He is talking about how to use the image of Bagua and "Jin"(=mysterious way to produce qi). When he was pushed at his left arm, he sent his disciple flying by clenching his right fist and opening it. Or by hitting his forehead with his right hand. He said that his both arms are one, not two different things. In the last part of this video, he showed how to do "Danhuanzhang"(single changing palm). In this case, "Jin" exists in his left arm, not in his right arm.

What he is demonstrating is the refined awareness of body mechanics a person develops after training neija for so many years. I have trained with a man of skill comparable to this grandmaster shown here. It was incredibly dificult for my brain to understand what was going on until I spent a month training 10hours a day....and then I only mamanged to touch upon the effortless way of moving he demonstrates for a split second...almost sent somebody flying out a window it was so sudden.

WOW!! I study Bu Gua! It's all about posture, mechanics, root, intent, and chi. It's though to master all those things. As you can see, this 94 year old man still has it!! WOW!!!

I think so many decades of internalising sensitivity and power-focussing exercises would allow you to develop such refined control over physical forces that us youngsters would consider it spooky and unbelievable.

Well said. Most don't understand. This guy has really got it. Looks like excellent taiji, i don't know much about bagua

a rare treasure!!!!!! thank you for sharing

Simply beautiful!

Superb...thanks for posting!

That is amazing

THIS IS REAL. A BAGUA MASTER DEMONSTRATED THIS TO ME THE OTHER DAY, NOT AS POWERFUL AS THIS MAN, BUT I CAN FEEL THE CHI GENERATING FROM HIS ARM AS I AM TOUCHING HIM, YEARS OF REFINEMENT ALLOWS CHI TO BE EMITTED *ANYWHERE* FROM HIS BODY WHERE HE DESIRES.

Well, warriors might be old. But remember everyone, the oldest tree in the forest is always the strongest and wisest.

It is awesome to see this. Thank u for sharing! There is not much footage out there like this. If u know what to look at this is good stuff!

I'm very excited with this video

There is no "best" martial art. It's down to the individuals understanding and hard work. Being player of Baguazhang, I'd say it has very good strategy and body training and stands up martially.

beautiful and amazing

They are not exaggerating their reactions. The old master is using a relaxed, connected body from the ground, through his dantien and spine, and out his arms. It's subtle and soft power that doesn't diminish with age.

just amazing

amazing!

haha that's exactly what I thought when I watched this! this is a very interesting vid, ty for uploading^^

I wish he was my grandpa.

i take bagua myself and chi comes fom energy driving fom the dontion(sorry if thats spelled wrong)the sorce of mental and physical peace. chi is a natural prospect within the body that with time and practice can be sommond by anybody.chi is in everything it gives it life

My 80 year old taiji teacher has skills on par with this guy and there's nothing fake about it. The second you touch him or vice-versa, he has complete control of your body. You're helpless.

with much respect to those who have come before us.

I don't know what internal martial arts this master has studied but he looks like he is a master of chi. This is why he hardly moves because he is so internally connected with his chi. These guys aren't faking anything they have felt the powerful chi coming from the old master and he hardly has to move for them to feel it.

I wouldnt say they cant fight anymore, I like to think that an 80 year old master could still hold his own in a fight.

What phenomenal skill.

this is awesome

i like the ba gua and tai che styles.

It's not an issue of authenticity if you watch his perfectly minimalist body mechanic; its the issue that theres a reason he's 94 years old in the video. It probably took him 88 years to cultivate those techniques necessary to achieve this effect.

Aikido, has a saying: beginners make large circles, masters make small circles. This is what Alibuck is talking about when he mentions subtlty. don't get confused by mystical sounding words like grounding. This guy is simply making very small movements that alow him to upset their balance. This isn't magic, or it is, but not mystical magic but rather more like slight of hand (body) mixed with a soft martial art. It's deceptive and skilful but nothing more magical than that. just masterfully done

But since you clearly dont get it, I'll try one more time to demystify this for you: Because of the the way muscle tissue work on a microscopic level, they can develop larger force when just holding position or being stretched than when being flexed. Internal training teaches you to exploit this by compressing your body into the ground, like a spring -more or less. While I respect the fighting abilities of the MMA crew, I find internal training has a more long lasting health and strength effect.

CUTE AND EFFECTIVE VID

The best way is to experience it yourself.

Felicidades, muy bien.

It's true. If you go to china you can find dozens of people who can do this type of stuff. Few of them have such warm personalities though.

good post- but most people who argue against the word "chi" don't understand it's varied meaning in chinese roughly as "energy , breath, life/vital force" as a simplified translation

Đến bao giờ mình mới đạt đến trình độ này đây ^!!

incredible chi control very nice video

Remember this. Scientific and analytic knowledge is only a portion of human knowledge.Muscles generate strength. This is a given but another strength is derived from one's chi skillfully and patiently cultivated combined with a sense of balance. The energy is demonstrated by this old gentleman. At his age he no longer has your or my vanity to put on a fake show. He is genuie and real. Respect him that much.

that's the master showing them how to use the arms position to "push" , but due to the age of the old master , the young ones won't really put too much effort in against the old master , and also they try to follow the moving flow to feel how these skill works to others if they use it in full power ,thats why when they do it , u may think if it's fake

holy shit.... he can feel the flow of strenght..

