Master Jerry Cook takes you through the entire Hung Family Shaolin 5 animal 5 element series: POISON HANDS, IRON BODY, LEOPARD, SNAKE, TIGER, CRANE, DRAGON
I really enjoyed watching this - I don't know off hand a single other martial artist that I know personally, who could name the techniques that quickly as they were doing them. This man knows his stuff.
@kenpolove I concur. Jerry is so freakin knowledgeable. He has done many great seminars for my former company. His knowledge is very broad. What I love about Jerry is I run into him all the time and he always GIVES me a gift of a DVD or book or sends a video to my phone, he is very generous with his knowledge. And.... He is ego free.
I like the long names, they describe the movement and make it much easier to remember...like your body is following a story instead of trying to remember 'go here then go there'
I found this very informative, and appreciate that Master Cook named each of many moves in the form. That is useful to those learning the form. Those who berate his kung fu and him personally should look at themselves and sincerely ask what they have accomplished. Student of Choy Li Fut.
I have personally trained with Te-Ching Jerry Cook and what most of you that are dismissing him do not understand is that he has a massive amount of knowledge about multiple arts and his precision and capabilities are amazing. He's a great teacher and a great martial artist. Also, going full power and full speed while trying to explain the forms, techniques, or applications,...freakin' difficult.
I remember fondly of the night you showed me how to brake rocks with my hands, thank you for everything you taught me for me. My martial arts education would not be where it is today with out you.
This is indeed Fu hok Fok Fa Kuen, Hung Gar form. It is very nice to see a person do the form the same way, but I tend to disagree with the 'over' movement. I would however teach my students pretty much the same way, as he combines Yin and Yang.
cool. i once learned the ones u call poison hand and iron body from my teacher as one form called hung gar blocking system and still practice it that way. it is nice to finally hear the names for the individual names of the moves for this form i've known for nine years. please check out my sabre form under `Ian sword'
And the tiger form has a 5 or 6 movement chunk that is taken directly from Tiger/Crane again, without changing any part at all. These are signature form movements that come from one of kung fu's most widely known form.
I am lucky enough to have professor Kang as my wushu uncle plus I have done over 20 years of my own research. All the information is out there for anyone curious enough to seek it. I highly recommend the book 'The spring and Autumn of Chinese Martial Arts-5000 Years-' by Professor Kang Gewu
Oriental cultures rule! They respected the nature and admired the animals. That's why their fighting styles were influenced by the natural movements of the animals.
new york you dont combine the animals to get dragon dragon is based on twisting, pulling and clawing motions in hung gar. and the five animals are tiger, leopard, crane, snake and dragon. and darkair chinese kungfu in general is based off of many different animals so you will see mostly every kungfu having some type of animal style
@Oliiiverr I agree, but perhaps were overlooking that he might simply be most comfortable practicing his art in these as opposed to his "normal" clothes.
One thing for sure is that anyone who posts a video will be incredibally criticized. This guy has been practicing for a long time and I bet he could kill most of you critics.
I dont mean to imply that being a martial artist makes one inhuman or that one has to kill or anything like that. On the contrary- I believe one should avoid violence except in cases of necessary self defense. I disagree with you though if you are saying that Shaolin martial arts are just "plain pretty". They were developed for battlefield use and have nothing to do with fighting for sport. The applications are meant to stop someone from attacking you and getting back up.
this is a training video ,he is showing the uper-body moves so he is doing it slow for others to see ,though i would like to see the stances to go with the form.
@Oliiiverr According to professors Kang & Ma, 2 of China's most highly respected martial arts historians, putting myth & legend aside, archeological discoveries give evidence that chinese "wushu" began as military arts (before becoming civil arts) and can be traced back 5000 years. Silk production has a history going back 3000 years and was used to manufacture Wushu (or Kung fu in cantonese) uniform designed to protect the kung fu or military man. Civilians did not wear silk at that time.
I can't even follow his movements trough a dam video.... I am sure there is no way I could even count on my reflexes ( they are semi-good) in a sparring, let alone a fight. A true master indeed.
