48 Form - Taijiquan
Taiji 48 Form - Traditional Yang Style
This video shows the 48 form. The 48 form is a mixed taiji form used for competitions
and it is similar to the 42 form. However, the 42 form is more popular. Before
you learn the 48 form, you should learn the 24 form. Some
taiji masters don't like the 42 and the 48 form, because their movements are
mixed
from yang, chen and sun style.
Performed by:
Li Chun Ling
Song Jiang Wushu School
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Taiji Sword - 32 Form
Taiji Sword - 32 Form
This video shows the taiji sword 32 form ( san shi er shi - tai ji jian ).
Before you start learning sword taiji, you should learn the 24 form
and the 42 or the 48 taiji quan form.
Performed by:
Liu Yu Fen
Song Jiang Wushu School
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Taiji 42 Form
Taiji 42 Form
This video shows the taiji 42 form. The 42 form was made up by the international
federation of wushu and it is used for competitions. Its elements are mixed
form different styles: Chen Style, Yang Style, Sun Style. Before you learn
the 42 form, you should learn the 24 form.
Performed by:
Fan Qin Feng
Song Jiang Wushu School
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Taiji 24 Form
Taiji 24 Form
This video shows the taiji 24 form. The 24 form was made up by the international
federation of wushu and it is used for competitions. It is the most popular
taiji form and its elements are mixed form different styles. However, it can
also be considered just a yang style form ( yang shi ) because all the movements
in this are very fluent and there are no flashy punches typical for chen
style forms.
Performed by:
Fan Qin Feng
Song Jiang Wushu School
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Wushu Tong Bi Form
Wushu Tong Bi Form
This video shows a tong bi form performed by a student from the Cao Zhou wushu
school. This kid is one of Xu Xue Li's students. Tong bi ( slapping hand style
) is a traditional wushu style and this is a freestyle form.
Performed by:
One of Wu Xue Li's students
Cao Zhao Wushu School - www.czwsg5.com - Shandong
China
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Wristlock - Thumb & Little Finger Lock
In this lesson you will learn how to apply a thumb & little finger lock. This wristlock is very effective when your opponent grabs your right wrist with his right hand. Of course you can make up your own variations.
First open you right fist and lift your hand to chest height. At the same time grab your opponents thumb and his little finger from underneath. Press his fingers against your forearm, so that his hand is locked on your wrist. !!! In the video you can't see how the little finger is locked.
Extend your righ hand and wind your fngers around your opponents forearm. At the same time make sure that his thumb and his hand maintains on your wrist.
Press down and keep your grip firm.
With this wristlock you are twisting your opponents joint in 2 directins at the same time => painful. Please be careful if you try this wristlock with a friend or your little brother.
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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Big Front Swing - Double Whipchain
In this lesson you will learn how to to the big front swing ( da hua zi ) with 2 whipchains ( shuang bian ). Start from the double whipchain empty swing and swing both whips forward down. Keep the chains parallel and don't swing them too fast at the beginning. Then cross the right chain over the left hand and swing the 2 whips like if you were doing a front twirl with a wushu staff. The motion is exactly the same as the front twirl. The 2 whips have to be in one line the whole time. Make sure you keep the circles close to your body and also keep your hands close together. Learn the front twirl with the staff before you try the big front swing with 2 whipchains.
Animated Instructions:
Wushu Staff Front Twirl
Double Whipchain Main
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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Traditional Kung Fu Strengthening - Grip & Forearms
This exercise is called "Wo Hu Gong" ( resting tiger workout ).
"WO" means to rest, "HU" means tiger and "GONG" stands for work ( same gong as in the word gongfu aka kung fu )
Wohugong is a traditional wushu exercise used to harden and strengthn the grip and the forearms. It's often used by practicioners of external and traditional styeles such as: Jinna, External Qigong, Eagle Claw etc.
At the beginning just do pushups on your fingers.
Not extending the fingers totally makes the exercise even harder.
Do pushup and snake movements. ( see video )
Later you can try pushups on your back hands, but don't jump
from your palms onto your back hands yet.
