Living Waters Martial Arts

07/22/2026

What do internal arts look like when applied in combat? Well to be quite honest they look very much like external arts to the untrained ,unskilled eye. If your are looking for a fa jin demo during fighting you are going to be greatly disappointed. The same goes for push hands and or circle walking. If you think the way a beginner trains those skills are how they are applied your level of understanding is still not very deep.
When you train push hands and or Circle walking you are practicing the "Big Skill" slowly, so you have time to see it and feel it, But as one progresses the movements become smaller and the time it takes to use the skill become much quicker. So what happens, you find your angle ( circle walking) and you float them (Push Hands) and if done correctly it happens so fast it will go unnoticed to the untrained eye. My Teacher has a saying, " It is not faster than you think, It is faster than you can think." This is exactly why it is extremely difficult to see.
Now if you think that internal arts are suppose blast someone across the room with no effort, sorry to disappoint. Fa jin demos are NOT how Fa Jin is used in fighting. If I am fighting someone I do Not want to send them across the room, I want to keep them where I can get to them and I want all the power of my Fa Jin movement to bounce around on the inside of them like a piece of shrapnel. If that happens correctly they are not going bounce out of range, they are going to stay where I can hit them again.
Now I realize according to the internet and some television weathermen , that my full contact training and years of law enforcement don't really qualify me in the area of "REAL" fighting, but what I have learned has served me well.

07/08/2026

I HAVE SEEN THE LlGHT ! Thanks to the Face Book community. I now realize that I and my teachers have got it all wrong. Circle walking isn't for fighting. When D**g Hai Chuan stated that to practice martial arts endlessly was still inferior to circle walking, he was not talking about fighting. He obviously was talking about harmonizing with the Universe, because we all know what an enlightened tax collector he was. His students who started body guard and caravan guard companies that they also provide the most spiritual of services. I mean what fighter would not waste endless hour on something that provides no fighting skills, just the promise that he will be a better person. I also see now that there is no difference between Ba Gua and Shaolin applications. I understand that there really is no point to walking the circle , if all I want is to be is a better fighter. Thank You Ba Gua folks for helping me see the error of my ways.
And Thank You to all the Non Ba Gua folks who set me straight. I mean there is nothing I value more than the opinions of people who have no idea what Ba Gua is much less how to use it. I have learn the errors of my ways. I now realize that those 33 years of training to include full contact training, and over 10 years of practical Law Enforcement experience , mean nothing because it did not come from Thailand. I now embrace standing on the balls of my feet, right in front of my opponent to bang on him with all my muscle just like a heavy bag with limbs, so he can do the same to me. I see now that is true fighting skill.
And special thank you to the individual who pointed out to me that true fighting ability only comes from State sanctioned fights. You know the ones where everyone is fighting the exact same way and they have rules to keep people from getting hurt. Only the State can tell you if you can fight, I see now.
So thank you Face book community for setting me straight. I will be going to sign up at my local MMA gym as soon as any thing I just said becomes true.

07/04/2026

Time for a pet peeve rant. I have been practicing Ba Gua Zhang for over 33years and in that time I have heard in repeated that "you are not going to use circle walking in a real fight". I am hear to tell you if someone says that they do NOT know how to use Ba Gua Zhang or what makes Ba gua Zhang different from any other kung fu system. Let's think about it for a second , circle walking is THE fundamental drill /exercise of the art, and one is expected to put many hours in training it. Why? if it not for fighting.
I then often hear it said that if you take 3 steps in the same direction on the circle , a "real" fighter will just cut you off. Well I have two things to say to that, first, where are these "real" fighters I have been using circle walking for years in sparring, and not just with my students, and I have yet to have someone cut me off. Secondly, What do you think your palm change are for? They are there to teach you what to do when some "real" fighter attempts to cut you off. It's not Rocket surgery, But I do suppose it does require two brain cells to rub together and the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time. My teacher is fond of saying, Research is ongoing. If you do Ba Gua Zhang and have not figured out how to use circle walking to fight with, you have more research to do.

03/28/2026

新加坡洪添榮老師演示Performed by Master Ivan Ang from Singapore

03/28/2026

https://youtu.be/Ebk3_5HQwpM?si=1uXwb3rgr3l45 this is very close to the sword form I was taught by Wilson Pitts. Their are some differences but I chalk that up to different teachers stressing different things.

新加坡洪添榮老師演示Performed by Master Ivan Ang from Singapore

03/12/2026

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03/11/2026

https://youtu.be/I6xX_1###nM?si=QQqI014rG7TwEScm

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03/03/2026

I recent heard it said that no one uses stances in a real fight and anyone who says you do has never been in a real fight. Well I guess all those hands on incidents as a Law enforcement officer I had don't qualify as "real" fights. It shows a real lack of understanding of how stances are used if you say you don't use stances in a real fight. Just like everything else in martial arts, there is the textbook version where every part of the technique is picture perfect, and then there is reality, where things get messy. In reality we rarely get picture perfect, but that doesn't mean I am not using the technique.
When I had to go hands on as Law Enforcement officer were my stances or any technique picture perfect? No, No they were not, but did I use them? Yes, Yes I did.

02/28/2026

Jeremy Arnold who is my lineage holder for the Ba Men system was promoted to 2nd degree Black Sash in the Tien Hu Ba Gua Zahang system today. Congratulations !