Hello , i am the National Team Coach Of Lebanon 🇱🇧 (middle east) thank you for this great video of Sanda and glad you enjoyed the world championship, and great result for team USA
well it is very practical, imagine the stage is the sidewalk, if you fall from it you land on a busy traffic and some random cars can crush you head/body !
Dragon Ball is based on a Chinese folk story called Journey To The West. Goku is the name of the Monkey King. The stage that Sanda uses came from an ancient Chinese combat sport called Lei Tai. It used to be much taller, so ppl would fall off and get injured.
One of the best things a coach can do is to be scouting the opponent the whole time and figuring out what will work while their fighter might be in a fog of war in the ring. Especially on an international stage where your opposing team might not process what you're coaching in time, calling out offense can be effective in scoring and in boosting your fighter's confidence.
Thanks for sharing this, Seth. I’m glad to see more martial arts RUclipsrs cover a highly underrated martial art. I myself would love to train in it, but I’ve yet to find a Kung Fu school that offers it. Hopefully Sanda will be more widely accepted in the U.S. like Muay Thai and BJJ are.
In China most see Sanda as a mixture of western kickboxing and wrestling which isn’t “authentic” kung fu, yet ironically it is somehow the most practical Chinese martial art. That’s probably why kung fu schools don’t teach it.
The catch wrestling alliance HAVE a sanda program combined with catch wrestling for MMA. Dr. Raul Ramirez studied in China as well as UK ( snake pit wigan catch wrestling).
@@max123456max1this is not the most practical kungfu. Only that is hard to find good traditional around the world. But to claim it is just BS. The same servers for any styles. A lot of MFs without real graduation in BJJ are making money in the Us cause a lot of dumb people gets impressed by the basics.
Aw man, my heart is so full. Sanda checks all the boxes for me: full contact, use of gear (which can mean less injury, longer careers), traditional Chinese ethos, throws, lives off pressure testing. I wish that it was more popular in the United States and/or it was included into the Olympics (if it isn't already).
The current format is basically ready made for the Olympics. It's got national teams, protective equipment, colors, a clear point system, fast and action packed fights. Literally all that's needed is someone to add it to the line up and to avoid changing any rules.
I can't think of a better format for a striking art. Let Taekwondo remain foot fencing if they want, but this should be the format most martial arts competitions use. I suppose the lack of knees and elbows might cause some contention, but it's otherwise very well set up as far as amateur competition goes.
I'd mostly agree except for the head padding, which makes the sport look safer because there's a lack of broken skin, but can make brain injury more likely because what would have been a glancing blow without the head padding can still snap the head around.
Seth, this was one of the best videos I have ever seen covering athletics and Team USA. I honestly believe this could have easily been a TV spot on a major network. I love Sanda and your honest and loving coverage of this tournament, along with your sports enthusiasm and ability to get up close and personal with the fighters and the mats was emotional to watch. This had me on the edge of my chair, with butterflies in my stomach, waiting for the outcomes of such amazing matches. You emotionally hooked me with the introductions, sparring, and story telling and you kept me with the dramatic Team USA coverage. Well done, sir. I love your content, but this and your sumo content is by far and away the best work you've done.
Thank you again so much for coming out to the HYX 16th World Wushu Championships and featuring our sport of Wushu Sanda, for using some of my footage, and for indulging me when we finally met 😂 I am glad to have met you in-person; like Jeff Chan aka MMAShredded, you are exactly the person you seem like in your videos, which is a genuine and honest quality I feel is lacking in most martial artists, particularly traditionalists, and I hope to meet you again in the future! Also credit to the awesome Serena Chai for inviting you to come watch Sanda and be a guest commentator! I have also passed on your message of thanks to Serena, and she was touched! We hope you had a great time! 🙂
Yo watching this I felt myself tearing up because I have been doing Wushu for so long and praising Sanda but no one seemed to take it seriously. Seeing you share this moment and seeing these athletes’ passion for the sport really moved me. Thank you Seth 🙏
Probably because it's trying hard to be something that already exists. Like Pankration, Sport Ju Jutsu/Combat Ju Jutsu or Sport Sambo. They're all MMA light. It doesn't mean they suck, only that they will get the appropriate amount of attention.
@@peartree8338 It's just another flavor of combat sport in the same way that all other striking and grappling sports are separate. Even competing MMA orgs have different rules, so I don't understand why you're hating.
@@peartree8338 "trying hard to be something that already exists"...oh boy.... sanda has been around before sport sambo, sport jujutsu and most MMA tourney you see today...
@@gaelmargrace I thought they were training savate in the episode, and they were up on a raised platform, and one of the host during his match just caught opponents kick then rushing him and pushing him off the raised area
Bro why did I get emotional at the bit about all the Americans doing this sport just because they love it, and how they struggle to do it when all these other countries get support for it. I was not prepared to be hit in the feels like this I hope you continue to cover this Seth, and I would love to see you fight in it! I think you'd do great
The way this video wrapped up was inspiring AF! Especially after knowing everything the American athletes had to sacrifice to get there and be competitive (even getting on the podium) against paid fighters, that gave me goosebumps.