Be careful with this exercise, becasue you caninjure your wrists badly.
Animated Instructions:
Qigong Main
Hardening the Shins
Meridians
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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Pudao - Helicopter Swing
This video shows how to do a helicopter swing with a pudao. The helicopter swing is a pudao technique where you swing the sword ( dao ) in horizontal layers ( head and hip height ). Start with the pudao in your right hand and swing it in front of your foreahead. Grab the stick with the left hand ( very close to the right hand ) and keep swinging the sword. Then tuck and swing the pudao behind the back. Try to swing the sword as horizontal as possible. Put your left hand with the pudao on your lower back ( the hand should be very close to the lower back ) and change hands now. There are 2 variaions how you can change hands.
Variation 1: See Video
Variation 2: WIth both palms pointing away from the body ( larger circle )
Keep swinging the pudao and change hands again when the stick is in front of your forehead. It should feel like if the pudao were moving up and down and you escape with your upper body.
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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Pudao - Bow Stance Palm Push
This video shows how to do a bow stance palm push with a pudao. Start from the front twirl and swing the pudao to the right side. Swing it into the extended right arm and stomp down the right foot. At this time look back to the edge of your pudao and put the left palm to your right shoulder. The left foot is behind the right knee ( right knee slightly bent ). Step forward with the left leg and do a bow stance. At the same time push your left palm straight forward and turn your head forward. Stance low, both elbows extended.
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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2-Hand Whipchain Circle
This video shows how to do a 2 hand whipchain circle ( in chinese: liao bian ). Hold the handle of your whipchain with both hands and swing your whip forward up ( not forward down ). Don't swing your whip too fast at the beginning. Step forward with the left leg when the chain is on the right side and step forward with the right leg when the whipchain is on the left side. However, at the beginning you should work on this technique while standing still. Keep the motion as close as possible to your body, but don't hit your leg. Swing the whip in vetical layers.
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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Praying Mantis Overhead Snatch Technique
This video shows the prying mantis ( tang lang quan ) technique "overhead snatch". Crouch down and swing your arms in big horizontal circles. Use your hips and your shoulders. Upper body upright. Relax your shoulders and look staight forward. Stand up slowly and arch back while swinging the hands in smaller circles. At the end the hands are over head and you stand on your right leg. The left leg is bent back. Then lift the left knee in front of your abdomen and move down both hands behind the waist ( keep elbows pretty straight ). Exhale at the same time. Then throw your mantis hooks straight forward and relax your shoulders. The momentum of your arms pull your shoulders slightly forward. Don't cramp your upper body. Step forward and swing your arms 3 times. Keep looking straight forward, stand very low and breath 2 times.
Perforemd by Feng Jia Bin From the Song Jiang Wushu School.
Tel: 138-6976-8195
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360 Staff Smash
The 360 Staff Smash is a staff smash variation where you jump from one leg, jump 360 degrees, land in a pubu and smash the staff on the floor.
Hollow your back and hold the staff behind the back when you are in the air.
Don't smash the staff ( shuai gun ) too early.
Some things the video doen't show very well:
1) The staff should be smashed on the flor parallel to the left leg.
2) Look straight forward.
Performed by Lu Peng Cheng from the song Jiang wushu school.
Coach: Wang Guang Ming - wushu head coach
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Yun Dao - Broadsword
This video shows how to do the yun dao technique. ( sorry, I am not sure which yun - yundao is, but I think is "cloud sword" dao = broadsword ). Keep your wrist relaxed and bring your right hand to the right hip. The sword should be pass pretty close to the head ( see head movement in the video ). The yundao technique is often combined with cidao techniques ( cidao = broadswrd stab )
Performed by Yang Jia Le and Lu Peng Cheng - Song Jiang Wushu School.
Coach: Wang Guang Ming - Wushu Head Coach.
