Kung Fu Myth Buster: Pao Chuan, Cannon Fist!! 

Yes sir I have been training for 35 years mainly Chinese and American Kenpo along with some Silat. Been a big fan of Shaolin history. I like how you show the application of the techniques. Finally somebody who knows what they are doing. Thank you!

Just found your site and it is excellent. Keep up the great work!

Bring this series back plz

Sweet! These are interesting ways to use Cannon fist and Tai chi!

Please upload new videos! These are priceless.

Amituofo Shifu 🙏. That's a great video. Could you upload a video about Tong bei quan please? It's because there are some movements that commonly appear in some forms that I don't quite understand like Xu Bu or Gong Bu with some palm punches

Learning Pao Chuan now, this video motivates!

I was waiting to see a video on traditional songshan shaolin form and application. Loved it

It took the myth out of my mouth big skills are you very smart thank you for this amizing upload martin luther will bless you for this real schaolin big work how is the franziskus kung fo me think it is very worth for these way

It's good to see Kung Fu being applied.

Can be the four-way technique of the Aragaki no Sochin of Karate, an application of Pao Chui?

IDk who'll ever read tis but I think that, to be practical, we have to explain the footwork, the potential counters and most importantly the relevance of x technique over y technique ; your tutorial isn't waste at all but I've asked myself what was the advantage of cannon fist over a cross or overhand. Fortunately I've found out for myself (for those who wander, pls ask), but I see that the lack I've just talked about harms the traditional martial arts community

Great vid sifu gonna train it hard im in bakersfield california.

Very nice

This is cool you guys are really good :)

What is the point of throwing the arm back instead of using it to guard your head? I have to wonder if this may be more of a grappling move because it doesn't make much sense to me in the context of striking. If it is recontextualized as an arm drag *into* a strike, then it makes more sense to me. You have control of the wrist, and use the cannon punch to pull them into your strike - that pull would then guard you since the wrist control would temporarily prevent them from rotating properly to hit you.

I wish there was a kung fu fighting tournament where you have to use applied kung fu. WAY BETTER then mma.

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Please post a snake fist form (Tao lu 套路）I believe that you would put up a really good one most of them on RU-vid are terrible

Ya loooks like techniques you can only really use if you are already winning and faster. I think the double cannon fist eye jab thing ur doing is for multiple attackers you only really need to fly both hands for balance and multiple people feints. Like you know you have 3 seconds before the guy behind you will reach you so you throw out a caution double jab in each direction to see what is next.

Nice applications but need to be quick and powerful , these do work but depends on how good you are.

Can you explain why the Cannon Fist utilizes the counter motion of the non-striking arm? I would like to understand why you would utilize this form of strike over other strikes. BTW... love you videos! Thanks!

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Isn't pao chuan a Xing Yi (internal) technique originally?

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MASTER please upload such form application in practical situations. thank you

I love Kung Fu. Multiple Grand Champion, studied in China. 20+ years. BUT, anything related to joint locks is nearly impossible in real combat, unless you are fighting a quadriplegic. My favorite criticism is toward Akido (not KF), in which they have great joint locking in demonstrations, but ZERO joint locking in actual sparring/combat. In particular, when the 'victim' stops moving, all reality disappears, because an effective opponent would not stop.

You might like this one.... My boss in the 1980's told of when he was in Japan with the marines. They were doing push ups, sets of 50. But these were different, they stood straight and put their hands down 2-3 feet in front of themselves. Then in this bent over position they did 50 push ups. One big Marine complained: " I'm not going to have a little girl teach ME self defense! " she walked over to him and stood right in front of him and gave him an upper cut type of punch up at him. She knocked him out for a half an hour 😀. if you try these push ups...put a pillow down in front to pad your fall.

It's okay, it's good

shit youre fast

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Lots of takedowns in your videos.

I'm a multiple grand champion in multiple styles of Kung Fu. But, if it were really more effective than the best MMA fighters, then MMA fighters would use more KF techniques. That's a fact of life. I love Bagua. But, when I search "Bagua vs (any other style of martial arts)", it performs worse than anything. It can still help for fighting, and is still a great meditative practice, but we have to keep it honest. All these zealots say "KF is so dangerous that other fighters or rules or whatever can't handle it". There are no absolutes. If KF were so deadly that it's too dangerous or limited, that would be a copout. If KF were so effective, then even on a limited scale you would see effectiveness against MMA guys, and we have rarely seen it. The devil's advocate: That said, when fighting multiple people, everything changes. For example, if you're used to going to the ground, you're screwed in real life against multiple people, because you can only grapple one person at a time while everyone else is conveniently kicking you in the head. KF teaches you to stay on your feet. Tai Chi is amazing but it takes a decade to use it for fighting. Who wants to wait that long? (uhh me) Also, the best way to train MMA is to spar with people. But, then you're getting injured all of the time. At the end of the day, if one guy did MMA only, he'd be ruined in 10 years or less, but would be a better fighter more quickly than most other styles. If another guy did just KF, he can do it for a life time, but he'll get his butt kicked in the short run lol, and outlast everyone in the long run. If you don't believe me, go watch the hundreds of thousands of elderly people doing amazing KF in parks all over China at sunrise. Amazing.

Nobody is going to stand still while your killing them. Nobody is going to keep there arms extended for you do all of that. This video makes me cringe hard