Masters of Taiwan p1 - Martial History with Liu Kang Yi & the Oldest Bubishi Manual 

So excited to be finally releasing this series! Aside from that, have you checked out my latest tutorial yet? If you want to learn the classic Mantis Fist form White Ape Steals Peach, you can check it out at vimeo.com/ondemand/toutao and use the code TAIWANMASTERS to get 10% off!

I know a certain karate nerd who might be awful jealous of this particular leg of the Taiwan adventure! 😄Can't wait to see more.

Welcome to Taiwan

Very cool book! And yes, some of the moves in the old manuscripts are essentially the same as many modern combatives. It turns out that the basic strikes, basic wrestling, and simple submissions existed pretty much everywhere. I look forward to seeing what else you get up to in Taiwan!

Man Karate nerd would love this. Original techniques of Okinawan karate including grappling

This first episode is a very good introduction! It looks like the quality of pictures has increased, to compare with previous series. Congratulations for the great work and thanks for sharing!

Loved it! I wish I can visit beautiful Taiwan one day. As a child, one of my fondest memories is when my father bought our first VHS video (before we only had Beta) and finally could rent the Kung Fu Kids movies and Lucky Seven, both made in Taiwan.

I lived and studied in Taiwan for ten years starting in 1990... The hot springs up in Yang Ming Mountain is amazing...i used to live up there for years...

Excellent first episode! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series!

Very very interesting, his explanation was very detailed. Also he was kind to show the book with the posture. Luv it.

Good episode there.Cant wait to see the next episode about Bajiquan and the Wutan headquarters there in Taipei

Always able to find the interesting places and people to meet ! One more excellent series !

This was amazing!! I can't wait for part 2

This is great! Very interesting indeed! Many thanks :)

Awesome episode Will. I’m very excited for the next few episodes!

I breathlessly await every episode of your show. Love the troves of information you are putting out there, thank you.

Excellent content as always!

Liu Kang wins. Flawless victory

What an amazing treasure!! Great video mate ;-)

Oh great! Looking forward to the series!

Fantastic, so much treasure in Taiwan and the bookstore! Looking forward to the next episode! Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

thanks for keeping it faithfull to the audience!. keep on the great work!. keep on believing in what you do!.

I loved his bookstore beyond words... an absolute must visit if you ever happen to visit Taipei city.

Fantastic content, much better and authentic than what other commercial camp organisers are putting out. This is real stuff, and top notch material.

Awesome series

Thank you for making this video serial ! This comment by the Master starting from 2:38 as follows " Traditional Martial Arts originated from Military , then spread to civilian. Once it entered civil life, people became concerned about ageing. Once you get old , you lose your Gongfu. People asked if there was any way to prolong the strength power. They looked for ways so they looked in Chinese medicine , Taoism even Buddhism & confucianism. At that time , people wanted to do anything that could further this aim. They absorbed and used it but there was no system to it" ... this is precisely what in the book " Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals , a historical survey " by Brian Kennedy & Elizabeth Guo... CMA in the late Qing dynasty to early Republican era , were publicized in books by various Master s in CMA, they were civilians. When they wrote the books tend to include their personal application of Metaphysical understanding of MA of their respective system. There is nothing wrong with such personal freedom to apply what their beliefs in the MA they majored in. However in Modern times, those practitioners in the West tend to bring along the metaphysics belief into the MA they learned from. Traditional MA was from Military application , that includes all the subjects that many modern days military academies taught as well. However once in civilian hands , it had developed along the lines of individual metaphysics belief as well. So it is good to hear there is a Master in Taiwan could explain how CMA had developed throughout time, and certainly from personal preference to see CMA continues to grow without any attachment of metaphysics to it... anf let that part just part of individual practise rather than being collective as a whole because Traditional MA which has military origin was all about practicality in conducting training the troops and winning the war in the battlefield.

Well that was fascinating!! Looking forward to more of this. That's a TV documentary standard production! Kudos.

Great content

Brilliant!

Thank you for sharing, the martial

Oh, also can you look at the lei tai tournament scene in Taiwan, it’s like Sanda but far more traditional and I would like to explore it.

I appreciated this video. Some background on Taiwanese martial history was great. Keep living the dream - big steps. This series is going to push your channel big time. Great job. Happy for you.

your doing a great thing bud!

Well Done Will nice story

As a Shaolin quan practitioner, I also like Baji quan ( which was the style of many emperor's bodyguards). It is brutal and efficient. Great journey, I wish would be able to joining you in your exciting trips. Keep up the great work! .. I will be looking forward to hour next episode...like and subscribed!

Amazing book store! I have to visit it someday. While investigating Ba Ji Quan you might want to meet with Adam Hsu. I think he is now teaching in one of the parks, maybe near Jiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, can't quite remember. Anyway, his English is pretty good. He lived in California for years. I met him years ago through my Shuai Jiao shifu Daniel Weng. Hsu Shifu moved back to Taiwan a few years ago.

I understand there's a very good Feeding Crane practitioner there, who would be well worth looking up.

Awesome! Jesse Encamp must see it.

I would like to see you interview Sifu Adam Mizner, an obviously divisive character, who, based on my experience with him, has real skills as described in the Taiji classics. I love your channel and realize this would be an explosive interview that would get an unfortunate number of negative comments. It would take a great deal of courage to walk into that interview with an open mind. Regardless, you will be surprised, and even awed, I suspect.

