Baji Quan means Eight Extreme Fist ( direct translation from Chinese words ). It is oso known as the "Bodyguards' Combat Skill". It was used by body guards during the Qing Dynasty to protect the Emperor and later Chiang Kai Shek of Taiwan and Mao Ze Dong of China. Thatz how it got labelled as a "body guards' combat skill."
I began under Sifu Vincent when he began teaching online in his program called BajiShu. He’s very good and highly knowledgeable in many TCMAs and I learn so much every time I ask him questions. Thanks for meeting my Sifu, Kevin. Please spread the knowledge of Bajiquan
Kevin gotta be one of the ONLY martial artists on YT that does BJJ at a high level, and still has respect for all martial arts, realizes that a punch is a "punch" or elbow is an elbow and doesn't belong to ANY style... just the way its delivered and those concepts are packaged gives it meaning to a specific art. Just respect what you can take from ALL arts, discard what isn't useful to you and be objective. TEST yourself against others, go into other gyms with an empty cup and see if what you know makes sense and can be applied. EVERY art has strengths and weaknesses... end of story. Hats off to you Kevin!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It’s so refreshing, some of this and hunger and judo are what my grandfather taught me he said word for word, “these techniques belong to all styles, it’s you. If you’re not afraid to break the guys fingers, you’re probably going to win. A fights about whose left standing and standing not” - Grandpa L 😂😂 Shits chilling the as I get older considering he grew up in chines when Japan invaded:,)
Thanks for featuring and promoting the art of Bajiquan! Much respect to you being so open minded to feature all kinds of modern and traditional fighting arts from all cultures. Episodes like this is important to justify for traditional Chinese martial arts especially TCMA’s for a bad perception from the fake taichi masters got slaughtered by mma guys.
@@wutan_nj I entirely agree with you and I'm glad to see you getting the spotlight. that said the actual wording and sentence structure of that comment is making the editor part of my brain somewhat sad. then again you are a martial arts teacher and not an English teacher.
Kevin it would be awesome if you are able to manage to get all the sifus from Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Bajiquan and Tai Chi together. Not to show which style is better, but put them in one room and let them exchange about technique, principles, philosophies, demonstrations one style against the other, similarities etc.
I agree ... they have similar foundations - a strong structure, and strong root, with similar goals of disrupting the root or the structures of the opponent, but with different approaches, philosophies, and "techniques" [?]. I think all of these styles are Internal, so the leverage is different from the external styles?
I study the internal arts and have seen a lot of similarites with Ba Ji. All of these style hale from the Hebei region so I am sure there is a lot of shared information over the years.
Read the manga Kenji this last summer. The main character uses Bajiquan. It introduced Japanese audiences to many styles of kung fu and is the reason why styles like Bajiquan, Piguazhang, Baguazhang, and Xinyi Liuhe Quan are common in fighting games. Happy to see this style on this channel.
Yes indeed! It’s also one of the coolest and most practical forms of kung fu as it’s been battle tested in mma matches with differing rulesets all over the world. And its defense is really good and its close range attacking is great and its throws are explosive and tricky! Really cool style to me
it might interest you to know that the teacher in this video is part of the Liü Yun-Qiao Baji-Quan lineage. he's also possibly the biggest fan of kenji on the planet.
This form suits me fine! It’s perfect for me because I can no longer perform the kicks and movements I did in karate. I now teach cane self defense and bajiquan works well for a lot of reasons. Thank you!
I was lucky to meet Sifu Vincent and do a trial class at his school in NYC. He's a really good teacher and with just an hour I already received good feedback on my fundamentals that I still work on today. He also has a really nice group of students with tight sense of community - they invited us to all have lunch together after class, which they said was a usual routine for them. Highly recommend to anyone that is around NYC to visit his school.
dude most unassuming sifus i know have body builder legs and thighs! My uncle was a slight unassuming taichi practitioner with thick black glasses.... power was explosive like the BajiQuan guy! they used to practice forms under tall tables! thats where they generate power from..... so imagine them doing that horse stance to horse stance thing for hours or 1 on 1 under tall tables!!
“That’s cool.” Best description ever. Glad to see Kevin appreciate and see the use in all martial arts. It’s a mentality we should all have. You go Kevin!
I’m sure lotta people have learned a lot from your channel Kevin! The way you break down the lessons and teachings of martial arts you research into terms of “energy” or body mechanics is fascinating. It makes it easier to understand how to evolve your martial arts journey. This has lead to me trying some cool tricks in sparring with different partners, applying these cool lessons like no wasting movement, the manipulation of energy/flow of force, how to generate substantial power in smaller movements, etc. you’re also very entertaining uso.
Finally. To me it shows the power of simplicity and it's complexity. Always amazes me how powerful distraction is before you know what is happening you are usually on the ground or doubled over those elbows are brutal .
Really outstanding video. A real master explaining the biomechanics of Baji quan. These are little secrets that make the difference in a combat. Thanks for sharing this video and a tap to hat for this Baji master I learned more on Baji today than in all my research on Baji quan, this final twist in the real secret to effective Fa Jin in real combat and to destroy foe's structure. Keep going!
Thank you Kevin and Sifu Vincent for sharing some of Baiji Chuan with us. It reminds me so much of the things I've learned in Chen Style Taiji Quan Practical Method. It's so lovely seeing the similarities and the different applications and drills that help develop the required skills and mechanics in each martial art. Thank you 🙏
No way i used to train Kung fu when i was younger and in spars i used to do these moves where i suddenly step inside really close and ram my opponent with my shoulder or elbow using my body weight when their mid-step or any unstable movement or position to suddenly throw off their balance. I didn't know i was doing a bit of baji quan before i knew about it.
Wow Kevin, this is my favorite kung fu style next to Wing Chun. This is Michael by the way you probably don’t remember me, but I used to train at Francis Fong’s under you until the pandemic in 2020. I also saw the video you did with my sensei in Taido and was thinking about coming back sometime
Kevin, you're great. I have no idea how you manage to find so much of the real deal in kung fu. Always haad the impression most practioners were bullshit artists, but you make finding good ones look easy. Now that you brought bajiquan (and I'd like at least one more video on the subject), I gotta ask you about tong bei and long fist styles. I think your vision on those arts as a wing chun practicioner would be very very interesting. Please keep up the great work.
@@KevinLeeVlog Yes, absolutely it is. You're one of the greates. You can't imagine how happy I was for you when you got 300k. I always feared you'd be one of great channels people don't value because it's not just hype content, but man… you're so real deal you got there talking about your truly passions. Really admire you, man, congratulations.
Theres something about seeing a kung fu master breaking down ancient techniques in a bloody Yankees hat that feels so wrong 😂 I love how you ask him to demonstrate the applications rather than just the techniques, the forms make much more sense that way.
There are more trapping methods in Baji. In the Xiao Baji form we use xiao chansi or small silk winding, that is, a kind of wrist lock very common in Northern Wushu styles. I'm not a Bajiquan stylist, but Xiao baji is a beloved part of my daily training..
Kevin, dude, you're on fire with all this awesome kung fu content. Thank you so much. This has so much in common with Xing Yi. I see a lot of dragon body and chicken stepping.
