First, be advised that all of these VCD's are IN CHINESE ONLY. In our opinion that doesn't matter much because the instruction is clear and the quality of photography very good. But we will not accept returns just because people didn't read... IN CHINESE ONLY. Given that, these are really tremendous deals for the money. Each of these special VCD's can be played on a computer for full enjoyment. Made for PC's they are also Mac compatible by downloading Quicktime (for free) and any similar VCD player program. Also playable on most DVD players. For less than $10.00? Wow! |
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A Double VCD, VCD pricing, Chinese Only Ba Fen (Eight Parts) is a kind of a pun on the other style connected to Chuo Jiao known as Ba Fan or Ba Shan Fan. For a style known as "Penetrating Foot" this is a relatively hand-oriented set. Structured somewhat like a Shaolin Long Art form it shows many Long Fist movements like Pi Gua coupled with some nice kicks and of course the characteristic Chuo Jiao Back Flip kick. Applications of many of the movements are shown in the instructional sections. A Double VCD. |
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About an hour, VCD pricing, Chinese Only This is a longish form with Chuo Jiao influcence on the Jin Gang theme. Like most Jin Gang forms it contains some of the following: symmetrical movements like Chi Kung, Fist actions, powerful movements, low cross stances. In addition of course there are some of the fancy kicks such as Tornados and high crescents common to Chuo Jiao's specialities. No Applications shown. |
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About an hour, VCD pricing, Chinese Only Technically Chuo Jiao is a very old style mentioned throughout Chinese history. In reality it has been "reconstructed" a number of times introducing other influences such as Shaolin (Jin Gang) and Yue Family (Liu He). If you wanted to learn a distinctive Chuo Jiao set, though, you might pick something worse than this back and forth "line" or "road" set which is, essentially, a compendium of Chuo Jiao kicking exercises with some circular hand patterns thrown in. This is the kind of linked movement set which, at one time, all forms looked like. Not so much an artistic composition as separate series bound together for the purpose of practice. If you are interested in learning the style, start here. |
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About an hour, VCD pricing, Chinese Only A good solid spear set with special emphasis on back poking at short range, side stepping, and some more advanced twirls while performing turning steps. The actions of most weapons have little to do with any specific style but another aspect of Chuo Jiao besides kicking is its footwork and some of this shows through this spear set named, as many are, in the famous Six Harmony vein. |
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About an hour, VCD pricing, Chinese Only Don't be confused by the title of this set. The Ba Gua (Eight Trigrams) are standard elements in Chinese culture and long before there was a style named BaGua there were sets called BaGua this and BaGua that. Choy Lai Fut, for instance has a BaGua stick set. In this case this Chuo Jiao form is a nicely constructed set with solid actions and basics. Not, as one might assume, an excess of kicks. Fluid motions and traditional actions. |
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About an hour, VCD pricing, Chinese Only Chuo Jiao prides itself on having a strong base of applications. It also has some specific strategies. This form starts with a little two man set, kind of nice and simple and very symmetrical. It proceeds to teach said set, then goes into general breakdowns on Chuo Jiao applications of angles and counters. Surprisingly few examples of kicking applications though. |
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