I think I went to that bookstore about 20 years ago with Marcus Brinkman. I wonder if you’ll be catching up with Luo DeXiu or Su DongChen.

You may want to check out little nine heaven kung fu based out of Taiwan I believe they are associated with Tien Shao dao the school combination of Hsing I chuan Tai chi and Bagua

Reminds me that I need to buy some Lion Books lol

Maaan this series seems right up my alley! Thanks for the video. BTW, Is that a poster of Sifu Adam Hsu when you're about to enter the bookstore? I used to study at one of the schools headed by two of his students, but location's been tough recently.

Wow, when I saw that colorized bubishi (wu bei ji) my heart skipped a beat... The Japanese needs to be honored in this respect. They kept better records of this than the Chinese did... There is a written 108 volume of Bubishi in Taiwan University years ago. I don’t know if it is still there or if you are able to go visit.. It goes from training to mapping to developing weapons to strategies and on to how to raise stock, army, food then down to personal combat... The shifu's hypothesis is very interesting especially the third theory... I will add my own if you care to read... One, old China was warring a lot. And bandits were everywhere...martial arts were practiced for life and death situations thus making it more effective.. That leads to two, It got watered down during peace times so it became more about health and self-preservation... On another note...looks like you have the long fist Tanglang men next.. I am interested if you will be showing the other four styles of Tanglang in Taiwan... My grand Master was master Su Yu-Chang who was a master of all five mantis plus he was one of the three students of the most famous presidential body guard, Baji Master, Liu Yun Chow... I hope you will show case and document the famous Baji Master Liu Yun Chow and personally, find my grand Master 's students in Pachi-Tanglang which I think is in Ping Tung... Love your series..makes me want to be young and back in China/Taiwan again... Thank you for the great videos and your journey...

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Why you didn’t came to Tainan- it would be a pleasure to introduce you to a famous Tanglang master

Plus there’s the school of master Too

#viierjkd was here. 😉🤛💥

Okinawa karate came from the Tang dynasty and the Ming government who deployed 36 families in the liu chooo

You mean to tell me Liu Kang is a real person🤣😂interesting

subtitles are not clear, please clarify so everyone can read them for contrast in thickness

secret martial arts manuals, did he have the nine yin bone claw manual? what about the eighteen dragon subduing palm?

Question, would you say that the martial culture of Chinese martial arts are better preserved in the Chinese Diaspora or in China itself, I know it seems like Ann easy question, but from what I understand there are a great deal of frauds in China and far less so in other Chinese communities throughout East and Southeast Asia.

I have question. Is there a connection between Ninjutsu and Chinese kungfu. They say there’s connect between Hsing-I and Ninpo taijutsu. Just seems interesting. Thank you

I lived in Taipei Taiwan for over three years and I was exposed to a lot of good martial arts there especially praying mantis. Ironically, some of that traditional praying mantis still exists in mainland China. The only problem is it is difficult to find but when you do, it is awesome And it almost matches Taiwan praying mantis as well. The sad thing about mainland. China is most of the martial arts that you will see is contemporary wushu

There are kungfu enthusiast who loves kungfu by talking about it but not actually doing it.

Have you been to Philippines and South Africa?

Very nice & authentic feel

易筋经内壮功法具有实践意义的有庄欣荣的金刚体内功。此外还有黄氏易筋经，金警钟 浑元一气功， 宝鼎 十三段内功。吞气或者咽气的练法似乎不是上等武学。

I'm in Kaohsiung now. If you come here I'll introduce you to some teachers/practitioners etc...✌️

Have you tried to ge in contact with 'the wandering warrior' he is a fellow youtuber based in taiwan and does shuai jiao taiwan style and praying mantis

Wubei Zhi, or Bubishi in Japanese, is written by Mao Yuanyi (茅元儀 1594-1640?) in Ming Dynasty of China. Unless you are a Japanese and not communicating with others language speakers, when referring to this book, please use the correct Chinese name instead of Japanese. This is a respect of the culture. Imagine when people call Japanese name in Chinese pronunciation, it will create not only confusion but also disrespect. E.g. saying "De Chuan Jia Kang" (徳川家康) instead of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Jiangyushan later?'

Great channel, I love the content. I saw that you practice Brazilian Ju Jutsu? So is the Brazilian art for fighting and the Kung fu a hobby, or do you also use your Chinese arts for combat?

I always thought taiwan was too friendly with japan to hold onto chinese culture and real kung fu. Maybe the sport wushu but never actual hung gar or choy li fut

Taiwan, Republic of China 中華民國，台灣

With all do respect - deepest respects - there is definitely a different modern cultural perspective towards traditional Chinese martial arts in Hong Kong and Taiwan than Mainland China. I have no idea why in Mainland China they - especially the government run media - feels the continual need to perpetuate this unrealistic, mythical, anachronistic, representation of Shaolin monk kung fu/chuan fa/wushu. How often do we see Mainland China produced kung fu videos - usually by state media - on RU-vid with hyperbolic titles ("Feel the Power of Kung Fu"), where the camera is sped up (undercranked), choreographed fights misrepresented to be real, and where people go flying 20 feet backwards from a palm strike? Why do they need to do this? I far prefer the academic approach of preserving traditional Chinese martial arts that is going on in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It's far more sincere, honest, and respectful to the rich history of martial arts. For example, there is a video that can be searched here on RU-vid where preservationists in Hong Kong are making virtual 3-D recordings of surviving masters of various kung fu styles doing forms.