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@@MrCarstennielsen No worries, these videos are all unscripted and caught in realtime. Rather than making a sleekly produced TV show style video, I'm trying to keep it simple and make it feel more relateable. Master Yu was partially deaf, so when he was talking he would often move really close to you.
I know of Red Guards who used their position to collect antiques and old books while they were trashing people’s homes. In Yantai a lot of old Tongbei manuals were preserved by one particular Red Guard who was a martial artist.
This is really, really interesting. I live in Singapore and it reminds me of the temples here and we also have the 18 luohan and similar temple layout. Even more interestingly, in the Hokkien and Teochew dialect at least, we call ourselves "tng nang" which translates into Mandarin as "tang ren" which means Tang people and we never call ourselves chinese or "zhong guo ren", "tong kok nang" in dialect. we reserve that for chinese nationals. It would seem to me that we reserve "zhong guo ren" to describe the mainlanders by their nationality while we use "tang ren" for ourselves which describes our cultural heritage, seeing how Hokkien and Teochew were southern groups who settled from the central and north of China during the Tang Dynasty.
YOU are Jesse's translator in the karate nerd in China series ??!!! What an epic discovery !!! Got one subcriber, man I'm gonna look deeply into your channel 😁
I'm surprised you didn't ask to see their forms. Those in Goju Ryu or Uechi would have liked to have seen if there are resembles to their styles. I saw some Goju like techniques when the old Master was showing blocking and counters. The breathing was likened to Guju. Not enough shown. You have to know what to ask when you visit places like that otherwise you can't take anything with you.
2:22 OMG! 18 Lohan is really an item? I always thought it was just the name for a Qi Gung form. Damn, learn something new everyday. I'll never think of 18 Lohan the same way again lol.
They are pretty important figures in Chinese Buddhist mythology, each having their own noble deed. Im not too sure of all the stories but one that comes to mind is the Luohan who stopped a tiger terrorising a village by making it vegetarian, hence the Qigong move “Taming the Tiger”
White Crane has been split in 5 distinct styles : Sleeping/Jumping/Ancestral Crane (Su He Quan/Siok Ho Kun), Crying/Whooping/Calling/Shouting Crane (Ming He Quan/Beng Ho Kun), Eating/Feeding/Morning Crane (Shi He Quan/Chia Ho Kun), Flying Crane (Fei He Quan/Hui Ho Kun), and Shaking Crane (Zhong He Quan/Chiong Ho Kun). Sifu Xu Lanyu (the successor of Sifu Yu Dan Qiu), quoting his master's book "Crane Technique - Fujian Whooping Crane Fist" (original title : "鹤法---福建鸣鹤拳 - He Crane - Fu Jian Ming He Quan"), once said some Crying Crane's Tao Lu and many techniques didn't come directly from Yongchun (Wing Chun in Cantonese) White Crane, but from Luohan Quan, which was developed independently in the same period as Yongchun White Crane practitioners travelled to the East for spreading their style. I've spent 10 days with Sifu Yu Danqiu when I travelled through Asia, and this is what I discovered about Karate and Wing Chun common origins. Concerning Wu Zu Quan (Five Ancestors), I was introduced to several masters, such as Zhang Xiao Feng in Quanzhou, technical director of Quanzhou Wushu Association, and Chou Meng Yuan in Amoi (Xiaomen). They told me about another master who lived in Hong Kong : Lee Kong. I've also met him after travelling to Hong Kong. All of them agree about major part of Crying Crane coming from Luohan Quan, reminding me the Crying Crane's founder was Pan Yuba, who primarily studied Shaolin's Luohan Quan and then was taught Yongchun White Crane. This is how Crying Crane was created. Well, to meet masters worldwide is a good thing, but to stay and being taught deeply is way better. This is why I strongly recommend you to stay longer if you travel another time.
i dont think its tang dynasty layout, it looks qing dynasty sytle, there are only few tang dynasty building remaining in china, most are in shanxi province,
Hello the 18 Luhan martial figures of Buddhism the earliest disciples of Buddha who attained enlightenment l cant find anything on them..can you point me in that direction or can you explain with the names also as all l know are Arahants or Bhikkhus whom spread the teachings of Buddha. As on my Facebook profile am writing about famous creators of martial arts styles as taichi 40 yrs practitioner & teacher & my Master was a white crane master before being beaten by a taichi master names Loh Thong Poh of Malaysia..it was very interesting to watch your video. I also have channel here named as the above.
No actual cranes in the temple, its called Crane's nest because of the two stone cranes the nun showed us. As far as I know, the only place in China today that still has wild cranes is the far north of Heilongjiang, close to the Russian border.
