The Last Masters of Shaolin Kung Fu (Shaolin Heritage the Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- The Shaolin Heritage documentary is the results of my research trip to the town of Dengfeng, just outside the Shaolin Temple in Henan province. I traveled there is the summer of 2019 to explore the folk styles of Kung Fu practiced in the villages in the mountains surrounding the temple. While the Shaolin Temple has been burnt down several times in history, the villages and the town of Dengfeng have maintained a mostly uninterrupted transmission of traditional martial arts.
This documentary is the first in a series of documentaries which will explore the questions of: what actually is Shaolin Kung Fu, what is its influence on Chinese martial arts in general, and where did it really come from?
Video & Audio composition by Joël Achermann from the Shaolin Xinyiba Research Society. Visit his and his teacher's, Hu Zhengsheng's channel here: / shaolinxinyiba
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What would really mean something to me Is Bhodi Dharma is not the progenitor of Zen, who was it that imported the Indian/Southeast Asian/Himalayan religion of Buddhism to China? If Bodhi Dharma was the progenitor regardless of what might be said, the use of pranayama or breath and physical yogas has always been a part of Dharma though it has been kept secret more less in certain schools all schools of Buddhism use Trulkhor or Pranayama or Chi Gung in their practices so I cannot accept that there isn’t some truth to the spiritual exercises having links to Shaolin.
Can you please share any leads??
Having worked on this for the last couple months, we're super grateful for all the fantastic feedback here! Thanks guys! Will, Tomas, see you soon hopefully!
Watched this a couple times now since it was released, great job from everyone involved! Your martial arts insights were excellent as always, but I can tell you really upped the production quality of this one, too - it looked and sounded fantastic!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this documentary; it was professional enough to be on a TV channel!
Thanks mate! Maybe one day we will!
too good for tv!
@@CatoniusBingo!
Boomers.
Nicely done! This is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen on the subject.
I can't wait for this!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
This documentary has answered so many personal questions I had as a kung fu student and practioner that I just wanted to say thank you guys for doing this. Amazing job! Amituofo!
So glad to hear it was of benefit to you!
Thank you very much for the Documentary Will. It's professional quality!! 😀
Your channel is a recent find for me - and I am grateful. I appreciate your content. Well done. Continue your Kung Fu journey - I am virtually following along.
You made a beautiful documentary! Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to see more.
This is an amazing documentary, you guys are doing such a great job a preserving this knowledge. Your channel has helped me understand how to train and how to treat my teacher as well as the style I’m learning. It’s also helped me understand the variety of King Fu and how it’s been falsely portrayed. Thank you for your hard work, please keep documenting this amazing knowledge, it’s guiding some of us on the martial way.
Been watching your videos from the latest ones, like the trip to Taiwan and this is the most recent one I’m watching. Love your respect to Chinese martial arts, it’s amazing how much knowledge and wisdom you’re getting from these different teachers.
That was amazing. I really appreciate all the cultural nuances.
Thanks guys. Will and Joel, looking forward for the next journey together.
Looking forward to seeing your documentary too!
It's gonna be a long 20 hours...
I'm going to get comfy af for when this drops.
This video is an amazing achievement! Great Job! I will have to watch it at least twice.
thank you so much. i very much enjoyed and learned a great deal. I come from a daoist, meditative background, and this was a much needed shaolin perspective. it gave me such great CONTEXT to it all. I started wanting to learn kung fu to be tough, but with my practice i realized what i really wanted was peace and harmony with my surroundings. i think this was a great reminder
Young man you did an incredible job on this documentary! I can't express enough how amazing this was. My favorite practitioner of Shaolin is Ro Shehlik from Toronto. She is amazing as a woman, a practitioner, and just all around. I'm throughly impressed with everything about this film too though. From the videography to the writing speaking and being, it was perfect. I'm truly grateful for this small peek into such a mesmerizing esoteric dynasty....I learned a lot of new information and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for all your work and best wishes for you in whatever it be your will to do!
