MA HONG ON YOUTUBE
My sifu, Dr. Johnny Jang, greatly admires Ma Hong, and has adopted many of his smaller movements (in the following clip for instance, Ma Hong adds a sliding step to the hidden punch movement).
This was taped (as I understand it) while the man was in his 70's. He still goes very deeply into his stances.
Here is a great interview with the Hsing-i magazine, also featuring George Xu. For those of you unfamiliar with George, he's a no-nonsense martial artist, who made his reputation fighting in the mean streets of Shanghai. Short version: he's definitely NOT a paper tiger. And if George backs up a martial artist, that guy had better be DAMN good. Ma Hong was the first artist that George brought over to the US.
I've heard a tale or two about Ma Hong: he's a very humble fellow, but if you talk smack about his art? He's been known to call people out.
Anyways, watch, enjoy, study.
This was taped (as I understand it) while the man was in his 70's. He still goes very deeply into his stances.
Here is a great interview with the Hsing-i magazine, also featuring George Xu. For those of you unfamiliar with George, he's a no-nonsense martial artist, who made his reputation fighting in the mean streets of Shanghai. Short version: he's definitely NOT a paper tiger. And if George backs up a martial artist, that guy had better be DAMN good. Ma Hong was the first artist that George brought over to the US.
I've heard a tale or two about Ma Hong: he's a very humble fellow, but if you talk smack about his art? He's been known to call people out.
Anyways, watch, enjoy, study.
posted by Krystalline Apostate @ 10:38 PM
5 Comments:
At 3:50 PM,
Anonymous said…
Thanks for sharing Cloudhander! Happy New Year! :)
At 5:52 PM,
Krystalline Apostate said…
Happy new year to you too, dear.
At 8:57 AM,
Anonymous said…
Thanks for sharing that video on youtube. It is crazy how many videos are on their now.. Thanks!
At 5:24 AM,
John Kang said…
I learned Taiji and Liu He Ba Fa from Sifu Jang from 1999-2003. He is an amazing practitioner and human being! I was wondering if you had his contact info. If so, please e-mail me at kang.zhuang@gmail.com.
At 11:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
I met MaHong in SJZ in the people's park attending some of his clases. Then went to Baoding to learn from his student/ my teacher Shifu ZhangDongHai. Zhang is very powerful and burns through er lu and Pao Chui without breathing or making a sweat.
I have done push hands and bhe flat out burns me out. A very brilliant teacher and painfully good Chin Na, Tui Shuo and swordsman, he carries the linage and technique from MaHong. MaHong may not directly demonstrate / show form, one of his very good Tudi will do for him.
I like MaHong and look forward to seeing him and my Master again.
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