Kungfu at BLCU, Beijing

cconnolly
 October 18, 2008, 11:02 PM posted in General Discussion

Here's some video I shot at a kungfu tournament at BLCU in Beijing in November 2007. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdw14VXKuhE

Camille

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bababardwan
 October 18, 2008, 11:47 PM

Thanks Camille;that's great to see.A couple of things I hadn't seen before.The guy doing long stick form had a red feather on the end;was that just for show? I also hadn't seen one of the final acts which looked like it involved small tennis racquets and balls.

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excuter
 October 19, 2008, 01:32 PM

just wanted to save me some time, so I embedded the video using the link... ^_^

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excuter
 October 19, 2008, 01:48 PM

very nice... I recognized the chen style sword form, but I don´t know from which style the taiji hand form was, so if you recognise the style please let me know :-)

For the long stick form... I´m not an expert but maybe it should be a spear form... the red feather thing was originally (historically) to distract the eyes of the enemy...

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bababardwan
 October 19, 2008, 09:43 PM

aah;cool.Thanks for explaining excuter.Makes sense.

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excuter
 October 20, 2008, 10:17 PM

^_^

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cconnolly
 November 04, 2008, 11:04 PM

Thanks excuter for embedding the link:)  This was my first post...  

I don't know what style the taiji form is.  The long stick is called a staff, gun4 in pinyin.  The spear also called red tassel spear is hong2 ying1 qiang1 in pinyin.  And yes, the tassel is used to break the opponent's focus.  The racket and ball exercise I believe is a demonstration of the continuous flow of qi4.

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bababardwan
 November 04, 2008, 11:22 PM

Camille,

How to add characters to a post is discussed under the technical questions section of help [now shown as a question mark next to the $ symbol ,top right of screen ] but here is a link to that part of this website.

Thanks for the raquet and ball...demo of qi explanation;makes sense and that is what it looks like now you point it out.