Yi style wrestling vid on youtube

Here’s a match of the Yi style minority wrestlers in China that was originally posted some time ago by John Wang, a student of Chang Dongsheng. Personally, I see the most in common between our style of wrestling in Bagua and this Yi style as shown on the following youtube clip.

You can clearly see them attempting a number of “bagua” throws as we would classify them. In the first minute or so alone, you can see a number of single leg or double leg takedown attempts from our dragon form, at least two varieties of snake throw and a tiger throw attempt at the end. It goes on from there, but for those of us that study this its pretty obvious what’s happening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phSACf09e60

Check out the video. Its a good training tool for us.

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