BTW, I learned from Sifu Eddie Lane, student of Lam Jo. Lam Jo was student of Lam Sai Wing. Lam Sai Wing was model for the drawings on all of the traditional form charts and well-known and respected student of the real Wong Fei Hung. There are many versions of hung gar going around these days, but the Lam family lineage is the real thing.
The real deal coming from the cantonese verison the mainland and cantonese verisons come fron wong fei hungs other students who didn't want to be famous
My question is why does the dragon develop the kidneys more than say... the Leopard? What makes the movements develop certain organs over other movements.
Frankly I don't know either, but it appears that somehow some Chinese martial arts got attached to Chinese medicinal theories sometime in China's history, so some systems' top martial artists are also doctors of Chinese medicine. Methinks that this began when healers learned martial arts (IMO those who are practical & very familiar with the human body - such as doctors tend to be - are those who make some of the world's best martial artists); & they in turn taught both martial arts & medicine to those students capable of learning both; nevertheless, the medical info got attached to the practice of the martial art. Unless one overdoes it or is somehow badly injured, one's whole body will benefit from martial-arts practice; & one can use martial arts to help protect one's self & others. Regardless of art or form, done moderately fast, lungs benefit; done moderately long in duration, heart benefits; & when heart/lungs benefit all other organs benefit (& I know this without a doctorate; & doctors know so much more than this - although they all practice because much is theory; so perhaps some doctors theorize that a certain type of movement helps a specific organ more directly than other movements do*). * = IMO the Chinese tend to get caught up into any one of China's various philosophies like Confucionism or Daoism with things like the 5 Elements or the 8 Tri-Grams, & then they try to make just about everything fit into their respective philosophy of choice - or else they'll get tied up in a philosophy imported into China & do the same with it.
@@michaeltaylor8501 thanks, I think that was a good answer. Since the 7 years that I posted that comment I have graduated chiropractic school and I’m in Chinese medicine school now so if I figure something out, I’ll let you know.
@@HungGarEarthBender Oh, cool! Congratulations! One of the best martial artists I've known was Master Sam Tendencia, a practitioner of Hilot (Filipino Bone Setting: a healing art), & Shiatsu (Japanese Massage). He could break folk up real good & then mend them up real good. P.S.: Check out Yin Style Baguazhang Master Xie Peiqi... On the Internet see... • RUclips • Association for Traditional Studies
poison hands look weird, i think hed be better just doing the salute in the fight. that looks more effective haha, everything else looks great though! especially tiger
people who watch this video should keep in mind that he is displaying different types of kata, it's not actual fighting no, in this instance its for show
I'm sorry if this offends anybody, but I can't get used to long ass names for simple techniques. Dragon spits out perl? I understand that names may be hard to create back then, but they are too damn long.
This vid is a little better then the other. I happened to have read some comments below me and i read that you are a "master" because you know the philosophy behind the martial arts. Let's put ur knowledge to, this is rather easy for you "maybe" since your a master. Do you know the difference between "Southern" Shaolin Kung fu and "Norhtern" Shaolin Kung fu???
Yes the dragon style looks easier I am going to try it out I know dragon techneghk sorry don't know how to spell that word anyway and the tiger I am going to love kong Fu I've seen alot of people who are to strong
@Oliiiverr Why do you think he should wear normal clothes? He's not doing "normal" things in this vid he's doing kung fu. If you go to work, you wear work clothes. When one goes to bed one wears bed clothes etc. This guy is demonstrating traditional kung fu. That might be why he's wearing traditional clothes relating to his chosen art form. If he were teaching Karate, Judo or Tae Kwon Do, would you tell him not to wear a Gi? Just a thought.
this looks really good. It goes too fast for me to practice it using only this video. I'd like to learn this though... are there any schools for this art in Holland or France?