I've never studied it, but I messed around with it through some friend from Taiwan, and I think very highly of Bajiquan. The Iron Mountain Lean (that's what I was told the step-in shoulder/elbow blow was called in Mandarin) is one of the most practical single techniques in kung fu. I also find that Bajiquan marries very easily with Wing Chun and with close-range forms of Western boxing.
Managed to take a 1 day Baji seminar that Sifu Vincent Mei taught & thoroughly enjoyed his presentation of it. That was my first hands-on experience with Baji, and it made me want to explore it more, especially when he started to break down the weapon-based origins of some of the movements!
There’s even a style that combines Bajiquan and Mantis called Pachi Tanglang Ch’uan. Not sure if it’s Southern Mantis, though. Great book on it by the late master Su-Yu Chang.
Random fun fact. Taekwondo was formed from 5 to 10 different schools and some like kang duk kwan or Kwon bup bu did kung fu forms including bajiquan forms. On TH-cam you can still still the kang duk kwan school of taekwondo(they a part of the kukiwon Olympic TKD) do a form called Palgi kwon(baji Quan) and they also do jang Kwon or long fist. Most of the skills are lost as taekwondo created new forms but the various school still teach rare kung fu forms in bastardized forms.
I dont know about that particular style. However, a guy I used to spar against, was studying Kuk Sool Won, which he said was a hybrid of TKD and Chinese KungFu.
@@dayman161172it's used in reality every single day. Still used by many military and security agencies world wide. If you can't see the practicality of this style you're blind..
@@myfaves2974 thats what they always say. But walking around daily live where you could be attacked ... maybe at a club or bar is more likely to happen and is more of a duel situation. As a bodyguard you are never alone and i doubt that nowadays this will be useful because a assassin will attack with a gun and a bodyguard tried to get inbetween. Saying that a martial art is effective because someone in some profession does that is the same as... Zlaten trained taekwondo ....what has that to do with football?😂 Does that mean he has a good kick in Football because of that?
@@DAF21films because you are training with them or trained them so you can tell? Have you ever fought in Real life or done sparring? Im talking about logic and experience... i have been there. Military personnel if they are not commandos are bad trained at hand to hand because they will never need it nowadays. And good security agencies dont train a specific martial art. They have either their own curriculum or train krav maga or jujutsu. Effective means useful to defend oneself from a attacker. Bodyguard dont want to protect themselves because they already have protective gear and their job is to stall or push unit reinforcements arrive
Very interesting, i think i find a lost application for a form of a part of a kata in my style. At the End, we call it lotusbutt (bad translated) they told us its something like a block, but not a very realistik. That application is much closer. Hmm, bad english, sorry😅
youtubers are all clickbaiters! the ones that put stuff out there... the controversial stuff anyway.... otherwise youd see youtubers challenging other youtubers.... the real masters are lowkey unassuming not looking to reveal anything! but trying to teach you something not by putting others down
I loved this! This was the first time really seeing someone breaking down the way they use the elbow exploding forward like this. There are various combative systems that have used this and I always assumed they took it from Bajiquan. I have always been sad that trying to find someone like this to train with really is like trying to find a needle in a haystack
yes. a big yes. I met a guy in HongKong who trained in Pak Mei or white eyebrows in Britain. he demonstrated his power of Pakistan Mei for me. it was explosive.
@@gotowealth i did white brow for a hot minute in the UK.... it wasnt a bald fella was it that was Sifu? Alopecia?.... they also did the Chinatown lion dance as well
The different styles of Bajiquan vary greatly. In mainland China, some styles are popular among the folk who retain a more primitive, violent and savage fighting style. For example, the styles of Mengcun in Hebei and Tianjin.
For those wondering how he’s “grinding” into the ground, especially with the front leg, he’s PULLING with the lead leg. A simple, and dumb, way to figure it out is to just scoot yourself forward with one foot, whichever foot is in front. Keep your feet small at first and scoot forward. Land with the heel first, and roll onto the midfoot. Then start adding a twist after awhile. But as you roll to the midfoot, your leg twists to go into that turned foot position. Then go to a bigger stance. Rinse and repeat.
Finally I understand how to do the first move after 25 years. And how I'm glad I'm not forgetting the spear work. And it seems I need to practice the horse stance again. Awesome video Kevin. LOVE IT!
This style looks like it would flow great with Hung Gar. Both are grounded,conditioning heavy,hard knocking type of styles. Also they are portrayed as rivals in media.
Yo Kevin, I think I found out why it's name is "Baji" instead of using any other words, so in "tai qi" i found out the exact same tuque of how they use forces and chi , which is to connect the and structure of your body to generate the strength, transfer it to where you where you want to hit, that's why both of it have the words "極(connect force from everywhere of your body)" in it The second word "八" has the same meaning as in "八卦" , because we have a thing called "四面八方（four directions of where you face and eight directions of all 3rd dimension）" and the "八" means generate forces and use it in every direction at the same time.😮😮😮
Anyone played Tekken and played Paul Pheonix, alot of his moves remind me of BajiQuan, the leg trip into elbow ramming move etc..... This is the explosiveness of BajiQuan BUT BajiQuan is virtually unknown to the West! Bruce Lee oversold Wing Chun lol in a good way, what im trying to say is there are a bajillion KungFu styles! Look at SIFU the videogame! Anyone out here heard of Pak Mei or White Brow style!? Again virtually unheard of to the casual Westerner!.... During the 80s or 90s it was Hung Gar, then all of a sudden WingChun and Ipman took over with a bajilion ipman movies.... I rate the Prodigal Son as the first proper WingChun movie Sammo actually taught the audience between soft and hard WingChun
Hi Kevin, You are doing good! Honestly, I watched some of your earlier videos with other influencers, or content creators and I felt that they are not good, and you are just ridiculous. Sorry if that makes you sad. But with the Bagua video earlier and Baji one today, both are very likeable. The teachers are very well trained, "real deal". And the way they deliver knowledge is pretty straightforward, no overuse of "Qi" word. They talk much about legs drill, root, balance, empy chest, practice extremely slow for better root, consider human body as conductor to deflect/redirect force and counter attack, connection between left and right, above and below,... Those are all practical aspects to focus in training for success, not other bullshit stuffs which are the result from being heavily obsessed with fiction. I'm glad for you as well. It's not about school rival. With an open mind like this, you will see the reality of traditional fighting which has been sold cheap by fiction and film industry from both US and China/Hongkong. P/S: Regard from a Neija practitioner (but mostly Xingyi). Edited: typos.
I was always fascinated how strong and fluid it seems at the same time with the Virtua Fighter Series. It's like switching from a gentle stream to a abrupt torrent.
Cool Kev. ☺️🤙🏻💯At 1:46 that kind of kick is devastating. Just bringing up the leg and landing the heal on the shin hits like a gun shot. 😎💯very smart application there. And the crowding control.
At 1:38 he says hes kicking with the Toes, not the Heel. The toe stabbing kicks, give you more range... and they are excellent for deep penetration in softer tissue targets, like the abdomen. The heel/arch kicks are much easier to master, as you dont need as much conditioning to use them effectively.
