edededed wrote:D_Glenn wrote:More often than not, when a student asks a question, Jinbao lights up and says “aha, there’s actually a Song that answers that.” Then he sings it.
Sings - as in, are there pitches/tones to the songs, too?! (Might make the songs easier to remember, actually...)
BTW - curious about the 8 animal styles - have you learned all/most of them? Are they like completely different styles (shenfa, bufa, shoufa, etc.)? Is it quite difficult (even confusing) to transition from one style to another? The video showing He Jinbao demonstrate them was quite interesting, but I wanted to hear from a practitioner, and I know you've been doing this for a while!
It sounds like children’s rhymes. Dr. Xie made Jinbao commit all of them to memory. He said there’s a lot of songs in our bagua. Each animal has their own, plus all the extra Yin Style songs like the 2 I found from another Yin Style lineage.
He used the same method he used to memorize them to also remember interesting articles about Internal Chinese Arts. There’s a Yiquan guy who’s written a lot, forgot his name, he can recite some of his essays.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been on here, so yes, very different. But they don’t have overlapping skills. They still are unique ways to attack. I’ve seen a bit more monkey and it’s got a lot of kicks, even jump kicks, but a major aspect to it is for fighting against someone who is trying to kick you. The form I know is a counter to a side/ roundhouse kick.
The Rooster is crazy. Way beyond what I imagined but it’s actually pretty ingenious in how it works. It would work great as a defense in the Western world, and easier than most the other animals for a Westerner to grasp. But the physicality from Standing in its postures is hard. “Rooster Hurts” is its motto.
The snake is just a whole other world. It’s beyond brutal. I don’t know that there’s an equivalent to it. I think the way to sum it up is that the techniques create the forms, rather than a form encompassing a lot of techniques.
He tried teaching the Unicorn but apparently nobody was able to get it, so he gave up, for the time being anyways. My thought is that it’s reliance on the Fan Lang Jin movement of the spine and sacrum makes it hard to get power without having that. The little of it that I’ve seen and felt is pretty cool. It’s very old school Chinese, actually a lot like Chuo Jiao but without the foot strengthening. The back of your leg is what’s hitting the opponent in the “Hip” method. But FLJ movement is introduced in the Rooster. And I figured out that the Crab System that DHC taught Ma Gui, is actually just a modified Rooster. It might of have had some Unicorn it still but after seeing the actual Rooster I don’t think very much anymore. My wrists are permanently jacked from Skateboarding (sprained too many times and now they don’t bend back far enough), so the normal Rooster just won’t work out for me, but I can do it with the Crab Palms. So I’m developing my Fan Lang in that, to prepare for the Unicorn.
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