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Staff Front Twirl
This video shows how to do a front twirl with a wushu staff ( wu hua gun ). There is also an animated tutorial for this technique in the wushu section ( search for it ). Stand with the right leg forward and hold the staff in your right hand. Then put the left hand over the right hand and turn the long end of the stuff under your right arm. Turn to the left and then open up again. Do one full circle on the left side and then let the long side of the staff pass on the right side of the right elbow ( turn back again ). Then put the long end of the staff under your arm again.
Keep the staff close to your body and swing it in in vertical layers.
Performedby Yang Jia Le from theSang Jiang Wushu School.
Coach: Wang Guang Ming - SJ Wushu School - Wushu Head Coach.
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How to Spot a Cartwheel without Hands
This video shows how to spot a cartwheel without hands. Actually it is something between butterfly kick and cartwheel without hands, so you can also use it to spot a kids butterfly kick. Only use this spotting technique on somebody who is much lighter than you, because most of his weight will be on your right arm for a short moment.
Dangers: I personally don't like this spotting technique because:
a) The student gets used to a slanted cartwheel without hands. That's because at the beginning he does a butterfly kick over your hand. I personally perfer putting the left hand on his neck, so that the cartwheel becomes really really straight. But that's something you need even more timing for and your student should not be afraid of cartwheels without hands at all.
b) you have to be careful with your students head.
He might hit his head on your left knee.
Whenever somebody asks me about the cartwheel wthout hands I recommend a wooden springboard and a sandpit. Work on left-handed cartwheels first and plant the left hand as late as possibe. This way your cartwheel will become really really staight.
I don't recommend somebody who never did a cartwheel without hands or similar acrobatics to spot a beginner with this spotting technique. You have to know how and when he moves his arms. Timing is very important.
However, this is a spotting technique used in wushu and you can use it to spot a cartwheel wthout hands if your student can already do a butterfly kick. So if you have a student who urges to learn the cartwheel without hands, you should consider to use this spotting technique ( you can make his cartwheel straigher later )
Performed by Lu Peng Cheng and Yang Jia Le from the Song Jiang Wushu School. Coach: Wang Guang Ming ( wushu head coach sj-wushu school )
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How to attach the Whipchan Flags
This video shows how to attach the flags to your whip chain.
You need flags ( plastic is better than silk ), sticky tape and of course a whip chain. Silk flags look good, but most people use crumpable plastic flags, becasue they clatter loud and make it easier to control the whip ( slows it down ). Buy the sticky tape in a drugstore.
The flag should be square size of the last 2 sections of your whip.
Attach the front flag with 4 pieces of sticky tape to the last 2 sections of your whip. Each piece of tape should be finger length.
Attach the 2nd flag to the handle.
For most techniques the second flag doesn't matter, but originally the whip chain has 2 flags and there are a handful traditional techniques where you release the handle for a moment.
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Spot a Back Handspring - 2 Person Spot
In this video instruction you will learn how to spot a wushu back handspring. This spotting technique is good if you have a student who is too heavy to spot him alone. However, the 1-Person-back-handspring-spotting-technique is better.
Hold your students pants like shown in the video above. His pants should be long, tight and of course pretty strong. At the beginning you should try this on mats. The students should be able to hald the handstand for a few seconds and stretch the bridge before he tries this.
So help your student bend back into a bridge. At the beginning a 3rd person might help planting the hands correctly. You don't wanna injure his wrists! Then lift his legs and an bring him into a handstand position.
The rest comes from alone.
The advantage of this spotting technique is that you can spot a very heavy person. However, be careful spotting somebody who has bad back or shoulder flexibility ( he might injure his wrists).
The disadvantages are that you get used to short back handsprings like they are done in wushu and that the lower back is stressed more than with the 1-person spotting technique.
Keep it safe, use mats, warm up and don't play around.
Find trustful spotters who don't want you to break your neck.
Good Luck
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Performed by Song Long Yang, Yang Jia Le and Lu Peng Cheng.