I've been practising Sanda for 3 months without any prior martial arts background. It's an insanely fun sport. Always a pleasure to see your vids Seth!
I swear the only truly bad part is that this sport isn't more popular and have more places teaching it. It melds well with just about everything and is so much fun! I miss training sanda. Given my current location, I miss kyokushin, Dutch kickboxing, and muay thai as well. Awesome video, Seth!!!!
I discovered San Shou/Sanda when I lived in Baltimore for a few years. Met Cung Le before his fight, oh he KO’d his opponent in devastating fashion! I already trained in boxing and Wing Chun so I was hooked from the jump! Anyway, I still can’t understand why this sport hasn’t taken off in US?!? Promoting and awareness is of course a major factor. Even on the amateur level it’s hard to find competition? What a shame.
So glad you showcased Sanda. Not many people know it and I feel its the more functional form of Kung Fu because of tournaments like this. For the people who say Kung fu doesnt work. This is the real example. Also super proud of the three competitors.
Ok this might sting but... this is kickboxing. You're saying "Kung Fu" (Wushu) works because of competitions where techniques are altered so that they're more or less just kickboxing? And I've gone from Goju-Ryu to Wushu to Combat Sambo to MMA and BJJ. The amount of "relearning" I've had to go through just to shed karate and wushu habits is astonishing. So no... it's not proof that Wushu works. It's proof that you always need to adapt, change and evolve and not get stuck.
@@peartree8338 What is Kickboxing? All martial arts incorporates some form of striking involving fist and foot. I'll use Kung fu since modern wushu is synonymous as something asthetic and performative rather than combative. Kung fu has a wider arsenal but not all of it can be tested nor fit into a sporting format. I dont know what habits you had to shed but I assume you knew the difference between form and functionality. Since the kickboxing aspect of martial arts is what people narrow mindly value then the art has to be distilled down to just that aspect for people to see its value. However a lot is actually missed just because the format and the context in which people competed doesnt actually fit the reality of the world and real combat..
9:11 I didn't even notice you in the background the first time lmao Also I love how you're bringing more attention to these under appreciated forms of martial arts. I also like how you show off martial arts-related things that aren't necessarily about fighting (like choreographed fights, stunts, parkour, pro wrestling, etc), keep up the good work!
Having been a Sanda practitioner myself, I am very happy to see that you are giving Sanda the visibility it totally deserves, I think is a great form of martial arts, and a great sport too. I love this martial art since it always going to be the first one I practiced, and just amazing work overall!
Man...I'm jealous. I really (REALLY) wanted to attend, but, life got in the way. Hope you had fun! Sanda is my absolute FAVORITE style of kickboxing and combat sport in general. 🎉
SOME OF THE BEST CONTENT OUT THERE Seth not only goes out and teaches us about these things but instead of just reporting as many do my boy learns it and tries everything out first hand so we know exactly how it goes down not just a book learning version thank you Seth for all the azz kicking you endure and victory's you win for us
I had the opportunity to spar with Vincent Meng several years ago. The gym where I train is a branch from his father’s school out of Ohio. He came down to Texas to train with us while he was getting ready to try out for the USA team. When I say that his kicks were fast… you could not see those things coming. I’m glad this sport is starting to get recognized, and hopefully this video helps spread it to folks who haven’t heard of it yet.
That was the most electrifying video I've seen in a while. I damn neared cried seeing Team USA take those wins. I've been super curious about sanda recently, so this was a hell of a coincidence 😂 Great content as always, Sensei!
I'm was a Sanda fighter back in the days here in Brazil. Fought in a lot of tournaments, and seeing the Sanda in one of your videos is so good!! Now you have to try it, like you have done with others martial arts. Go practice, go to a tournament! You're gonna love it.
Finally someone's talking about sanda! I am training it for 20 years & when I visit academies of other martial arts pretty often at the beginning they're kinda making fun of me that I'm training Kung Fu for 20 years, during the sparings they look totally shocked and after they want to know more 😊
As a Taiwanese college student learning Sanda, watching this video brings me great joy It's truly an awesome sport! I hope to see more videos like this in the future Keep it up👊
This was a whole season of anime in one video. Amazing all around. 👏👏From the martial arts and story to the editing. 👏👏 Me being a Texan and hearing the offer of BBQ and Whiskey, you can't dare refuse.
I did the Taiwanese version of Sanda back in the 80’s (Kuoshu) when I was a kid. I’ve always loved this format and wished that it had gained the same popularity as karate’s point fighting and judo in the US. Alas, internal politics in the US prevented Sanda from really flourishing (same old story, really, with all Chinese martial arts in the US, ever wonder why shuaijiao is so unknown in America?). All that BS played out in the 1990’s, when Sanda was more popularly known as Sanshou. Cung Le is the closest the US ever had to an international superstar in Sanda. I think as China produces more world-class MMA fighters with Sanda backgrounds, we’ll start to see more of it outside of its traditional sphere of popularity. Thanks for the vid, Seth! Glad you brought some light on this awesome and very practical fighting sport!