Jakob Milikowski Bakker i hope you found a real master. this is from my lineage and not all of it is martial. most of it is just conditioning. this is southern not northern.
maestro mi opinion no es para molestarlo si no solo para decirle que las artes marciales son para la armonia cuerpo y alma y no para que parescan una coreografia, su tecnica es admirable pero de la manera que la dice y explica no parecen artes marciales... con el devido respeto naomichan95
Hung Gar and Wing Chun rule try mixing them nice video i got 1 boot leg vid i did when i was bored one day i did the gung gee fuk fu,whats you family of hung mine is redboat nice video but we only got 5 empty hand forms in hung gar
"...the entire Hung Family Shaolin 5 animal 5 element series"?? While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the techniques so far as I can see, he merely broke up the famous Hung set "Tiger/Crane" as created by Wong Fei Hung and set them up as completely different forms. Perhaps so that it is easier to teach (I don't know the reasoning), but I don't know why it would be claimed to be 5 Animal 5 Element... The last portion with the different animals are even the same moves with different feel
LOL what a load of crap, his leopard form is part of the the first few sections of Tiger/Crane from Hung Gar, no changes in movements at all, just pulled right out of it, WOW! Sorry if this comes across as rude.
Doesn't work in a real fight, is that joke? This is the dope ,sucker. Of course the master is not using the gauntlet's , but this one is the best form'sin all of martial art's, practically, anyway.
Sloppy tiger-crane set. Obviously he knows "some" martial arts. He seems to be able to learn the tiger-crane, gut it, then add his own stuff and rename it.
First, there is no such thing as 'traditional kung fu clothes' unless you're referring to those of the shaolin temples which is certainly not what he's wearing but kung fu doesn't have any such traditions with clothes and is therefore dissimilar to arts like judo and karate in this respect. These are just traditional clothes of china and the chinese did used to wear this when they went to work lol so it's not appropriate and looks ridiculous when a white american tries to emulate this
omfg, if i didn't know what was the difference, why would i ask??? What would u know about me and what i know, i know you dont know more then me for sure, i can gaurantee you that!!! Tell me, i bet u go to a school right? U wouldnt know more then me. I bet you dont know what system ur learning from.
Its always amusing to hear all the 'names' of certain moves. Master Jerry Cook, keep on keeping on! Excellent moves.
I really enjoyed watching this - I don't know off hand a single other martial artist that I know personally, who could name the techniques that quickly as they were doing them. This man knows his stuff.
@kenpolove I concur. Jerry is so freakin knowledgeable. He has done many great seminars for my former company. His knowledge is very broad. What I love about Jerry is I run into him all the time and he always GIVES me a gift of a DVD or book or sends a video to my phone, he is very generous with his knowledge. And.... He is ego free.
I like the long names, they describe the movement and make it much easier to remember...like your body is following a story instead of trying to remember 'go here then go there'
calling out the moves and performing them is a good way to remember how to do it
I learned some of these from Sifu Kaneen at Nine Dragons! Great school here in Phoenix, AZ.
I found this very informative, and appreciate that Master Cook named each of many moves in the form. That is useful to those learning the form.
Those who berate his kung fu and him personally should look at themselves and sincerely ask what they have accomplished.
Student of Choy Li Fut.
excellent, saved it to my favorites.
fantastic looking form on the forms. great stuff. look forward to seeing more from you.
I have personally trained with Te-Ching Jerry Cook and what most of you that are dismissing him do not understand is that he has a massive amount of knowledge about multiple arts and his precision and capabilities are amazing. He's a great teacher and a great martial artist. Also, going full power and full speed while trying to explain the forms, techniques, or applications,...freakin' difficult.
I remember fondly of the night you showed me how to brake rocks with my hands, thank you for everything you taught me for me. My martial arts education would not be where it is today with out you.
Watching in 2024 Sifu Jerry! Hope you’re doing well.
This is indeed Fu hok Fok Fa Kuen, Hung Gar form.
It is very nice to see a person do the form the same way, but I tend to disagree with the 'over' movement.
