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I met master Lu in manila once before way back 2008 long time, ago, I got the previledge also to visit, Beng Kiam who teach the same style White Crane Fujian. Ling Nam has that too, they are great masters, master Lu, Master Tan. But one club did disappear, is the Philippine Enee, headed by Ang Li Sing and his son Ang Lip Ben, they teach Chi Dian Boon, but you cannot find it there in chinatown they migrated to canada. the only authentic chinese martial arts left in manila is Kong Han, Beng Kiam, and Ling Nam.
As a Goju-ryu practicioner, I've enjoyed watching ancestor style of my style. Thank you! Although forms may differ but principles are the very same, obviously. And I'd say that drinking wine is much enjoyable way of knowledge transfer than internet. :)
Greetings, I can see and understand you enjoying this. Me too! The wrist knocking was reminding me of the wrist- and forearm hardening/conditioning techniques we do in Shorin Ryu. (You can see this in a partner exercise here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-obEsDzZ3Slc.html) I try to train and harden my arms and hands at work by hitting metal pols or surfaces because I don't have a partner I can train with. I had the pleasure of a blackbelt's arms at the lesson. It hurted, but I was more on fire then to do more conditioning! Thank you for sharing this videos! They show very nicely the lineage of traditional Okinawa Karate techniques to it's chinese roots.
Great Video, I have lived in this very building for nearly 3 years. Sifu Henry Lo is my very good friend and brother..I look at him like a elder brother and mentor during my time in binondo. Its great to see that he didnt change a bitconsidering ist 13 years ago since I moved back to germany. He actually let me use his school to teach hung kuen when I lived there. Great times!
This video means a lot to me. My family is Chinese from the Manilla area. I remember my uncle showing me Wuzuquan when I was a kid. He didn't train at the Kong Han Athletic Association but apparently another school which was nearby. My father told me there was also Tai Chi offered in Manilla's Chinatown at the time (60 something years ago). He also says that though the majority of Chinese in Chinatown were Fujianese, there was a smattering of Cantonese. When I showed my father the Hung Kuen I learned in Hong Kong, he said he remembered some Cantonese doing that as well. Thank you for highlighting this part of Chinese martial arts culture!
Good to see you back on the path of doing interviews in Asia again after the long covid lock down and lock out! Can't wait to see more. Respect the martial families in the Philippines!
Awesome video !!! This is a great art , I feel very fortunate to have studied it under Sifu Jeff Yang 4th generation in the Kong Han Ngo Cho linage in relatively small town Ohio . This art and the Kong Han school have lots of history and legendary figures with legendary stories. Definitely a fighting art that runs very deep for those willing to look beyond the surface !!! Thank you for making the trip and sharing this art with such a large audience !!!👊👊👊👊👊
Very interesting part about the whole body getting repaired and renewed after the injury, not just the injured part. That's why it is also beneficial for your health to donate blood.
Hey Sifu Will, I am a disciple of Sifu Russ Smith and our WuZuQuan or NgoChoKun Lineage traces to the Philippine Beng Kiam Athletic Association Located in Manila i believe. A rich Lineage of Fujian Five Ancestor Boxing from one of the famous Sijo Chua GiokBeng's (Cai YuMing) top students GM Tan Kiong Beng, One of the NgoCho Ten Tigers.
Hi Sifu Will, if you interested you can visit my sifu in Semarang, Indonesia, he is like "time capsule" of kuntao from Southern China, because our great grand master Louw Djing Tie came to Java before Ip Man was born. He practise Yong Chun, Wu Taichi...and some more. Our dojo is Garuda Emas Sematang.
Daymm louw djing tie is a kung fu legend or pendekar in indonesia right ? Do you have any other branches in jakarta or tangerang beside in semarang ? I’m really intrested to learn
hi! while you're in Binondo, you might want to check out Philippine Wenyang Sports Association. I learned traditional wushu there when i was in college. I practiced Qixing Tanglang Quan (seven star praying mantis fist). My shifu was Arnold Buenviaje. He still actively teaches wushu and lion dance today
I trained briefly in 5 Ancestors Fist, which while called "Tat Kun To" in the Philippines, I was taught it is named "Ngo Cho Kun" In Fujian. I'm a little confused by the naming difference here.
Ngo Cho is the Fujian dialect pronunciation, whereas Wuzu is the standard Mandarin. I use Wuzu to keep it consistent with my other videos so people know its still the same style
Interesting to see how fujian martial arts went southeast to the Philippines as well as northeast to Okinawa and then Japan. That pole training looks really interesting and there were a lot of other pole weapons racked up in that training space. Excellent video Thanks for sharing.
0:39 ahhh, the Jeepneys, trademark of the Philippines! I was in one once when some prankster threw a huge firecracker in it, everyone just covered their ears and went along as nothing happened lol.
I met master Lu in manila once before way back 2008 long time, ago, I got the previledge also to visit, Beng Kiam who teach the same style White Crane Fujian. Ling Nam has that too, they are great masters, master Lu, Master Tan. But one club did disappear, is the Philippine Enee, headed by Ang Li Sing and his son Ang Lip Ben, they teach Chi Dian Boon, but you cannot find it there in chinatown they migrated to canada. the only authentic chinese martial arts left in manila is Kong Han, Beng Kiam, and Ling Nam.
Every time I look into Kung Fu it looks so not that useful from the outside when you just look at the form and don't know what's going on, but then they go into the application and the literal second thing they'll teach you as a single leg takedown lol . Kung fu is gangster like that
great video, i would love if you so would come to switzerland to our traditional school of hunggar, we are the school under direct lineage of gm chiu chi ling and my sifu martin sewer is going to be the succesor of him, i am sure we could do great content and spreading southern chinese martial arts more, please feel free and hit me up if you would be interested in that😊
Those are nice moves. I would put it in the martial arts category and not real combat. A real fight is over after 2-4 seconds. Do you also do these movements in a practice fight, where you can feel it realistically? A real punch from cover takes less than half a second for a practiced fighter. For inexperienced 1 second.
Lord, Manila has gotten so dirty... I have not been back there since 1995... I miss the days that President Ferdinand Marcos was President... That was when the Philippines was the envy of Southeast Asia where other countries sent their brightest for education in Medicine, Pharmacology, and Engineering... Not any more...Ay, Nago... Pinoy accent and all... Talaga... Suddenly I'm hungry for Pancit, Balut, and Hopia....All originated in China that ancestors brought to the Philippines.
