by Miro on Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:09 am
I studied with Fu Shuyun during her last five years or so until she passed away (Yang taiji, bagua and xingyi). I am not aware she taught any simplified form of bagua-taiji, on the contrary, she used to say many times that she will take her bagua-taiji to the grave (she performed many times, especially in USA, various mixed free forms of Yang taiji and bagua-taiji, but those performances were not simplified bagua-taiji and certainly not her true bagua-taiji, I have some tapes of those performances). Of course me together with other students of her public class in Taipei (afaik, she did not accept any formal disciple) wanted to learn or even to show us her baguataiji, she always refused - but once I performed my bagua-taiji to her and she said it is almost the same as her bagua-taiji - I learned bagua-taiji from He Fusheng in Mainland China (together with 4 other Taiwanese from the Department of Guoshu of Chinese Culture University in Taipei where I studied at that time). Zhao Fulin's bagua-taiji is quite different from what I learned fom He Fusheng. One of those teachers has video of bagua-taiji on YouTube but he modified it.
It is interesting you started with this thread because recently I started to think about making DVD of bagua-taiji - a friend of mine who is professional camera man wants me to do this (because I told him once that I am probably the only guy in Europe who knows it and he thinks it would be pity if I would die) but I am still not sure... because of applications. I am not a fan of applications (especially not of those "cooking recipes" like one arm goes here, another there) and both taiji and bagua contain a lot of dangerous movements (breaking the neck etc.), should I show them, too?
Miro
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Miro on Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:26 am, edited 1 time in total.
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