Bagua Zhang in popular culture Jet Lis character in The One uses bagua zhang, while the antagonist version of the character uses xingyi quan. Airbending in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra is modeled on bagua zhang. Bagua zhang features briefly in the manga Historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi. The Hyūga clan from Naruto use the Gentle Fist style which is based on bagua. For example, the technique called Eight Trigrams: Sixty Four Palm Strike is derived from bagua zhang terminology. Ling Xiaoyu from the Tekken video game series uses bagua zhang. Ashrah from Mortal Kombat: Deception and Kitana from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance use bagua zhang. Joscelin Verreuil from Jacqueline Careys Kushiels Legacy series uses a fighting style similar to bagua zhang, which is the fighting style of the Cassiline Brotherhood. In Ip Man 2, one of the styles used during the tabletop fight is bagua zhang. In the 2010 live-action film Tekken, Jin Kazama says that he is impressed by fellow competitor Christie Monteiro due to her foot placement while practicing bagua zhang. In the 2006 movie Jadesoturi (Jade Warrior), in the Pin Yu vs Sintai fight, they used bagua zhang as a sort of courting. In the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, the police inspector Tsai was duelling with Jade Fox using a pair of deer horn knives, a very typical weapon of the Bagua Zhang system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baguazhang
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:14:46 +0000
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