Welcome to the Mu Shin Martial Culture Channel! I'm Byron Jacobs, and I have been practicing martial arts for the majority of my life with a deep focus on Chinese martial arts. I have lived and studied in Beijing for over a decade, studying under a renowned old generation master of Chinese martial arts, and I have worked extensively in this field for 2 decades. This channel is dedicated to the martial arts practices and their related culture and lifestyle aspects.
With a unique insight into the technical aspects, language and cultural nuances of these arts, this channel aims to share with the world instructional videos of a superior technical standard and insights into the culture surrounding the arts and people involved in these practices, which are very rarely seen outside of the far east. Currently we do this through our ventures of the instructional videos, in depth discussions on our "Drunken Boxing Podcast", and focused feature program named "Senki".
77 years old and he still can execute his moves so gracefully! Chinese Internal Martial Arts one of the greatest benefits have got to be it's age defying effects and the vitality it grants its practitioners
Excellent form and demonstration. I learned a deer horn blades (crescent knives) set from Andrew Dale in Seattle. I always enjoyed free sparing with them against a staff-- it gives ones an appreciation of how effective they become in close-range against a long weapon. Cheers
just so you know hinmsyana is a derogatory term meaning inferior vehicle. the word was made up by mahayana Buddhists to refer to older forms of buddhism. I believe the polite term is theravada. of course as a Vajrayana Buddhist it's not really relevant to me personally.
Thanks, although the term isn't necessarily derogatory. I have had Theravada teachers use the term with me directly simply as a differentiation from Mahayana sects.
It’s not derogatory. It means that Hinayana deals with the freedom of oneself (small vehicle) and Mahayana deals with everyone’s freedom of suffering (greater vehicle).
It sadens me that Ma Xiaohe either allowed TongBei to become watered down by adding Shuai Zhao or maybe he passed away before Wang Yu Kun gave the green light to start mixing styles. This is why Shi Pa still holds on to tradition. Im looking at modern TCM today like what is really authentic any more...
Well, cross training was quite common even back in the day, so it's not necessarily to be considered watering down. It depends on how it is implemented
It's beautiful to see someone work so hard to preserve their art. I'm glad they got protected status and are teaching all those kids and schools. Hopefully, Tong Bei will be preserved for future generations
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What great instruction! :) And a great voice to listen to as well. Very calming. Great video quality and audio selection. I'm once again reigniting my lifelong study of Hsing-I - after many years away (was just relearning chicken form today lol) - and I will enjoy checking out your instructionals to enhance and refresh my studies. Excellent content. Sincerely, thank you for taking the time to share your hard work and skillful ability with others.
The primary problem with TCMA is the practitioners rarely, if ever, engage in unscripted, non-compliant, hard contact sparring. Practicing a Set is a way of engraining good structure. It needs to be regularly pressure tested in order to transfer to real world. Painful, but, 100% necessary.
