a couple of points.
- style is a misleading word, men pai or school and branches are better words.
Ba ji was called Ba Zi or rake fist first.
it was popular in Cang Zhou area.
so Ba Zi Quan Fa or rake fist fighting methods would be the proper name.
what the hell is Ba Ji? oops pardon my cursing.
- my learning would be lessons from Na Jing branch and some Wu Tan related.
the clip shown is Meng Cun Wu Ba Ji. I will kick the word of “style” out.
meaning Ba Ji fighting methods practiced and passed down from Wu family and in Meng Cun area.
- the reason I started the thread is to info spread the Ba Ji fighting methods.
the stuff I do or practice already been singled out as a different branch by my mainlander Ba Ji brothers.
we may call it orange county or laguna beach branch.
the “differences” from other branches.
a. emphasis of grinding step at the end.
b. stamping foot light in the beginning, and heavy at the end of posture.
c. rooting and inch power at the very end, meaning outburst at the very end or the last split second, and not outburst in the beginning of the posture.
d. focusing power expression on a single point while the rest of the body is relaxed, it can be an elbow, palm, fist, shoulder/hip kao etc etc.
in this clip, you may hear the grinding sound from the sneaker at the end, you may see focused point power expression etc etc.
I did not do this, I still call the stuff I do/practice Ba Ji,
however, my Ba Ji brothers in China said I am a different branch. do it differently enough to be recognized as “different”.
:D;)
