Sifu please do another video with this guy. How does he train the internal power and how does he mix that with hard training like press ups without getting too tense
You should train with that guy for a year, i'd watch a series about that. Then after that year, continue training with him for the rest of your life cause clearly it's worth it.
@@somefuckingbum7334 Xing Yi is hard to find. Good Xing Yi is even harder. Byron Jacobs has a very solid online training program. The 10 minute primer videos cover all of the basics and they're free on RUclips.
@@Acrophyllia That's what Xing Yi does to you if you train it properly. Dudes super fast, tough, and has enough root to hit right through you. IMO it's the most viable traditional Chinese martial art. The theory is solid and it's pretty simple.
@@arbogast4950 People forget that while kung fu is largely a joke nowdays it came from guys killing each other with their bare hands. devoloping your body into a weapon is very useful for that. i imagine if you can add this kinda conditioning to practical MMA training you'd be really dangerous. plus no more worrying about breaking fists from punching people
When you train any Chinese art properly.. you get the same types of Results. The issue, is that most modern practitioners lack the Dedication, to push themselves hard enough, to reach Masterclass level results in the arts that they train in. This guy appears to be one of the Rare exceptions to the rule. I used to train (mainly in Wing Chun, but also cross trained in many other arts methods too) anywhere from 4 to +8hrs, every single day. One of my daily routines, contained a lot of what you see here... but with some modifications, to make these exercises even more challenging (such as doing them in slow-motion, and centering your fists in the center of your chest, to raise you even higher up) I had eventually developed the same kind of Lethal short range power... as what he appears, might also have The thing is... The school just gives you basic instructions... but its up to you, to do a TON of daily work, outside of school... if you actually want to progress to any realistic level of combat abilities. Kung Fu has to become a daily way of life... for anywhere from 5 to 10 yrs, minimum... to get to a level that looks like this guy
What's missing from modern MMA from traditional martial arts is the conditioning. In Muay Thai, you condition the knees, fists, shins, and elbows. In karate, you condition pretty much your whole body. In Chinese martial arts, you condition the part of the body you use mainly as weapons.
Kevin... Being a WIng Chun man.. Im surprised that you have not done these kinds of exercises. The teacher I had... had us doing 3 sets of Slow Motion Wing Chun pushups: First Set: Place both of your vertical fists together, in the center of your Chest (Leave the thumb facing outward/up.. so that your knuckles can come closer togethers). Keep your elbows at your side at all times, as you do your vertical fist pushups on the wooden/concrete floor. You want to do them in slow motion... taking about 10 seconds to go down... and 10 seconds to go up, for each one. (Aim for 15 minimum per set, on Slow Motions Pushups) 2nd Set: Same thing, but down slow... and Up Fast as possible (explosive power) (Aim for 15 minimum per set, on Slow Motions Pushups) 3rd Set: Diamonds. Make a Triangle with your hands.. by touching the pointer fingers, and thumbs. Place your palms on the floor... maybe 8 inches in front of where your head hovers. As you go down.. go down diagonally forwards, so that your forehead ends up in the center of your Triangle. Then reverse. Do these fairly slow as well. (Aim for 15 minimum per set, on Slow Motions Pushups) Alternatives: On certain days, we would be given alternatives exercises, to the above 1) Finger Tip Pushups. Much like what was shown here... Spreading your fingers, and performing slow pushups on them 2) Bent Wrist Pushups. Much like his wrist flips.. you merely perform pushups on your bent wrists 3) Maybe 50 to 100 Standards pushups, performed fast as possible 4) I believe we had also done some Hopping Pushups on the Knuckles, as well as hopping on the wrist, too Sandbag work, was a complete exercise on its own For the sandbag... it could be anywhere from 15 minutes, to 1 hour long.. depending on the day. Unlike this sandbag, which appears to be filled with Beans... Ours was packed tightly with Coarse Grain beach sand. I had two "3 section" sandbags at home, that I placed in a vertical line.. giving me 6 targets of different heights. I would use the top three for handstrikes. And the Bottom 3, for barefoot oblique kicks, toe stabbing kicks, and some other kicks + foot conditioning impacts. At home, I was doing 4 sets, that were 15 minutes of non-stop hitting. Full speed, full acceleration, and full impact potentials.. for each hit. Try to maintain every attribute, through the entire non-stop set (no rests during a set.. and no easing off the speed or power). 2 to 3 min rest between sets max. Shake your arms loose, then shake the fingers some, and finally... roll your arms in large fast circles a few times in each direction, to force the bloodflow back into them, during your rest period. The Relaxation part is IMPORTANT, as you dont want to create "dead-muscle" ...muscles that are too tight, and too stiff. As for the sandbag work.. you can choose which types of things to work on... or you can use combinations. You might just do vertical fist punches. Or you might hit in a Repeated Sequence: Fingers, Tiger Paw (Not the Claw. Hitting with the surface between the 1st and 2nd knuckles), Vertical Fist, Wrist, Forearm (top), Elbow Point, Shoulder (body slam). You can also add in Pheonix Eye Knuckles, Extended Middle Knuckle, Hammerfists, Chops, and even Headbutts. Proper non-stop Breathing.. is Critical in your Pushups, Sandbag work, and in any other work you do too. When you were trying some of the 5 exercises.. I believe you were often Holding your breath. Thats a HUGE NO-NO. No matter how straining the exercise it.. you NEED to maintain proper breathing. You also do NOT want any Grunting / Groaning noises (No vocalizations. Only natural breath sounds, from the aim moving in and out). Your breaths should not be shallow from only the upper lungs. You should be filling both the upper lungs, AND the lower Dan-Tian (abdomen area). In many cases.. You should be using most all of your air, on each movement (depending on the speed, and power levels)... and when your movement is completed.. you want to make sure you are breathing IN fully... so that you are 100% full of air.. when your fist/arm/leg returns to the home position (ready for the next movement). Your retraction speed, should be just as fast as your extension speed... and the positional accuracy, vector, and Awareness, are all Equally important, too. As for why you do these types of Exercises? (Benefits) - If you cant even maintain your body mass over your bare knuckles... How do you expect to deliver KO or Lethal strikes with them?! Impact forces to the attackers head... are going to be MUCH greater in Impact potentials... than merely resting your body mass over them. - If your wrists are weak... How do you expect to maintain heavy impacts, without your wrists buckling from too much stress? And or.. how are you supposed to keep your bent wrist strong... and without getting injured... when you impact with a bent wrist.. if your wrists are too weak? When you throw Wing Chun punches.. especially high punches to a tall persons forehead.. you have to bend your wrists, so that your knuckles will hit "Flush". As such.. you to be able to Lock your wrist bend very tightly... so that it will be a good conductor of impact power... while also preventing injuries to yourself. - Grip strength, is of course, another factor. While we often do not grasp the Opponent in Wing Chun... there are instances where it can be advantageous to grip someone. Even if its one of our "half-grip" (not full finger wraps) type of grips. Additionally, the grip strength will also help make your punches harder, stronger, and more explosive. This may also help give you more strength to escape an OPs attempted grapple (though, you also need to practice escaping grapple attempts and certain locks, with a strong partner.. at various grip strength levels). - Finger Strength, is sort of an extension of Grip Strength. Its of course, needed for being able to deeply penetrate the OPs tissues, without your fingers curling, and or wrenching from side-to-side. This is critical for striking the Neck, at high speed and full impact potentials. Sometimes, the OP might not be caught off guard.. and they will tighten their muscles.. protecting them from deep penetration strikes. If you didnt have strong enough fingers when they did this.. it could easily end up injuring yourself, while attempting to finger strike them. - As for Slow-Motion pushup benefits: The slower you go.. the more Strain you will be put under... and so each Rep will give you Double the Progression. Meaning.. you will be doing Less Reps... but will be getting much quicker Strength Gains. With slow motion work.. you cant use Momentum to help you "Cheat". And you will be developing surgical levels of accuracy... in your vectoral control abilities. You also build up a higher level awareness, all along the full path... as well as develop much greater strength... all along the full path of travel. - The benefits of the proper breathing... that could take an entire Book worth of text to explain. The simple answer, is that your tissues will develop in a way, that they have much greater circulation channels. This leads to a LOT of benefits... from heavier strikes, to faster healing, greater density, and much more.