@@JKDVIPER Your preaching to the Choir. I have done Wing Chun for most of my life. A disrespectful fighter said that I, and Wing Chun, were SH*T... So, the next time we sparred, I decided to give him a tiny Taste of what I always held back. The Round lasted 1 second. He took a single step towards me, starting to throw a Cross. When his foot planted, its knee was met by my short range Oblique kick. I had Only put in about 10 to 15% on that kick Max... but even that was way too much (Id developed Masterclass / Lethal short range power in all of my techs). He dropped to the ground like a sack of rocks, and was Screaming at the top of his lungs, and crying a river of tears. That went on for a solid 5 minutes, before 2 dudes helped him hop on one leg, back to his car. He later told me, that it took a month to fully recover from the resulting injury. Of course, despite his previous disrespect, I apologized. But after that, he never showed me any further disrespect... and he also started practicing that kick, for his own use. On the other side of the Coin... I also developed Iron Toes from my Iron Body conditioning. One time while sparring against a Kyokushin Karate instructor, I launched a Toe Stabbing kick to his lead legs inner thigh. It cause him to slightly buckle.. and he was temporarily unable to move... so I just stepped in with a flurry of handstrikes. Afterwards, he stopped sparring.. and was in complete shock and amazement at what took place. He asked me what that tech was, and what it was called. I told him, it was something Ive seen from Shaolin.. and I called it a Toe Stabbing Kick. He told me that he was unable to move for a while... and it felt similar to a very bad cramp/charlie horse. He was so impressed by my performance, that he wanted me to help teach his students what I knew... Likely because he and his students were regularly competing in brutal full contact competitions... and it would give them a huge advantage. Unfortunately, I was too busy with life at the time... so I politely declined.
For me,,, bajiquan is my verry first adorable kungfu style i know. Well,, i fall in love with kungfu through bajiquan style. It is my first love of kungfu. And it helped me yet in some "condition" when i need to defend my self. 👍👍👍👍
This is a really cool one. Bajiquan has a strong reputation, and I've heard that in Japan in particular, it has a reputation as the "strongest" kung fu style (not clear on the history behind that.) If you're looking into other highly-regarded kung fu styles, I'm curious what you'd make of Choy Li Fut, if you can find a good school.
Strength and Power are two different things. One can have a very strong long range strike (bone breaking level).. or... you could have a Lethal short range strike.. thrown from less than 2 inches of arm travel (rupturing internals). Also, Strength is common in many Chinese arts. Its not just the Technique, but the Strength building drills, and is individual to the practitioners level of personal efforts. If you want to know whom has some pretty serious "External" kung fu strength.. look at the size of their Forearms. If they are much bulkier than the average fighters forearms... you know that man has trained very hardcore in the Chinese "External" Arts (hard styles). However, with soft style methods, you will not really know whom is a master, until they land a hit on you... as you dont have to be bulky, to deliver a Brutal / Lethal level strike. Anyway, Im not sure that you can say that one Chinese External art, is stronger than another... since they tend to use the same, or very similar methods (same technology, basically).
The first time I had seen or heard of Baji was actually in the movie "The Grandmaster". I fell in love with the style. It looked simple, brutal, and efficient. It's fantistic.
The thumbs rotate the waist, the waist drives the legs into the ground. When you're centered, your body moves like gears as you turn your palm face up and face down.
I first come to know Bajiquan was like 30 years ago through video game, "virtua fighter" character Akira Yuki. From the game perspective that time the game company SEGA mention this was adapted from real martial arts, thats when I started to notice Bajiquan and doing some research work. The japanese manga "Kenji" was perhaps the best method to introduce Bajiquan to the world and can somehow learn a bit more of Bajiquan insights. But the most interesting part it was the origin birth of Bajiquan, there was a none history record or proof until late Qing Dynasty royal court decided to rename the name of Bajiquan, but before that it was named "Baziquan" and it was "rumoured" this fighting technique was actually passed down coming from province of Hebei, Cangzhou Song Dynasty legendary figure, the "outlaws of marsh" (水浒传）the former forbidden army instructor but later become court wanted fugitive Lin Chong (林冲）.He was the first famed martial artist expert and spear master to sentenced exiled into province Hebei, Cang Zhou as a conscript. The people of He Bei province in showing appreciation to Lin Chong who maybe teaching the local people there how to defend against outsider invaders, the people of He Bei province build a likeness of the iron lion to commemorate Lin Chong, but yet the people cannot open public announce this was for Lin Chong. Lin Chong was named "leopard head" (豹子头）until today 2024, the iron lion statue in Hebei province Cangzhou still stands 😎 my thoughts for Bajiquan, there was an old saying phrase "八极参劈挂神鬼都俱泣，劈挂参八极英雄莫谈及“ Baiquan is formidable and deadly, the video simple demo but if the elbow strike aim at solar plexus body part can die in the instant.
Combine bajiquan with some b-jujitsu, sambo, muay boran, and a little FMA and you got yourself a beast of a combat system. Really, anything with clinches, strikes, and take downs.
speaking from experience the things baji tends to lack are range, mobility and of course ground techniques, so you would really want to look for something that gives you those things. this particular lineage already includes styles besides baji that solve the range and mobility problems, so that just leaves ground techniques as the main issue.
If you have to combine this much then its already doomed. Baji has spear as his weapon. Nowadays boxing + wrestling is the most effective if you want to learn fighting
@@dayman161172 being effective in mma pretty much requires learning 4 styles, boxing and wrestling being the main 2 but you also need some mauy thai and bjj. if you are talking about self defense then baji is probably fine on its own at least so long as you don't get taken down. of course most schools don't teach baji alone, so even if it needed to be combined with something else, you would be learning most of that in 1 class anyway.
@KevinLeeVlog Sifu Vincent was a godsend to me during the covid years when the school i attend in the UK had to close - we share the same lineage of GM Lieu with the head of my school in UK being an indoor student of Wutan's Master Wu Song Fa and later being accepted as an indoor student of GM Lieu before he passed (as was Vincent's teacher) so i had great faith and gratitude for Vincents kind giving of his time to answer my questions online. His youtube explanations and latterly his excellent youtube lectures give great insight into the background and delivery of TCMA - our school reopened after the covid closures and i now am able to regularly attend but it was Vincents generosity that kept my focus and training, especially in XiaoBaji and Chen Tai Chi during the classes absence.
We talking sucks as a character or martial art detail? For character, you're definitely right, Akira didn't get much backstory or development outside of being the cool cover character. For detail, it was the 90s so he didn't have much competition in the way of realistic accuracy but they could have improved that in later games.
@@RenBaiHu What you mean is that the character of Virtua Fighter Game is hard to play similiar to Gen of Street fighter which is basically only for the most hardcore fans able to win with it. But once you know how to use it properly then you can have extreme fun.
I have a question first..... DO YOU KEVIN LEE HAVE A FATHER NAMED ALFONSO LEE ? ( I am 49 years old..he was my best friend in my highschool days) Now about the video, Baji hits hard af.......the only problem is planting its strike on a moving opponent. Cause in the streets (obtuse) movement is the word of the day, lol !!
