats great! I live only a couple of hours from his kwoon, taking Taiji and iron palm training currently at Jing Wu, My Sifu said Tony Wang was the real deal at Bagua. What is Baji btw?
TaiChi…
Is your Sifu by any chance Steve Morozowsky?
Yes My Sifu is Steve Morozovsky, why?
Please tell him…
Christian from his old Tonawanda kwoon says hi and wishes him well in his old/new school.
I will tell him.
Baji video thread (for guy who asked what baji is):
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41125
Thanks, man that looks powerful. That sliding step with the palm strike looks sweet.
http://www.wutangcenter.com/wt/bagua.html
Tony has been my teacher since 1988. He spent 8 solid years with his teacher Liu Yun Qiao and closed door teaching of Liu’s bagua was part of his training.
Currently we have no public baji classes.
I think I am coming up for the tournament in october, I may compete in a couple of things, everyone here at Jing Wu has a seriously high opinion of Tony Yang.
Please make sure you come over and introduce yourself. Things are usually pretty hectic and head judge the Yang’s taiji—if there are a lot of competitors, then the event goes on forever:eek:
I can talk to you then about what we are doing (basically trying to pay rent and keep the art on the up and up).
We have a program set up (Blackbelt) and some of the students who have gone through their mantis etc. etc. are about to embark on baji training.
The schedule listed on the website has not been updated and is not accurate.
Private arrangement can always be made with Tony and his disciples.
Hope to see you in October—its ont he campus of the University of Akron and the campus has had a major facelift—looks very good—Starbucks is on campus.
Sounds great, I love Starbucks! I think I will probably be in “other” Tai Chi forms catergory, Hao style, and both push hands, thats probably it, might do some sparring but I doubt it.
I have just learned one BaJi form, not sure what its called, it is a killer though, after about two trips through at speed I am exhausted, ready to drop and I think its a lower level form its not even that long but quite intense.
Taiji-IronPalm:
Are you currently with Dr. Huang or An Tian Rong?
Just curious who you are learning baji from.
Well I am actually not learning BaJi per se, my sifu is a mantis Shifu, and taiji Sifu but he knows one Baji form and taught it to me, and one short BaGua form, and he makes me walk circle all the time too, no one else seems to get these things or the extra torture, er application practice I mean that I get from him, I am thinking that may be a good thing, but my back arms and basically most of my body that is sore tends to disagree with me sometimes…ouch. Actually I think I get a slightly less watered down than most of the students, you know many people cant handle the traditional stuff, its intense, actually niether can I, but I am working up to it faster than I would like and apparently slower than he’d like lol. :eek: I am primarily a taiji student, I had no idea how intense taiji was/is when I started, I just thought I was going to learn some health exercise, I already had black belt in hapkido and in judo, I have to say I think taiji will be a superior fighting system to those when I get to a more advanced level due to the emphasis on issuing internal power. That being said, hapkido is great as a self defense style, its basically a combination of Tae Kyon/Tang Soo Do etc. and Aikido.
I don’t know what seminars might be held this upcoming tournament but you might want to look into it. Zhang Wei Fu has held some decent seminars over the year.
Take care and hope to meet you.
Cool I will look into it. I want to try the San Shou event but my wife thinks its too brutal, I think it would help my study to cross hands with some cats that hit for real all the time, but she is adamantly opposed to it so I wont be in that. She is kinda squeamish about full contact fighting.
Is she the one fighting?
And you never answered Bob, who is your teacher?
Thanks
Jake