I would however teach my students pretty much the same way, as he combines Yin and Yang.
cool. i once learned the ones u call poison hand and iron body from my teacher as one form called hung gar blocking system and still practice it that way. it is nice to finally hear the names for the individual names of the moves for this form
i've known for nine years. please check out my sabre form under `Ian sword'
Thank you so much for this video. It was what I needed.
wow.... the poison hands and iron body look very very similar to the 5 animals system i train in!
And the tiger form has a 5 or 6 movement chunk that is taken directly from Tiger/Crane again, without changing any part at all. These are signature form movements that come from one of kung fu's most widely known form.
Good Work Master.. good job, vast knowledge.. thank you for this informative vid.. :)
DAMN THIS GUY HAS SOME GRACE!!!
I am lucky enough to have professor Kang as my wushu uncle plus I have done over 20 years of my own research. All the information is out there for anyone curious enough to seek it. I highly recommend the book 'The spring and Autumn of Chinese Martial Arts-5000 Years-' by Professor Kang Gewu
Oriental cultures rule!
They respected the nature and admired the animals. That's why their fighting styles were influenced by the natural movements of the animals.
new york you dont combine the animals to get dragon dragon is based on twisting, pulling and clawing motions in hung gar. and the five animals are tiger, leopard, crane, snake and dragon. and darkair chinese kungfu in general is based off of many different animals so you will see mostly every kungfu having some type of animal style
@Oliiiverr I agree, but perhaps were overlooking that he might simply be most comfortable practicing his art in these as opposed to his "normal" clothes.
One thing for sure is that anyone who posts a video will be incredibally criticized. This guy has been practicing for a long time and I bet he could kill most of you critics.
Interesting/Novel 'Cat Washes Face' variation: all others I've seen wrap in high & cast out low.
i almost forgot in hung gar the dragon is also the hard chi gung movements and breathing in the begining of the hung gar forms
I dont mean to imply that being a martial artist makes one inhuman or that one has to kill or anything like that. On the contrary- I believe one should avoid violence except in cases of necessary self defense. I disagree with you though if you are saying that Shaolin martial arts are just "plain pretty". They were developed for battlefield use and have nothing to do with fighting for sport. The applications are meant to stop someone from attacking you and getting back up.
this is a training video ,he is showing the uper-body moves so he is doing it slow for others to see ,though i would like to see the stances to go with the form.
I always said that the animal forms was the base of kung fu and from it you can progress to a higher and more well rounded marial artist.
@Oliiiverr According to professors Kang & Ma, 2 of China's most highly respected martial arts historians, putting myth & legend aside, archeological discoveries give evidence that chinese "wushu" began as military arts (before becoming civil arts) and can be traced back 5000 years. Silk production has a history going back 3000 years and was used to manufacture Wushu (or Kung fu in cantonese) uniform designed to protect the kung fu or military man. Civilians did not wear silk at that time.
true a lot did come from hung gar but at the same time i would like to know how the dragon moves develop the kidneys?
I can't even follow his movements trough a dam video.... I am sure there is no way I could even count on my reflexes ( they are semi-good) in a sparring, let alone a fight. A true master indeed.
Give him his due. He must be in pretty good shape to be able to keep gabbing all the way through those forms.
looks like he got a costume from party city and a master title from watching a shitload of old kung fu movies
@TheUncle3vil because the form is that way, those steps where he looks to his hand is because those steps are like that
BTW, I learned from Sifu Eddie Lane, student of Lam Jo. Lam Jo was student of Lam Sai Wing. Lam Sai Wing was model for the drawings on all of the traditional form charts and well-known and respected student of the real Wong Fei Hung.
There are many versions of hung gar going around these days, but the Lam family lineage is the real thing.
The real deal coming from the cantonese verison the mainland and cantonese verisons come fron wong fei hungs other students who didn't want to be famous
I love when he calls different movements the same name.....hmmmmm
Hey hey....looks like a nice school...your still moving good...i still have the yellow Shaolin t-shirt...is Master Li still in town? Terry B.