I study Aikido and we were doing something similar a few weeks back. A person would grab the wrist or anywhere on the arm and just by touching your own head or chest or even putting your hand in your pocket. The person couldn't stop you from doing it. It's isometric body structure. Most people never get past force on force and they always play in that paradigm and never advance.

Empty yourself and feel the energy being transmitted. Focus on posture and allignment cultivating the internal energy.

He does not look bad for 94

Magneto!!!

Can someone put a translation on this video. That would be great.

yes.

What to watch out for is the two occasions when the young guy comes from the right and just casually holds on to the old guys arm while everyone's watching the other guy talking on the right. On those two occasions the old gentleman casually "bumps" the young guy away. On those instances, the young man doesn't look like he anticipated the bumps at all, and you can see the real effect of them (without the theatrical jumping back, which seems to be traditional in these demonstrations, even when something genuine is being shown). What's being demonstrated is genuine, not something magical but a trained skill (the ability to direct forces at will to or from the ground, and utilizing the force of gravity, through a trained body) that the old man has to a high degree.

Simple physics applied with masterful skill to the complex structure that is the human body. A simple push can be used so that a body will naturally react in a way that would disturb its balance. If you study chinese culture Qi was a catch all term for everything from "life force" to motion, inertia, and energy.

What do you mean by "must remember he's 94"? This kinda trained tendon strength and improved nervous system doesn't fade as quickly as muscle tone! There actually needn't be any compliance: When rooting, bouncing and sensing skill is good enough one can cause the opponent to stiffen up, just enough to make it easy to transfer power into him through his own limbs, so as to make him bounce.

@MrWatcher101 well said. There are things the west dismissed when introduced to theories the chinese had established for some time, methinks largely due to racial bs perhaps. I too have been studying martial arts(though mainly external forms of kung fu) and I have also felt the effect of a few strikes that science cant figure out.

@mattmcan I think you are wrong to some extent. I like your comment, though. Ba means 8; Gua,divinity or fore-knowlwdge of one's fate or events to come. Ba-gua is really portion of "The Book of Change" based on Ying and Yang. It is a binary system that spins out a macrocosmic as well as a corresponding microcomic structure. When it deals with ying and yang, it deals with a different power strength and a power to forcast. When you make contact, the master reverse your strength against you.

Because what he was doing is representative of the core body skills of a number of "internal" martial arts. I've trained with teachers who can do the same, and I and other students of these arts can demonstrate these things, as well.

Amazing thanx for that awsome rare Footage ...ufc ain't got No Style.

I don't see any exagaration here. There's so many factors, like connective tissue strength, intent, sensitivity, whole body power, rooting and so forth, that you can continue to develop into old age, and that more than makes up for loss of mere muscle strength! The trained eye can clearly see the real power here. In fact there's also just no way a "fake" or choreographed demo could look this perfect, with regards to timing!

Huh? Why was my translation deleted?

what is he saying, i would like to know. anybody?

I have experienced 'Qi' in studying Hsing-I and a little Ba Gua. Of course, I have felt the warmth of my body, the tingling sensation, which can be felt to be moved by breathing and mind. I have no doubt that there is *something* occurring. It is certainly not a unique force, however. I think it is greater circulation, electrical sensitivity and perhaps a further effect of a different, more aware state of consciousness. If Qi was a distinct, unique force, then all of physics would be wrong.

Exactly. Study up on fear cages caused by electromagnetic fields made from faulty wiring etc. Your body can generate those same fields, with different levels, causing extreme discomfort etc. Cuevasdecamuy, no matter how self-hypnotized you make yourself, you can't cause your body to have specific reactions. For instance, you can't cause your skin to turn yellow, as it does when your liver is messed up and you have jaundice. You can't cause your eyes to become bloodshot etc...

1:09-1:10 You can see an "invisible energy repulse wave" suddenly generated from the old man's arms pushed his 2 students away. Their "body" got "squeezed back" first by the energy wave, and *then* their feet off the ground and bounced back. You can''t just jump and fake it like that.

Thats not chi BS as you guys say. He describes clearly what he is doing. Its physics and physiology. He even demos near the end what movements is wrong and then proceeds to show the right one. Looks like Tai chi too.

@iamcurlyhead yep, it's the isometric control or storing of energy in your muscles and then channeling it out in a manner that distorts the attackers posture or attack. It's just physics.