It’s odd how I’ve seen maybe 100 or so of these drills wherein the practitioner responded to a punch and the punch is almost always a weird lunging punch, never a jab or a proper cross. Every now and then it’ll be a haymaker, but it’s usually some odd lunging punch no one ever does.
I wonder about that. You see that same lunging punch in Long Fist demos and drills and in Karate drills, as well. Are we sure that people of that time, for whatever reason, didn't do just that? It'd be weird to be seeing something so often, across so many different styles, if it didn't have SOME practical utility. Especially if we think of the people who invented these arts as being, intelligent, practically minded people. I think that's a mystery that needs solving. Why does that lunging punch show up so often in so many different styles? What exactly is it's purpose and how was it meant to be used? Karate and ITF TaeKwon-Do have a similar punch in kihon and step sparring. We always do it as a sort of punch "lunging" as you said straight at your partner. But the same movement, employed practically in defense NEVER goes straight at your enemy. It has a preparation movement which is actually a defensive movement that uses bridging to intercept an attack and then close the gate to follow up attacks and then by twisting also break the opponent's posture and balance. The step in then uses the body to crash into the opponent's body whilst stepping on their foot or ankle and simultaneously delivering either a punch or a forearm strike. So it's a simultaneous, low and high attack. I'm not certain that that movement done in attack would work the same way but it should have some utility. We see it far too often for it to be completely useless. Only fools would consistently do something that had no purpose and the masters who created traditional Chinese martial arts and Karate, etc, were NOT fools.
@@DavidBarnwell876tkdjain my own experience, the real practical usage of lunging punches is its use as a training method. Throwing a punch while using the ground force may be apparently easy when the stance is narrowed, but all flaws come out when you attempt to do so in a wide lounging stance. It corrects alignments and engrains the action of springing into an opponent when striking. This in my experience makes punches much stronger when thrown from a natural/smaller stance. By training correct mechanics in the most uncomfortable positions, you refine them.
@@vicwarrior106 I think that is false. The lunging punch is used whilst grabbing the enemy. Its purpose is to transfer your entire mass into an enemy on the end of a strike in order to end the fight quickly. It is just as practical as any other type of strike. You just have to know how to use it.
@@vicwarrior106 It is not a training method. It is a practical tool to quickly transfer your mass into an enemy. It has nothing to do with any ground force. It is meant to be applied with hikite whilst striking your enemy from the side front AFTER having turned them so that they present less of a threat. The striking hand is not the only attacking tool here. The stance itself is part of your attack. You are colliding with your enemy using your knees and or your feet. Your foot on the ankle or their knee. As I said, it is not and was never meant to be a training method. It was always meant to be applied.
Luohan means Arahat in Sanskrit. Mostly associated with Shaolin. How they linked Arahat enlightenment with kung fu I am not sure. Perhaps in terms of courage and perseverence.
Despite the popular belief that teachers won't "reveal their secrets to foreigners", the vast majority I've met love having foreign students and are glad somebody traveled so far to learn from them.
Love the videos for the historical content etc but its crazy how useless these styles are. An amateur boxer or wrestler.. Muay Thai practicioner with a year or leas training would beat all these masters and the disciples. How did fighting styles in china evolve to become so bad? I dont get it
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@@MrCarstennielsen No worries, these videos are all unscripted and caught in realtime. Rather than making a sleekly produced TV show style video, I'm trying to keep it simple and make it feel more relateable. Master Yu was partially deaf, so when he was talking he would often move really close to you.
The fact that he saved the book from the fire was amazing
And the fact that his father saved the books from the cultural revolution was even more amazing
Very risky. If they caught him, it would be bad.
I know of Red Guards who used their position to collect antiques and old books while they were trashing people’s homes. In Yantai a lot of old Tongbei manuals were preserved by one particular Red Guard who was a martial artist.
I have seen all three Karate Nerd series, but this was really amazing to get another perspective on the same series/episodes. Thank you.
Fantastic series, Will, full of gems. Thanks for your hard work and generosity !
And thanks for watching!
That knock out was amazing
This is really, really interesting. I live in Singapore and it reminds me of the temples here and we also have the 18 luohan and similar temple layout. Even more interestingly, in the Hokkien and Teochew dialect at least, we call ourselves "tng nang" which translates into Mandarin as "tang ren" which means Tang people and we never call ourselves chinese or "zhong guo ren", "tong kok nang" in dialect. we reserve that for chinese nationals. It would seem to me that we reserve "zhong guo ren" to describe the mainlanders by their nationality while we use "tang ren" for ourselves which describes our cultural heritage, seeing how Hokkien and Teochew were southern groups who settled from the central and north of China during the Tang Dynasty.
