{"id":7239,"date":"2011-12-16T19:11:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T03:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2011-12-17T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T04:49:03","slug":"our-bagua-book-2-hitting-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/2011\/our-bagua-book-2-hitting-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bagua Book #2: Hitting My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My manuscript is nearing its finish and now is the time to fill the remainder of the designated vacant white squares with photographs. <!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7242\" style=\"margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 11px;\" title=\"Bagua Kicking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook2.jpg\" alt=\"Bagua Kicking @ plumpub.com\" width=\"160\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook2.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook2-158x200.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>Debbie and I drive up to the home of my friends and long time students, Travis and Sheri Rath. Both of them have been practicing Bagua for a time (They have poles in their yard!) with backgrounds in Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and more.\u00a0 The light is <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">perfect<\/span><\/strong>; just overcast enough to let us work outside.<\/p>\n<p>Martial photography is a special skill in which Debbie is expert. Decisions abound: \u00a0what is left in the frame or out? is the lighting good? what\u2019s the best angle to show the <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">most<\/span><\/strong> information? There\u2019s also the problem that fidgety martial artists love to MOVE. Instead, when being photographed, we all must practice standing, remaining perfectly still as the photographer checks details.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">capture Bagua style<\/span><\/strong> through the fighting moves. My partner Travis can sense the torque through my hands, but how to show that in the flat book? Though present, It can be as elusive as a ghost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7243\" style=\"margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 11px;\" title=\"BGbook1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook1.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/BGbook1-137x200.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>Watch and decide. \u00a0Sheri is a fine kicker and a skilled artist. When she kicks her husband she smiles a little. Later, <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">reviewing<\/span><\/strong> the batch,\u00a0 I find the photo so good I think I\u2019ll keep it.<\/p>\n<p>Decision point: When Travis and I walk the circle we crank to exaggerate the turn of the torso. <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">How much<\/span><\/strong> exaggeration? We want to show what the camera might be too lazy to pick up but not to go overboard; that\u2019s the trick.<\/p>\n<p>There are all sorts of little questions in each filming session. Is it good for the book if I let Travis<strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> beat me up<\/span><\/strong>? I mean fair is fair. But I\u2019m the author! truly, a stupid internal argument. How much do we grimace? You can either act as an unflinching mannekin, or you can do some method acting and pose like the<strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> crazed villain<\/span><\/strong> in a movie ad for a StreetFighter sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the slips and slides. I catch Travis with a cutting palm in the ribs. He grunts, eyes turned downward. Now here\u2019s the sick martial part: should we try to duplicate that reaction, just with another shot? But it\u2019s got to be unexpected for the full effect and how do you <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">manufacture<\/span><\/strong> that?. Sometimes it comes from the other end of the camera like the old DeMille gag (1.). We finish a complex shot use using poles and switching, then reversing, and all that entails. When we&#8217;re done, having just put it all together, Debbie realizes<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Bgbook3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7241\" style=\"margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 11px;\" title=\"Bgbook3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Bgbook3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Bgbook3.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.plumpub.com\/kaimen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Bgbook3-135x200.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><\/a> that from her angle\u2014two decks above\u2014we look like battling badgers due to the foreshortening.<\/p>\n<p>But for all that we\u2019re lucky. The light\u2019s perfect, everyone caught on to that break dance type movement when you pose, <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">move<\/span><\/strong>, pose for the shots. Two hours of this and three hundred plus pictures later we are ready for Sushi and Sake.<\/p>\n<p>At home I use Photoshop to cull through the 300+ photos. Here is our attempt to capture a style, the instant of conflict, the cooperation in an exercise, the line of a body kicking, the sequence of a technique. I hold my thumb down as the elevator <strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">crawls<\/span><\/strong> through the pictures and suddenly its like a dozen flipbooks strobing through their movements all at once. No one will ever see them this way but me and it will be my job through careful picking and discarding to bring this motion into a book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>1. Cecil B. DeMille<\/strong> is filming the biggest scene of its kind for his masterpiece Intolerance. It is a \u00a0one shot with thousands of extras, horses, armies clashing that they can never duplicate. It comes off perfect but when DeMille goes to his first camera he learns the lighting is bad. Shaking his head he asks the second assistant only to hear that some sections were probably out of focus. It\u2019s all up to the third camera man to have caught something or the shot is ruined. When he gets to number 3, before he can even open his mouth, the third man turns to him and says, \u201cReady when you are, Mr. DeMille.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My manuscript is nearing its finish and now is the time to fill the remainder of the designated vacant white squares with photographs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,308,477],"tags":[1257,56,2232,240,75],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-booksenglish","category-bagua-zhang","tag-ba-gua","tag-bagua","tag-bagua-zhang","tag-pa-kua","tag-ted-mancuso"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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