Wow! That is amazing! Can you please tell something about how the studies were held? I'm doing baguazhang for 15+ years and really interested in Shi Ming's legacy. My teacher was able to use qi in a way very similar to how Master Shi did and flying around even without touching hands is no surprise to me but I'm really wondering about the exact structure of a single class like did you practice the form only or tuishou as well or maybe something else? Did master Shi talk/explained something? Thanks in advance! P.S. Video footage is not mine, it's just a compilation of available resources carefully selected and bundled all together, apart from this I saw only 2 men on UA-cam doing this 37 form from beginning to end but it's not even close internally to what master Shi did and how he did it.
@@monkey_see_monkey_do big respect for the Baguazhang practice! Yes, the process was very drawn out compared to how classes are held in the West. The first thing was just to stand. Not in Zhanzhuan but more in meditation. This lasted somewhere between half an hour and 2 hours. Then there would be the 3 loosening exercises (3 circles) to practice. Then the form. You had to always master one thing (to a degree) before starting on the next. The push hands came much later and you had to have been studying with him for some time before starting this. Unfortunately my visa ran out before I did much actual push hands practice in class.
@@Ruyischool Thank you so much for sharing your experience, it's a real treasure. I absolutely agree that western approach to training (I live in Ukraine but compared to China it's western anyway) is suffering from the shortened neigong practices like the one you did from 30 min to 2 hrs. In baguazhang for instance circle walking is the core and to be honest before I started doing it 1-2 hours a day during first 3 years I couldn't understand pretty much anything because qi is something that one can sense but not understand via brain (I love Shi Ming's approach so much because what he does, no matter the style, is a pure qi control practice without involving even a bit of a physical power). And as for tuishou - when I was 20 years old I wanted to fight the entire world and did tuishou for hours but now I'm 35 and I've dropped martial aspect completely only do a 'loosening' form for about an hour every day just to keep the qi potential, well and health, since it's getting more and more on the cards when one is getting older. I also once did Aikido for 3 years and quite interestingly my internal bagua practice helped me a lot to master Aikido techniques quite easily. Their usage of qi is interesting because they highly rely on a formal movement to achieve the flow but if you already feel the flow the forms are getting absorbed quite naturally.
Thank you for sharing. I studied with Shi Ming in the mid 90s but never had a video of his form.
Wow! That is amazing! Can you please tell something about how the studies were held? I'm doing baguazhang for 15+ years and really interested in Shi Ming's legacy. My teacher was able to use qi in a way very similar to how Master Shi did and flying around even without touching hands is no surprise to me but I'm really wondering about the exact structure of a single class like did you practice the form only or tuishou as well or maybe something else? Did master Shi talk/explained something? Thanks in advance!
P.S. Video footage is not mine, it's just a compilation of available resources carefully selected and bundled all together, apart from this I saw only 2 men on UA-cam doing this 37 form from beginning to end but it's not even close internally to what master Shi did and how he did it.
@@monkey_see_monkey_do big respect for the Baguazhang practice! Yes, the process was very drawn out compared to how classes are held in the West. The first thing was just to stand. Not in Zhanzhuan but more in meditation. This lasted somewhere between half an hour and 2 hours. Then there would be the 3 loosening exercises (3 circles) to practice. Then the form. You had to always master one thing (to a degree) before starting on the next. The push hands came much later and you had to have been studying with him for some time before starting this. Unfortunately my visa ran out before I did much actual push hands practice in class.
@@Ruyischool Thank you so much for sharing your experience, it's a real treasure. I absolutely agree that western approach to training (I live in Ukraine but compared to China it's western anyway) is suffering from the shortened neigong practices like the one you did from 30 min to 2 hrs. In baguazhang for instance circle walking is the core and to be honest before I started doing it 1-2 hours a day during first 3 years I couldn't understand pretty much anything because qi is something that one can sense but not understand via brain (I love Shi Ming's approach so much because what he does, no matter the style, is a pure qi control practice without involving even a bit of a physical power). And as for tuishou - when I was 20 years old I wanted to fight the entire world and did tuishou for hours but now I'm 35 and I've dropped martial aspect completely only do a 'loosening' form for about an hour every day just to keep the qi potential, well and health, since it's getting more and more on the cards when one is getting older. I also once did Aikido for 3 years and quite interestingly my internal bagua practice helped me a lot to master Aikido techniques quite easily. Their usage of qi is interesting because they highly rely on a formal movement to achieve the flow but if you already feel the flow the forms are getting absorbed quite naturally.
Wasn't expecting this, interesting.
Yeah, I know, it's the variation of yang taiji that I practiced for some time. I made it basically for my own form referencing purposes.
@@monkey_see_monkey_do that's very cool
Does anyone know the cause of his death? He only get 61.
He had a diabetes.