I live in the same city the USA Sanda team trains at. I used to go to this gym when I was younger but didn’t stick with it, but man I really regret not sticking with it. They were great coaches, I just didn’t have the discipline at the time to stick with it. This video motivates me to try again.
I think Seths ability to make us continually root for people we have and never will meet is why his videos are popular. I'm eleven minutes in and Livingstones about to compete and I want him to win so bad and he's just a dude on my screen. Seths ability to create storylines in short videos is his strength and I appreciate it
Coach Lee and Coach Johnson are pretty amazing. They were coaching exactly what their athletes needed to do and predicted their opponents so well. Amazing team. This was such a great mini documentary.
This is amazing! As a non-American, I always see wushu competitions and such being held in Southeast Asia from time to time but I had no idea that the US had such a strong and passionate sanda team that was world class! Excellent video, Seth! And please give us the video of you and that cigar-smoking coach!
This video hits close to home because this is my first and currently only martial arts style I've been practicing. The fights look a lot different and carry a deeper emotion when I've been in the position of the fighter, kitted out in armor and getting battered and thrown around while doing the same to the other guy.
Dear Seth. I've been watching your videos for a while and I'd love to thank you for sharing with us this great adventure of exploring the world's martial arts and also your participation in them. All that not only in informative, but also entertaining way. I wish you great holidays and look forward to see more in 24.
so nice to see Sanda featured more, it's such a beautiful and practical art it's sad that people don't know much about it. it is on par with Muay Thai on striking art (maybe the only one that can compete with Muay Thai standing up), while it focuses less on elbow/knee (below the neck is allowed), it compensates with thousands of ways to takedown!!!
So happy to see a popular martial arts youtuber attending, commentating, trying some moves at our World Wushu Championships, this is so cool! Sanda is severely underrated for what has potential to be one of the best allrounder martial arts out there. If you have any footage of the taolu side of the competition, please share, I would love to see your reactions of watching this level in person!
Thank you Seth, I've been wondering about Sanda ever since I saw Zabit fighting in the UFC...the smooth transitions from grappling to kickboxing always seemed perfect for MMA. Great content as always! Thank you.
Amazing video! Thankyou for sharing SANDA to the world. This truly is a S tier martial art that no one knows about. Thank you for helping us grow this sport! Hope to see you at Coach Lee's gym soon. Great job team USA!!!! Great job Seth on a fantastic video.
I've been telling people that Sanda is an effective martial art. It's basically kickboxing with wrestling then combine it with jiu-jitsu and you're set for MMA
I used to train Sanda and loved it. Did one amateur competition (not at this level, or like any level really). Been 15 years since I trained but would love to find a class in London. It's an amazing sport. Great video.
my boxing instructor fought in Sanda when he was 19 I think, I had no idea he could even kick. So when I realized he could kick, I asked to spar with him. Worst decision of my life.
Men I'm so grateful for this i used to practice this sport, actually kung fu wushu, but it's so exciting to me see all the things that you showed us, thank u man
Not a style tho, the sport was created for the purpose of people who trained many different, practical styles to be able to have some sort of competition post Chinese cultural revolution (as the cultural revolution was what generated the non-fight oriented, but instead performance oriented practice you see nowadays in Wushu). It is basically a Chinese equivalent of MMA, just the ruleset evolved in a even more point oriented system (and kept the "throwing people out of stage", which is awesome and opens up a lot of very funny tactics :D).
@@KeyserSoze23 i understand what you mean.sanda as a sport was very influenced by non chinese martial arts.but i think its more similar to old japanese kickboxing with judo,than muay thai with judo
Thank you for the best breakdown of Sanda on RUclips! - I wish there was a Sanda gym where I live. I believe every martial art brings something unique to the table and the health benefits are just so amazing. Keep training hard.
Thank you for donig whatever you can to search out and explore just about every corner of martial arts and combat sports out there. And be willing to approach all of this with a great open mind.
So cool to knew you were at the WWC! I knew some who participated in the Belgian delegation! :) I hope you also managed to check out some of the Taolu competition, it was apparently a WILD world cup.
Definitely appreciate this video on a cool and underrated system! What I like the most is that there were sections about the arena’s design and the rules!!!
Hell yeah dude, Sanda is awesome and underrated. I got to train in it for a little while coming from mostly TKD/Judo and it felt like a natural transition. We better see you on the Lei Tai in the next one
I originally started training in sanda when I was much younger (I had my first fight under sanda rulles), in a city where the only option was traditional american kickboxing. I remember wondering why people choose kickboxing before sanda because it was such a beatiful art. After some time I got a lot more into kick boxing because it was easier to get people to train and also to compete, now seeing this i got to remember this amazing part of my martial arts originis. thank you seth you are so fucking cool!!!
Seth that was so well put together!! The whole thing. You’re becoming a great story teller on top of being a great martial artist. I love your stuff!! 👊🥋🦶
Great video, Seth! I love seeing you cover less well known martial arts. Ive been studying historical fencing (HEMA) for 15+ years and have seen it go from unknown to mostly unknown but channels like yours help. Love it, thank you!