Bruce Lee said that while we all have one head and two arms and two legs, there'll be only so many ways we can move. But I tell you what, the sheer RANGE of techniques in kung fu is mindblowing to me. I think that's why after spending a lot of years in Japanese styles like ninjutsu and karate, I keep coming back to wing chun and tai chi. (No shade to karate and ninjutsu btw, I really enjoyed my time with both, I just find wing chun and tai chi better suited to my body)
Certain artforms, FAVOR certain body types. If you are training in Tiger Style... for example, you would really need to develop some very massive forearms. And if you were sparring against another Tiger Stylists.. if they are stronger and have more mass than you, then you will be at a great disadvantage. Arts like Tai Chi, and properly performed Wing Chun, allow you to be able to deal with larger and stronger OPs, using softer methods... which can equalize the differences. Of course, if you were going up against a larger WC guy.. that had the same level of sensitivity skills as you... then you are also going to be at a great disadvantage. That said, its great to learn and train from many different arts. It can give you a much better understanding of what your enemy might be trying to do. And it can only help to improve your own skillsets and attributes, too. I will say, that as a WC guy myself... I also trained in Shaolin style Iron Body conditioning methods... and found the practice to be very valuable. Especially when sparring heavy / full contact against much larger and stronger OPs. If you end up eating some heavy hits... you can still keep fighting, rather than curling up into a ball, on the ground.
@@dayman161172 Ive sparred against countless fighters, from all different artforms. This includes: MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, TKD, various Karate (including Kyokushin), Capoeira, Mantis, Eagle Claw, 5 Animal Style, JKD, Jujitsu, and more. Most of my personal training, was in Wing Chun. However, I also learned so Tai Chi, as well as mastered kicks from: TKD/Muay Thai, and Northern Shaolin. Can throw textbook level boxing strikes. As well as did many years of Shaolin style Iron Body Conditioning. I used to spar on a regular basis... pretty much every Weekend. Most often against much larger and stronger OPs... as at that time, I was only about 150 lbs, at 6ft tall. In fact, I tended to find the biggest and strongest fighters intentionally... to best test my Soft Skills against. AND... The thing about MMA... is that most of us elder artists were learning multiple different arts methods... LONG before the term "MMA". However, Id never call myself an MMA fighter... because modern MMA is extremely limited in what it actually teaches in its schools... And a lot of what it teaches is watered down, as well as missing the traditional Attribute Building Drills + Exercises. It cant even come close to the traditional methods and results, due to this. And yes.. Ive also sparred against Grapplers. I attended an Open Sparring event at a Jujitsu school. They were all blackbelt level students, and have won many competitions, all across the USA. However, their attitude was Crap. They were being openly disrespectful to me... and so, I decided to teach them a lesson. I proceeded to Knock out their 3 best students, one after the other. After the event was over.. I had spectators from the audience, and fighters that participated in the event... come up and ask me if I would teach them... instead of joining the Jujitsu school. Of course, the difference with me... is that I was extreme in my training efforts, and methods. I would be training anywhere from 4 to over 8 hrs every single day, 365 days a year... and all of it at Maximum intensity levels. Id FULLY master things in one month... that many students still had no mastered in over 10 years... because of the differences in training hours, methods, and intensity levels.
I would love to learn this. Wing chun has little bits and pieces of this but my pre-wing chun days i encountered this and it blew my mind, i still try to steal from my memory of that time and incorporate it, but i dont really train anymore. lol fun to contemplate though.
Since watching a CCTV 4 program on the head of Bājíquán in China, it has always fascinated me. They followed the story of Sega Japan seeking out the teacher to base their Akira character in Virtua Fighter (Ma something, a Muslim from China) and showed his form, which is amazing.
What do you guys think of Bajiquan?
Bajiquan literal translation is "space invaders"
Baji Quan means Eight Extreme Fist ( direct translation from Chinese words ).
It is oso known as the "Bodyguards' Combat Skill".
It was used by body guards during the Qing Dynasty to protect the Emperor and later Chiang Kai Shek of Taiwan and Mao Ze Dong of China.
Thatz how it got labelled as a "body guards' combat skill."
The bodyguard style of Kung Fu😊
Happy to finally to see it here!!!!
Its great ty for covering so much nejiaquan :D
I began under Sifu Vincent when he began teaching online in his program called BajiShu. He’s very good and highly knowledgeable in many TCMAs and I learn so much every time I ask him questions.
Thanks for meeting my Sifu, Kevin. Please spread the knowledge of Bajiquan
I was his student going back to the original zoom classes.
What's the online curriculum like? This is an interesting art, but I've never done anything online
@@aaronmgriffin it’s very nice. A weekly video with a few techniques taught, you record yourself and submit it. Pretty fun actually
Kevin gotta be one of the ONLY martial artists on YT that does BJJ at a high level, and still has respect for all martial arts, realizes that a punch is a "punch" or elbow is an elbow and doesn't belong to ANY style... just the way its delivered and those concepts are packaged gives it meaning to a specific art. Just respect what you can take from ALL arts, discard what isn't useful to you and be objective. TEST yourself against others, go into other gyms with an empty cup and see if what you know makes sense and can be applied.
EVERY art has strengths and weaknesses... end of story.
Hats off to you Kevin!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It’s so refreshing, some of this and hunger and judo are what my grandfather taught me he said word for word, “these techniques belong to all styles, it’s you. If you’re not afraid to break the guys fingers, you’re probably going to win. A fights about whose left standing and standing not” - Grandpa L 😂😂
Shits chilling the as I get older considering he grew up in chines when Japan invaded:,)
Thanks for featuring and promoting the art of Bajiquan! Much respect to you being so open minded to feature all kinds of modern and traditional fighting arts from all cultures. Episodes like this is important to justify for traditional Chinese martial arts especially TCMA’s for a bad perception from the fake taichi masters got slaughtered by mma guys.
@@wutan_nj I entirely agree with you and I'm glad to see you getting the spotlight. that said the actual wording and sentence structure of that comment is making the editor part of my brain somewhat sad. then again you are a martial arts teacher and not an English teacher.
Kevin does more than just bjj for ground work he's also trained catch wrestling under erik paulson and silat maphilindo
Big facts. That's also why I rate him so highly
Kevin it would be awesome if you are able to manage to get all the sifus from Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Bajiquan and Tai Chi together. Not to show which style is better, but put them in one room and let them exchange about technique, principles, philosophies, demonstrations one style against the other, similarities etc.
Brainiac One G amer !!!!
Excelente ideia! Tang Lang, fan zi and mi zhong as well, and there's still many others that are really good.
I agree ... they have similar foundations - a strong structure, and strong root, with similar goals of disrupting the root or the structures of the opponent, but with different approaches, philosophies, and "techniques" [?]. I think all of these styles are Internal, so the leverage is different from the external styles?
I study the internal arts and have seen a lot of similarites with Ba Ji. All of these style hale from the Hebei region so I am sure there is a lot of shared information over the years.
@@danryansrcaYea, many modern practitioners tend to exchange their stuff with whoever is open minded enough to learn
Read the manga Kenji this last summer. The main character uses Bajiquan. It introduced Japanese audiences to many styles of kung fu and is the reason why styles like Bajiquan, Piguazhang, Baguazhang, and Xinyi Liuhe Quan are common in fighting games. Happy to see this style on this channel.