We had a similar system when I did Shaolin when I was a kid. The Sifu said that each different kind of push-up worked a slightly different set of muscles. I never liked those bent wrist push-ups. I don't think i can even do one anymore now that I'm old.
Thank you for sharing your Knowledge. I will be following the standards. Your Sifu/ school is Amazing , just buy conditioning standards alone. You're very fortunate to have practiced there. If I may, What style do you practice? What is the name of your School and where is it located? I'm in Los Angeles area are there any affiliated schools. Thank you again for Sharing.
@@tomz3214 My pleasure. My original schools Sifu was Steve Lee Swift. He originally trained and taught Karate.. but when he discovered Wing Chun, in Hong Kong, It quickly won him over. I trained in Wing Chun, under 3 different Wing Chun teachers, from different lineages. Ive had bad luck, with teachers moving far away. I had to keep starting from the very beginning... and while that kinda sucked... it also make my foundations Rock Solid. Also, I got to see various differences, which gave me even more Insight, and depth of Knowledge. I also Cross Trained in other arts methods, on my own: I mastered kicking methods from TKD, Muay Thai, Wushu, and Northern Shaolin. I did Shaolin style Iron Body Conditioning, including soft tissue areas, like the throat. I mastered some Acrobatic feats from Shaolin (head rolls, butterfly kicks, front-falls onto concrete, kip ups, and some other stuff). I mastered western boxing strikes. And I taught myself some Weapons: Nunchucks, 9 Section Steel Whip Chain, and the basics of the Rope Dart. I also learned some elements from arts like Tai Chi, and developed Masterclass level Short Range Power (Fajin / Explosive Power). I would later discover, that many elements of Tai Chi, are present in properly taught and performed, Wing Chun. For example... Tai Chi Push Hand drills, are somewhat similar to Wing Chuns Chi Sao (sticky hand) drills. Also, the first form of Wing Chun, has a section in it, thats supposed to be done extremely slow.. like Tai Chi forms (the part thats repeated 3 times in a row, is called "Three Prayers to Buddha". Only ONE of my Wing Chun teachers knew about this.. and actually taught it correctly.. and It wasnt Swift). Of the 3 schools I attended, none of them did any standard sparring. As such, after my first year of training... I started sparring outside of school, against fighters from various different arts. Typically against blackbelt level fighters / instructors, competition fighters, often that were almost double my own mass and strength (as back then, I was only a mere 150 lb at 6ft tall, with a small 31" waist). The thing is... It would be hard to recommend any schools... as Ive been out of the loop for many years now. Also, many of my teachers had Positives, and Negatives. Swift was an amazing practitioner, with lightning fast reflexes, and quite a good deal of power. But as a teacher.. there was a lot missing, as far as how the system was supposed to actually function in "Reality". I cant tell if the man was holding back information... or if he just didnt really know. Im kind of good with figuring things out on my own... and I did a lot of experiments, and tests. Combined with my foundational base training, and research from other Chinese arts... I was eventually able to figure out things... that I had never learned in any of my former 3 schools. I also believe I have knowledge and skills that none of those teachers had, and likely never will have. Most especially because most WC teachers dont actually spar against other decent fighters. As such, they depth of realistic combat experiences. One simple example? Look at a Wing Chun fighters hands. If their fingers are spread apart, instead of being fully together... then they have never done much hardcore sparring. You see, when you fingers are spread.. you tend to end up getting Jammed Fingers, and Wrenched Fingers (over-extension injuries). When you are only used to light sparring, and or slowed down sparring... you may never need to worry about this... However, in my case.. I was fighting heavy / full contact... against some really tough + skilled dudes. After like 2 finger Jam injuries, and 3 wrenches finger injuries... I finally learned to keep my fingers together, at all times. Ive never had an injury like that, ever since. Anyway... Heres the Real Deal. If you want to reach a realistic Combat level of effectiveness... you have to make your training, a Daily way of Life. It cant just be 3 days a week... with only in-school training. You have to train both in and OUT of school... every single day... and at your maximum potentials. Thats how I reached Masterclass level results, in about 3 years time. Where as most people would take +15 years, and still not be anywhere close to Masterclass level skillsets / output. Back when I was training... I didnt even have a PC... and the Internet wasnt really a Thing. The only way to get knowledge outside of class, and from exchanging knowledge with other artists.. was books, or at most, some VHS tapes. These days, people have access to a TON of Martial Arts information... free, over the net. But what they tend to Lack... is the Drive to do something with that knowledge (daily hardcore efforts).
Yeah, this guy looks like a... martial art movie protagonist. His moves, his power, how he looks when he strikes. Just like a master from old school martial art movies :) And when he says "You can use your finger to attack", it's not just a theory, because in second he can prove you that his attacks with finger - have destruction potential.
@@KevinLeeVlog I think that if you start those "roling push ups" on knuckles, on hard surface... you will destroy your "joints" and tendons on knuckles. I've destroyed mine. I find out about it at 40. When I couldn't straighten finders without pain and my doctor said that I have "degradated" knuckle joints and tendons are ripped by rugged bones. It has to be done more....gradually. I don't know how. Maybe makiwara first, lightly. If you feel such a pain after 3 push-ups on soft ground...Then your knuckles are not ready to do this on hard surface. When we were young - we watched the movies and we thought "It has to be hard, pain and extreme". Now we now that it has to be... Medium but...systematic and for long period of time.
@@Rotaks People use talk about micro fractions, but that is the wrong way to condition bones. Density is changed by pressure in a healthy way, you can see it how bones of weight lifters change with the training, but kung fu took that principle to a different height. Iron rings in wing chun and hung gar for example are great for it, but you still need to cope with the injuries in order to get no inflammation. Shaolin you usually see putting their arms into these giant spaghetti machines where the rolls put pressure on the bones.
@@Rotaks For fingers you can use stone padlocks, bricks or hardwood furniture too. I started with lifting a hardwood chair on each individual finger for five times each day. You sometimes see in Shuai jiao people rolling the stone barbells onto their arms or balancing stone packlocks on their fist thats a great way too, but you are not supposed to punch the padlocks but lift em
Great videos man, very informative, entertaining and educational. I am doing a 100+ man Kumite on February 9th. With me being the only man ever to be both World Champion in Muaythai and Lethwei (first foreign Lethwei champion ever) while having extensive training in Jeet Kune Do, Savate, Kenpo and a 4th Dan in TKD this Kumite will be the first of its kind. I hope you can come out to Texas or I can probably come meet you and talk about it some day. I’ll talk about all my fight experience. I have over a 100 Muaythai and Lethwei fights, 100’s of open and point sparring as well. A little boxing too. OSS 🥋 🙏🏾
@ yes I plan for it to be. I can’t film and fight but maybe I’ll bring a tripod and go live plus I have a videographer to do some stuff with footage as well.