I wish they had this in schools across the USA....I am guessing there are not many schools in the USA. I rather watch this than any "karate tournament " in the US. It shows the dedication of the USA competitiors when they give up everything to go against like professional fighters from China.
That big about how the other countries have state sponsored athletics, and Americans have to literally give up everything just to compete at the same level hit hard. It makes every medal and win an American gets so much more powerful.
This was awesome! You might want to try and do a video on the Chinese fast wrestling Shuai Jiao in the future. It’s considered one of the oldest styles of Kung Fu, and one of the roughest. In tournaments they only concentrate on throws and takedowns, but they have all the strikes and kicks of regular Kung Fu. The main idea though is to hit your opponent’s body with the earth.
phenomenal video! really informative, interesting and most important of all, authentic and real. So cool to see Sanda and TeamUSA getting some love! Such a fun sport. bravo! 👍
Thank you Coach Josh! I shouted out CPMMA but it didn't make the cut! ☹️ Though to be fair, I also talked too much 😅 But we can ride this momentum, CPMMA can be the premiere gym to train and host Sanda in the East Coast! Let's make it happen! 💪
Yeeeees! Sanda was my first foray into combat sports some 16 years ago and I still have a soft spot for its combination of kickboxing and throws. Hope we see more Sanda content in the future. Did you stick around for any of the taolu events? It's fancy dancing, sure, but the athleticism of those competitors is crazy.
Seth Sensei, I love the attention you shine on some of the lesser known martial arts. Keep on doing what you have been doing. I also appreciate that your just a good guy whose videos I can show to my kids. Keep up the good work.
I really liked these rules and competition. I think it could really take over as a MMA sport as unlike the ones we got, this is less blood more sport while still allowing for most techniques. It could even show up in the Olympics eventually as it's family friendly. It's also likely to refresh kung fu as it's a good way to practice techniques against resisting opponents. It's even better then other MMA as it's less punishing making it easier to do more practice matches without the need to hold back.
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Hello , i am the National Team Coach Of Lebanon 🇱🇧 (middle east) thank you for this great video of Sanda and glad you enjoyed the world championship, and great result for team USA
my heart with Lebanon. Against the zion machine.
Sanda is like the World Martial Arts Tournament in Dragon Ball. If you fall off the stage, you lose.
So true!!
It was likely based on Sanda.
where did u think dbz got it from lol
well it is very practical, imagine the stage is the sidewalk, if you fall from it you land on a busy traffic and some random cars can crush you head/body !
Dragon Ball is based on a Chinese folk story called Journey To The West. Goku is the name of the Monkey King. The stage that Sanda uses came from an ancient Chinese combat sport called Lei Tai. It used to be much taller, so ppl would fall off and get injured.
Phenomenal video, man 👏 Absolutely love the shot you captured at 13:55 of Coach Cory calling out the combo and Livingston hitting it on cue.
That was nasty huh?? Thank you!
One of the best things a coach can do is to be scouting the opponent the whole time and figuring out what will work while their fighter might be in a fog of war in the ring. Especially on an international stage where your opposing team might not process what you're coaching in time, calling out offense can be effective in scoring and in boosting your fighter's confidence.
You need to get people to learn about this art
Thanks for sharing this, Seth. I’m glad to see more martial arts RUclipsrs cover a highly underrated martial art. I myself would love to train in it, but I’ve yet to find a Kung Fu school that offers it. Hopefully Sanda will be more widely accepted in the U.S. like Muay Thai and BJJ are.
I second the last sentence. Sanda is my dream martial art to train
In China most see Sanda as a mixture of western kickboxing and wrestling which isn’t “authentic” kung fu, yet ironically it is somehow the most practical Chinese martial art. That’s probably why kung fu schools don’t teach it.
The catch wrestling alliance HAVE a sanda program combined with catch wrestling for MMA. Dr. Raul Ramirez studied in China as well as UK ( snake pit wigan catch wrestling).
@@max123456max1this is not the most practical kungfu. Only that is hard to find good traditional around the world. But to claim it is just BS. The same servers for any styles. A lot of MFs without real graduation in BJJ are making money in the Us cause a lot of dumb people gets impressed by the basics.
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Aw man, my heart is so full. Sanda checks all the boxes for me: full contact, use of gear (which can mean less injury, longer careers), traditional Chinese ethos, throws, lives off pressure testing. I wish that it was more popular in the United States and/or it was included into the Olympics (if it isn't already).
The current format is basically ready made for the Olympics. It's got national teams, protective equipment, colors, a clear point system, fast and action packed fights.
Literally all that's needed is someone to add it to the line up and to avoid changing any rules.
I can't think of a better format for a striking art. Let Taekwondo remain foot fencing if they want, but this should be the format most martial arts competitions use. I suppose the lack of knees and elbows might cause some contention, but it's otherwise very well set up as far as amateur competition goes.
@@ahwhite2022the lack of knees and elbows is a pretty big thing.
@ZurlHammerdoom yeh but it allows longevity n less injuries
I'd mostly agree except for the head padding, which makes the sport look safer because there's a lack of broken skin, but can make brain injury more likely because what would have been a glancing blow without the head padding can still snap the head around.