Yes indeed! It’s also one of the coolest and most practical forms of kung fu as it’s been battle tested in mma matches with differing rulesets all over the world. And its defense is really good and its close range attacking is great and its throws are explosive and tricky! Really cool style to me
it might interest you to know that the teacher in this video is part of the Liü Yun-Qiao Baji-Quan lineage. he's also possibly the biggest fan of kenji on the planet.
The only other martial arts manga that gave me nearly the same feeling as Kenji is Batuque. Check it out!
Sii yo también lo acabo de leer
Dang I’d better reread it. I’d be really tempted to learn Baji. I’ll I’ve got in my area is Bagua and Xinyi
This form suits me fine! It’s perfect for me because I can no longer perform the kicks and movements I did in karate. I now teach cane self defense and bajiquan works well for a lot of reasons. Thank you!
Which styles of cane defense do you teach?
I was lucky to meet Sifu Vincent and do a trial class at his school in NYC. He's a really good teacher and with just an hour I already received good feedback on my fundamentals that I still work on today. He also has a really nice group of students with tight sense of community - they invited us to all have lunch together after class, which they said was a usual routine for them. Highly recommend to anyone that is around NYC to visit his school.
What is the address of his school in NYC ?
Nice I heard hes amazing as well.
I love this. Get to see real Chinese Gung Fu, even Northern Style. Great Channel.
exactly. been wanting to see the real OG shit from back in the day.
I love Ba Ji and can never get enough of it! This was a gem of an interview with a lot of technical advice! Where is the I love this button!
I love videos about traditional styles like this😍
Also this guy got a pair a bulky legs for his size, you can see he praticses a lot
Never skip leg day :D
dude most unassuming sifus i know have body builder legs and thighs! My uncle was a slight unassuming taichi practitioner with thick black glasses.... power was explosive like the BajiQuan guy! they used to practice forms under tall tables! thats where they generate power from..... so imagine them doing that horse stance to horse stance thing for hours or 1 on 1 under tall tables!!
love all the older traditional styles. tired of the same ol same ol, lets bring the og shit back!
“That’s cool.” Best description ever. Glad to see Kevin appreciate and see the use in all martial arts. It’s a mentality we should all have. You go Kevin!
Thank you!!!
Dude!!! you chose the bajishu sifu thats awesome! I am thinking of learning from his online school one day thank you for showing this.
I’m sure lotta people have learned a lot from your channel Kevin! The way you break down the lessons and teachings of martial arts you research into terms of “energy” or body mechanics is fascinating. It makes it easier to understand how to evolve your martial arts journey. This has lead to me trying some cool tricks in sparring with different partners, applying these cool lessons like no wasting movement, the manipulation of energy/flow of force, how to generate substantial power in smaller movements, etc. you’re also very entertaining uso.
Dude, this is one of the best channels ever! Thank you so much Kevin for bringing this content to us.
Wow, thank you!!
doing baji now, its always 'I take your space' just like a basic level of Xing Yi.
Finally. To me it shows the power of simplicity and it's complexity. Always amazes me how powerful distraction is before you know what is happening you are usually on the ground or doubled over those elbows are brutal .
Good to see Sifu Vincent on another channel.
Really outstanding video. A real master explaining the biomechanics of Baji quan.
These are little secrets that make the difference in a combat.
Thanks for sharing this video and a tap to hat for this Baji master I learned more on Baji today than in all my research on Baji quan, this final twist in the real secret to effective Fa Jin in real combat and to destroy foe's structure.
Keep going!
So happy to see one of my absolute favorite martial art styles showcased!
Thank you for using a wide angle lens to show all the footwork! So important, especially with a style that uses footwork angles as much as Baji.
Finally a video on bajiquan!
Thank you Kevin and Sifu Vincent for sharing some of Baiji Chuan with us. It reminds me so much of the things I've learned in Chen Style Taiji Quan Practical Method. It's so lovely seeing the similarities and the different applications and drills that help develop the required skills and mechanics in each martial art.
Thank you 🙏
Dude is awesome! He is able to root himself and seems like he is twice as heavy!
No way i used to train Kung fu when i was younger and in spars i used to do these moves where i suddenly step inside really close and ram my opponent with my shoulder or elbow using my body weight when their mid-step or any unstable movement or position to suddenly throw off their balance. I didn't know i was doing a bit of baji quan before i knew about it.
A lot of these Northern Chinese styles are probably Shaolin derivatives, so there should be some similarities and through line.
been a fan of Sifu Vincent for years, glad he finally gets some exposure
Wow Kevin, this is my favorite kung fu style next to Wing Chun. This is Michael by the way you probably don’t remember me, but I used to train at Francis Fong’s under you until the pandemic in 2020. I also saw the video you did with my sensei in Taido and was thinking about coming back sometime
Kevin, you're great. I have no idea how you manage to find so much of the real deal in kung fu. Always haad the impression most practioners were bullshit artists, but you make finding good ones look easy.
Now that you brought bajiquan (and I'd like at least one more video on the subject), I gotta ask you about tong bei and long fist styles. I think your vision on those arts as a wing chun practicioner would be very very interesting.
Please keep up the great work.
Thank you!!! It’s defiantly a lot of work but it’s all worth it at the end!
@@KevinLeeVlog
Yes, absolutely it is. You're one of the greates. You can't imagine how happy I was for you when you got 300k. I always feared you'd be one of great channels people don't value because it's not just hype content, but man… you're so real deal you got there talking about your truly passions. Really admire you, man, congratulations.
Theres something about seeing a kung fu master breaking down ancient techniques in a bloody Yankees hat that feels so wrong 😂 I love how you ask him to demonstrate the applications rather than just the techniques, the forms make much more sense that way.
There are more trapping methods in Baji. In the Xiao Baji form we use xiao chansi or small silk winding, that is, a kind of wrist lock very common in Northern Wushu styles.
I'm not a Bajiquan stylist, but Xiao baji is a beloved part of my daily training..
There are more in regular other baji line but not in li shuwen's line, li shifu are famous for ending fight with 1 hit ... So no trapping
@@myfaves2974 that one hit was with his spear. !!
I have been watching your videos since the very beginning and love them all, sir.
Ive always thought thought bajiquan would have good application in MMA especially combining it with clinch work
I'm already seeing it in Muay Thai combinations.
Kevin, dude, you're on fire with all this awesome kung fu content. Thank you so much.
This has so much in common with Xing Yi. I see a lot of dragon body and chicken stepping.
It's Akira Yuki's fighting style. Always wanted to see this style broken down.
The best style I've seen in video games. Explosive and powerful. He's such a satisfying character to use
And Leo from Tekken!
Juu'nen hayain da yo!
@@steelyphil4859
"Time to eat this counter-hit Iron Shoulder for 50% of my health!"
Gawd bless that shoulder, brother!
@@tornadoandy123 *Tetsuzanko*
SLAM
Round over
I've never studied it, but I messed around with it through some friend from Taiwan, and I think very highly of Bajiquan. The Iron Mountain Lean (that's what I was told the step-in shoulder/elbow blow was called in Mandarin) is one of the most practical single techniques in kung fu. I also find that Bajiquan marries very easily with Wing Chun and with close-range forms of Western boxing.