From traditional chinese way of seeing things then history is running in circles, technically nothing disappears that cannot be rediscovered. On the other side in cycles of destruction there are punched a lot of holes into peoples knowledge. And with declining health of the planet more and more peoples health does not allow this kind of training anymore either ...
@@KevinLeeVlogHere's the science. The muscles are limited by the GOLGI TENDON REFLEX (Google it). This reflex prevents maximum contraction of all the fibers in a muscle because it will rip itself loose from the bone. You can, by Nei Gung, train to mentally relax the reflex and it will seem like super strength OR you can train tendon strength with isometrics that doesn't increase muscle size but gives you super strength because the reflex gains a higher threshold and you can recruit more muscle fiber. To see this in action look at "Anatoly gym pranks", you will be amazed. This is one of the keys to Cheung Lai Chuen Bak Mei, he was famous for his tremor power because he combined both methods of relaxing the golgi tendon reflex, mentally and physically, along with specific body mechanics. It trains the tendons in the core muscles (waist) to generate super power torque transmitted through the superpower tendons in limbs. Because of this superpower training, GM Cheung stripped down a combined White Eyebrow and Hakka Dragon style down to 4 principles (float, sink, swallow and spit) and 8 techniques. His style was so powerful against multiple opponents in body armor that Chiang Kai Shek hired him to train Kuo Min Tang special forces at Wampoa military academy.
All of the push ups we did when I was in Karate. The 2 knuckle hook also was taught by our Master. Great review & thank you to both of you for sharing. Brings back memories.
Thank you Kevin & Dmitriy. The 4th exercise has incredibly benefitted my arthritic left index finger so much that i am able to bend it to make a fist, at the same time strengthening other fingers. Much gratitude.🙏
Another way to strengthen yourself for the 'back of the wrist hold' is to do 'wrist pushups' as in back of the wrist to fist, lifting yourself up with wrist power alone, start from your knees then build. Its also a great way to prevent wrist pain from to much handstand training.
For the wrist jump, you can do wrist push-up on your knee's and hold the low position to get used to pressure on the wrist. Just 3 sets of 10 really slow push ups a day will get your wrist conditioned to do the full hop in like a month.
I was fortunate to do this hard kung fu style as a teenager and young man. No other training in any other martial art matches it, in my opinion. I trained alot and always felt super calm in any situation knowing my hand speed and strength was like a bullet.
@@losttapes1705 I'm on the fence about wether or not this is a "hard style". Something like Changquan or Choy Lay Fut would fit but this is one of the 4 classic internals. Oh boy, now I'm sounding like one of those kung fu purists. It's just semantics. Call it whatever you'd like but one thing we can agree on is that Xing Yi is life changing.
Excellent. Prep exercises to be ready for combat striking. Thank you for the video. Maybe in a future video explain San Ti Shi, proper stance, what does the mind do while standing (Body part 'alignment' circulation?), Song development, how song is incorporated into San Ti Shi, beginner time duration, other goals which work towards rooting like Song, and to tell when you have developed rooting skill.
Doing the XingYi staff/spear conditioning is a nice way to build up progressions. Forearm conditioning drills, using buckets full of rice & doing grabs, kettlebell carries (farmers walks), the options are endless! Just be conscious that there is a lot of connective tissue work happening here, so you need to time your recovery protocols well
I agree! Not using our hands as much and making us sedentary has weakened us as a society. But I just had hand and wrist surgery recently, so their tender. I've done karate and fma since I was young. I do a variety of push-ups, but he does these with such vigor and ease. It's such a pleasure to watch him
The warmups, are generally just Stretches. Bending your own wrists and holding for x amount of time (in all various directions). And or Leaning your bent wrists against a wall, for x amount of time. Tapping your finger tips on a hardwood table. Leaning part of your body mass forwards into a wall... holding yourself up with your finger-tips. There is a point, where either you can physically do something... or you cant. This is where the Cheats come in... like the Knee-Cheat, that he showed.. which reduces the overall weight being put over the bent wrists. Or the wall cheats.. which I just mentioned. Now... if you try a bareknuckle pushup... and your knuckles are screaming in pain... you just have to suck it up... and do as many as possible in a row. The more often you attempt this... the quicker your knuckles will develop the required strength and density. Obviously, none of this is Instant progression. It may take a few months, before you reach a decent level of progress. It could take a full year, to develop fists that feel and hit like Iron Bars. Depends on how often you practice. How long each session is. And how much intensity you are putting in, for everything you do (many people are not giving 100%, of what they are fully capable of).
usually dan tien breathing, most martial arts scream. Ever seen people getting red while screaming at you? Its cause it pushed blood all over into your body for you to get ready for confrontation. But overly training can cause health issues, so maybe rather use resistance bands like professional sports people if you wanna do it all the time 😁
@FuryoTokkosho Resistance Bands, do not generate EQUAL pressure levels, across the entire range of motion. You can in fact, Scream without turning your face Red. I can SING extremely loudly , and or even Shout at the top of my lungs.. and not get a "red face". That said... Yelling is not a very good thing to do... because it announces your attack / intended movements. You also might not want to draw others attention (stealth situations). "Over Training".. is a somewhat loaded term. You can do thousands of Reps, without over-training (I have). However, you can do a few sets of something poorly / wrong... and cause major damages. The main thing you have to do, is just Listen to your body. Normal pain is expected. However.. if you are experiencing "SHARP" pains.. you need to stop... as there is something wrong at that point. If you ignore your bodys warning signs.. and keep pushing despite a known injury.. you will Multiply the damage potentials / chances for serious damages.
@@Nowheremt Usually kung fu masters have conventions where they meet other masters, like International Health Qigong Expo and other events. If they befriend each other they eventually share knowledge
@@Nowheremt the history of last two to three hundred years in china exposed kung fu to a lot of mixture, basically everytime someone sets up a lei tai tournament there gonna be eventually copycats
@FuryoTokkosho Dude... the Ancient Chinese fighters, learned from each other... all of the time, throughout their entire 2000 yrs worth of History. Fighters of different Chinese Styles, used to fight against each other often. If it was seen that one style had an advantage over the other... either they would develop new Counters... and or... would absorb the winning combat methods, and similar training methods. This is how the Chinese arts developed so quickly, and so Deeply. Its also why most of the principles, and training methods.. in every Chinese art... are virtually Identical. Basically... when you have went through millions of man-hours worth of hardcore tests.. you eventually come to similar / same conclusions... naturally. As for seeing these things in Movies... thats because the Creators of these films, would often have real martial artists, giving them technical information.. and or even Training of the Actors (For a decent sum of Cash, of course). Many of these collaborations, may have remained uncredited... due to the fact that many artists are not supposed to just Give away their artforms methods, without their Sifu's permission... else they risk losing their Lineage Status and Reputation. Good luck becoming a Teacher in elder China... if you didnt have an official traceable Lineage... to back you up.
bruh.... the way he transition from the 3 position from the push up requires so much wrist strength and control. it's an easy sprain if you are unable to control the movement. with his exercises, you can tell that his hands are like metal rods
I tried doing three I didn't really feel much on my wrist but it was definitely a hard on my knuckles I never done that before but I haven't trained my knuckles either in many years but I got to say it hurts the knuckles and because it's a push-up if I were to do it long enough I would feel it on my chest
not really. its a factor of knowing to generate power without sacrificing speed. serious kungfu people are one of the toughest and strongest beings I've met
people who think kungfu is not for real combat may have a different opinion after watching these old school exercises as they mean to strengthen and condition the fingers and wrists for fighting
hes teaching you a good foundation for developing a fist, almost every stly has a different method some use red brick sand in the punching bag. the part that is missing is the specialized diet to aid in strengthening and conditioning the muscles and bones, high iron diets and specific meditation breathing techniques.
