Combining Styles: Tai Chi and Bagua's Secret Connection

There's kind of this this rolling motion. Come again. So see like this and then this one continue to spiral around Like that. If you were to resist you're you're a tough guy, right? And yeah block with your hand block with your neck and like this It's tough to complete that throw. So we come here and he's blocking me like this, right? So I'm pushing him resist me resist. So so I'm having a hard time doing this So if I if I glide here and I feel that to his body stuff then go and resist me if you can See, it's hard for him resist this I cry here. It's hard for me. Is this that? So we do these two things together Yes, and down they go. So I go here I fashion him around I fashion him up and down like this we Finish him like this resist me. See he's resisting me I'm gonna feel from here down to his root down to his root. See then we take him He doesn't let me pull him down right so he's resisting so I'm gonna from here You see this contact glide him up and back and then like that I have a motion here and the motion here. So I'm doing this kind of this kind of thing, right Swimming body palm change. I'm bringing this way and then pulling around Okay, thanks for helping me so Tons of questions on everybody. So the next one is the one we're gonna answer is how is Bagua and Tai Chi Related or how can their how are they compatible in any way, right? And specifically someone asked about the the fascia techniques that we use cannot be related or used in Bagua And the answer is totally yes Especially in Cheng style Bagua So the founder of Bagua Dong Haichuan had two students and one by the last name Yin and one by the last name of Cheng Cheng Tinghua Was before he... no no no Before he was a Bagua master. He was a Shuaijiao master, a Chinese wrestler and but his job His job was a lens polisher and he made glasses like the things you're wearing So fascia is the art of how to feel near the surface of someone's body How to connect that to someone and you have the more perceptive you are the lighter your touch you are the better And I don't have proof of this But I think well, I think someone who polished lenses all day was probably really good at this surface sensitivity Type of thing does that make sense? It was said it was said that he used to train he would go to the shop and without a chair He would do his stance work. He got his lens and he's like Well, however you polish lenses, I know I'm not an expert but but but he would hold his stance and he would do that training so I think his body connection in that spiraling motion and His capacity to be light and not like break his lenses is probably superb, right? So that means if you punch me his ability to to to polish this and feel connection in your body Is probably way better than mine like way better than anybody's probably so so that's one one Reason to think that that he was probably very good at this stuff Let's look at some techniques. Okay, so if you give me a punch If I come here like this my hand goes under my hand touches head and we spin him and you know So they'll spin and go down this comes from This kind of this this rolling motion Okay from the Changsha Bagua's palm chin Okay, so come again so see like this and then this one continue to spiral around like that, okay Head turning throw now come again If you were to resist you're you're a tough guy, right and you block with your hand block with your neck and like this It's tough to complete that throw, okay, so come again resist again, so he's resisting, right? I touch him right here and I have right here by the glide his fascia What happened to your resistance it was over overcome by The fossil. Yeah. Yeah, let's switch side. So you stand on this side So he punches me so we come here and he's blocking me like this, right? So I'm pushing him resist me resist. So so I'm having a hard time doing this So if I if I glide here and I feel into his body stuff then going resist me if you can It's hard for him resist this I cry here it's hard from resist that so we do these two things together Yes, and down they go Hard to resist right? Yes, so you could definitely like Improve the FQ throws to the way they ought to be by using a little bit of fascia control If you punch me again, I block here. Okay, so we do like this kind of thing So that's basically like a like an arm drop I'm gonna drag him around and I'm now I'm behind him, right so Once again, don't let me pull you be balanced. You're like a grappler or something. Oh, this is not working, right? So come again. So here I feel a special don't resist me So despite your best effort to resist once we have the special awareness See, it's very hard for him to to to prevent from me getting behind him. Don't let me pull you down Good strength to attend. So so here he's resisting me, right? I Pull his head. He's still resisting me. We just received resist. So so we can improve that with fascia, too So we're from here Yes Okay, so let's do all together punch me so I go here I fascia him around I fascia him up and down like this we Finish him off or something like that What did it feel like? Just like a whirlwind, but I'm stuck in your grasp. Yeah stuck in my grasp. Mm-hmm. And so From from this whirlwind this current we're feeling your fascia punch like this resist me. See he's resisting me I'm gonna feel from here down to his root up to his root. See then we take him He doesn't let me pull him down, right? So he's resisting. So I'm gonna from here You see this contact glide him up and back and then like that And how light is that touch very very light right punch again if I'm heavy and you see No good, right punch again. See if I want to have light Like this we can complete this much much better so So those kind of grappling throwing taking their back arm wrestling techniques are all improved when you use the fascia make sense yes, and then like the Awareness of intent the e-work is very very valuable. You punch me and like like like you actually want to punch me, right? So this is aiming for my punch my nose or something like that Like that so I'm aware of that I could intercept and redirect that punch again So what I do there he punched I went slow motion I have a motion here and the motion here So I'm doing this kind of this kind of thing, right Swimming body palm change. I'm bringing them this way and then pulling around so he punches so I'm swimming here like this and I'm guiding this through and then It resists me. So see if he fights again, there's no good so one thing I do is I could I could I could fascia him over or others like a Startle his intention. So he punches me. So like here. Yeah, you see how he startled for a split second and in that moment. I just He braced for impact maybe even or he just startled maybe he braced for impact and actually glide over that and so I'm I'm like a Like a skateboarder or snowboarder on a half pipe On the contours your body you punch So that's how Bagua uses some of the Related technology between Tai Chi about fashion work about e-work I don't know who invented what actually young Luchan the founder young self hygiene and don't I trying to founder Bagua? They met at the capital and they were they were friends They were well acquainted and they'd like to just talk to each other and talk about martial arts together So I think they respect each other greatly and who knows who came up with what that inspired who but I see a lot of similarities in the underlying principles of The art it's just that I would say that Bagua likes to go around the curves On the racetrack and Tai Chi likes to go down the straight straight line or stay in the center of things But they use a lot of similar similar feelings of how How we influence opponents force that makes sense any questions on all this mismatches stuff I showed so far It looks like it's highly compatible with each other. Yeah, highly compatible. It's almost like a sine wave You know the way yeah, you know Bagua moves. Yeah So I think it's another clue Perhaps to another way to complete the internal Yeah, it's a compliment to fully explore what you could do with a internal exactly, right? I think they like a place I say these things the energies The the e-work that she work the fashion work These are the engines that makes the art of Tai Chi works and the same engine works in Bagua it's like, you know, you have like a a Ford engine and they put it into different cars and some are for the tracks some for the street summer for the off-road, right? But they have the same kind of engine technology And they could develop it with different kind of uses and I see it in here kind of like that, too