[indent]I recently read a post on one of the forums, and it talked about the wudang gong fu. I went on the link that they provided and dowloaded the tai ji 13 form. I found it very interesting. I was just wondering if any of you had any info. on where I could find some video instruction on learning the form, applcations, theory, and concepts. I would really appreciate any info. that you might have. All of you have a good night.[/indent] [SIGNING OFF NOBBY] www.wudanggongfu.com [indent]This is the website I went on.[/indent]
www.qigongmaster.com – that guy has a video of the 13 form sold on where else? Martialartsmart.com
Wudang Kung Fu?
What are some of the traditionally practiced styles at Wudang? I’m aware that there is contemporary Wushu there as well as Taiji. But I sometimes see vague references to a Wudang Chuan or sometimes Wudang Dragon, etc. Are any of these older styles or are they modern creations? I have not seen what they look like. I also heard the Zhang San Fang Taiji form is modern (although I can’t say if it’s true or false).
well i know they practice all three nei chia (xing yi, bagua, and tai chi) they practice something called dragon back tai chi. which to me sounds like a tai chi tong bei in theory but looks like taichi it just uses power from the back and waste. there a few other weird looking and esoteric kung fu. some of it looks very modern. you can find stuff on the web and on you tube. just search wudang kung fu.
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I did a cover story - The Chief Priest of Wudang Mountain: The First English Interview with Taoist Grandmaster Zhong Yun Long - in our 2003 September/October issue.
Prior to that, we did a focus on Wudang in our 2002 September/October issue.
What’s more, I discussed my own trip to Wudang with Shaolin monk Shi Yanming and Wu-Tang Clan ‘abbot’ RZA in my seven part e-zine article, Wu-Tang Enters Wudang.
A lot of the stuff I’ve seen looks like modern creations, or performance “enhanced” traditional forms. I’ve seen lots of taiji, bagua, xingyi, hybrids. Where they take elements from popular neijia styles and slap a wudang label on it. They also did that with baji quan (looks like Huo style’s da jia baji quan combined with modern chang quan and taiji-ified a bit). One traditional style practiced by some people there that I know of is Wudang Tayi Quan. My last teacher (An Tian Rong) has a little book published on some of it called “23 Wudang Wuxing Taiyi Quan”. Just gives the basic myth behind it, a little more background info, some basic exercises and the form. Nothing really in depth, and some of the translation isn’t the best (like saying “totating” instead of “rotating”… stuff like that, lol.
Plumpub has some vcds on a few of the wudang branches in the mainland. Some are definitely better than others.
Never learned it myself, or seen it practiced in person, so I don’t know how accurate this guy is, but here’s an example that I like:
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Wu Dang is or was designed much liken unto Shaolin, by that I mean the house title “Wu Dang” yet various factions, although for the most part Wu Dang technique was simply to preserve the body and its energies by moving softly and relaxed keeping free from tension, yet no lack in martial intent or technique. For example our discipline comes from the Brass Hall Wu Dang School, but there is Yin Yang Wu Dang as well as Hong Men Wu Dang. Not all of Wu Dang is Tai Chi in nature, there are some pretty fast, powerful and compelling skills unique to this school of Chinese martial arts. Nowadays though much presented is in the fashion of contemporary wushu I guess its the sign of times sort of speaking.
Troy Dunwood
ive been toying with the idea of going to wudang to train. this link, damo-qigong.net. has great info and the training price is fairly reasonable.
training in china…
this is master Yuan Xiu Gang’s site and school info. He was the chief instructor at the academy until he opened up his own school. He teaches traditional. not contemporary wushu. A lot of the schools around Wudang shan are contemporary, but his and the academy are traditional. You can watch a lot of his videos on youtube, or links through his site.
my website will be up soon. the pics are missing but the text is there.
I will be doing some seminars in Florida (my home state) and some upcoming ones in N.Y. and possibly california and south carolina. details are being worked out.
cheers…
-Donnie
http://www.wudangdao.com/index.htm
This is my teacher Master Bing.
There are large array of different so Called “Wudang” styles but nowadays of course there is concentration of the larger schools of thought which have brought in the big three styles of Bagua, Xingyi and Taiji into the frame whilst some Modern Wudang masters have collected all the pieces and tried to build a larger style (similar to a la shaolin)…from my experiences with friends/teachers of Jingzhou, Shashi, Wuhan and Danjiangkou (inc. Wudang)…it is really a fragmented school of art which did not try and capture a large system rather each fragment is sufficient to train and gain the essence and develops in the Daoist principles within…However,
The Wudang styles that have been practiced prior to modernisation include those which are found in areas around the mountain range and neighbouring Shiyan and Danjiangkou, as well as throughout Hubei province.
