Hi I took a seminar from you in Sacramento a few years ago. Do you plan on having another one? I currently train Judo but im more interested in Shuai Jiao. Or any private classes
Speaking of your comment about finding similarities between Shuai Jiao and other arts, and you mentioning Okinawan Karate practitioners seeing similarities specifically; There has been a major renaissance going on in the Karate community over the last 20 years but astronomically in the last 5-10 years regarding the origins of Karate, what the movement patterns of the kata are for, and how to train them. New info translated for the first time have revealed just how much grappling used to be in Karate, and that it's foundations do not lie in Kung Fu, but rather in Tegumi (also called Shima), which is a native Okinawan stand up grappling art, and that so many of the odd looking movements in the kata start to make sense when looking at them from the perspective of a stand up grappling/clinch fighting art rather than a long- to medium range striking art. Today, it's a belt wrestling style that uses a jacket for modesty/skin protection, but in the past it was jacketless and beltless. The jacket didn't come into Karate until after Jigoro Kano invented it for Judo, and Karate adopted it from them. The southern Kung Fu striking arts' (such as white crane, etc) influence came later, mostly after 1800, but Okinawa's vassal status to China began during the 1300s and didn't end until 1609, so it's possible that Tegumi was influenced by some form of Shuai Jiao.
Is it normal for the knees to feel a little sore for a day or so after doing these gibengung? I just started learning shuai jiao a month ago, once a week. 52yo, moderate weight, no injuries, fair good (average?) fitness.
Thanks for this Sifu ❤took me a few seconds to see what you were doing 😵💫just great! Practice this w/ my friends 🎉learn a little of the Tientsin style(hope I spell that right 😬
Sonny, if I may, you're getting hung up on detail. And your losing us. Consider us all to be beginners. Get to the point. Demonstrate the technique a few times, and then go back and go over the finer details. Otherwise you will overcomplicate the issue and we will learn little or nothing. Assume we can see the nuance as you perform the technique. Draw us a picture first and then fill in the finer points. Remember, draw the outline of the dragon, then the eyes and scales, and then breath life into it. Thanks again.
Thank you for the feedback🙏🏻. This was a selection of clips from a longer training session during one of our livestream shuai jiao classes and the students have all been training for several years so perhaps some context was missing. The more I have taught over the years the more I have realized how important those nuances are for being effective with this technique and try to impart that to the best of my ability to the students. 🙏🏻
Thank you. We need all the help in this area we can get. (We finally got mats!) Love the channel. Keep practice, all the best. Ching Yi Kung Fu Association
Shuaijiao or Shou bo!!!!!My congratulations for your great skill and passion!!!!I'm from Italy and I miss the days of Shuaijiao,but unfortunately we were too few to support the costs of the school!!!!Sorry about my terrible English and again my compliments🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
As I was taught it, there are no martial movements or intentions in the form. It is supposed to be only for cultivation. According to what my teacher told me the creator of the form, Qi Yun was very proficient in martial arts and created this form as a non martial practice after he joined the monastery later in life. After the revolutions he taught in Beijing for awhile and shared it with some students. Since I train many other martially oriented forms and styles I also just practice it with a focus on physical, not martial cultivation as well. My teacher, who is one generation removed from the monk, thought this was a great form for martial artist because of that very reason. The movements seem familiar and martial, but you can just relax and do them to open up and train the body.
Thanks Sonny. (I assume you are Sonny.) I really appreciate the shuai jiao you share with us. There was little time to delve into all aspects of Chinese boxing when I was earning my degree. So we learned our teachers specialty. Then life came, when I did have the time I had no dependable student to train with, or mats. Now after years of searching I have both. My own teacher died two months ago, so we will be tuning in to learn as much as we can from you and the few other teachers on RU-vid. Its heart warming to see how well you execute the pa kua. Practice for life. All the best to you. Laoshr #60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association BTW. If you have the time and interest please make a video on Dit Da Jow. I have the time and knowledge, but no ability to record. Thanks again.
I really appreciate it. You can bet that I am working to learn these basic conditioning exercise and share them with my own students. We are fortunate that Chinese boxing has such a rich and deep reservoir of material for the serious student to pursue. Wishing you and yours all the best. Laoshr #60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association
If you search on RU-vid you will find a lot of Shuai Jiao sparring. The nice thing about shuai jiao is that the techniques are quite common and can be used in a lot of different settings if you work them enough. Specific Shuai Jiao sparring only focuses on the stand up grappling side to refine that part of it as much as possible. Then you can take those skills into your other arts or avenues for sparring to integrate. This is how Shuai Jiao was often used by martial artists in the past.
Hey Sonny. Quick question. Do you know of any shuai jiao schools in Connecticut? I just recently moved here and I can't find any Chinese grappling schools. All I'm able to find is bjj and mma schools.
But I wanna add that we also have another application for it, not as slipping out, but hooking the opponent’s leg and then throwing while twisting back (if that makes sense 😂).
It does. We teach these as escapes, neutralizing techniques and countering techniques. I always start with the escape, because not getting thrown is always priority one for footwork and new techniques.
This is great. Helps folks with freestyle or greco wrestling background translate the concepts over. I started cross-training in freestyle and greco recently and was having a hard time adjusting to the jacketless grips since I was used to shuai jiao/judo. This his a big help, thank you.
