Tai Chi With Attitude

A modernistic americanized approach to a meditative traditional Martial Art. Holistic, but without the New Age mysticism, Taoist, yet pragmatic. A completely different, real-world approach to an esoteric and difficult art.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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.

5 Comments:

  • At 3:50 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Thanks for sharing Cloudhander! Happy New Year! :)

     
  • At 5:52 PM, Blogger Krystalline Apostate said…

    Happy new year to you too, dear.

     
  • At 8:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Thanks for sharing that video on youtube. It is crazy how many videos are on their now.. Thanks!

     
  • At 5:24 AM, Blogger 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 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.
    Pv2

     

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