École de la Grue Blanche du Fujian / Bai He Quan

On démontre souvent les formes, les taolus, de face, pour voir les techniques. Pourtant, il est très intéressant, pour voir des aspects importants du travail corporel comme la dynamique du dos, d’observer les formes sous d’autres angles.
Ici le début de Babulian, appelé SuHeQuan dans notre école, la Grue Blanche de la famille D**g (D**gJia Baihequan).

Un principe de la pratique des formes : ne jamais répéter à l’identique. Ici, variations d’intention sur les mêmes techniques de Sanzhan. L’intention oriente la forme.
Taolu : SuHeQuan / Babulian

Ecole de maître Lee Kong.
Semen, les 4 portes.

Sanzhan, les 3 batailles.
Ecole de la Grue Blanche de Maître Lee Kong.
Ici dans la version souple, yin. La force doit se dérouler sans ruptures, comme le courant tranquille d’un fleuve. L’intention emplit le corps et alterne entre déploiement et repli.
Hong Kong, 2024

SuHe Quan / Babulian
Grue Blanche du Fujian de la famille D**g.

Babulian du Minghequan, école de maître Ruan D**g, Grue Blanche de Fuzhou.

Du Pakmei / Baimei. Principes très similaires au Baihequan : flotter/plonger, avaler/cracher.

Je partage le partage.
Explication de BaBuLian par sifu Ling:

The late Ruan D**g and his Babulien (8 linked steps).

I don't really like to discuss this in public but the number of Pms that I got from some of you folks....

Ok.... briefly,

Babulien is commonly equated to Sanzhan, which is partially, right. The power generation portion of the form is more or less similar to other Crane's Sanzhan. But the underlying blueprint of Babulien doesn't stop there.

The second aspect is the conductance of the power from ground to hands with minimal leakage. Full actualization of the power, so to speak. So connectivity and connectedness is the focal point. And it's not just discharging.... every action creates a reaction which is again used as the "action" to energize the next sequence of movements.

In Whopping Crane , this concept is known as "3 advances or Sanjin" which states that all power action comes in 3s. Actions to reactions and back to actions again.

This concept is also incorporated into Babulien.

Another major point that is usually omitted is the fact that Fuzhou Cranes unlike Fujian Cranes also include "dog shaking" energies. This "shaking" enhances the Sanzhan power only if attenuation is kept to the lowest.

So the "linking" is to focus on Sanzhan , Sanjin and Vibrating power...all wrapped into one and discharged in a "fully connected" manner.

Babulien was also designed for reverse triggering of energies which can be seen clearly in Ruan's rendition.

You see him pulling his hands back and very quickly send them out again. This is used to prepare students for "7 Scenes" which is the speed attributes training of Whooping Crane.

I spent some time with Ruan exploring these nuances of Fuzhou Whooping Crane and something that he said still rang in my head....

Babulien is so complex, even from a vector forces scientific point of view, that it would take years just to train the body to function at optimal capacity using Babulien wisdom.

The GREATEST issue is to learn it wrong and then try to unlearn.

Rebooting is almost impossible.

Whooping Crane is actually very straightforward..... learning to generate MAXIMUM power, discharging at the FASTEST speed to the softest of targets.

Ruan might have been based in Fuzhou China and I acquired my Cranes from Fuzhou immigrants in Singapore.

But we share exactly the same bird.

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