Please, could somebody translate this into english? For me this stuff is obviously real, it's easy to say it is. There are a lot of things going that you can't see, and maybe this master is explaining them. This is real internal power. No doubt. Thanks for sharing this video. Just watching it, gives hope to continue training.

@adielov1 I think you know that experiment "Newton's Cradle" the last ball gets flying away where the ball next to it doesn't move. so maybe this is some kind of 'injected' force that you can't see like that balls in the middle that does not move.

anywhere to watch this subbed in english? would love to hear what he's saying :O thanks for sharing this tho

Uau this video is fantastic. I practice karate shotokai

Subtitle would usefull :( How am i supposed to understand the widom of BaGua now

Was it that he was a charleton or that his students believed whole-heartedly in his power that they themselves contributed to the delusion and they themselves were causing themselves to fall down. This is the same thing going on. Why is it the Kiai master was a charleton but this guy is the genuine deal?

Where could I get a copy of the video. The chip stopped at the middle of the next move. Thank You.

Would someone post a translation of the Master's comments? I don't speak Mandarin or Cantonese, but I'd be interested to know what he's saying.

Umm.. what? What he was saying was absolutely inspirational though.. can't deny that. Right?

Ba Qua also uses push hands.

Thank you best comment. seems you know your stuff Thx from a liu he ba fa Practitioner

Yi guides the chi, which guides the body... the chi being a low voltage energy network that moves through the ligaments, tendons, and bones, measured and documented by NIH in the 70's and theorized to be part of the immune system, like a negative biofeedback loop, which when broken trigures localized healing.

everything that comes out of the old man sounds like one of those chinese operas.

When you do an internal art for 80 years or more it is like the intent to tie your shoe. When you want to tie your shoe, you don't think "loop this here, do this, do that" you just do it. Your body knows the way top do it efficiently. Internal martial arts is like that - qi seems mysterious. It isn't magic, just physics. It only takes a couple pounds of pressure properly applied to send an opponent off balance.

@bhka111 i agree with you but real martial arts is really about protecting/helping others not killing

@piaten also well said. I think the comment issue was little more than misunderstanding. Scientific communities do have a big issue with the idea of 'If we cant figure it out, its false.' Nothing could be further from the truth at times.

how you know that? just courious

please put translation

Can anyone translate what he is saying..., by the way this would be a good service for youtube to provide.. translation between languages....

@szhan1022 in my opinion, this is the real stuff. i can understand a lot of what he is saying, and from my training, it seems to be consistent. if you don't believe, look up tony psaila. he moves his body in a similar way, and explains it in a more "western" way. the whole qi thing just gets you thinking in a certain way, and gets your body to move in ways that is hard to do when you're thinking in a more linear manner.

Agree with illyong and Tim. I've done bagua and taiji and thus I get uprooted all the time. It's basically using your partner as a lever once you figure out how

WTF was that at 1:10? I understand the concept/theory here, which is using the attackers energy and deflecting it right back but that was just cool!

@rushforce33 great point - you are correct. I think this guy is just senile and they are trying to make him feel better.

preaty intense lol im surpirse by how they are been move backwards lol

The force will be with U young jedy , hmmm, or maybe U are a sith ? The dark side is strong in U ...Man this is jedy art ! LOOOOOL

@minasz And I don't get astrophysics, but still the planets and stars float around there in space, don't they!? As all geniality, this stuff is based on very simple natural principles, yet it is also extremely difficult to accomplish, especially at this level.

i want to find my sense of balance if it takes my whole life

If some of you don't believe there's "Chi" in this video, go search Ma Yueh Liang here and his push hand video's, you'll see his opponents being "popped" away by his "Chi"...

This master is very old and probably doesn't bring great power anymore. They show exaggerated reaction to his power out of respect, as is the Chinese custom. The miracle is that he brings his power in such an invisible way. This shows that his bagua tradition has the training methods that will produce the highest level of skill

Another episode of pokemon

5 stars

looks like aikido principe techniq

It only shows him pushing guys- maybe they are falling back a little too easily, but it's not fake.

@TheCarlo58 Why is it everyone assumes I'm a skeptic, just because I have an empirical, scientific attitude, and use words like "research", "faciae", etc?! There's plenty of scientific surveys confirming the existence of chi. Anyone who denying chi is a reality are the un-scientific ones, not us! Read the entire comment thread, and or at least figure out what I'm actually saying, before making wild assumptions!

The old man is using positioning and counter-balance to find the trick send-off point. notice how he massages his partner into the exact stance he requires to execute the final send off. amazing yes, but the falling man is doing 99% of the work based on his body position. the old man is not exceptionally strong, his trick is in how he positions his partner before sending him flying, and its a damn good trick.

@jung567 I would say not quite, but similar in essence.

Hopefully it'll take much less time than that! Good luck!

WoW i surely hope he used his superpowers for the good of all instead of personal gain...because lets face it if he can do that at age of 94. At age of 30 he could probably rival spiderman....