Posts Clips of your HAO

[Muad'dib]

That's right PUNKS!

I found the clips I posted from ages ago. Here we go with an exaggerated rendition of the Hao brush knee opening.

Filmed 2005.




Ah, there we go.

[qiphlow]

whoa! dude, you can TELEPORT? ? ? (see 0:44 to 0:46)

on a more serious note, is there some xingyi influence in hao style? i saw what looked like some santi stances in there.
overall i liked the clip!

[Muad'dib]

In this particular method, there is a little bit. My teacher learned quite a number of internal styles and blended them at times, in very small ways. I think the san ti you see here is actually fairly orthodox Hao.

[nianfong]

whoa I haven't seen these in ages.... still looks so weird to me... is the dan tian involved for all the hand motions? I suppose we'd need to zoom in to see?

the brush knee is totally reminiscent of a pi quan...hm, very cool.

but this isn't the one that looked "alien" to me way back when I don't think. that was a different angle in that temple.

-Fong

[Muad'dib]

No, I haven't posted that one, when I looked at the difference between the other WJQ clip I posted and the one I had posted back in the day, I felt that I didn't like how the later one represented a degradation of what I had learned, even with the 2 year lapse as an excuse.

Hao style uses extremely small circles, as does the style of Wu JQ that I learned. The dan tien is active in all the movements you see.

[nianfong]

ah I see. yeah from what I remember of the "alien" one, this one looks much better. I can see some of the small dantian motions.

[Mut]

Nice to see some hao, I'll try and post my corresponding piece tomorrow. It looks to me like the hands and body are disconnected in movement in that vid though . Yout lazy tying coat has the bottom hand much lower than how I train it. Anyway, I'll try to get up a comparison.

[ashe]

so what attracted you to wu/hao?

[Muad'dib]

My teacher. I didn't choose a style, I chose/was chosen by my teacher. At the time, all her students (with one exception) had to learn Hao style first.

After a year I began to focus on learning ba xing bagua, until one day she decided to teach WJQ. I did the form, and was told that hence forth I should focus primarily/damn near exclusively on WJQ. Hence my WJQ is always better than my Wu/hao or bagua. As for why WJQ, I was told I had a knack for it, and it just felt right.

[Mut]

Hey Zhong, here is a small piece of my Hao.



your brush knee looks more like 'lazy tying the coat' to me.... which is the first part of what I put up, the last part is 'brush knee and twist step'

[Muad'dib]

haha, aren't kids a blast? I don't think I could get my kids to leave me alone that long.

And you are right, it was lazy tying coat, I just really don't care about names.

[Mut]

lol, I am not one for names either.... but for some reason I just remember that one... i had to check my notes for the other name.... so I could come off all knowledgeable. I just got lucky the older one stopped the little one from whacking me with the stick.

[ashe]

wow. very different shen fa than what i'm used to.

[Mut]

yes, I have found adjusting to Hao a hard process. I find the shen fa very hard, I have found that it has helped my KF a lot though. While I like Hao it is very difficult to do (despite the high frame) I am concidering changing to Chen. I think the form is a little more in line with my current head space. When I started I chose Hao because my teacher explained that I would get all the principles and the like from Hao to use in my KF, and seeing as I already have a lot of Techniques at my disposal it may be better than Chen (for me, not as an art) But being who I am I want more stuff that I can use in application (Hao is applicable, but difficult, and it all pretty much looks the same as the circles are so small)

[Muad'dib]

yeah, I agree with Mut. Hao is all about the subtlety. I think it has everything that the other styles have, but because its even harder, it tends to drive its students to be either very high level or very low level.