Seth, this was one of the best videos I have ever seen covering athletics and Team USA. I honestly believe this could have easily been a TV spot on a major network. I love Sanda and your honest and loving coverage of this tournament, along with your sports enthusiasm and ability to get up close and personal with the fighters and the mats was emotional to watch. This had me on the edge of my chair, with butterflies in my stomach, waiting for the outcomes of such amazing matches. You emotionally hooked me with the introductions, sparring, and story telling and you kept me with the dramatic Team USA coverage. Well done, sir. I love your content, but this and your sumo content is by far and away the best work you've done.
Well said exactly how I felt
Absolutely agree. Sanda and lei tai is awesome.
Thank you again so much for coming out to the HYX 16th World Wushu Championships and featuring our sport of Wushu Sanda, for using some of my footage, and for indulging me when we finally met 😂 I am glad to have met you in-person; like Jeff Chan aka MMAShredded, you are exactly the person you seem like in your videos, which is a genuine and honest quality I feel is lacking in most martial artists, particularly traditionalists, and I hope to meet you again in the future! Also credit to the awesome Serena Chai for inviting you to come watch Sanda and be a guest commentator! I have also passed on your message of thanks to Serena, and she was touched! We hope you had a great time! 🙂
I should've known you had something to do with this besides Seth's curiosity and willingness to learn. I follow your channel as well!
Yo watching this I felt myself tearing up because I have been doing Wushu for so long and praising Sanda but no one seemed to take it seriously. Seeing you share this moment and seeing these athletes’ passion for the sport really moved me. Thank you Seth 🙏
Probably because it's trying hard to be something that already exists. Like Pankration, Sport Ju Jutsu/Combat Ju Jutsu or Sport Sambo. They're all MMA light. It doesn't mean they suck, only that they will get the appropriate amount of attention.
@@peartree8338 It's just another flavor of combat sport in the same way that all other striking and grappling sports are separate. Even competing MMA orgs have different rules, so I don't understand why you're hating.
@@peartree8338 already exists? Are you sure it is younger than UFC?
@@peartree8338 "trying hard to be something that already exists"...oh boy.... sanda has been around before sport sambo, sport jujutsu and most MMA tourney you see today...
@@peartree8338MMA is not a martial art.
Sanda and Savate are two underrated kickboxing styles that I love
Savate is also competed on a raise platform too, correct? Don't they also get points like n Sanda for pushing opponent off platform??
@@cosmic_JAV savate is done in a ring
@@gaelmargrace hmm I'm must be getting it confused with a different combat sport .. It was on fight quest where I seen kt
@@cosmic_JAV i don't really know if savate is done in these kind of rings tho, I always watched it in boxing rings
@@gaelmargrace I thought they were training savate in the episode, and they were up on a raised platform, and one of the host during his match just caught opponents kick then rushing him and pushing him off the raised area
Bro why did I get emotional at the bit about all the Americans doing this sport just because they love it, and how they struggle to do it when all these other countries get support for it. I was not prepared to be hit in the feels like this
I hope you continue to cover this Seth, and I would love to see you fight in it! I think you'd do great
It is one of the qualities I admire about American people. To me, they often come off as passionate trailblazers.
The way this video wrapped up was inspiring AF! Especially after knowing everything the American athletes had to sacrifice to get there and be competitive (even getting on the podium) against paid fighters, that gave me goosebumps.
I've been practising Sanda for 3 months without any prior martial arts background. It's an insanely fun sport.
Always a pleasure to see your vids Seth!
Even the animation, during the breakdown on how points are scored in Sanda, was entertaining and cool looking. Great stuff, Sensei Seth!
I swear the only truly bad part is that this sport isn't more popular and have more places teaching it. It melds well with just about everything and is so much fun! I miss training sanda. Given my current location, I miss kyokushin, Dutch kickboxing, and muay thai as well. Awesome video, Seth!!!!
Yeah, for a second there, I thought Cung Le's success in MMA would propel the sport to become a bit more popular in the US. No such luck
Great to see Sanda get more recognition, really cool sport
I discovered San Shou/Sanda when I lived in Baltimore for a few years.
Met Cung Le before his fight, oh he KO’d his opponent in devastating fashion! I already trained in boxing and Wing Chun so I was hooked from the jump!
Anyway, I still can’t understand why this sport hasn’t taken off in US?!? Promoting and awareness is of course a major factor. Even on the amateur level it’s hard to find competition? What a shame.
So glad you showcased Sanda. Not many people know it and I feel its the more functional form of Kung Fu because of tournaments like this. For the people who say Kung fu doesnt work. This is the real example. Also super proud of the three competitors.
Ok this might sting but... this is kickboxing. You're saying "Kung Fu" (Wushu) works because of competitions where techniques are altered so that they're more or less just kickboxing?
And I've gone from Goju-Ryu to Wushu to Combat Sambo to MMA and BJJ. The amount of "relearning" I've had to go through just to shed karate and wushu habits is astonishing. So no... it's not proof that Wushu works. It's proof that you always need to adapt, change and evolve and not get stuck.