To do the Dolphin you need to learn pike pushs as initial progression. I found that breathing for push ups in Systema has helped my form and that ease of exchange between tensing and relaxing in calisthenics exercises. Helps build that real static strength doing it slow and controlled while breathing.
no. 3 with the wrist, i heard it's to balance the normal palm pushup, because the wrist only bend one way if you only do normal pushup. another version is the knife hand for that. there was karate guy who did the knife hand for no.1 too, i think when they liked to cut bottle with it :p
Have done these press ups in past and csn still do some tjey grest to strengthen fingers a d strike and is great on pressure point 👉 and joints amd improves locks as in chin na
I've practiced Kung Fu 3 years when I was a teenager and proved to save me against numerous assaults from violent stupid people. I'm greatful 🙏 to my Sifu and The Art.
Seeing that makes me reconsider if northern praying mantis handgesture might not be a hand position for recognizing the arts but an actual strike with the finger.. Would definitely be interesting to find out if it was meant like that :0
My left shoulder (rotator cuff) would give me grief at 90, but i will do some. Dolphin we call it "Hindu Pushups". Wow, that last one. With Sil Lim Tao your wrist should be somewhat strong. It's like the iron palm bag thing, but on the ground that other one. Little at a time for a long time. Thanks!
Bone conditioning 101, the same way you do the rolling knuckle pushups you should do the pushups on your wrists. It makes your "Crane Beak block" stinger and a strike with it devastating.
Reminds me of full body day at the dojo. 100 of everything and all of the exercises feel borderline impossible. Don't forget '2 is 1', or two punches = 1 rep, so all in all you punch 200 times. Ah, I miss the sweat and the pain😌.
Don't you also do wrist exercises like that in Wing Chun so you can snap in the rolling punch? I've done all those push up variations but as separate exercises. Combining them is a great idea. It will save time.
If you do all those...small workouts, you're getting up to 300 plus push-ups a day. He looks like it. Great video for strengthening the wrists and hands. Thanks. I'd hate to see master angry. Lol
In the wood is actually easier, the give on the mats de-estabilizes your grip and gives your friction burns. In a good day I can do this in my knees for 2 sets of 15... But I do it in the wall 99% of the times because I need my fingers functioning in the next day... Edit: Never do this cold turkey, warm up regularly and slap a sandbag for a couple minutes before hand... Can't explain why, but hurts less and my wrists feel more firm but less stiff...
Tried these exersizes; as someone who exersizes hands a lot I know what gain feels like there, this is gain. Going to attempt adding these to daily routine and I'll update anyone who cares in the comments. I won't be starting until feb 2nd because my family is moving and our currently floor has dog tampering.
The methods of hsing-I are what make it unique. It is not karate. It would be helpful if he showed the five elements and 12 animals. Linking forms. Basho, etc. How it is used.
Kevin my Sifu made us to plank with butterfly swords in hands, I was like no chance than he took ones from guys who made cheap one from like 3or4mm sheet of steel just by cutting the profile and glued wood as handle. He start to plank so balance was only on this 3-4mm per sword and then he start to bend his wrist to sides and moving back. Black magic I say, not even his best student were able to emulate that.
One of the main wrist strength exercises that Ive seen, involves the Traditional Wing Chun Long Pole. You grasp it at the very end with one hand.. and slowly raise and lower the tip of the pole. Since most people cant hold the pole at the very end.. you tend to have to grip the pole, a foot or more forwards... to lessen the overall weight. If you have ever seen "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin"... one of the Exercises, was to use a semi-flexible pole, that had a heavy weight attached to it. You had to hold the pole with one arm... and keep hitting the massive Metal Prayer Bell, with the weight... over and over again.. All while keeping the proper Timing / Pace, with the other Monks tapping of a stick on a wooden bowl. I made a custom training device... where you basically use a rope / strap around your wrists... and on the other end of the rope, you attach a mass, or a water bottle.. and fill it with water, or pebbles, or BBs. You then do extended arm movement exercises, like the part of the first form thats repeated 3 times in a row... in slow motion... while having that extra mass attached to your wrists. 30 seconds to fully extend.. and 30 seconds to fully retract, for each arm movement (which is how its also supposed to be performed in the actual form, too).
@@jatsantsa If you saw that movie... then maybe you missed the main point of the film... You see... most of the Monks there.. were not progressing very well... because they were not putting in 100%, all of the time. But Gordon Liu's character... he was different. He was training with a level of seriousness, and passion.. that the others lacked. As such... whatever he did, he did it too 100% of his full potentials... every single time. It wasnt just the intensity either. When the other monks were resting... He kept training, on his own. (IE: man-hours per day, week, month, year... ) In my elder Wing Chun school... we had 2 hr long classes. The entire 1st hour, was a hardcore CORE workout routine. There were 3 sets of slow motion vertical fist pushups, 3 sets of Crunches, and slow motion leg lifts + leg spins.. and more. I was going to all 4 classes per week. Sometimes, when I wasnt working... Id go to both the day, and night classes. But that wasnt the end of it, either. I was also doing the full workout on my own, outside of classes, every single day, 365 days a year... in addition to training many other things... as well as eventually sparring against other non-wc fighters (after my 1st year in wc). Also.. even when I was walking places, or when I was at work... I would be repeating hand drills, punching, kicking... etc.. every few minutes, all throughout the entire day/night... no matter where I was. This included hand techs while walking the malls halls... Standing on one Leg, while in long lines at the bank / stores. Doing various things in the backroom at work... between my work. And much more. Because of that... I racked up thousands of Reps of various techniques, per single Day. And countless thousands, by the end of an entire Month. As such...It only took me about 3 months, to be able to complete the entire workout routine in-class... without taking any rests, and maintaining the same Pace / Reps as the class leader. Mind you... I used to be the kid they picked Last in gym class.. as I was clumsy, weak, and "Fragile" (under-weight, and too easily injured). I think it took another 2 yrs, before I gained some pretty notable muscle mass. At least an Inch gain on my waistline, a Chiseled Jaw, a set of Rock hard abs... etc. So, your progress is really just a reflection of your own level of Passion, and Intensity. If you want to be on the "100 year to Never Plan".. thats always your choice. But I wanted realistic results, in less than a decade, or less. By my 3rd year, I was taking on blackbelt level fighters.. often nearly double my own mass and strength... and outclassing + defeating them. By my 5th year, Id reached Masterclass level potentials (lethal short range power, perfect precision in my techs...able to maintain proper form in heavy / full contact sparring / combat). Not many people reach my level of potentials.. not even the 3 former instructors that Ive had. This again, always was due to a level of passion, and hardcore efforts. Similar to the movie, I had even more of an issue of Jealousy from other students, and other artists... because of how hard I worked, and how quickly I progressed... as well as how much better my results were. In the film, the Jealousy was pretty Mild, compared to the bad attitudes that I got, in real life.