Managed to take a 1 day Baji seminar that Sifu Vincent Mei taught & thoroughly enjoyed his presentation of it. That was my first hands-on experience with Baji, and it made me want to explore it more, especially when he started to break down the weapon-based origins of some of the movements!
I love your channel. Have been watching for a long time. I'd love to see you delve into Southern Praying Mantis
Yes!!! 🙌🏻
There’s even a style that combines Bajiquan and Mantis called Pachi Tanglang Ch’uan. Not sure if it’s Southern Mantis, though. Great book on it by the late master Su-Yu Chang.
Oooh that's a great suggestion! 👍🏽
I actually have one coming out soon!!!!
@@KevinLeeVlog U R DA MAN!
It is not guaranteed we will always have the opportunity to learn from these teachers. Thank you for creating these lessons for future generations.
Baji elbow thrust techniques are some of the most powerful out there.
Really good stuff.
I like that wu shu style.
Random fun fact. Taekwondo was formed from 5 to 10 different schools and some like kang duk kwan or Kwon bup bu did kung fu forms including bajiquan forms.
On TH-cam you can still still the kang duk kwan school of taekwondo(they a part of the kukiwon Olympic TKD) do a form called Palgi kwon(baji Quan) and they also do jang Kwon or long fist.
Most of the skills are lost as taekwondo created new forms but the various school still teach rare kung fu forms in bastardized forms.
I dont know about that particular style. However, a guy I used to spar against, was studying Kuk Sool Won, which he said was a hybrid of TKD and Chinese KungFu.
Most explosive, practical, realistic, and effective Northern Style of Kung Fu😊
A shame if that is and still cant be used in Reality
@@dayman161172it's used in reality every single day. Still used by many military and security agencies world wide. If you can't see the practicality of this style you're blind..
@@dayman161172it is use by the last emperor's pu yi bodyguard and taiwanese presidential bodyguard , that's not real for you?
@@myfaves2974 thats what they always say. But walking around daily live where you could be attacked ... maybe at a club or bar is more likely to happen and is more of a duel situation.
As a bodyguard you are never alone and i doubt that nowadays this will be useful because a assassin will attack with a gun and a bodyguard tried to get inbetween.
Saying that a martial art is effective because someone in some profession does that is the same as...
Zlaten trained taekwondo ....what has that to do with football?😂 Does that mean he has a good kick in Football because of that?
@@DAF21films because you are training with them or trained them so you can tell?
Have you ever fought in Real life or done sparring?
Im talking about logic and experience... i have been there. Military personnel if they are not commandos are bad trained at hand to hand because they will never need it nowadays.
And good security agencies dont train a specific martial art. They have either their own curriculum or train krav maga or jujutsu.
Effective means useful to defend oneself from a attacker.
Bodyguard dont want to protect themselves because they already have protective gear and their job is to stall or push unit reinforcements arrive
Very interesting, i think i find a lost application for a form of a part of a kata in my style. At the End, we call it lotusbutt (bad translated) they told us its something like a block, but not a very realistik. That application is much closer. Hmm, bad english, sorry😅
I see Baji, I click.
Nice please i will love to see 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
I did 10 years of northern praying mantis and I found my basics, we also use a lot of shoulder elbow and my foot steps are similar
Kevin found another real guy. Another 'Master' you aren't going to see getting challenged by TH-camrs saying Martial Arts aren't real.
youtubers are all clickbaiters! the ones that put stuff out there... the controversial stuff anyway.... otherwise youd see youtubers challenging other youtubers.... the real masters are lowkey unassuming not looking to reveal anything! but trying to teach you something not by putting others down
*Xuxiaodong entered chat
@TvBoxHead maybe look into the success of Bajiquan in Sanda and MMA.
@@micahthecomfortablehuman1324 i rather not
@@TvBoxHeadxuxiaodong only challenge fake masters to expose them. He actually has respect to real ones.
I loved this! This was the first time really seeing someone breaking down the way they use the elbow exploding forward like this. There are various combative systems that have used this and I always assumed they took it from Bajiquan. I have always been sad that trying to find someone like this to train with really is like trying to find a needle in a haystack
Beautiful body structure and footwork!
Explore Bak Mei next please!
Yes!! 🙌🏻
For vengeance with style!
yes. a big yes. I met a guy in HongKong who trained in Pak Mei or white eyebrows in Britain. he demonstrated his power of Pakistan Mei for me. it was explosive.
@@gotowealth i did white brow for a hot minute in the UK.... it wasnt a bald fella was it that was Sifu? Alopecia?.... they also did the Chinatown lion dance as well
Bak Mei with Lao Wei San or Benjanmin Coussi would be good.
I love watching bajiquan mostly cos of fighting game characters
Truly beautiful art. That low walking is major power.
The different styles of Bajiquan vary greatly. In mainland China, some styles are popular among the folk who retain a more primitive, violent and savage fighting style. For example, the styles of Mengcun in Hebei and Tianjin.
I’ve actually been thinking of learning it, you got great timing
Kevin, please show xin Yi Liu He quan, another amazing style.
For those wondering how he’s “grinding” into the ground, especially with the front leg, he’s PULLING with the lead leg. A simple, and dumb, way to figure it out is to just scoot yourself forward with one foot, whichever foot is in front. Keep your feet small at first and scoot forward. Land with the heel first, and roll onto the midfoot. Then start adding a twist after awhile. But as you roll to the midfoot, your leg twists to go into that turned foot position. Then go to a bigger stance. Rinse and repeat.
Excellent informative video. Thank you for sharing this art!
Finally I understand how to do the first move after 25 years.
And how I'm glad I'm not forgetting the spear work.
And it seems I need to practice the horse stance again.
Awesome video Kevin. LOVE IT!
This is some legit and practical skill. I trained wado karate, and I’m in awe of these in tight body movement and unrooting attacks.
This video was long, long overdue. Thank you!
Finally! I can learn Bajiquan from a master!
This style looks like it would flow great with Hung Gar. Both are grounded,conditioning heavy,hard knocking type of styles. Also they are portrayed as rivals in media.
Yo Kevin, I think I found out why it's name is "Baji" instead of using any other words, so in "tai qi" i found out the exact same tuque of how they use forces and chi , which is to connect the and structure of your body to generate the strength, transfer it to where you where you want to hit, that's why both of it have the words "極(connect force from everywhere of your body)" in it
The second word "八" has the same meaning as in "八卦" , because we have a thing called "四面八方（four directions of where you face and eight directions of all 3rd dimension）" and the "八" means generate forces and use it in every direction at the same time.😮😮😮
Anyone played Tekken and played Paul Pheonix, alot of his moves remind me of BajiQuan, the leg trip into elbow ramming move etc..... This is the explosiveness of BajiQuan BUT BajiQuan is virtually unknown to the West!
Bruce Lee oversold Wing Chun lol in a good way, what im trying to say is there are a bajillion KungFu styles! Look at SIFU the videogame! Anyone out here heard of Pak Mei or White Brow style!? Again virtually unheard of to the casual Westerner!.... During the 80s or 90s it was Hung Gar, then all of a sudden WingChun and Ipman took over with a bajilion ipman movies.... I rate the Prodigal Son as the first proper WingChun movie Sammo actually taught the audience between soft and hard WingChun
Leo from tekken
My main Leo uses Baji Quan. Paul uses different martial art
Real life fighting is complete different then video games
I really like the exercise at the end for training horse stance. Going to add that to my training. Thanks!