@@peartree8338 Any time Chinese MA works, people like you talk shit. You don't know anything. BJJ comes from Chin Na
@@peartree8338 What is Kickboxing? All martial arts incorporates some form of striking involving fist and foot.
I'll use Kung fu since modern wushu is synonymous as something asthetic and performative rather than combative.
Kung fu has a wider arsenal but not all of it can be tested nor fit into a sporting format.
I dont know what habits you had to shed but I assume you knew the difference between form and functionality.
Since the kickboxing aspect of martial arts is what people narrow mindly value then the art has to be distilled down to just that aspect for people to see its value.
However a lot is actually missed just because the format and the context in which people competed doesnt actually fit the reality of the world and real combat..
@@peartree8338Muay Thai is Kickboxing too
Sanda is my favorite style I have trained. I traveled to Beijing and trained Sanda for a couple weeks at Beijing Sport University. It was AWESOME!
9:11 I didn't even notice you in the background the first time lmao
Also I love how you're bringing more attention to these under appreciated forms of martial arts. I also like how you show off martial arts-related things that aren't necessarily about fighting (like choreographed fights, stunts, parkour, pro wrestling, etc), keep up the good work!
Having been a Sanda practitioner myself, I am very happy to see that you are giving Sanda the visibility it totally deserves, I think is a great form of martial arts, and a great sport too. I love this martial art since it always going to be the first one I practiced, and just amazing work overall!
Man...I'm jealous. I really (REALLY) wanted to attend, but, life got in the way. Hope you had fun! Sanda is my absolute FAVORITE style of kickboxing and combat sport in general. 🎉
SOME OF THE BEST CONTENT OUT THERE Seth not only goes out and teaches us about these things but instead of just reporting as many do my boy learns it and tries everything out first hand so we know exactly how it goes down not just a book learning version thank you Seth for all the azz kicking you endure and victory's you win for us
I had the opportunity to spar with Vincent Meng several years ago. The gym where I train is a branch from his father’s school out of Ohio. He came down to Texas to train with us while he was getting ready to try out for the USA team. When I say that his kicks were fast… you could not see those things coming. I’m glad this sport is starting to get recognized, and hopefully this video helps spread it to folks who haven’t heard of it yet.
Where u guys located? Im in central ohio. Would love to checkout the place
My friend was at this competition! He was representing Canada and so it's amazing to see you at this event!!!
I love when you get some of these guys on camera like Coach Lee and they are just always super humble people.
That was the most electrifying video I've seen in a while. I damn neared cried seeing Team USA take those wins. I've been super curious about sanda recently, so this was a hell of a coincidence 😂 Great content as always, Sensei!
I'm was a Sanda fighter back in the days here in Brazil. Fought in a lot of tournaments, and seeing the Sanda in one of your videos is so good!! Now you have to try it, like you have done with others martial arts. Go practice, go to a tournament! You're gonna love it.
Finally someone's talking about sanda! I am training it for 20 years & when I visit academies of other martial arts pretty often at the beginning they're kinda making fun of me that I'm training Kung Fu for 20 years, during the sparings they look totally shocked and after they want to know more 😊
Words can’t describe how hyped I am for Sanda finally gaining more popularity. Thank God for Sensei Seth 😂
As a Taiwanese college student learning Sanda, watching this video brings me great joy
It's truly an awesome sport! I hope to see more videos like this in the future
Keep it up👊
This was a whole season of anime in one video. Amazing all around. 👏👏From the martial arts and story to the editing. 👏👏
Me being a Texan and hearing the offer of BBQ and Whiskey, you can't dare refuse.
Being there in person I can confirm it was. I was almost in tears multiple times from the hype.
Thanks sensei Seth. I had tears in my eyes. USA, USA, USA!
I did the Taiwanese version of Sanda back in the 80’s (Kuoshu) when I was a kid. I’ve always loved this format and wished that it had gained the same popularity as karate’s point fighting and judo in the US.
Alas, internal politics in the US prevented Sanda from really flourishing (same old story, really, with all Chinese martial arts in the US, ever wonder why shuaijiao is so unknown in America?). All that BS played out in the 1990’s, when Sanda was more popularly known as Sanshou.
Cung Le is the closest the US ever had to an international superstar in Sanda. I think as China produces more world-class MMA fighters with Sanda backgrounds, we’ll start to see more of it outside of its traditional sphere of popularity.
Thanks for the vid, Seth! Glad you brought some light on this awesome and very practical fighting sport!
I mean the reigning women's champ is a Sanda athlete
I do remember seeing Cung Le do Sanshou... it makes sense now
I live in the same city the USA Sanda team trains at. I used to go to this gym when I was younger but didn’t stick with it, but man I really regret not sticking with it. They were great coaches, I just didn’t have the discipline at the time to stick with it. This video motivates me to try again.
I think Seths ability to make us continually root for people we have and never will meet is why his videos are popular. I'm eleven minutes in and Livingstones about to compete and I want him to win so bad and he's just a dude on my screen. Seths ability to create storylines in short videos is his strength and I appreciate it
Wow man, Audrey had that Wonderboy side kick game goin!