And they say eye finger jabs aka Biu Sau won’t work ? Only if one don’t train them ..MMA fights they are illegal. Just get accidentally hit and one of these they get a couple men break imagine a real fight or one was trained ain’t giving you that break .
you can copy his form but to direct the energy flow from your abdomen require true teaching, high level these are flash punch and the opponent not even has the chance to blink his eyes
In my former Wing Chun school... the classes were about 2hrs long. The entire first hour, was a hardcore "Core" workout routine. It had 3 sets of centered vertical fist knuckle pushups, done in Slow-Motion (making them 10x harder). Also, 3 sets of Crunches. Followed immediately by slow motion leg lifts, and leg spins (making basketball sized circles. maybe 3 to 4 minutes worth of those brutal exercises, right after you had just burned your abs up... via 3 sets of Crunches). I believe it took me about 3 months of hardcore daily efforts, before I was able to fully complete the entire workout without stopping for Rests... and to fully keep up with the Pace of the exercise Leader (same amount of reps). That said... I was doing the whole exercise routine, both in class... and outside of classes at home... 7 days a week. Before I started... I was weak, somewhat clumsy, and feeble. But training at that pace, and intensity... I became as Agile as a Cat, and Strong and Hardened as a Lion. One time, for kicks... I picked up one of those Ab workout VHS Tapes, from Blockbuster Video's clearance racks. I didnt realize, that the tape had 3 different levels on it... but I just completed all 3 levels, without stopping. It was actually too easy, compared to what I was already doing.
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Kevin, please show more of that Sifu, he is the REAL DEAL.
@@KevinLeeVlog Actual exercises to develop explosive power... not conditioning exercises
Please ask him about Xingyi low kicks
For sure more of this Sifu , its outstanding level , and we see u enjoy feel the pain from his technique =D hahah , good video !!
Baguazhang with Tim Cartmell! Please.
If I saw someone doing this in a gym I would be very polite to this person.
Very.
I would be more respectful of the guy with cauliflower ears.
You should be polite anyway to anyone, else you are false
exercise 1: rolling knuckle 0:22
exercise 2: dolphin 2:12
exercise 3: hand switch 3:24
exercise 4: hand squeeze 5:12
exercise 5: finger jab/biu jee 6:08
Sifu please do another video with this guy. How does he train the internal power and how does he mix that with hard training like press ups without getting too tense
You should train with that guy for a year, i'd watch a series about that. Then after that year, continue training with him for the rest of your life cause clearly it's worth it.
seriously fuck youtube i'm about to shave my head and become that guy's disciple
@@somefuckingbum7334 Xing Yi is hard to find. Good Xing Yi is even harder. Byron Jacobs has a very solid online training program. The 10 minute primer videos cover all of the basics and they're free on RUclips.
I don't think the style of kungfu really matters here. This master is just an absolute unit of destruction lol
@@Acrophyllia That's what Xing Yi does to you if you train it properly. Dudes super fast, tough, and has enough root to hit right through you. IMO it's the most viable traditional Chinese martial art. The theory is solid and it's pretty simple.
@@arbogast4950 People forget that while kung fu is largely a joke nowdays it came from guys killing each other with their bare hands. devoloping your body into a weapon is very useful for that. i imagine if you can add this kinda conditioning to practical MMA training you'd be really dangerous. plus no more worrying about breaking fists from punching people
@@efafe4972they used to have world martial arts tounaments that often resulted in death just like dbz :D then the commies ruined it :(
@@CursedCommentaries yeeep you know what im talking about lool i bet those duels were crazy
When you train any Chinese art properly.. you get the same types of Results. The issue, is that most modern practitioners lack the Dedication, to push themselves hard enough, to reach Masterclass level results in the arts that they train in. This guy appears to be one of the Rare exceptions to the rule.
I used to train (mainly in Wing Chun, but also cross trained in many other arts methods too) anywhere from 4 to +8hrs, every single day. One of my daily routines, contained a lot of what you see here... but with some modifications, to make these exercises even more challenging (such as doing them in slow-motion, and centering your fists in the center of your chest, to raise you even higher up)
I had eventually developed the same kind of Lethal short range power... as what he appears, might also have
The thing is... The school just gives you basic instructions... but its up to you, to do a TON of daily work, outside of school... if you actually want to progress to any realistic level of combat abilities. Kung Fu has to become a daily way of life... for anywhere from 5 to 10 yrs, minimum... to get to a level that looks like this guy
Dude's tendon and ligament strength is incredible!!
Awesome, I've meet Dmitry in person, he's Definitely someone you don't wanna mess with 💯. Great guy!
What's missing from modern MMA from traditional martial arts is the conditioning. In Muay Thai, you condition the knees, fists, shins, and elbows. In karate, you condition pretty much your whole body. In Chinese martial arts, you condition the part of the body you use mainly as weapons.
Modern sports fighters do a lot of conditioning.
@@jamielondon6436 no they don’t because they’re breaking their legs from leg kicks.
A lot of them also come from traditional arts
@@jamielondon6436 To be sure but its a different kind of conditioning.
I saw a famous MMA fighter (one of those guys from Daghestan, can't spell his name) doing exactly the 2nd exercise...
Kevin... Being a WIng Chun man.. Im surprised that you have not done these kinds of exercises. The teacher I had... had us doing 3 sets of Slow Motion Wing Chun pushups:
First Set: Place both of your vertical fists together, in the center of your Chest (Leave the thumb facing outward/up.. so that your knuckles can come closer togethers). Keep your elbows at your side at all times, as you do your vertical fist pushups on the wooden/concrete floor. You want to do them in slow motion... taking about 10 seconds to go down... and 10 seconds to go up, for each one.
(Aim for 15 minimum per set, on Slow Motions Pushups)
2nd Set: Same thing, but down slow... and Up Fast as possible (explosive power)
(Aim for 15 minimum per set, on Slow Motions Pushups)
3rd Set: Diamonds. Make a Triangle with your hands.. by touching the pointer fingers, and thumbs. Place your palms on the floor... maybe 8 inches in front of where your head hovers. As you go down.. go down diagonally forwards, so that your forehead ends up in the center of your Triangle. Then reverse. Do these fairly slow as well.
(Aim for 15 minimum per set, on Slow Motions Pushups)
Alternatives: On certain days, we would be given alternatives exercises, to the above
1) Finger Tip Pushups. Much like what was shown here... Spreading your fingers, and performing slow pushups on them
2) Bent Wrist Pushups. Much like his wrist flips.. you merely perform pushups on your bent wrists
3) Maybe 50 to 100 Standards pushups, performed fast as possible
4) I believe we had also done some Hopping Pushups on the Knuckles, as well as hopping on the wrist, too
Sandbag work, was a complete exercise on its own
For the sandbag... it could be anywhere from 15 minutes, to 1 hour long.. depending on the day. Unlike this sandbag, which appears to be filled with Beans... Ours was packed tightly with Coarse Grain beach sand.
I had two "3 section" sandbags at home, that I placed in a vertical line.. giving me 6 targets of different heights. I would use the top three for handstrikes. And the Bottom 3, for barefoot oblique kicks, toe stabbing kicks, and some other kicks + foot conditioning impacts.
At home, I was doing 4 sets, that were 15 minutes of non-stop hitting. Full speed, full acceleration, and full impact potentials.. for each hit. Try to maintain every attribute, through the entire non-stop set (no rests during a set.. and no easing off the speed or power). 2 to 3 min rest between sets max. Shake your arms loose, then shake the fingers some, and finally... roll your arms in large fast circles a few times in each direction, to force the bloodflow back into them, during your rest period. The Relaxation part is IMPORTANT, as you dont want to create "dead-muscle" ...muscles that are too tight, and too stiff.
As for the sandbag work.. you can choose which types of things to work on... or you can use combinations. You might just do vertical fist punches. Or you might hit in a Repeated Sequence: Fingers, Tiger Paw (Not the Claw. Hitting with the surface between the 1st and 2nd knuckles), Vertical Fist, Wrist, Forearm (top), Elbow Point, Shoulder (body slam). You can also add in Pheonix Eye Knuckles, Extended Middle Knuckle, Hammerfists, Chops, and even Headbutts.
