Exploring Chinese Kung Fu and martial Arts through videos of Kung Fu practitioners I've met and also through my own training. I travel to China regularly and document my training experiences and adventures. If I can keep my training up as a man over 50, you can too! Let my Kung Fu journey help inspire you to improve your life!
I met him before, Seafo PAN, When I was 6 years old At the Debut of talents of the Eagle, When I was living in Erie Pennsylvania. He was a very nice man, They answered all of my questions About his hands. I was honored to Meet him once in my life.
To everyone wondering, as I read the comments, I have studied and stay for a bit over a year in wudang. (most of it under Chen) For the most part I was quite sad to realise it was heavily commercial place. Of course as you would understand when you understand how political all this is. How ever there is possibility to meet good training and some really amazing hidden gems. I would sadly say that if you want something authentic avoid Chen school as much as possible. Although many will tell you he's amazing I saw mostly a money hungry, show oriented person. Always there to make tea ceremoney with rich people, having lady parading around him as he loves the attention, etc (as you saw on the first clip the chool lack a lot of discipline.) In all fairness his kung fu is really great, just not an amazing teacher. Over all I will say if you're looking for a more traditional like you'd find in shaolin, go to Yuan but in my opinion if you want "real" gong fu, Find a master called Ming Yue. Sadly when I was there he was still building up his guanxi so often away for meet ups with officials or other investors but ever session he was there were worth 3 months at any other places. I don't know if he still have his school or not but he was one of the few true martial artist and seeker I would say I have met there. I Imagine there's many other good teacher too but of course I didn't have the time to meet them all.
Shifu, you're one of the best of wudang masters and I'm glad you took the time to explain this to us in English. It's true we consume far too much protein in the west that's why most of us are too tall, too stocky and too thick with poor flexibility and stamina.
@@a.peng13 all is well. I’ve been working through some injuries and I’ve been a bit lazy with social media. But I’ve been keeping up the training! I saw you did some competitions. That’s great!
@@DaWeiGongfuah that’s no fun… yes I’ve done a few! I was actually in Toronto last year for the Pan American championship, I’ll have to make sure to plan a visit to you next time I’m in the area!
If a teacher abuses their student the teacher has failed on every level. Pain doesn't teach anything, those who inflict it to enforce respect don't deserve to be listened to.
Is this a part of Tiger Kung Fu style? If I want to learn Tiger Kung for self-defence, is there any specific style in the Tiger Kung Fu and which on do you recomend me for self-defence?
I haven't spoken to Master Yuan in a while, but I keep in touch with his disciple Jake weekly. Master Yuan has built a new school since the time of this video and it is going very well.
Yes, they practice sparring daily and fight in competitions. I'm in the process of making a video with the first demonstrator fighting two people in a sparring match, back to back (not at the same time). The forms (dance) helps with balance, speed, and technique. A lot like bag work (which they also do) and shadow boxing in western boxing.
I will read you Angel of Throwns, you are fishing for your future planted show, am I right, it only takes seconds to read you by me. So it's the battle of the male warriors am I right, you're working now with the Alexander the Great group ha Angel of Throwns? You better be ready coz I do the smashing instantly. How about the Zeus group did you already have a pact of fuck with yourselves to go against the Caesar King, you're so desperate now, am I right Angel of Throwns? Or you are pitting them against me to get rid of them because I know how a snake like you are Angels of Thrown , am I right again ha ? I will now break your wings you useless manipulator Angels. Krrrkk ! Let it be. Now I'm waiting for the Zeus group or Kratos or Ares Mars or Alexander the Great or Achilles or the Cult doctors to commit mistakes, and you know what will happen to them, instantly.
I'd say getting getting slammed their backs on cold concrete ground from 5 feet up with no back padding or head padding in the middle of winter makes it way tougher than MMA "full contact" with cushy padded spring floors.
I think it would be better to learn standard changquan(long fist) or tantui. It contains a lots of side kick, the kick itself and the flow before and after don't seems so natural. The students are not performing this well, because it is not a good introductory form.
He did a demonstration at the Chinese New Year celebration at the Kitchener City Hall in 1997, I wanna say. It was the first and only time I met him, a really nice guy.
@@grimthreeper1173 He didn't meet Bruce lee or jackie Chan. He did mention a few times having respect for Bruce Lee's fighting skill. He said "He has REAL Kung Fu". He did know a lot of famous Martial Arts movie stars in China, who are very renowned, but maybe less known here in the west. A lot he met while doing movies himself, like "The Shaolin Temple". He made a movie with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper from the WWE. He liked him quite a bit.
Chinese kung fu that include throws, grappling, and wrestling are more useful than just striking... yet the chinese refuse to acknowledge them and only focus on the more "prettier" forms of kung fu that is mostly useless. The chinese did have a history of wrestling and grappling moves. That is a fact.
It's true. My master (Pan Qing Fu) incorporated throws, wrestling and joint locks in every class, to complement the weapons and forms we were learning. He liked that, in his words, "Kung Fu is beautiful" because it attracted people and kept them interested, but that everything we did had to be related back to fighting. There is modern Chinese grappling called Shuai Jiao that is taught and trained. Though, I think it doesn't get as much attention as Wushu forms etc. these days. It has a long history and can be traced back 6,000 years. Pan Qing Fu taught me the term Shuai Jiao, but also nicknamed it "Chinese Judo". I thought that was funny. 😀