Coach: Wang Guang Ming - Song Jiang Wushu School
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How to spot a Back Handspring
In this lesson you will learn how 1 person can spot a back handspring. To apply this spotting technique you don't have to be an experienced gymnastics coach. If your son or daughter wants to learn the back handspring, you can learn this spotting technique even if you don't have a clue about gymnatics. You will earn how to spot faster than your student will learn the back handspring. Just make sure your student can hold a handstand without help for about 3 seconds before you try this. Only do this on mats, because you don't want to injure your kids wrists and be aware that you will have to carry the enire body weight of the person who wants to learn the back handspring. So ask somebody else to learn this spotting technique if you have back problems.
In case the text in the video is too small...
Put your right arm around your students back and the right hand on his hip. The left hand is behind his knee or hamstring. Your stance should be pretty wide and I recommend you stand on the left side of your student. Then the student squats down and leans agains your right arm like if he was sitting on a chair. The upper body and the shins hould be vertical now. The arms should be extended in front of the chest and he should look straight forward. The back is slightly roundsd.
Then the student extends his knees and aligns his arms with the trunk and the head. He basically lies down on your hands ( at hip height ). Carry him back and put him into a handstand position ( careful with the hands ). Finally the studends puts his feet bak down.
The student should not swing his arms or the upper body when he jumps off. He should also not move his knees forward or jump from the balls of the foot. A back handspring is jumped from the flat foot sole. A back flip is jumped from the balls of the foot.
Speed up and help less every time.
It might take a couple of weeks until your student can do a back handspring without hands. Even then keep standing close to your students and find ways to spot him with one hand. Dont let him do a back handspring on hard ground for at leat 2 month.
This is a tutorial on how 1 person can spot a back handspring. It can be used do learn the back handspring, imrove posture or make ones back handsprings wider. Other spotting techniques are: Back Handspring Roll,
2-Person-Spotting, The Capoeira Macaco or learning the back handspring from extreme back-flexibility.
This one is the best spotting technique I know and the most difficult one is the one is from back-flexibility.
Please keep in mind that you have to be strong enough to lift your student in front of you, so there is no way a 50 KG person can spot a 100 KG person.
This back handspring tutorial is for spotting the back handspring. For the right technique, check the animated tutorial. < Click Here >
This tutorial was taped at the Song Jiang Wushu School, but I had to show them first. Wushu back handsprings are usually spotted with 2 persons. ( Wushu back handsprings are shorter ). For a tutorial on how 2 persons can spot a back handspring, Click Here.
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How to spot a Butterfly Twist
In this lesson you will learn how to spot a buttefly twist ( xuan zi 360 ). This spotting technique only works for kids or somebody who weights much less than you. First of all, the students butterfly kick should be pretty decent. Hold your students left hand with your left hand and his right hand with your right hand. The arms should be crossed like shown in the video above. Make sure students right arm is under his left arm and not the other way around. Step forward with the same speed and timing your students steps forward and let him jump off from the left leg.
He has to swing up his right leg like if he were doing a normal butterfly kick ( just without the circuar-down-motion of the upper body ). The student just has to take care of kicking the right leg high enough and closing the legs in mid-air. You will do the rest for him. As soon as he jumps off, pull his right arm up. This initiates the rotation. Make sure you let him twist horizontally. Twisting vertically is very dangerous. At mid-air, release his arms. If you hold his left arm too long, you might block his rotation or even dislocate his shoulder. Let your student fall on a huge pile of mats. Make sure he closes his fists as soon as you release him and let him land with closed legs on the mat pile. At the beginning just jet him hop a few inches, pull a litte and let him fall on his back. Make sure he closes his legs at this point. Keep in mind that this spotting technique is pretty dangerous and you should not try it with somebody who is very far from doing a butterfly twist or proper wushu jumps. You can also use this spotting technique to make your students butterfly twist more horizontal or improve timing of his twist.
However, Flash Mavi doesn't take any responibility for using training methods like this. Read the Terms of Service. Keep it safe and use mats... Lots of mats.
Performed by Yang Jia Le and Song Long Yang from the Song jiang Wushu School. Coach: Wang Guang Ming ( wushu head coach )
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