Coach Lee and Coach Johnson are pretty amazing. They were coaching exactly what their athletes needed to do and predicted their opponents so well. Amazing team. This was such a great mini documentary.
This is amazing! As a non-American, I always see wushu competitions and such being held in Southeast Asia from time to time but I had no idea that the US had such a strong and passionate sanda team that was world class! Excellent video, Seth! And please give us the video of you and that cigar-smoking coach!
This video hits close to home because this is my first and currently only martial arts style I've been practicing. The fights look a lot different and carry a deeper emotion when I've been in the position of the fighter, kitted out in armor and getting battered and thrown around while doing the same to the other guy.
Dear Seth. I've been watching your videos for a while and I'd love to thank you for sharing with us this great adventure of exploring the world's martial arts and also your participation in them. All that not only in informative, but also entertaining way. I wish you great holidays and look forward to see more in 24.
I really like that scoring system. There's room for ambiguity, but it seems like there's a lot more scrutiny since the scores are openly displayed
Much fairer compared to all the other combat sports with the transparency
so nice to see Sanda featured more, it's such a beautiful and practical art it's sad that people don't know much about it. it is on par with Muay Thai on striking art (maybe the only one that can compete with Muay Thai standing up), while it focuses less on elbow/knee (below the neck is allowed), it compensates with thousands of ways to takedown!!!
So happy to see a popular martial arts youtuber attending, commentating, trying some moves at our World Wushu Championships, this is so cool! Sanda is severely underrated for what has potential to be one of the best allrounder martial arts out there. If you have any footage of the taolu side of the competition, please share, I would love to see your reactions of watching this level in person!
Sensei Seth does it again, delivering with your expansion in the world of martial shows your ability to have an open mind and greater your knowledge!!
Thank you Seth, I've been wondering about Sanda ever since I saw Zabit fighting in the UFC...the smooth transitions from grappling to kickboxing always seemed perfect for MMA. Great content as always! Thank you.
I saw you there into background on the live stream and got excited lol. It was also fun hearing you with the commentators. Awesome work man
Seth this was such high quality of production!
Cool!
Dude the increase in quality in your production value over the last year is insane. This felt professional. Great job man
Best video I’ve seen on RUclips in years sooooo good. I teach Sanda wish it was more popular.
Editing on this was very good. I got chills on the medal announcements
Amazing video! Thankyou for sharing SANDA to the world. This truly is a S tier martial art that no one knows about. Thank you for helping us grow this sport! Hope to see you at Coach Lee's gym soon. Great job team USA!!!! Great job Seth on a fantastic video.
Dude! Seeing you shoot this video and even do a bit of training with the team reminded me of watching fightworld w frank grillo, so cool!!
This was beautiful and motivational, I could feel the passion from each fighter through the screen and brought an actual tear 😭
Bless you all! Excellent video. And I look forward to round two!
I've been telling people that Sanda is an effective martial art. It's basically kickboxing with wrestling then combine it with jiu-jitsu and you're set for MMA
I used to train Sanda and loved it. Did one amateur competition (not at this level, or like any level really). Been 15 years since I trained but would love to find a class in London. It's an amazing sport. Great video.
Found a class in London (Sanda Kickboxing Academy). really great class with excellent instructors . Back with the beginners for now but loving it.
my boxing instructor fought in Sanda when he was 19 I think, I had no idea he could even kick. So when I realized he could kick, I asked to spar with him. Worst decision of my life.
Men I'm so grateful for this i used to practice this sport, actually kung fu wushu, but it's so exciting to me see all the things that you showed us, thank u man
Sanda is officially my new favorite combat sport. Ive seen it in old martial arts movies, but didnt know they had a sport based on it.
Excellent video!! I appreciate the explanation of what Sanda is and the rules, really enjoyed the fights and the fighter-coach interactions. Thanks!
a kung fu style with boxing,elbows,knees,kicks,sweeps,throws and takedowns.this guys are insane
It's technically Kung-Fu as all Chinese Martial Arts are but it's closer in style to Muay Thai mixed with Judo than most other notable Kung Fu styles.
Not a style tho, the sport was created for the purpose of people who trained many different, practical styles to be able to have some sort of competition post Chinese cultural revolution (as the cultural revolution was what generated the non-fight oriented, but instead performance oriented practice you see nowadays in Wushu).
It is basically a Chinese equivalent of MMA, just the ruleset evolved in a even more point oriented system (and kept the "throwing people out of stage", which is awesome and opens up a lot of very funny tactics :D).
@@KeyserSoze23 i understand what you mean.sanda as a sport was very influenced by non chinese martial arts.but i think its more similar to old japanese kickboxing with judo,than muay thai with judo
@@hungniirulfur920 Japanese Kickboxing itself was developed after it was noticed traditional Karate did not do great against Thai Boxers.
@@KeyserSoze23 yup
Dude those graphics were legit!!!!
Thank you for the best breakdown of Sanda on RUclips! - I wish there was a Sanda gym where I live. I believe every martial art brings something unique to the table and the health benefits are just so amazing. Keep training hard.