Proper non-stop Breathing.. is Critical in your Pushups, Sandbag work, and in any other work you do too. When you were trying some of the 5 exercises.. I believe you were often Holding your breath. Thats a HUGE NO-NO. No matter how straining the exercise it.. you NEED to maintain proper breathing. You also do NOT want any Grunting / Groaning noises (No vocalizations. Only natural breath sounds, from the aim moving in and out). Your breaths should not be shallow from only the upper lungs. You should be filling both the upper lungs, AND the lower Dan-Tian (abdomen area). In many cases.. You should be using most all of your air, on each movement (depending on the speed, and power levels)... and when your movement is completed.. you want to make sure you are breathing IN fully... so that you are 100% full of air.. when your fist/arm/leg returns to the home position (ready for the next movement). Your retraction speed, should be just as fast as your extension speed... and the positional accuracy, vector, and Awareness, are all Equally important, too.
As for why you do these types of Exercises? (Benefits)
- If you cant even maintain your body mass over your bare knuckles... How do you expect to deliver KO or Lethal strikes with them?! Impact forces to the attackers head... are going to be MUCH greater in Impact potentials... than merely resting your body mass over them.
- If your wrists are weak... How do you expect to maintain heavy impacts, without your wrists buckling from too much stress? And or.. how are you supposed to keep your bent wrist strong... and without getting injured... when you impact with a bent wrist.. if your wrists are too weak? When you throw Wing Chun punches.. especially high punches to a tall persons forehead.. you have to bend your wrists, so that your knuckles will hit "Flush". As such.. you to be able to Lock your wrist bend very tightly... so that it will be a good conductor of impact power... while also preventing injuries to yourself.
- Grip strength, is of course, another factor. While we often do not grasp the Opponent in Wing Chun... there are instances where it can be advantageous to grip someone. Even if its one of our "half-grip" (not full finger wraps) type of grips. Additionally, the grip strength will also help make your punches harder, stronger, and more explosive. This may also help give you more strength to escape an OPs attempted grapple (though, you also need to practice escaping grapple attempts and certain locks, with a strong partner.. at various grip strength levels).
- Finger Strength, is sort of an extension of Grip Strength. Its of course, needed for being able to deeply penetrate the OPs tissues, without your fingers curling, and or wrenching from side-to-side. This is critical for striking the Neck, at high speed and full impact potentials. Sometimes, the OP might not be caught off guard.. and they will tighten their muscles.. protecting them from deep penetration strikes. If you didnt have strong enough fingers when they did this.. it could easily end up injuring yourself, while attempting to finger strike them.
- As for Slow-Motion pushup benefits: The slower you go.. the more Strain you will be put under... and so each Rep will give you Double the Progression. Meaning.. you will be doing Less Reps... but will be getting much quicker Strength Gains. With slow motion work.. you cant use Momentum to help you "Cheat". And you will be developing surgical levels of accuracy... in your vectoral control abilities. You also build up a higher level awareness, all along the full path... as well as develop much greater strength... all along the full path of travel.
- The benefits of the proper breathing... that could take an entire Book worth of text to explain. The simple answer, is that your tissues will develop in a way, that they have much greater circulation channels. This leads to a LOT of benefits... from heavier strikes, to faster healing, greater density, and much more.
WOW
We had a similar system when I did Shaolin when I was a kid. The Sifu said that each different kind of push-up worked a slightly different set of muscles.
I never liked those bent wrist push-ups. I don't think i can even do one anymore now that I'm old.
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Thank you for sharing your Knowledge. I will be following the standards. Your Sifu/ school is Amazing , just buy conditioning standards alone. You're very fortunate to have practiced there. If I may, What style do you practice? What is the name of your School and where is it located? I'm in Los Angeles area are there any affiliated schools. Thank you again for Sharing.
@@tomz3214 My pleasure. My original schools Sifu was Steve Lee Swift. He originally trained and taught Karate.. but when he discovered Wing Chun, in Hong Kong, It quickly won him over.
I trained in Wing Chun, under 3 different Wing Chun teachers, from different lineages. Ive had bad luck, with teachers moving far away. I had to keep starting from the very beginning... and while that kinda sucked... it also make my foundations Rock Solid. Also, I got to see various differences, which gave me even more Insight, and depth of Knowledge.
I also Cross Trained in other arts methods, on my own:
I mastered kicking methods from TKD, Muay Thai, Wushu, and Northern Shaolin.
I did Shaolin style Iron Body Conditioning, including soft tissue areas, like the throat.
I mastered some Acrobatic feats from Shaolin (head rolls, butterfly kicks, front-falls onto concrete, kip ups, and some other stuff).
I mastered western boxing strikes.
And I taught myself some Weapons: Nunchucks, 9 Section Steel Whip Chain, and the basics of the Rope Dart.
I also learned some elements from arts like Tai Chi, and developed Masterclass level Short Range Power (Fajin / Explosive Power). I would later discover, that many elements of Tai Chi, are present in properly taught and performed, Wing Chun. For example... Tai Chi Push Hand drills, are somewhat similar to Wing Chuns Chi Sao (sticky hand) drills.
Also, the first form of Wing Chun, has a section in it, thats supposed to be done extremely slow.. like Tai Chi forms (the part thats repeated 3 times in a row, is called "Three Prayers to Buddha". Only ONE of my Wing Chun teachers knew about this.. and actually taught it correctly.. and It wasnt Swift).
Of the 3 schools I attended, none of them did any standard sparring. As such, after my first year of training... I started sparring outside of school, against fighters from various different arts. Typically against blackbelt level fighters / instructors, competition fighters, often that were almost double my own mass and strength (as back then, I was only a mere 150 lb at 6ft tall, with a small 31" waist).
The thing is... It would be hard to recommend any schools... as Ive been out of the loop for many years now.
Also, many of my teachers had Positives, and Negatives. Swift was an amazing practitioner, with lightning fast reflexes, and quite a good deal of power. But as a teacher.. there was a lot missing, as far as how the system was supposed to actually function in "Reality". I cant tell if the man was holding back information... or if he just didnt really know.
Im kind of good with figuring things out on my own... and I did a lot of experiments, and tests. Combined with my foundational base training, and research from other Chinese arts... I was eventually able to figure out things... that I had never learned in any of my former 3 schools.
I also believe I have knowledge and skills that none of those teachers had, and likely never will have. Most especially because most WC teachers dont actually spar against other decent fighters. As such, they depth of realistic combat experiences.
One simple example? Look at a Wing Chun fighters hands. If their fingers are spread apart, instead of being fully together... then they have never done much hardcore sparring. You see, when you fingers are spread.. you tend to end up getting Jammed Fingers, and Wrenched Fingers (over-extension injuries). When you are only used to light sparring, and or slowed down sparring... you may never need to worry about this...
However, in my case.. I was fighting heavy / full contact... against some really tough + skilled dudes. After like 2 finger Jam injuries, and 3 wrenches finger injuries... I finally learned to keep my fingers together, at all times. Ive never had an injury like that, ever since.
Anyway... Heres the Real Deal. If you want to reach a realistic Combat level of effectiveness... you have to make your training, a Daily way of Life. It cant just be 3 days a week... with only in-school training. You have to train both in and OUT of school... every single day... and at your maximum potentials.
Thats how I reached Masterclass level results, in about 3 years time. Where as most people would take +15 years, and still not be anywhere close to Masterclass level skillsets / output.