Way to go Sensei Jesse....you rock
As some who has studied Wing Chun and Five Ancestor Fist gung fu, I love this. Truly wish to visit one day :)
they would welcome you with open arms Im sure
Very interesting🎉 you are lucky men.
YOU are Jesse's translator in the karate nerd in China series ??!!!
What an epic discovery !!! Got one subcriber, man I'm gonna look deeply into your channel 😁
i find these videos enjoyable to watch
You made an amazing job! I am from Russia. THANK you!!!
No hablo ingles, pero es increiblemente espectacular todo lo que hacen estos chicos, asombrosos lugares y personas, bravo!! gracias por el trabajo!!
This is phenomenal project.Thank you for sharing your time and effort with all of us martial artists.
Thanks mate! Its a work of passion!
I'm surprised you didn't ask to see their forms. Those in Goju Ryu or Uechi would have liked to have seen if there are resembles to their styles. I saw some Goju like techniques when the old Master was showing blocking and counters. The breathing was likened to Guju. Not enough shown. You have to know what to ask when you visit places like that otherwise you can't take anything with you.
Thanks for doing the work Brother, you know this would be gone in 10 years...
Sad but probably true
2:22 OMG! 18 Lohan is really an item? I always thought it was just the name for a Qi Gung form. Damn, learn something new everyday. I'll never think of 18 Lohan the same way again lol.
They are pretty important figures in Chinese Buddhist mythology, each having their own noble deed. Im not too sure of all the stories but one that comes to mind is the Luohan who stopped a tiger terrorising a village by making it vegetarian, hence the Qigong move “Taming the Tiger”
Monkey Steals Peach dude that is wild. And I’ll be thinking of that while doing that move too!
This heavy breathing looks like a magician show to me. Good white crane is a great martial art tho
So good!
White Crane has been split in 5 distinct styles : Sleeping/Jumping/Ancestral Crane (Su He Quan/Siok Ho Kun), Crying/Whooping/Calling/Shouting Crane (Ming He Quan/Beng Ho Kun), Eating/Feeding/Morning Crane (Shi He Quan/Chia Ho Kun), Flying Crane (Fei He Quan/Hui Ho Kun), and Shaking Crane (Zhong He Quan/Chiong Ho Kun).
Sifu Xu Lanyu (the successor of Sifu Yu Dan Qiu), quoting his master's book "Crane Technique - Fujian Whooping Crane Fist" (original title : "鹤法---福建鸣鹤拳 - He Crane - Fu Jian Ming He Quan"), once said some Crying Crane's Tao Lu and many techniques didn't come directly from Yongchun (Wing Chun in Cantonese) White Crane, but from Luohan Quan, which was developed independently in the same period as Yongchun White Crane practitioners travelled to the East for spreading their style.
I've spent 10 days with Sifu Yu Danqiu when I travelled through Asia, and this is what I discovered about Karate and Wing Chun common origins.
Concerning Wu Zu Quan (Five Ancestors), I was introduced to several masters, such as Zhang Xiao Feng in Quanzhou, technical director of Quanzhou Wushu Association, and Chou Meng Yuan in Amoi (Xiaomen). They told me about another master who lived in Hong Kong : Lee Kong. I've also met him after travelling to Hong Kong. All of them agree about major part of Crying Crane coming from Luohan Quan, reminding me the Crying Crane's founder was Pan Yuba, who primarily studied Shaolin's Luohan Quan and then was taught Yongchun White Crane. This is how Crying Crane was created.
Well, to meet masters worldwide is a good thing, but to stay and being taught deeply is way better. This is why I strongly recommend you to stay longer if you travel another time.
Fabuloso 🐲
i dont think its tang dynasty layout, it looks qing dynasty sytle, there are only few tang dynasty building remaining in china, most are in shanxi province,
Most likely.
They say that the temple was clearly rebuilt in later times, but the original temple dated from Tang times.
Hello the 18 Luhan martial figures of Buddhism the earliest disciples of Buddha who attained enlightenment l cant find anything on them..can you point me in that direction or can you explain with the names also as all l know are Arahants or Bhikkhus whom spread the teachings of Buddha. As on my Facebook profile am writing about famous creators of martial arts styles as taichi
40 yrs practitioner & teacher & my Master was a white crane master before being beaten by a taichi master names Loh Thong Poh of Malaysia..it was very interesting to watch your video. I also have channel here named as the above.
