by Fubo on Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:56 pm
I trained Fu style Bagua for a good number of years in HK. There's a lot of people teach Fu style in HK and in Southern China. I'm not too familiar with the guys in China other than it's Fu's son that passed it down which actually differs in flavor quite a bit from the grandson in Canada. A lot, it not all, the Fu style in HK comes from Sun Bo Gong, as Sun moved to HK to settle. I studied with 2 of Sun's students and from what I gathered, they mostly practiced the Bagua, Liangyiquan and Taiji, but not the Xingyi. I think the guys in China, and possibly some other branches in HK maintained the Xingyi training. The group I trained with practiced in Kowloon Park, the New territories and at the Chin Woo school in Kowloon. There was another group in Kowloon park and Chin Woo that branched off from our lineage and trained with another lineage and got different material from them. A lot of the other groups guys cross trained in Aikido. They seemed to have a wider range of variations for doing the Bagua forms, and some of which were softer in nature to the way I learned them. The Sun branched emphasized a kind of springy rebound quality to their forms. I can't speak for the other groups, but there was not a tone of applications training happening, and I remember having to encourage some students to drill techniques and spar with me. Some students ended up cross training with the My Jhong Law Hon group at Chin Woo as they did a lot of kick boxing with Muay Thai guys and competed. Don't know what else to add other than there are a bunch of groups around HK teaching Fu Bagua, not too much Fu Xing Yi, quality of instruction vary suite drastically. Some practical techniques and some very impractical techniques due to misinterpretations of the spinning in the forms. I prefer to train different stuff these days, but enjoyed it back in the day.
There are also branches in the US. Johnny Lee (Sun Bo Gong lineage) is in Texas (I think his guys compete in Lei Tai?) and there's some on the west coast from Liang Qiang Ya who was a de pile of Fu Zhen Song.
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Fubo on Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:00 pm, edited 2 times in total.