Back when I was training... I didnt even have a PC... and the Internet wasnt really a Thing. The only way to get knowledge outside of class, and from exchanging knowledge with other artists.. was books, or at most, some VHS tapes. These days, people have access to a TON of Martial Arts information... free, over the net. But what they tend to Lack... is the Drive to do something with that knowledge (daily hardcore efforts).
So glad you went back to this Xing Yi instructor. This style deserves way more attention.
It is a true gem for sure!😊
Yeah, this guy looks like a... martial art movie protagonist. His moves, his power, how he looks when he strikes. Just like a master from old school martial art movies :)
And when he says "You can use your finger to attack", it's not just a theory, because in second he can prove you that his attacks with finger - have destruction potential.
@@KevinLeeVlog I think that if you start those "roling push ups" on knuckles, on hard surface... you will destroy your "joints" and tendons on knuckles. I've destroyed mine.
I find out about it at 40. When I couldn't straighten finders without pain and my doctor said that I have "degradated" knuckle joints and tendons are ripped by rugged bones.
It has to be done more....gradually. I don't know how. Maybe makiwara first, lightly.
If you feel such a pain after 3 push-ups on soft ground...Then your knuckles are not ready to do this on hard surface.
When we were young - we watched the movies and we thought "It has to be hard, pain and extreme".
Now we now that it has to be... Medium but...systematic and for long period of time.
@@Rotaks People use talk about micro fractions, but that is the wrong way to condition bones. Density is changed by pressure in a healthy way, you can see it how bones of weight lifters change with the training, but kung fu took that principle to a different height. Iron rings in wing chun and hung gar for example are great for it, but you still need to cope with the injuries in order to get no inflammation. Shaolin you usually see putting their arms into these giant spaghetti machines where the rolls put pressure on the bones.
@@Rotaks For fingers you can use stone padlocks, bricks or hardwood furniture too. I started with lifting a hardwood chair on each individual finger for five times each day. You sometimes see in Shuai jiao people rolling the stone barbells onto their arms or balancing stone packlocks on their fist thats a great way too, but you are not supposed to punch the padlocks but lift em
Master: Its just a warm up.
Us: Entire week in bed after doing it....
Great videos man, very informative, entertaining and educational. I am doing a 100+ man Kumite on February 9th. With me being the only man ever to be both World Champion in Muaythai and Lethwei (first foreign Lethwei champion ever) while having extensive training in Jeet Kune Do, Savate, Kenpo and a 4th Dan in TKD this Kumite will be the first of its kind. I hope you can come out to Texas or I can probably come meet you and talk about it some day. I’ll talk about all my fight experience. I have over a 100 Muaythai and Lethwei fights, 100’s of open and point sparring as well. A little boxing too. OSS 🥋 🙏🏾
will this be on youtube ?
@ yes I plan for it to be. I can’t film and fight but maybe I’ll bring a tripod and go live plus I have a videographer to do some stuff with footage as well.
@ what is this kumite called and is it for all martial arts or just muay thai ?
Amazing techniques shared here. Glad we have someone documenting traditional martial arts before it’s too late.
I am so glad you appreciate it!
From traditional chinese way of seeing things then history is running in circles, technically nothing disappears that cannot be rediscovered. On the other side in cycles of destruction there are punched a lot of holes into peoples knowledge. And with declining health of the planet more and more peoples health does not allow this kind of training anymore either ...
@@KevinLeeVlogHere's the science. The muscles are limited by the GOLGI TENDON REFLEX (Google it). This reflex prevents maximum contraction of all the fibers in a muscle because it will rip itself loose from the bone. You can, by Nei Gung, train to mentally relax the reflex and it will seem like super strength OR you can train tendon strength with isometrics that doesn't increase muscle size but gives you super strength because the reflex gains a higher threshold and you can recruit more muscle fiber.
To see this in action look at "Anatoly gym pranks", you will be amazed.
This is one of the keys to Cheung Lai Chuen Bak Mei, he was famous for his tremor power because he combined both methods of relaxing the golgi tendon reflex, mentally and physically, along with specific body mechanics. It trains the tendons in the core muscles (waist) to generate super power torque transmitted through the superpower tendons in limbs.
Because of this superpower training, GM Cheung stripped down a combined White Eyebrow and Hakka Dragon style down to 4 principles (float, sink, swallow and spit) and 8 techniques. His style was so powerful against multiple opponents in body armor that Chiang Kai Shek hired him to train Kuo Min Tang special forces at Wampoa military academy.
Man, is so insane to understand how human could become overpower by not so complete excerises!
Kevin and Dmitriy, thanks a lot for your job!
Enjoying all videos with Master Dmitry Nogay.. Thank you. Hope you will create even more videos and breakdowns together. Thank you.
We really want much more from Dimitri!
Is there a possibility of a course?
All of the push ups we did when I was in Karate. The 2 knuckle hook also was taught by our Master. Great review & thank you to both of you for sharing. Brings back memories.
Dmitry is a beast
So are you Sihing!
These oldschool exercises can be really beneficial
A really different kind of strength must develop say if you’re doing this for a couple of years wow
This guy is a legend. Love it.
Thank you Kevin & Dmitriy. The 4th exercise has incredibly benefitted my arthritic left index finger so much that i am able to bend it to make a fist, at the same time strengthening other fingers. Much gratitude.🙏
Dmitry is such a beast! So explosive and powerful! Love that guy!
Another way to strengthen yourself for the 'back of the wrist hold' is to do 'wrist pushups' as in back of the wrist to fist, lifting yourself up with wrist power alone, start from your knees then build. Its also a great way to prevent wrist pain from to much handstand training.
For the wrist jump, you can do wrist push-up on your knee's and hold the low position to get used to pressure on the wrist. Just 3 sets of 10 really slow push ups a day will get your wrist conditioned to do the full hop in like a month.
I was fortunate to do this hard kung fu style as a teenager and young man. No other training in any other martial art matches it, in my opinion. I trained alot and always felt super calm in any situation knowing my hand speed and strength was like a bullet.
@@losttapes1705 I'm on the fence about wether or not this is a "hard style". Something like Changquan or Choy Lay Fut would fit but this is one of the 4 classic internals. Oh boy, now I'm sounding like one of those kung fu purists. It's just semantics. Call it whatever you'd like but one thing we can agree on is that Xing Yi is life changing.
Excellent. Prep exercises to be ready for combat striking. Thank you for the video.
Maybe in a future video explain San Ti Shi, proper stance, what does the mind do while standing (Body part 'alignment' circulation?), Song development, how song is incorporated into San Ti Shi, beginner time duration, other goals which work towards rooting like Song, and to tell when you have developed rooting skill.
Kevin, that is a great post. Thank you so much for sharing.
Dave & Lynda
My wrists are hurting just watching
25 years of school college education definitely makes one weak . Good old days, ancient wisdom all gone with wind !
Doing the XingYi staff/spear conditioning is a nice way to build up progressions. Forearm conditioning drills, using buckets full of rice & doing grabs, kettlebell carries (farmers walks), the options are endless! Just be conscious that there is a lot of connective tissue work happening here, so you need to time your recovery protocols well
I agree! Not using our hands as much and making us sedentary has weakened us as a society. But I just had hand and wrist surgery recently, so their tender. I've done karate and fma since I was young. I do a variety of push-ups, but he does these with such vigor and ease. It's such a pleasure to watch him
Mine too 😂
Get tough my man... You can.. Stop thinking like a millennial
So, what's the warmup for the warmup?
The warmups, are generally just Stretches. Bending your own wrists and holding for x amount of time (in all various directions). And or Leaning your bent wrists against a wall, for x amount of time. Tapping your finger tips on a hardwood table. Leaning part of your body mass forwards into a wall... holding yourself up with your finger-tips.
