Granted, this is just a demo, but whenever I see something like this, all I can think is "bad fighty technique".
Interesting, the teacher and group I was told do accept visitors
all the time.
Felt the teachers perspective was unique based on his emphases on foot work, distancing and angles.
The training shown, not really demos IMO not for outside,
had clear explanations and showed obvious fun in a very relaxed training environment.
An old poster here did the translation and voice over of his teacher shown in the clips,,,,
Guo Shilei is a young martial arts teacher in the city of Dongguan, in Guangdong (Canton) province. He teaches the 3 big CIMA: taiji, bagua and xingyi, but I decided to include him in this blog because his bagua comes from one of Dong Haichuan’s favourite students, Ma Weiqi (nicknamed ‘coal Ma’). His lineage comes down to him through: Ma Weiqi – Yang Rulin – Hu Laiyi – Wang Jiaofu – Shi Chongying – Guo Shilei. The following extract was translated from an article in the Guangzhou Ribao (Guangzhou Daily).
“So why did you come to Dongguan then?” said our reporter, curiously. “I came to be with my girlfriend, who works in the import/export trade, at a company at Hongmei [a district of Dongguan]. When I first got here, I worked in a factory, but I discovered that I had no time to practice my martial arts that way. So instead, I opened a Tae Kwon Do studio in Hongmei, I already have 30 students.”
“Why don’t you teach taiji?” “At the very beginning I performed a bajiquan [8-extremes boxing] routine, only to have a lot of the audience say, “Oh, so this is what Tae Kwon Do looks like!”, which both annoyed and saddened me. In order to make ends meet, I had no choice but to choose this fashionable name. But as long as the students are willing to study taiji, I’m willing to teach.”
Accepting 3 Disciples in People’s Park
“I’ve been practicing in People’s Park for about a month now, I’ve already accepted 3 disciples.” Guo told our reporter frustratedly: “A lot of the onlookers in the park think that what I do with my students is faked. Actually, the taiji that you see in most DVDs, parks, etc is, at most, just ‘taiji cao’ (calisthenics), not real kungfu.” Guo is extremely worried about the future of traditional kungfu:
“Nowadays, flashy routines are easy to teach and marketable, whereas real kungfu is difficult to teach and no-one wants to learn it.
Martial arts in this country have become mere performance, there are fewer and fewer teachers with real skill.
https://sites.google.com/site/baguamawe ... guo-shilei a very sincere humble teacher,,,
Background
The Chinese martial arts are dying out. History has its reasons: the advent of modern warfare; the dominance of performance Wushu since Mao; traditional secrecy and conservatism. Then there is the misrepresentation: 'Kungfu' movies; practitioners with the tradition but not the skill; systems which emphasize peripheral aspects at the expense of the martial.
This diverts many real fighters away from these great arts to ones being tried and tested in sporting arenas.
https://sites.google.com/site/baguamawe ... ur-mission
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:11 am