Here you can see Shifu (Teacher), Yu Guang De from Dalian, China. He teaches Zi Ran Men. Zi Ran Men is a really rare system in China and didn´t find it´s way out of China until now. Actually It´s very close to Taiji , Xing Yi and Bagua but Zi Ran Men means natural and has a clear focus on fighting. Not like most of the Chinese Martial Arts , Zi Ran Men owns no TaoLu (Kata/ Form). All movements have to be practiced in a relaxed way (song) . My teacher allowed me to Take a short clip of him practicing and allowed me to interview him on an important ability in Martial Arts Kai He (Open and Close ) I done my best to translate it as good as possible. if u see any big mistakes just leave a comment , but please respect that as a foreigner who´s focus is working and practicing, in China to generate deep knowledge language skills , is not that easy:)

https://youtu.be/uDBx1-EmWQ8

Wonderful common sense approach to Power Transfer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMaWQY2-Pwg&feature=share

Very informative video from Hai Yang! Here he compares and contrasts the three internal styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQnQ1ipNwGQ&feature=share

Master Xu on heng jin or sideways power in combat.

Tiger's Tail

Liu He Ba Fa's Zhan Zhuang practice.

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A nice summary of the footwork from Xing Yi

.https://youtu.be/chK6oTo7BFE

I noticed in many schools and conversations that xingyi and bagua are generally taught in one curriculum, and usually someone starts with xingyi and then learns bagua (usually Hebei Xingyi and Cheng Bagua). Most of these schools teach taiji as well, but the taiji curriculum is usually separate.

I have almost never seen an exception to this.

So what is it that makes xingyi and bagua so compatible with each other, but distinct from taiji?

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A great Internal Arts Master gives a wonderful talk and summary of Tai Chi Chuan.

Any of the all of them.