Hello,

Does anyone know a bagua teacher in Kyoto? Having a difficult time finding one. English is preferable but my Japanese is passable.

Hi, I know Vince Black has a lot of students in Tucson but I'm in the PHX/East Valley area and curious to know if there are others in the Baguazhang community out here?

My BGZ background is over 20yrs in Fu Style. My teacher was a Senior student authorized to teach under Bow Sim Mark. I have also done numerous privates with Lineage holder Victor Fu over the years to clean up details.

I know and practice the Gao Yisheng Style as well, but this was from an exchange in styles with one of Vince Black's students years ago. Over thebyears, to fill in gaps, I've done some seminars and picked up material from Paul Cote of the Shuri Te group and love his approach, full of details and he's quick to share what he also doesn't know, so I appreciate his humbleness. While I've never met or trained under Liu Dexiu, I recognize a good teacher when I see one. I love his expression of Gao Style. In any case I've found this to be a great compliment to Fu Style and some of the most practical material I've been exposed to.

Outside of that I have an extensive Wu Style Taijiquan background, traditional Jujutsu and currently training BJJ as well.

Just looking to sync up with the IMA community out here and making new friends, brothers/sisters.

Do you have bagua training videos to recommend?

Also, when I did a bagua trial class, there was a list displayed of tips or things to think about, like "raise your anus". The instructor said, once in a while when training, stop and pick one of the tips at random, and see if you are applying it correctly. Is this a bagua thing, do you know what I am talking about? I picked uo some of those tips and it really helped with my kung fu, and I would love to see this list again.

A bit about me. I have been doing martial arts for 9 years. At first wing chun, now white crane kung fu, and some aikibudo along the way. Also since covid, I started training at home with videos from internet, mostly shaolin kung fu, some tai chi and qigong. I would now like to pick up some of the basics of bagua if possible, and maybe learn a form. Are there good sources online? I want training videos, not online classes.

Are there any instructors or practitioners in this area? I would very much like to beging learning and training Baguazhang.

Thanks.

is there a good reference/resource (ideally video) that shows or explains the differences between the different styles of bagua like gao, liang, yin, etc? looking to start studying online (yes, I know in person is better but the search for a decent local teacher has been unfruitful) and trying to make sense of the different approaches. are the differences as big as say the yang/chen stylistics in tai chi or is more like the differences between different teachers in the same family (eg Chen Xiaowing vs Chen Zhenglei)?