Thanks for the kind words
What the first master said about modern vs tradition and this knowledge being lost I feel is true for so much of the country undergoing change so rapidly. It's brilliant to see people valuing this heritage. Such knowledge and passion put into this film - awesome work! I learnt so much. I've always wondered about doing something on martial arts on our channel, but glad we haven't yet. We could never do it this justice!
That was fantastic! I can't wait for the next "journeys"!
I am sorry that I have been unemployed for some time and cannot contribute to Mr. continue your search! 😞
Health and Peace to you, shifu, and success to the Monkey Steals Peach channel!
Greetings from Brazil! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
That was really well done. I think it's the most accurate and informative documentary I've seen on the Song Shaolin martial arts in the English language.
Thank you for a great documentary. So much wisdom can be heard in the words of the old one, like it's a life long practice, connect your mind with the heart. And finally, the meditation. In time being, we all get old, the body vanishes, but awareness stays, the stepping stone for meditation.
Great work. Thoughtful and informative. I am thankful to see this final product.
Wow- great documentary. Keep the videos rolling...
Dude, this was good. Thanks for going to China and researching/filming all of this.
Beautiful. Will watch again!
I can put into words how wonderful this is! Amazing work and research!
Great documentary Will I look forward to the rest of your work.
Yessss
I really enjoyed that, it was entertaining and informative, with beautiful imagery. Something else that stood out to me was 90 year old master Xu. I've seen it time and again; the oldest healthiest people in the world always live in small villages, towns in the middle of nowhere, or up in the mountains... about as far away as you can get from trendy diets, big city doctors, and pharmaceuticals. Anyways, thank you so much for sharing!
appreciate the work put into it, this video is so amazing, thank you so much for sharing it with us .. Great content man.
High quality production by guys who take the culture seriously. The next best thing to being there. Thx!
Excellent presentation. Looking forward to the next installment.
Very nice documentary, it’s also very interesting to see how close the principles of the different styles are.
Great work, always a good thing when you see and hear others instil what you were taught/teach, peace, love and happiness... 阿弥陀佛 🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏾
Excellent content! 👏👏👏
Very enjoyable and left me want to learn more and more. Nicely done!
Very good documentary! Well done! I personally had the honor to be introduced to Master Cui Zhongwu back in 2015. He is ‘the real thing’, among bunch of crap around the Temple and Dengfeng! Good work guys!
Thanks man! Yea, Master Cui was great! A real honour to spend time tome him!
Really enjoyed watching this. Inspiring and motivating 🙏
awesome work as usual man, very well put together
Thanks for your effort!! Best for you all!
Excellent disposition. Loved it. Great explanation... Thank you.
Thank you Will for this fascinating Documentary. I trained in Shaolin Kung Fu and did a pilgrimage to Shaolin. You deeply inspired me with this... Full of precious training keys.
Let's be more precise... Watching this made me TRAIN. Even more important after nearly 15 years of no practice... Thank you Will.
Glad to hear you got back into it! I bet Shaolin changed a fair bit since you were there!
@@MonkeyStealsPeach I can't tell, have not been back ever since unfortunately. I met a guy there who was from former Eastern Germany and went there on his own to train with the monks when he was 15 (!). He spoke fluent Mandarin.
Well done Will. Great documentary
Thank you for sharing this video. :)
Thanks for fulfilling my dream, brother.🙏
Wow, awesome to get to see some real explaining! Good job with this, give us more! :)
Thanks! More coming soon!
Absolutely beautiful documentary extremely well done hats off to you gifted sharer of knowledge 👏👍😎
Thank you kindly!
Wow i love Martial Arts
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Excellent documentary. I don't know if the guys who directed this film have any formal film education, but if they don't, they did a hell of job putting that together. I appreciated the aerial shots, & the content was very interesting. Well done. 👍
Thank you! No we don’t have any formal education in film making, was just a project of passion
Done. Very happy to offer some support. It's very meaningful to preserve this tradition. Thank you for your work Will!
