Black Sash

Tom: The Art of 8 hand Palm Changes.
Ba Gua is one of the three major schools of Internal Martial Arts (the other two being Tai Chi and Hsing-I). You almost never see any of the Soft styles anywhere. Hard styles are near-ubiquituous in the tv/movie martial arts world, partially because the majority of styles are hard, primarily because virtually all the United States "fighting" styles are ancient 50-year-old traditional Korean aerobics, or Tai Bo, or Kardio Kickboxing, all of which are hard and linear. Soft, circular styles take decades to learn, which explains why Americans don't like them, which explains why you never see them. Of the soft styles on display, Tai Chi was only demonstrated in 2 Jet Li movies (Evil Cult Master, Tai Chi Master) and one Donnie Yen movie (Drunken Tai Chi). Hsing-I is never shown in pure form, only in the punch-resistant form of the Iron Robe (Once Upon a Time in China 1) or Cotton Belly (Wing Chun), but never as a fighting form except for one move from Drunken Monkey. But Ba Gua...only the "good" version of Jet Li in The One used it, and only briefly, and half those techniques, anyway, were more of his variation of Tai Chi. So, what Black Sash showed off was pretty rare, particularly since all modern-day tv "fighting" shows (Alias, the WB vampire pieces of drek) are pretty much pure-American Kickboxing-choreographed.