I would love to see a more focused on look on the bumps and tackles of the style and similar. They can make shoulder and hips into actual weapons.
Hi Kevin,
You are doing good!
Honestly, I watched some of your earlier videos with other influencers, or content creators and I felt that they are not good, and you are just ridiculous. Sorry if that makes you sad.
But with the Bagua video earlier and Baji one today, both are very likeable.
The teachers are very well trained, "real deal". And the way they deliver knowledge is pretty straightforward, no overuse of "Qi" word. They talk much about legs drill, root, balance, empy chest, practice extremely slow for better root, consider human body as conductor to deflect/redirect force and counter attack, connection between left and right, above and below,... Those are all practical aspects to focus in training for success, not other bullshit stuffs which are the result from being heavily obsessed with fiction.
I'm glad for you as well. It's not about school rival. With an open mind like this, you will see the reality of traditional fighting which has been sold cheap by fiction and film industry from both US and China/Hongkong.
P/S: Regard from a Neija practitioner (but mostly Xingyi).
Edited: typos.
I was always fascinated how strong and fluid it seems at the same time with the Virtua Fighter Series. It's like switching from a gentle stream to a abrupt torrent.
Cool Kev. ☺️🤙🏻💯At 1:46 that kind of kick is devastating. Just bringing up the leg and landing the heal on the shin hits like a gun shot. 😎💯very smart application there. And the crowding control.
At 1:38 he says hes kicking with the Toes, not the Heel. The toe stabbing kicks, give you more range... and they are excellent for deep penetration in softer tissue targets, like the abdomen. The heel/arch kicks are much easier to master, as you dont need as much conditioning to use them effectively.
@@johndough8115 yup. I hear that. Try that flat heal raise it and smack. Lands like an anvil. 😎🧠
@@JKDVIPER Your preaching to the Choir. I have done Wing Chun for most of my life.
A disrespectful fighter said that I, and Wing Chun, were SH*T...
So, the next time we sparred, I decided to give him a tiny Taste of what I always held back. The Round lasted 1 second. He took a single step towards me, starting to throw a Cross. When his foot planted, its knee was met by my short range Oblique kick.
I had Only put in about 10 to 15% on that kick Max... but even that was way too much (Id developed Masterclass / Lethal short range power in all of my techs).
He dropped to the ground like a sack of rocks, and was Screaming at the top of his lungs, and crying a river of tears. That went on for a solid 5 minutes, before 2 dudes helped him hop on one leg, back to his car.
He later told me, that it took a month to fully recover from the resulting injury.
Of course, despite his previous disrespect, I apologized. But after that, he never showed me any further disrespect... and he also started practicing that kick, for his own use.
On the other side of the Coin... I also developed Iron Toes from my Iron Body conditioning. One time while sparring against a Kyokushin Karate instructor, I launched a Toe Stabbing kick to his lead legs inner thigh. It cause him to slightly buckle.. and he was temporarily unable to move... so I just stepped in with a flurry of handstrikes.
Afterwards, he stopped sparring.. and was in complete shock and amazement at what took place. He asked me what that tech was, and what it was called. I told him, it was something Ive seen from Shaolin.. and I called it a Toe Stabbing Kick.
He told me that he was unable to move for a while... and it felt similar to a very bad cramp/charlie horse.
He was so impressed by my performance, that he wanted me to help teach his students what I knew... Likely because he and his students were regularly competing in brutal full contact competitions... and it would give them a huge advantage.
Unfortunately, I was too busy with life at the time... so I politely declined.
I would love to see more baji in MMA to help transition to grappling
YESSSSSSS thank you! ❤
YES! KEVIN BAJI VIDEO! LET'S FUCKING GO!!
Sorry I've just been waiting for you to do this for a while.
I took a lot away from this, sir. Please keep it coming with this kind of content!
For me,,, bajiquan is my verry first adorable kungfu style i know.
Well,, i fall in love with kungfu through bajiquan style. It is my first love of kungfu.
And it helped me yet in some "condition" when i need to defend my self. 👍👍👍👍
This is a really cool one. Bajiquan has a strong reputation, and I've heard that in Japan in particular, it has a reputation as the "strongest" kung fu style (not clear on the history behind that.) If you're looking into other highly-regarded kung fu styles, I'm curious what you'd make of Choy Li Fut, if you can find a good school.
To me Choy Li Fut is like boxing with longer punches.
Strength and Power are two different things. One can have a very strong long range strike (bone breaking level).. or... you could have a Lethal short range strike.. thrown from less than 2 inches of arm travel (rupturing internals).
Also, Strength is common in many Chinese arts. Its not just the Technique, but the Strength building drills, and is individual to the practitioners level of personal efforts. If you want to know whom has some pretty serious "External" kung fu strength.. look at the size of their Forearms. If they are much bulkier than the average fighters forearms... you know that man has trained very hardcore in the Chinese "External" Arts (hard styles). However, with soft style methods, you will not really know whom is a master, until they land a hit on you... as you dont have to be bulky, to deliver a Brutal / Lethal level strike.
Anyway, Im not sure that you can say that one Chinese External art, is stronger than another... since they tend to use the same, or very similar methods (same technology, basically).
Great instructions and great detail
The first time I had seen or heard of Baji was actually in the movie "The Grandmaster".
I fell in love with the style. It looked simple, brutal, and efficient. It's fantistic.
The thumbs rotate the waist, the waist drives the legs into the ground. When you're centered, your body moves like gears as you turn your palm face up and face down.
I first come to know Bajiquan was like 30 years ago through video game, "virtua fighter" character Akira Yuki. From the game perspective that time the game company SEGA mention this was adapted from real martial arts, thats when I started to notice Bajiquan and doing some research work. The japanese manga "Kenji" was perhaps the best method to introduce Bajiquan to the world and can somehow learn a bit more of Bajiquan insights. But the most interesting part it was the origin birth of Bajiquan, there was a none history record or proof until late Qing Dynasty royal court decided to rename the name of Bajiquan, but before that it was named "Baziquan" and it was "rumoured" this fighting technique was actually passed down coming from province of Hebei, Cangzhou Song Dynasty legendary figure, the "outlaws of marsh" (水浒传）the former forbidden army instructor but later become court wanted fugitive Lin Chong (林冲）.He was the first famed martial artist expert and spear master to sentenced exiled into province Hebei, Cang Zhou as a conscript. The people of He Bei province in showing appreciation to Lin Chong who maybe teaching the local people there how to defend against outsider invaders, the people of He Bei province build a likeness of the iron lion to commemorate Lin Chong, but yet the people cannot open public announce this was for Lin Chong. Lin Chong was named "leopard head" (豹子头）until today 2024, the iron lion statue in Hebei province Cangzhou still stands 😎 my thoughts for Bajiquan, there was an old saying phrase "八极参劈挂神鬼都俱泣，劈挂参八极英雄莫谈及“ Baiquan is formidable and deadly, the video simple demo but if the elbow strike aim at solar plexus body part can die in the instant.