Thank you all for the great VIDEO and job you made! My heart is filling! To tell the true in Russia interest to a Traditional Martial Arts is dying. It is not good... I try to give the atmosphere of old masters to my students, but... time chamges...
Such an amazing work 😇😇😇
beautifully done!
Good stuff! Thanks a million!
Well done, and quite interesting. Lots of similarities with my own xing yi quan practice indeed.
I love your content. Your video are worth to watch. Keep connected always.
Thanks from Argentina. Awesome!!!
I think that it's great that you study all of these traditional martial arts. I, too, was interested from a young age and studied with many instructors including Bruce Lee but my very best one was from Southern Shaolin, Joe Chu. Many of these arts are very good for one but you have to remember very few are actual Boxing and Wrestling. The combat sport aspect of Shaolin is quite different from the forms and requires youth, determination and the willingness to endure injuries. If the combat sport aspect of the art is not practiced one should not expect to do well in contest with someone who endures it.
Nice production. Well done!
Nice video thank you for sharing stay safe stay healthy stay connected good luck with your wonderful days wow Kung Fu very great 👍
Good job!!!
sungguh indah pemandangannya.
thanks for this!
This beautifully produced insight into Shaolin heritage is just so impressive. While acknowledging the popular myths of the Shaolin temple it gave me the clearest understanding I have ever had of the actual history and status of Shaolin and the communities and practitioners attached to it. I have to really congratulate Will, Joel, Tomas on their hard work and deep insights into unlocking truths and presenting key characters such as Hu Zhengsheng who are carrying the Shaolin tradition and knowledge forward. I will share and recommend this video to my MA friends everywhere.
Thanks so much James!
Well done! ✊
Amazing video. Love the intro music at the beginning. But i dont see it listed in the description, only the other 2 songs. What is the song that starts at very beginning ends at 1:33?
FINALLY!!!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🎉🎇🎆
Fantastic job. Stuff never seen before.
A beginner in chinese martial arts, I first and very recently noticed the importance and impact of intention when practicing bian gan. Suddenly the staff strikes neatly and barely staggering. I do not think about how to move my body differently. The simple intention of striking effectively does the trick. Since my teacher told me that this is no fluke but actually part of the practice I try to apply the concept also in everyday life. To know its relation to my other favourite style, hebei xingyi quan, is all the more motivating - but I believe I need to run another few hundret drills for the bare mechanics, before I can take that step.
Amazing brother
Nice video, great job
Great stuff
Beautiful my brothers
Excelente!!!!
great video man
Muy interesante video que muestra parte de la cultura de un pueblo
Documentary of southern shaolin just like this one and talk about the 5 family legend
Great job, Will! I'm all for a Xinyiquan documentary. And a Xingyiquan one after that. Of course, my screen name is the English translation of Hengquan, so I might be a little biased.
Yep, that is the plan. I will probably do Xingyi and Xinyi as one documentary released in two parts though.
Nice documentary. I shared it on our facebook page 🙏
Awesome, thank you!
nice content. thanks
great!
the one i love from chinese martial arts is how artsy is the movement are
it has a beautiful form, a slow movement but at the end of each movement it shown a person power , it first it is as calm as a river and in the end it shocks a power like a thunder
idk how to explain other than that
Hi there, could you do a video on Longfist mantis? It’s my system from Qingdao but sadly I can’t find more information on it.
Well done Bro!
very nice video
I feel bad that the original temple was burned. It’s like the burning of the library of Alexandria.. I’m glad that the tradition still continues
Vocês vão longe com o canal parabéns mesmo!
Good job! Very well done!
Thanks Dom!
Nice one Will, many thanks for taking so much trouble with this. BTW, those dents in the floor from monks stamping at Shaolin are not a recent tourist industry addition; they were there when I visited in 1985, and the temple was still part ruin.
Joël did all the editing, so the trouble was his lol! I knew the dents were there, they are in the old Jet Li movie. As to their real origin could it just be uneven ground/dampness/result of the fire? Or actually monks training?