A real shame when any culture wants to destroy the ancient knowledge and wisdom.
Unfortunately history repeats itself, similar movements have happened tons of times throughout Chinese history
Monkey stole my peach the day I got married.
Is the book along with the Bubishi is the Neijing Suwen?
Unlikely. That’s only used in Northern China I believe
Good
By the way, where did all the crane go? Isn't it supposed to be a nest? 😅
No actual cranes in the temple, its called Crane's nest because of the two stone cranes the nun showed us.
As far as I know, the only place in China today that still has wild cranes is the far north of Heilongjiang, close to the Russian border.
It’s odd how I’ve seen maybe 100 or so of these drills wherein the practitioner responded to a punch and the punch is almost always a weird lunging punch, never a jab or a proper cross. Every now and then it’ll be a haymaker, but it’s usually some odd lunging punch no one ever does.
I wonder about that. You see that same lunging punch in Long Fist demos and drills and in Karate drills, as well.
Are we sure that people of that time, for whatever reason, didn't do just that?
It'd be weird to be seeing something so often, across so many different styles, if it didn't have SOME practical utility.
Especially if we think of the people who invented these arts as being, intelligent, practically minded people.
I think that's a mystery that needs solving. Why does that lunging punch show up so often in so many different styles?
What exactly is it's purpose and how was it meant to be used?
Karate and ITF TaeKwon-Do have a similar punch in kihon and step sparring.
We always do it as a sort of punch "lunging" as you said straight at your partner.
But the same movement, employed practically in defense NEVER goes straight at your enemy.
It has a preparation movement which is actually a defensive movement that uses bridging to intercept an attack and then close the gate to follow up attacks and then by twisting also break the opponent's posture and balance.
The step in then uses the body to crash into the opponent's body whilst stepping on their foot or ankle and simultaneously delivering either a punch or a forearm strike.
So it's a simultaneous, low and high attack.
I'm not certain that that movement done in attack would work the same way but it should have some utility.
We see it far too often for it to be completely useless.
Only fools would consistently do something that had no purpose and the masters who created traditional Chinese martial arts and Karate, etc, were NOT fools.
@@DavidBarnwell876tkdjain my own experience, the real practical usage of lunging punches is its use as a training method. Throwing a punch while using the ground force may be apparently easy when the stance is narrowed, but all flaws come out when you attempt to do so in a wide lounging stance. It corrects alignments and engrains the action of springing into an opponent when striking. This in my experience makes punches much stronger when thrown from a natural/smaller stance. By training correct mechanics in the most uncomfortable positions, you refine them.
@@vicwarrior106 I think that is false. The lunging punch is used whilst grabbing the enemy.
Its purpose is to transfer your entire mass into an enemy on the end of a strike in order to end the fight quickly.
It is just as practical as any other type of strike. You just have to know how to use it.
@@vicwarrior106 It is not a training method. It is a practical tool to quickly transfer your mass into an enemy. It has nothing to do with any ground force.
It is meant to be applied with hikite whilst striking your enemy from the side front AFTER having turned them so that they present less of a threat.
The striking hand is not the only attacking tool here. The stance itself is part of your attack. You are colliding with your enemy using your knees and or your feet. Your foot on the ankle or their knee.
As I said, it is not and was never meant to be a training method. It was always meant to be applied.
Luohan means Arahat in Sanskrit. Mostly associated with Shaolin. How they linked Arahat enlightenment with kung fu I am not sure. Perhaps in terms of courage and perseverence.
Probably just an ideal to aspire too, that of cultivation through undergoing hardship.
It takes 2 step for master's right hand to hit opponent face. Is it practical? I dont think so.
Your still in China!? Get tested and stay safe.
This was recorded in October last year. Im in Australia now fortunately
"Cultural" revolution
Better spread it to more people regardless of race, just look at the idiotic cultural revolution did to these valuable knowledge.
Despite the popular belief that teachers won't "reveal their secrets to foreigners", the vast majority I've met love having foreign students and are glad somebody traveled so far to learn from them.
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Love the videos for the historical content etc but its crazy how useless these styles are. An amateur boxer or wrestler.. Muay Thai practicioner with a year or leas training would beat all these masters and the disciples. How did fighting styles in china evolve to become so bad? I dont get it
I am sorry to tell you
There is No kung fu at all
Thanks for the insightful comment
Care to elaborate?
What is your definition of "Kung Fu"(功夫)?
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Stop talking trash 🗑️ you don't even know who you father is😂