Some of the key systems range from small Qigong like methods to more complete schools or Pai of Wudang… these include: Wudang Taiyi Shen Jian Men, Wudang Taiyi Wuxing, Wudang Taihequan, Yumenquan, Wudang Xuanmenquan and such others…
As an example a form of Wudang Boxing is found below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5WnNQhotVU
quite different to the Taiji mimicking methods of today, but only one of the examples of the unqiueness of traditional Wudang arts.
Kind Regards
Wu Chanlong
wudang kungfu
hello, i will introduce a wudang kungfu website in wudang, he is my master chen shixing, his kungfu is very good, from his website you will know a lot of wudang kungfu!
wudang kungfu
Wudang Gongfu, one important school of Chinese Martial Arts has a very long history. Wudang Gongfu, incorporating ways to stay healthy and prolong the lifespan as well as collecting the skills to fight, is not only a special school of Martial Arts, but also a whole system of Martial Arts theory.
Wudang Gongfu, as a culture, takes root in the fertile soil of thousand-year long Chinese civilization, containing profound Chinese philosophical theories, combined twith the raditional notions of Taiji, Yinyang, Five-element, Eight-diagram into boxing theories, boxing skills, exercise and attack policies, tantamount to studying the laws of life activities. So we can say that Wudang Gongfu is the crystallization of Wudang Taoism in the process of studying life.
It is said that Zhang-Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang Boxing, was self-cultivating in Wudang Mountains, when he witnessed a fight between a magpie and a snake. That the magpie was flying up and down to attack and the snake was shaking its body and raising its head to fight back gave him inspiration and understanding of the Taiji theory so that proceeded to create Wudang Internal Kungfu.
The original legend of Wudang Gongfu, and the pose of the snake in the fighting have visually demonstrated the gist of Wudang Gongfu: to overcome the strong in a gentle way and to win by striking only after the enemy had struck. To ascertain one’s position and then defeat the enemy.
After many boxing masters enrichment and development, Wudang Gongfu has many derivatived schools and kinds, such as, Taiji boxing, Form-and-will boxing, and Eight-diagram Palm; and Taiji Sword; Lightening Gongfu, Hard Gongfu, feats and variations of Qigong. From then on, Wudang Gongfu has walked out of the deep mountains and become an important school of Chinese Martial Arts. There are many schools of Wudang Gongfu today, but the Sect of Zhang Sanfeng remains the one that has inherited Wudang Gongfu in the most complete way. Priest Zhong Yunlong is the 14th-generation master of the Sanfeng Sect and Priest Chen Shixing is one of his most outstanding formal disciples.
Wudang Kung Fu
How does Wudang Kung Fu differ from the Northern and Southern Shaolin styles?
…it was made famous by a bunch of American rappers?
Can I have another chance? That was shameless…sorry…
[QUOTE=Yum Cha;1133072]…it was made famous by a bunch of American rappers?
Can I have another chance? That was shameless…sorry…[/QUOTE]
LOL - yeah, and it’s talked about in a lot of movies - but you ever notice you don’t see any serious discussions about Wudang Kung fu? We talk about the three “internals”, but they’re not the realz Wudang. Nobody talks about it… maybe it’s like Fight Club.
[QUOTE=MightyB;1133098]LOL - yeah, and it’s talked about in a lot of movies - but you ever notice you don’t see any serious discussions about Wudang Kung fu? We talk about the three “internals”, but they’re not the realz Wudang. Nobody talks about it… maybe it’s like Fight Club.[/QUOTE]
maybe a lot of it was recently recreated based on what was already known?
I only know one thing
wudang clan aint nuthin ta fuck with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEOC9El3q70
I spent some time there…
The place is in the process of becoming very commercial. Most of the commercial schools there practice Radically Jazzed up old forms, then various styles of XingYi, ba gua and Taiji. And a series of techniques which look like a combination of Taiji, Xingyi and Bagua.
There are some sects which practice in a more traditional manner, but they are different to each other. I don’t Think there is any one style which you could say is definitive Wudang. For example in SHaolin you could Say Hong Quan is definitive.
HOw does it differ? Many of the essential principles are identical. Both styles use a combination of Xu and Shi technique (empty and solid). In my experience Wudang focuses more on Xu, empty techniques and Shaolin focuses more on Shi, solid techniques. Many techniqes are shared between the two however and it depends on the practicioner. YOu could do shaolin and make it like wudang and vice versa.
When I was there I practised one skill in particular. Song Xia Gong. YOu stand still and someone punches you repeatedly all over the body and head. You give way to their strike but only use the force they give you. I.e you don’t deliberately move your muscles you let the force of their strike move you. However, you stay solid around the center and spring back to position. You don’t give way so much that you compromise structure. It was fun. My teacher was so relaxed I could push my hand so far into his stomach I could touch his spine!