Thank you for donig whatever you can to search out and explore just about every corner of martial arts and combat sports out there. And be willing to approach all of this with a great open mind.
So cool to knew you were at the WWC! I knew some who participated in the Belgian delegation! :)
I hope you also managed to check out some of the Taolu competition, it was apparently a WILD world cup.
Hope this blows up in US. I appreciate the difference it represents.
I loved this! I got invested immediately. I love the way you tell the story. Thank you
Bro, you have become a legit sports journalist at this point.
I’d love to try Sanda. KB with takedowns is great idea for a sport.
Definitely appreciate this video on a cool and underrated system! What I like the most is that there were sections about the arena’s design and the rules!!!
💪🏼 Honestly this may be one of my favorite videos of yours! 💪🏼
Coach Lee is the best. If you are ever in Lubbock, come to United Martial Arts and train with him!
Thank you for the video hope seeing you going to more championships and even doing more sanda videos
Hell yeah dude, Sanda is awesome and underrated. I got to train in it for a little while coming from mostly TKD/Judo and it felt like a natural transition. We better see you on the Lei Tai in the next one
now we need a video about Sensei Seth fighting in an amateur sanda tournament
Such a great spectator sport, how is it not more popular?
I originally started training in sanda when I was much younger (I had my first fight under sanda rulles), in a city where the only option was traditional american kickboxing. I remember wondering why people choose kickboxing before sanda because it was such a beatiful art. After some time I got a lot more into kick boxing because it was easier to get people to train and also to compete, now seeing this i got to remember this amazing part of my martial arts originis. thank you seth you are so fucking cool!!!
Damn, this actually looks like one of the dopest martial arts you've covered
Seth that was so well put together!! The whole thing. You’re becoming a great story teller on top of being a great martial artist.
I love your stuff!!
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Quality content and production!
Great video, Seth! I love seeing you cover less well known martial arts. Ive been studying historical fencing (HEMA) for 15+ years and have seen it go from unknown to mostly unknown but channels like yours help. Love it, thank you!
Wow each of the tournament fights were so exciting
I wish they had this in schools across the USA....I am guessing there are not many schools in the USA. I rather watch this than any "karate tournament " in the US. It shows the dedication of the USA competitiors when they give up everything to go against like professional fighters from China.
It’s crazy to think, without RUclips or social media, I would never have heard of Sanda. Right on for sharing Seth.
Grazie mille Sensei per aver reso omaggio ad un arte che molto spesso viene lasciata dietro le quinte!
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That big about how the other countries have state sponsored athletics, and Americans have to literally give up everything just to compete at the same level hit hard. It makes every medal and win an American gets so much more powerful.
This was awesome! You might want to try and do a video on the Chinese fast wrestling Shuai Jiao in the future. It’s considered one of the oldest styles of Kung Fu, and one of the roughest. In tournaments they only concentrate on throws and takedowns, but they have all the strikes and kicks of regular Kung Fu. The main idea though is to hit your opponent’s body with the earth.
I love Sanda... it's so much fun.
I thought I saw you in the background on the live stream!
Nice to see some Sanda. Started practicing 1 1/2 years ago (as a 40+ year old geezer). My coach was one of the referees in this tournament.
Thank you sensei to promote this sport ❤
Great video and showcase of Sanda
phenomenal video! really informative, interesting and most important of all, authentic and real. So cool to see Sanda and TeamUSA getting some love! Such a fun sport. bravo!
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Thank you for sharing and highlighting the art of Sanda. It’s so underrated and isn’t very well known in the U.S.
So glad you got to meet my teammate and friend Matthew Lee! Come by when you are in the DMV next time!
Thank you Coach Josh! I shouted out CPMMA but it didn't make the cut! ☹️ Though to be fair, I also talked too much 😅 But we can ride this momentum, CPMMA can be the premiere gym to train and host Sanda in the East Coast! Let's make it happen! 💪
Yeeeees! Sanda was my first foray into combat sports some 16 years ago and I still have a soft spot for its combination of kickboxing and throws. Hope we see more Sanda content in the future. Did you stick around for any of the taolu events? It's fancy dancing, sure, but the athleticism of those competitors is crazy.
He has a video on Taolu, so I wouldn't be surprised if he saw some performances.
Yes, he did: ruclips.net/video/X6k8vl2V3w8/видео.htmlsi=3nu5SUSfhOeySMHp&t=68
Hey Sensei, this was amazing. Congratulations to team USA, you guys got me fired the hell up with your fights. +1 for more Sanda.
Seth Sensei, I love the attention you shine on some of the lesser known martial arts. Keep on doing what you have been doing. I also appreciate that your just a good guy whose videos I can show to my kids. Keep up the good work.
I really liked these rules and competition. I think it could really take over as a MMA sport as unlike the ones we got, this is less blood more sport while still allowing for most techniques. It could even show up in the Olympics eventually as it's family friendly. It's also likely to refresh kung fu as it's a good way to practice techniques against resisting opponents. It's even better then other MMA as it's less punishing making it easier to do more practice matches without the need to hold back.
Outstanding video, Seth!