Monday, March 12, 2012

Single Palm Change

A friend sent me this. The core practice of Baguazhang is circle walking. The foundation of all the techniques is the Single Palm Change.



Jet Li doing some Baguazhang in his movie, "The One":



Here is a video of some Bagua changes with motion sensors attached:

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3 comments:

  1. Zacky Chan10:14 PM

    cool, I like that last one with the sensors

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  2. Rick Matz10:37 PM

    Me too. I'd like to see more of that sort of thing.

    I had an article several years ago on motion research and martial arts:

    http://cookdingskitchen.blogspot.com/2008/06/motion-research-on-martial-arts.html

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  3. Zacky Chan10:02 PM

    Yes I remember it very well! I actually still think about that video in the post demonstrating the power generated by turning the hips. Very cool!

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