Interesting video, this was one form, the Fu Hok form, broken down into different sections? Very interesting.
when you do the horse stance isn't your toes suppose to point out not inside?
good job !
nice vid
Thanks a lot for posting such a very excellent video and very informative. Very very excellent....Thanks a lot From Kung fu Fanatic
My question is why does the dragon develop the kidneys more than say... the Leopard? What makes the movements develop certain organs over other movements.
Frankly I don't know either, but it appears that somehow some Chinese martial arts got attached to Chinese medicinal theories sometime in China's history, so some systems' top martial artists are also doctors of Chinese medicine. Methinks that this began when healers learned martial arts (IMO those who are practical & very familiar with the human body - such as doctors tend to be - are those who make some of the world's best martial artists); & they in turn taught both martial arts & medicine to those students capable of learning both; nevertheless, the medical info got attached to the practice of the martial art.
Unless one overdoes it or is somehow badly injured, one's whole body will benefit from martial-arts practice; & one can use martial arts to help protect one's self & others.
Regardless of art or form, done moderately fast, lungs benefit; done moderately long in duration, heart benefits; & when heart/lungs benefit all other organs benefit (& I know this without a doctorate; & doctors know so much more than this - although they all practice because much is theory; so perhaps some doctors theorize that a certain type of movement helps a specific organ more directly than other movements do*).
* = IMO the Chinese tend to get caught up into any one of China's various philosophies like Confucionism or Daoism with things like the 5 Elements or the 8 Tri-Grams, & then they try to make just about everything fit into their respective philosophy of choice - or else they'll get tied up in a philosophy imported into China & do the same with it.
@@michaeltaylor8501 thanks, I think that was a good answer. Since the 7 years that I posted that comment I have graduated chiropractic school and I’m in Chinese medicine school now so if I figure something out, I’ll let you know.
@@HungGarEarthBender
Oh, cool! Congratulations!
One of the best martial artists I've known was Master Sam Tendencia, a practitioner of Hilot (Filipino Bone Setting: a healing art), & Shiatsu (Japanese Massage). He could break folk up real good & then mend them up real good.
P.S.: Check out Yin Style Baguazhang Master Xie Peiqi...
On the Internet see...
• RUclips
• Association for Traditional Studies
then kung fu panda jumps out from nowhere and "skadoosh"
poison hands look weird, i think hed be better just doing the salute in the fight. that looks more effective haha, everything else looks great though! especially tiger
That's a mouthful...
>_>
people who watch this video should keep in mind that he is displaying different types of kata, it's not actual fighting no, in this instance its for show
Irond3vil2 lol no your wrong my friend.
i wanna see this in competition. MMA perhaps?
lol reminds me of hak foo from jackie chan adventures. a name for every movement .
no offense meant. just something i remembered from my childhood
that is a Master
what is the background of these 5 animals 5 elements? thanks
interesting point of view...
This is exactly what you'll see in any commercial school. All flash. Forms form forms for the money. Dude is more like Cha-Ching Jerry cook.
The only one that uses the word tiger, more than Sagat from street fighter;)
this is some interpretation of fu hok, although i'd be more interested in seeing some applications
suavidad tension y concentracion muy completo el nivel saludo mos lee venezuela
that's because they're translated. They don't have that many syllables in the original language
iron body is awesome
I liked
you have great form, where did you train? or should i ask who was your master? great vid, 5/5
Reminds me a lot of Hung gar tiger crane form
It sounds like your chi isn't moving properly when you're doing your forms. Be careful.
I'm sorry if this offends anybody, but I can't get used to long ass names for simple techniques. Dragon spits out perl? I understand that names may be hard to create back then, but they are too damn long.
brucenatelee it's just the poetry to help remember the move.
AMAZING.....
This vid is a little better then the other. I happened to have read some comments below me and i read that you are a "master" because you know the philosophy behind the martial arts. Let's put ur knowledge to, this is rather easy for you "maybe" since your a master. Do you know the difference between "Southern" Shaolin Kung fu and "Norhtern" Shaolin Kung fu???
