I wanted to get some videos up since forever . . .
So I finally started.
I have this massive collection of gongfu videos some friends and myself have filmed in China since 1992. I'm slowly digitizing them before the tapes degrade. It's mostly meihuazhuang/meihuaquan, but there will be a little bit of other stuff as well.
Here's the first of hopefully many. Apologies for the agressive watermarking and editinig out of key parts of some forms, but this is the internet & some people apparently steal things.
This is an older student demonstrating meihuazhuang jian. This is summer in Jinan, so it is likely over 40 degrees C (110 Fahrenheit for you Luddites) & 100% humidity. Just like Beijing will be for the Olympics.
This is two relatively new guys (less than 2 years) doing meihuazhuang chengquan at a demo:
And this is my teacher beating the crap out of my friend. It's 1992, so that and the humidity explains the hair.
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Posted By: Mei Hua
Nice vids, I liked the flow on the Jian set and he did a good job
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Yeah, & he can hit really hard for a litle guy, & taking him on feels like tackling a bulldozer.
I've got another five or so ready for uploading. My connection isn't good enough to upload videos, so I get a friend of mind whose husband does online gaming to do it for me. With luck they'll be up this weekend, but no promises. Here's a link to my YouTube profile:
I got a repair person out to the apartment to check the phone lines, so my internet connection's now good enough to upload chez moi, so here's one of me:
The three a.m. kung fu demo:
After many hours of being force-fed and too many shots of baijiu (any is too many), we finally crawled into bed, only to get dragged out half an hour later to be told there was a big demo outside. Being China, everyone has to show something. If we didn't know kung fu, they'd have made us do Kareoke or something. Fortunately it was cold so we were all sleeping in pyjamas, because they barely gave me time to get my hiking boots on.
Oded (from Israel) had learned from a teacher who moved to Taiwan in '49 and then later to Italy, and we'd never practiced together before. We know totally different versions of this set, so we're pretty much improvising here.