Really great explanation from my man Vincent!
great segment
Combine bajiquan with some b-jujitsu, sambo, muay boran, and a little FMA and you got yourself a beast of a combat system. Really, anything with clinches, strikes, and take downs.
speaking from experience the things baji tends to lack are range, mobility and of course ground techniques, so you would really want to look for something that gives you those things. this particular lineage already includes styles besides baji that solve the range and mobility problems, so that just leaves ground techniques as the main issue.
If you have to combine this much then its already doomed.
Baji has spear as his weapon.
Nowadays boxing + wrestling is the most effective if you want to learn fighting
@@dayman161172 being effective in mma pretty much requires learning 4 styles, boxing and wrestling being the main 2 but you also need some mauy thai and bjj. if you are talking about self defense then baji is probably fine on its own at least so long as you don't get taken down. of course most schools don't teach baji alone, so even if it needed to be combined with something else, you would be learning most of that in 1 class anyway.
Yeah, boy. He's learning the Akira Yuki style right here.
@KevinLeeVlog Sifu Vincent was a godsend to me during the covid years when the school i attend in the UK had to close - we share the same lineage of GM Lieu with the head of my school in UK being an indoor student of Wutan's Master Wu Song Fa and later being accepted as an indoor student of GM Lieu before he passed (as was Vincent's teacher) so i had great faith and gratitude for Vincents kind giving of his time to answer my questions online. His youtube explanations and latterly his excellent youtube lectures give great insight into the background and delivery of TCMA - our school reopened after the covid closures and i now am able to regularly attend but it was Vincents generosity that kept my focus and training, especially in XiaoBaji and Chen Tai Chi during the classes absence.
We're becoming Akira Yuki with this one boys!
Akira wasn't based on Wutan's Baji which is more an "old man style" but on the Wu family style. But even then, that character sadly sucks lol
We talking sucks as a character or martial art detail? For character, you're definitely right, Akira didn't get much backstory or development outside of being the cool cover character. For detail, it was the 90s so he didn't have much competition in the way of realistic accuracy but they could have improved that in later games.
@@RenBaiHu What you mean is that the character of Virtua Fighter Game is hard to play similiar to Gen of Street fighter which is basically only for the most hardcore fans able to win with it. But once you know how to use it properly then you can have extreme fun.
Juunen Hayain Da Yo!
i think the blasted salami channel has a good play of akira in his videos
Thanks for sharing!
This style is pretty awesome never knew it existed would definitely like to try it sometime
I've watched Sifu Mei's channel for years, he's the real deal.
Glad to see my teacher featured!
I like that movement. So smooth. So strong.
Wow. Learned a lot in this video.
I have a question first..... DO YOU KEVIN LEE HAVE A FATHER NAMED ALFONSO LEE ? ( I am 49 years old..he was my best friend in my highschool days)
Now about the video, Baji hits hard af.......the only problem is planting its strike on a moving opponent.
Cause in the streets (obtuse) movement is the word of the day, lol !!
Wonderful video, Kevin! Bajiquan is, alongside the white crane family, my favorite style of Chinese martial arts. I love it!
This is pure gold!
Cool guy! I'll have to look more into his stuff
Bruce Lee said that while we all have one head and two arms and two legs, there'll be only so many ways we can move. But I tell you what, the sheer RANGE of techniques in kung fu is mindblowing to me. I think that's why after spending a lot of years in Japanese styles like ninjutsu and karate, I keep coming back to wing chun and tai chi. (No shade to karate and ninjutsu btw, I really enjoyed my time with both, I just find wing chun and tai chi better suited to my body)
Certain artforms, FAVOR certain body types. If you are training in Tiger Style... for example, you would really need to develop some very massive forearms. And if you were sparring against another Tiger Stylists.. if they are stronger and have more mass than you, then you will be at a great disadvantage.
Arts like Tai Chi, and properly performed Wing Chun, allow you to be able to deal with larger and stronger OPs, using softer methods... which can equalize the differences. Of course, if you were going up against a larger WC guy.. that had the same level of sensitivity skills as you... then you are also going to be at a great disadvantage.
That said, its great to learn and train from many different arts. It can give you a much better understanding of what your enemy might be trying to do. And it can only help to improve your own skillsets and attributes, too.
I will say, that as a WC guy myself... I also trained in Shaolin style Iron Body conditioning methods... and found the practice to be very valuable. Especially when sparring heavy / full contact against much larger and stronger OPs. If you end up eating some heavy hits... you can still keep fighting, rather than curling up into a ball, on the ground.
Have you ever tried mma,boxing, bjj etc and done sparring?
@@dayman161172 Ive sparred against countless fighters, from all different artforms. This includes: MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, TKD, various Karate (including Kyokushin), Capoeira, Mantis, Eagle Claw, 5 Animal Style, JKD, Jujitsu, and more.
Most of my personal training, was in Wing Chun. However, I also learned so Tai Chi, as well as mastered kicks from: TKD/Muay Thai, and Northern Shaolin. Can throw textbook level boxing strikes. As well as did many years of Shaolin style Iron Body Conditioning.
I used to spar on a regular basis... pretty much every Weekend. Most often against much larger and stronger OPs... as at that time, I was only about 150 lbs, at 6ft tall. In fact, I tended to find the biggest and strongest fighters intentionally... to best test my Soft Skills against.
AND... The thing about MMA... is that most of us elder artists were learning multiple different arts methods... LONG before the term "MMA". However, Id never call myself an MMA fighter... because modern MMA is extremely limited in what it actually teaches in its schools... And a lot of what it teaches is watered down, as well as missing the traditional Attribute Building Drills + Exercises. It cant even come close to the traditional methods and results, due to this.
And yes.. Ive also sparred against Grapplers. I attended an Open Sparring event at a Jujitsu school. They were all blackbelt level students, and have won many competitions, all across the USA. However, their attitude was Crap. They were being openly disrespectful to me... and so, I decided to teach them a lesson. I proceeded to Knock out their 3 best students, one after the other.
After the event was over.. I had spectators from the audience, and fighters that participated in the event... come up and ask me if I would teach them... instead of joining the Jujitsu school.
Of course, the difference with me... is that I was extreme in my training efforts, and methods. I would be training anywhere from 4 to over 8 hrs every single day, 365 days a year... and all of it at Maximum intensity levels. Id FULLY master things in one month... that many students still had no mastered in over 10 years... because of the differences in training hours, methods, and intensity levels.
Awesome! Beautiful! Thank you!
Bajiquan means "Eight Extremities Fist" and they use every part of the body. Chinese Muslim boxers in the northwest of China practice this style.
Ive been waiting AGES for a wutannj video on this channel
In Silat there is a saying" you are standing in my spot". Meaning I own your space. I think Baji is the true king of this philosophy of fighting
Baji is not popular in hong kong Cinema, but in Taiwan and Japanese game and manga
I would love to learn this. Wing chun has little bits and pieces of this but my pre-wing chun days i encountered this and it blew my mind, i still try to steal from my memory of that time and incorporate it, but i dont really train anymore. lol fun to contemplate though.
Since watching a CCTV 4 program on the head of Bājíquán in China, it has always fascinated me. They followed the story of Sega Japan seeking out the teacher to base their Akira character in Virtua Fighter (Ma something, a Muslim from China) and showed his form, which is amazing.