Master Ma's Hun Yuan
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There are many people in the areas of Art, Music, Dance, Writing, Martial Arts, and Sports of all kinds who are great copiers, skilful people who can create and perpetuate great forgeries for the public and the connoisseur. To simply re-enact and blindly follow and never question the validity of what you practice is quite simply a waste of time. In the so called internal arts world many teachers including some so called masters, (even famous masters ) live in a self deluded state. You may have a teacher who is great a push hands but lousy at combat, or the opposite may be true.
The real McCoy is never as easy . You can never buy or copy these arts. You need a living master and his or her willingness to let you in. Master Ma Bao Guo is an interesting man. He has not written books or made videos and become famous. He should be more well known than he presently is. Why? Well, he can clearly demonstrate that his art works either as combat or push hands or health. He will gladly let you have a go, if you really want to....It is interesting to work with someone who constantly evolves his form, his movement and his awareness. Master Ma tells me he is training to reach a higher level of skill, His 87 year old Hsing-I master,' Shang Ji' expressed to him the need raise his level can higher. Ma Bao Guo creates in the moment, nothing he ever does seems like it is rehearsed. It never is quite the same, always seems fresh and vibrantly alive. He is every bit a human being and every bit a martial artist . Master Ma is known to people mainly because of the Hun Yuan Qi Gong that we teach at our studio. This Qi Gong is the engine of the body/ energy practise's that power his health and his martial art.
In China many masters only show what is termed a demonstration of their art. Well, Ma can unleash and its truly like witnessing a force of nature. It reminds me a little bit of witnessing BK Frantzis back in his heyday in 1988. You have to feel what these types have under the bonnet to appreciate their art, the pretty smooth arm waving stuff disguises their gong fu. The man I know as Ma Bao Guo and call Master Ma at all times has mastered more than his art. His art is un-graspable and yet really attainable, his art has no destination yet has a clearly defined path and set of principles. Master Ma is a modern creative artist of classical gong fu. His area of expertise is in the internal arts of Hsing-I, Tai Chi Chuan, Ba Gua Zhang with a smattering of useful Shaolin techniques, this has then been road tested and measured alongside the internal body, energy mechanics of Ermei and Wudang qi gong.
His Hun Yuan art is a merging of the forces-energies that are the trademark of all the 3 internal art systems of Tai Chi Chuan - Hsing-I Chuan and Ba Gua Zhang. He has developed the form over many many years of investigation and practice. He credits all his teachers but the highly eccentric Guo Sheng Hai (opposite) seems to have been pivotal to he young Ma. Guo was the best all round combat exponent that Ma encountered in the research. Gou was educated at a Buddhist monastery from the age of four. Guo was a Buddhist and Taoist (not uncommon in China) qi gong exponent of both Emei and Wudang Qi Gong and martial arts. Gou taught few people his secrets, but taught Ma specifically because he was instrumental in saving the old mans life around the time of 1987-88.
A genuine master goes beyond the forms he has been taught and manifests change and application, Master Ma is his form. He makes his form work in the moment, he has the sensitivity to change to circumstance. Many may criticise new innovation but I believe truly that he is a throw back to an earlier breed of martial artist I.e. the ‘golden age’ of martial arts in China; Shang Ji also believes this. His Hun Yuan forms are numerous and his Hun Yuan 21 is one of the best of them; Hunyuan 26 is his latest evolution.
Chris Chappell
realtaoism.com
(Master Ma’s indoor disciple for Hunyuan Tai ji, Qigong and Xing Yi)
The real McCoy is never as easy . You can never buy or copy these arts. You need a living master and his or her willingness to let you in. Master Ma Bao Guo is an interesting man. He has not written books or made videos and become famous. He should be more well known than he presently is. Why? Well, he can clearly demonstrate that his art works either as combat or push hands or health. He will gladly let you have a go, if you really want to....It is interesting to work with someone who constantly evolves his form, his movement and his awareness. Master Ma tells me he is training to reach a higher level of skill, His 87 year old Hsing-I master,' Shang Ji' expressed to him the need raise his level can higher. Ma Bao Guo creates in the moment, nothing he ever does seems like it is rehearsed. It never is quite the same, always seems fresh and vibrantly alive. He is every bit a human being and every bit a martial artist . Master Ma is known to people mainly because of the Hun Yuan Qi Gong that we teach at our studio. This Qi Gong is the engine of the body/ energy practise's that power his health and his martial art.
In China many masters only show what is termed a demonstration of their art. Well, Ma can unleash and its truly like witnessing a force of nature. It reminds me a little bit of witnessing BK Frantzis back in his heyday in 1988. You have to feel what these types have under the bonnet to appreciate their art, the pretty smooth arm waving stuff disguises their gong fu. The man I know as Ma Bao Guo and call Master Ma at all times has mastered more than his art. His art is un-graspable and yet really attainable, his art has no destination yet has a clearly defined path and set of principles. Master Ma is a modern creative artist of classical gong fu. His area of expertise is in the internal arts of Hsing-I, Tai Chi Chuan, Ba Gua Zhang with a smattering of useful Shaolin techniques, this has then been road tested and measured alongside the internal body, energy mechanics of Ermei and Wudang qi gong.
His Hun Yuan art is a merging of the forces-energies that are the trademark of all the 3 internal art systems of Tai Chi Chuan - Hsing-I Chuan and Ba Gua Zhang. He has developed the form over many many years of investigation and practice. He credits all his teachers but the highly eccentric Guo Sheng Hai (opposite) seems to have been pivotal to he young Ma. Guo was the best all round combat exponent that Ma encountered in the research. Gou was educated at a Buddhist monastery from the age of four. Guo was a Buddhist and Taoist (not uncommon in China) qi gong exponent of both Emei and Wudang Qi Gong and martial arts. Gou taught few people his secrets, but taught Ma specifically because he was instrumental in saving the old mans life around the time of 1987-88.
A genuine master goes beyond the forms he has been taught and manifests change and application, Master Ma is his form. He makes his form work in the moment, he has the sensitivity to change to circumstance. Many may criticise new innovation but I believe truly that he is a throw back to an earlier breed of martial artist I.e. the ‘golden age’ of martial arts in China; Shang Ji also believes this. His Hun Yuan forms are numerous and his Hun Yuan 21 is one of the best of them; Hunyuan 26 is his latest evolution.
Chris Chappell
realtaoism.com
(Master Ma’s indoor disciple for Hunyuan Tai ji, Qigong and Xing Yi)