Videos (16)

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  Ba Gua Fundamentals-Changing Angles for Combat in Ba Gua

  published 10 months ago

  6:44 | 178 views

  Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. One of the most core principles of Ba Gua as a martial art is to change combat angles to your advantage. This clip gives an excellent introduction to this concept along...

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  Ba Gua Combat Applications-Ko and Stepping (Part 1)

  published 10 months ago

  4:50 | 136 views

  Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. In this clip, Kumar shows one of the fundamental components of Ba Gua for combat-The direct applications of the Ko Step. For anyone serious about learning the martial...

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  Ba Gua Fundamentals – Twisting From Each Step to the Fingers

  published 10 months ago

  3:37 | 222 views

  Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. In this clip, Kumar shows how to connect dropping the elbows and proper stepping with threading all the way through your body to your finger tips. By doing so, it...

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  Principle Ba Gua Hand Postures Single Palm Change

  published 11 months ago

  2:38 | 229 views

  Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching ba gua postures (pakua) and ba gua single palm change at a retreat. In this clip, Frantzis demonstrates some of the core ba gua hand postures, preparing the group for the single palm change.

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  Ba Gua Fundamentals-Dropping the Elbows for Internal Power

  published 11 months ago

  1:16 | 101 views

  In this clip, Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis demonstrates how dropping the elbows (a core component of ba gua) makes it possible to project chi energy into the arms by opening up the chi flow, and in turn creates power flowing out of the fingers.

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  Ba Gua as Meditation-Put Your Mind in Your Feet

  published 11 months ago

  5:01 | 127 views

  Archive footage of lineage master Bruce Frantzis teaching ba gua at a retreat. In this clip of ba gua Bruce Frantzis explains the importance and necessity of being able to drop your mind and energy into your feet as you practice.

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  Tai Chi Martial Arts: Lu for Low Punches

  published 11 months ago

  3:11 | 155 views

  Archive footage from Master Bruce Frantzis teaching on the Tai Chi farm. This is part of an instructional segment on Tai Chi Chuan Internal Martial Arts fighting applications, where lu (roll back) is shown how to be used against low punches.

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  Ba Gua Stepping for Cardiovascular Health

  published 11 months ago

  4:12 | 35 views

  Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis explains the breaking component of the steps which are done in Ba Gua and Tai Chi and how the step helps to fix blood circulation and aid heart problems.

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  Tai Chi Chuan Martial Art Soft Punches

  published 11 months ago

  0:27 | 46 views

  One of the great secrets of the Internal Martial arts lies in the fact their strikes appear very soft (unlike overt blows in Karate) yet have the ability to critically injure opponents with ease. Here Tai Chi Master Bruce Frantzis briefly...

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  Taoist Meditation Transcending Forward Based Perception

  published 11 months ago

  4:21 | 14 views

  At a retreat on the meditation components of Tai Chi and Ba Gua, Taoist Meditation Master Bruce Frantzis explains how individuals are conditioned by visually focused minds to focus only on what they can directly see ahead of them.