everything wrote:the stories always talk about how fast the bgz folks move.
.... so .... are you literally "walking" the circle super fast at times? more like yang taiji speed? something else? all of the above?
Of the top three or four martial art experiences of my life, is my witness of my first Sifu doing Bagua. He probably learned it either from, or with, or from the same teacher as Andrea Faulk, but that is pure speculation. He might have learned it from Wang Jurong, guilty by association, but again, pure speculation.
It was unlike anything I had ever seen before or since, save my current sifu. It was inhuman. It was so crisp, so clear, so perfect, everything I have ever seen since is an imitation. I think this performance is what gave me fast eyes, as you can never go back to appreciating normal martial arts after witnessing genius. There are just no words to describe it, you will know it if you ever see it. The only other times I have ever seen anything comparable at all was when I witnessed Wai Lun Choi's immortal liu he ba fa performance in Baltimore at the 1995 USAWKKF tournament (I will probably never see that again), and when I saw my sifu doing Chen style.
Something in you just knows.
Anyways it was just so super fast and exact and clean, it harkens back to images of Chen fake or the short clips of Chen Zhaokui I saw. Even just witnessing a demonstration of the power changes you forever. That's why I am eternally grateful, while at the same time it represents my deepest regret.