PART 1/4: Hung I Hsiang (BBC Documentary)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- From a 1983 BBC documentary series on martial arts. Although entitled "Tai Chi" this episode is a profile of Hung I Hsiang, a Taiwanese master of all three Chinese internal martial arts (Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Taijiquan)
Thanks for posting. The BBC documentary remains a classic, pity it was never released on video/DVD.
WOW!
Way of the warrior BBC 2 1982.
It is a really nice documentary.
I remember the episodes covering
Karate, Kendo and Katori Shinto ryu
as being outstanding.
Thanks for the treat.
adrenaline surges, meditation and breathing exercises, and isolating specific muscles are all possible but its the mind that holds us back. the mind is the key to maximizing the body but its the spirit that maximizes our mind. the art of body, mind and spirit is true martial arts. who will teach us the way? what is the way? stay true to self no matter what. keep rockin it steady yall, thanx and good luck.
Thank you for posting this. I have had the book based on this series and have wanted to see this footage for years.
@richardshapiroII
Bruce Frantzis studied under Hung. He talks about it in his book on internal martial arts.
this is like the toughest discipline type of Martial Arts yet its so gentle and light it almost looks weak and effeminate, certainly its not !
It may be true that there are not many "masters" today who are known to the public that are small and lean but then again there are hardly any real masters today. If you look at the masters who perfected xing yi and bagua from the time of it's origin you will find that most of them are small; Guo yun shen, Sun lu tang, Chen ting hua, Li Lou neng, Ji ji ke, etc.
It's not for the smaller guy. It's a way of becoming a whole and healthy being, regardless of size. The fact that a number of masters aren't small doesn't mean what they can do is because they're larger. Liu Hung Chieh would be a counterexample to your claim.
Qi does accumulate in the marrow, and as a result the bones grow strong. Brings a whole new dimension to the term "big-boned," doesn't it?
has anyone ever noticed all these internal masters are extremely large, larger than the average man. doesn't that make it easier for them to fa jin and defeat everyone around them. i thought internal martial arts were supposed to be for the smaller guy but i have never seen one small master with convincing fajin or power. all their fajin demonstrations are on much smaller guys, look at bruce kumar, wang shu jin, hung i hsiang and the gompa guy.
@jsmall10671 Those who believe, no explanation is necessary. Those who don't believe no explanation will suffice.
any one else read(or heard..) that some one can become about 3times stronger during a life threatening situation? or heard of yoga gurus that can make their heart beat stop. Or that we only use a small % of strength of what are muscles are capable of? Did you know when you exercise you actually strain your muscles and then they are slowly repaired and then add little extra tissue. If we use larger % of our muscles then they become more strained.
I believe muscle control is what chi really is.
how do you know, are you allknowing?
sounds like Dennis Waterman narating ??
I think its funny that they gave their students japanese gi's and belts because of the times...Back then Westerners would not take martial arts seriously unless they had those uniforms and black belts, in reality chinese (except Shuai Jou) do not wear these when training.
Qi is utter nonsense. Older masters get respect from their students and the younger students unconsciously "let" the master win. They explain this with Qi. Let an MMA fighter who can't give a damn, fight a 60 yr old internal arts master and watch the old man get stomped.