Hu Zhengsheng documentary — Xinyiba

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Hu Zhengsheng documentary — Xinyiba

Postby marvin8 on Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:06 am

Published on May 23, 2016
http://www.shaolinxinyiba.org

Xinyiba expert Hu Zhengsheng's screen time compilation, from the 2nd episode of 《功夫少林》, "Gong Fu Shaolin", named "Mi Ji" (秘笈, Secrets) after the legacy of the traditional martial arts lineages and their struggle to keep the flame of this traditional heritage alive in the modern world.

The content belongs to CCTV9 and is shared for educational purposes only:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGrObqez2fo

Published on May 22, 2016
This is the second episode of the 5 part documentary "Gong Fu Shaolin", by CCTV9. This episode is named 秘笈 (Miji, "secrets") referring to the knowledge passed down from one generation of masters to the next. This episode features several inheritors of martial arts traditions from the Shaolin area, such as Xinyiba expert Hu Zhengsheng 胡正生, famous Shaolin master Diao Shanduo 刁山多,Wang Gaofeng 王高峰,and some others.

There was considerable research behind this production, and it is a quite realistic representation of the state of traditional lineages in China. All of these teachers struggle to preserve and pass on the martial arts heritage to the next generation, and this episode does a great job at showing the daily life of those people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2khCUE4bvq0

Published on Sep 30, 2016
Basic Xinyiba technique (Qi & Luo Ba):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0p1K3fpiOM

http://www.shaolinxinyiba.org/lineage/

Published on Aug 17, 2012
Xinyiba demonstration of Shaolin Kung Fu & Xinyiba grandmaster Yang Guiwu (1931-2010) in the documentary 【少林三大盖世武功】.
Quite a few currently famous teachers in Shaolin have learned from him, including Shi Dejian, Shi Yan'ao, and Shi Yongwen. Hu Zhengsheng was the last disciple that he took, and also one of the most dedicated and trusted students of his.

The movement in this video is not called "Hu Pu Ba", that is a mistake of the writing / filming crew. It is actually called "Mu Ba", or mother technique:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvcg77zUbXI

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11963,
Bob wrote:Battle for the Soul of Kung Fu
In the shadow of China’s legendary Shaolin Temple, a kung fu master’s disciples confront the changing world of martial arts.
By Peter Gwin
Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann

The master spent his last day of life wrapped in a quilt stitched by his wife, his rasping, irregular breaths filling the small bedroom. Throughout the cool spring day a stream of visitors arrived in the town of Yanshi, in the foothills of the Song Mountains, to pay their respects at the deathbed of Yang Guiwu, the man who had taught them kung fu. Some wore monks' robes and offered blessings as they entered the tiny brick house. Others wore jeans and loafers and stubbed out cigarettes before passing through the door. The master's wife, her white hair neatly combed, clasped the shoulders of each new arrival as if he were a blood son and ushered him through her kitchen, past the coal-burning stove, to join family members and other disciples assembled at her husband's bedside.

The wife leaned close to the bundled figure to announce a visitor, the last disciple the master had accepted into his kung fu family 15 years before. "It's Hu Zhengsheng," she said. Wearing a Nike tracksuit and traditional cloth slippers, Hu, now a broad-shouldered man of 33, bent over the shriveled figure. "Shifu," he called softly, respectfully, using the Mandarin word for teacher. "Can you hear me?" The old man's eyelids, pale and thin like rice paper, flickered. For an instant, his pupils seemed to center on the young man's face, then drifted away.

Many times the master had told Hu about awakening from dreams in which his martial arts ancestors, long-dead monks from the Shaolin Temple, visited him. They came bearing wisdom collected over centuries from generations of men whose feet had grooved the flagstones in the temple's training hall, whose bones were interred in the Pagoda Forest just outside the temple walls. These were the monks who had committed their lives to perfecting kung fu styles with names like Plum Flower Fist and Mandarin Duck Palm, each a symphony of physical movements, adding variation upon variation that pushed human muscles and bones to their limits. Some would say beyond their limits. Perhaps, Hu thought, these ancestors now were gathering by his master's side.

The master's most advanced disciples recognized special irony in the fact that the old man's lungs would ultimately betray him. He would have approved of this turn of life's wheel, a final lesson in humility for the man who had instructed that breathing was elemental to harnessing one's chi, or life force. It was the first thing he'd taught them: breathe in through the navel, out through the nose. Steady, controlled, in harmony with your heartbeat and the rhythms of your other organs. Learning to breathe properly, he told them, was the initial step on the arduous path to tapping the wellspring of the chi's power and, in doing so, unlocking one of the universe's hidden doors.

Now, with or without unseen spirits at his side, Yang Guiwu stood at another of the universe's hidden doors. The disciples listened for signs in his breathing that he was trying to marshal his life force for the journey ahead. . .
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Re: Hu Zhengsheng documentary — Xinyiba

Postby C.J.W. on Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:06 pm

Very cool and similar to Xinyiliuhe in both form and application.
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