@@MonkeyStealsPeach Ah well, congrats to Joel then :-) So difficult to know anything's true origin...
Interessant
thank you for sharing this . loved every minute . well documented and represented.
great video, I can see a picture on the wall of of the master wu sanlin.
nice to see you Will!
Hello 白鸽！好久不见
Do you have news about Jiang Hu ?
His tutorial missed to me.
nice videos
Really leaves me wondering what Northern and Eastern courtyard boxing motion would have had been like
Me too!!!
I would have loved to have been able to learn with those masters and been able to learn to speak Chinese with them.
Good
Nice to see you getting into the documentary style videos now. Still waiting on the General Qi Jiguang pin point xD It's amazing how it starts with some army training to families learning to defend themselves, to everyone trying to create their own styles and run to Shaolin with it. The folk lore and stories are lovely but in hindsight, Kung Fu comes from poorly educated men who knew how to fight essentially and proved their worth back then by fighting for money & respect, then turning into everyone trying to teach their styles for a living and having the Kung Fu wars and roof top duels. To nowadays where they teach people to look and feel good doing some fancy techniques and try to keep them coming back to rake in the money. Instruction has changed so much over the years going from teaching principles and how to effectively deal with your opponent to really focusing on each individual technique and selling the idea it takes years and years to master the style (an army doesn't have years and years to focus on techniques, bare this is mind if you are a believer in this concept that it takes years to master Kung Fu). And even with modern Kung Fu that springs up during the late 1800's, mid 1900s such as Wing Chun, another style trying to recreate General Qi Jiguang's Southern short strike boxing, that takes all its inspiration from the theory and principles of Yong Chun White crane and Xingyi Quan as those styles are lead to be believed are more closely related to the scriptures back from the 1600-1700s when Kung Fu was first developed. This is hugely the main reason that Kung Fu is not popular in China, due to the messiness and diverse misconceptions due to the Qing revolution. This is why in China the majority will practice Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, San Da and not traditional Chinese martial arts (except Tai Chi in the park for the elderly). The main styles across China seem to be XingYi Quan, Bagua Zhang, Baiji Quan, Chen & Yang Tai Chi. Sad part is, doesn't matter if we are talking about temples, styles, or lineages, there are so many misconceptions and lies it is virtually impossible to say yeah this is 100% fact and this what it is and where it comes from. Nonetheless, I love Kung Fu and have learnt not to get involved in the politics and just enjoy the practice of health. It is nice to see that some of the Chinese are starting to implement the Western science into their styles such as the Sp02, HRV, and all that stuff. After all if you can't use it to kill people, at least use it as a sport to make the most of the style, unless you are doing it for spiritualism and health then you don't need rigorous training systems to train like an athlete to further your development in your Kung Fu. Anyway I could be here for ages, I will stop there haha
Hello Will! Hope you're doing well. Loving the new series! I was going to ask if I could could your brain on something. I will potentially be joining a discipleship program in a couple of years based in Thailand in a style called Tiger Crane Combination, a lineage passed down through Singapore in a Organization called Nam Yang Association. Do you have any insights about this system? It is said to be Fujian Southern Shaolin in origin but its not something I've seem before and I'm debating whether or not to pursue a discipleship under them or under the Shaolin Temple in Yunnan/Chengdu instead. Thanks Will! Doing great!
Hi Phil. No idea about the one in Thailand, but the Shaolin Temple Yunnan is just a commercial tourist experience. There is only one Shaolin Temple and that’s in Henan province
@Monkey Steals Peach Oh really?! I didn't know that. Only one eh? That's mad. Thanks a lot
Would’ve loved if you were able to speak with Shi Dijian of the San Huang Basilica
He’s pretty reclusive these days
disclaimer: no tea was harmed in any way during the footage! ;DD awesome work!
More tea was harmed when I was in Fujian in southern China!
@@MonkeyStealsPeach damn psychopaths! ;D