Yes the dragon style looks easier I am going to try it out I know dragon techneghk sorry don't know how to spell that word anyway and the tiger I am going to love kong Fu I've seen alot of people who are to strong
@Oliiiverr Why do you think he should wear normal clothes? He's not doing "normal" things in this vid he's doing kung fu. If you go to work, you wear work clothes. When one goes to bed one wears bed clothes etc. This guy is demonstrating traditional kung fu. That might be why he's wearing traditional clothes relating to his chosen art form. If he were teaching Karate, Judo or Tae Kwon Do, would you tell him not to wear a Gi? Just a thought.
i could have sworn he got that uniform from party city
At my school we just do all of these forms consecutively and call the whole thing "Tiger Crane".
1,2, 3, 4, 5,...
они копируют только внешнюю форму, а Духа 5-ти животных там нет..
ему не надо кушать мясо, слишком тяжёлые формы..
really, nice form post more vids
is this a hung gar form? from what lineage?
this looks really good. It goes too fast for me to practice it using only this video. I'd like to learn this though... are there any schools for this art in Holland or France?
Jakob Milikowski Bakker i hope you found a real master. this is from my lineage and not all of it is martial. most of it is just conditioning. this is southern not northern.
great man
Complete knock-off of the tiger crane set.
How lol do you know there's Differnt lineages
Not a bad idea.
amazing
maestro mi opinion no es para molestarlo
si no solo para decirle que las artes marciales son para la armonia cuerpo y alma y no para que parescan una coreografia, su tecnica es admirable pero de la manera que la dice y explica no parecen artes marciales...
con el devido respeto
naomichan95
Hung Gar and Wing Chun rule try mixing them nice video i got 1 boot leg vid i did when i was bored one day i did the gung gee fuk fu,whats you family of hung mine is redboat nice video but we only got 5 empty hand forms in hung gar
wow
"...the entire Hung Family Shaolin 5 animal 5 element series"??
While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the techniques so far as I can see, he merely broke up the famous Hung set "Tiger/Crane" as created by Wong Fei Hung and set them up as completely different forms. Perhaps so that it is easier to teach (I don't know the reasoning), but I don't know why it would be claimed to be 5 Animal 5 Element...
The last portion with the different animals are even the same moves with different feel
LOL what a load of crap, his leopard form is part of the the first few sections of Tiger/Crane from Hung Gar, no changes in movements at all, just pulled right out of it, WOW! Sorry if this comes across as rude.
i want you to be my teacher too
but they are
5:31 best form *.*
@omg9111 ikr
are you speaking from experience or ignorance?
bu hareketlerle dayak yersin dede
its funny the way chinese is translate into eng on kung fu haha
Doesn't work in a real fight, is that joke? This is the dope ,sucker. Of course the master is not using the gauntlet's , but this one is the best form'sin all of martial art's, practically, anyway.
Sloppy tiger-crane set. Obviously he knows "some" martial arts. He seems to be able to learn the tiger-crane, gut it, then add his own stuff and rename it.
Huh!
but you can definetly say that if your're asian you're better than everyone at everything
this form is a fake, u have train the real form with Shi Yang Ming on New York
For doing southern methods, his stances are very weak.
lol,u din even zha ma bu.dun spoil the chinese martial arts leh u ang mohs...
lol
First, there is no such thing as 'traditional kung fu clothes' unless you're referring to those of the shaolin temples which is certainly not what he's wearing but kung fu doesn't have any such traditions with clothes and is therefore dissimilar to arts like judo and karate in this respect. These are just traditional clothes of china and the chinese did used to wear this when they went to work lol so it's not appropriate and looks ridiculous when a white american tries to emulate this
No stances, no power, this guy is ridiculous. He is good for Tai Chi, not for Hung Gar.
Jon Anton you have no idea what your talking about lol
omfg, if i didn't know what was the difference, why would i ask??? What would u know about me and what i know, i know you dont know more then me for sure, i can gaurantee you that!!! Tell me, i bet u go to a school right? U wouldnt know more then me. I bet you dont know what system ur learning from.
im sorry but its kinda hard to take a white guy serious :\