There is a point, where either you can physically do something... or you cant. This is where the Cheats come in... like the Knee-Cheat, that he showed.. which reduces the overall weight being put over the bent wrists. Or the wall cheats.. which I just mentioned.
Now... if you try a bareknuckle pushup... and your knuckles are screaming in pain... you just have to suck it up... and do as many as possible in a row. The more often you attempt this... the quicker your knuckles will develop the required strength and density. Obviously, none of this is Instant progression. It may take a few months, before you reach a decent level of progress. It could take a full year, to develop fists that feel and hit like Iron Bars. Depends on how often you practice. How long each session is. And how much intensity you are putting in, for everything you do (many people are not giving 100%, of what they are fully capable of).
usually dan tien breathing, most martial arts scream. Ever seen people getting red while screaming at you? Its cause it pushed blood all over into your body for you to get ready for confrontation. But overly training can cause health issues, so maybe rather use resistance bands like professional sports people if you wanna do it all the time 😁
Armwrestling is pretty good addition to these moves too
@FuryoTokkosho Resistance Bands, do not generate EQUAL pressure levels, across the entire range of motion.
You can in fact, Scream without turning your face Red. I can SING extremely loudly , and or even Shout at the top of my lungs.. and not get a "red face".
That said... Yelling is not a very good thing to do... because it announces your attack / intended movements. You also might not want to draw others attention (stealth situations).
"Over Training".. is a somewhat loaded term. You can do thousands of Reps, without over-training (I have). However, you can do a few sets of something poorly / wrong... and cause major damages.
The main thing you have to do, is just Listen to your body. Normal pain is expected. However.. if you are experiencing "SHARP" pains.. you need to stop... as there is something wrong at that point. If you ignore your bodys warning signs.. and keep pushing despite a known injury.. you will Multiply the damage potentials / chances for serious damages.
I remember seeing that third exercise in drunken master!
Yessss!!
It’s like Mad Monkey Kung Fu too. Did Lau Kar Leung study Hsing I in addition to Hung Gar?
@@Nowheremt Usually kung fu masters have conventions where they meet other masters, like International Health Qigong Expo and other events. If they befriend each other they eventually share knowledge
@@Nowheremt the history of last two to three hundred years in china exposed kung fu to a lot of mixture, basically everytime someone sets up a lei tai tournament there gonna be eventually copycats
@FuryoTokkosho Dude... the Ancient Chinese fighters, learned from each other... all of the time, throughout their entire 2000 yrs worth of History. Fighters of different Chinese Styles, used to fight against each other often. If it was seen that one style had an advantage over the other... either they would develop new Counters... and or... would absorb the winning combat methods, and similar training methods.
This is how the Chinese arts developed so quickly, and so Deeply. Its also why most of the principles, and training methods.. in every Chinese art... are virtually Identical. Basically... when you have went through millions of man-hours worth of hardcore tests.. you eventually come to similar / same conclusions... naturally.
As for seeing these things in Movies... thats because the Creators of these films, would often have real martial artists, giving them technical information.. and or even Training of the Actors (For a decent sum of Cash, of course). Many of these collaborations, may have remained uncredited... due to the fact that many artists are not supposed to just Give away their artforms methods, without their Sifu's permission... else they risk losing their Lineage Status and Reputation. Good luck becoming a Teacher in elder China... if you didnt have an official traceable Lineage... to back you up.
bruh.... the way he transition from the 3 position from the push up requires so much wrist strength and control. it's an easy sprain if you are unable to control the movement. with his exercises, you can tell that his hands are like metal rods
His movement made me speechless lol 😅
Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks
We used to do those in fu jow pai. Except when we did any push up in the claw hand position. We used the hand with fingers bent like an actual claw
I love these tips!
I tried doing three I didn't really feel much on my wrist but it was definitely a hard on my knuckles I never done that before but I haven't trained my knuckles either in many years but I got to say it hurts the knuckles and because it's a push-up if I were to do it long enough I would feel it on my chest
in the world of kung-fu speed is the winner
not really. its a factor of knowing to generate power without sacrificing speed. serious kungfu people are one of the toughest and strongest beings I've met
Too bad, Internet Explorer, you are too slow. 🤣
@@happylobsterpatatasLOL!!!!!
people who think kungfu is not for real combat may have a different opinion after watching these old school exercises as they mean to strengthen and condition the fingers and wrists for fighting
Gute Tema Kevin 👍
Those are great exercises! I’ve been doing them for a couple of decades now…
Go do garden or farm work, the conventional kind, and you'll get good grip ;)
Nice topic, will try it for sure!
Pumped to see u on USDC 3, kick azz there!
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Thank you!!
hes teaching you a good foundation for developing a fist, almost every stly has a different method some use red brick sand in the punching bag.
the part that is missing is the specialized diet to aid in strengthening and conditioning the muscles and bones, high iron diets and specific meditation breathing techniques.
This is cool. I've seen clips of Anthony Joshua and Valentina Shevchenko doing similar exercises, must be legit!
To do the Dolphin you need to learn pike pushs as initial progression. I found that breathing for push ups in Systema has helped my form and that ease of exchange between tensing and relaxing in calisthenics exercises. Helps build that real static strength doing it slow and controlled while breathing.
no. 3 with the wrist, i heard it's to balance the normal palm pushup, because the wrist only bend one way if you only do normal pushup. another version is the knife hand for that. there was karate guy who did the knife hand for no.1 too, i think when they liked to cut bottle with it :p
Have done these press ups in past and csn still do some tjey grest to strengthen fingers a d strike and is great on pressure point 👉 and joints amd improves locks as in chin na
Definitely seen Jackie Chan doing #3 in a movie.
This is the difference between martial arts and sports arts. There is a difference in conditioning, hand strike options, and strength
Pls make a video on thang ta, an Indian martial art🙏🙏🙏
nice Shooto tshirt, sensei Paulson :)
I've practiced Kung Fu 3 years when I was a teenager and proved to save me against numerous assaults from violent stupid people. I'm greatful 🙏 to my Sifu and The Art.
Was it Hsingi?
This goes back to the saying that "Anyone can know Gung Fu but not everyone (Have) Gung Fu.
This is great!
"and that's a different level - you're doing it on the wood!" 1:45 It hurts the knuckles on the mats already, Kevin is shocked, I was too
@@Mattheus281 I am still shocked lol
I see Dmitriy with Kev, I grab some oolong tea and CLICK!
This man will slap you into the next Lunar Year!
Monks train to be made as stone. This is great info/exercise.
Seeing that makes me reconsider if northern praying mantis handgesture might not be a hand position for recognizing the arts but an actual strike with the finger..
Would definitely be interesting to find out if it was meant like that :0
My left shoulder (rotator cuff) would give me grief at 90, but i will do some. Dolphin we call it "Hindu Pushups". Wow, that last one. With Sil Lim Tao your wrist should be somewhat strong. It's like the iron palm bag thing, but on the ground that other one. Little at a time for a long time. Thanks!
great lessens
What style of KF is that?
6:12 Good grief, can you imagine him hitting someone for real with that? 😮
Bone conditioning 101, the same way you do the rolling knuckle pushups you should do the pushups on your wrists. It makes your "Crane Beak block" stinger and a strike with it devastating.
Kevin can you describe the difference between his power and Sifu Fong or would you say that they are the same?
They are both painful I can tell you that 😂.
Probably hard to compare, cuz Sifu is in his mid 70s. I can’t imagine his power in his prime time. 😳
Nice video please do Northen 7 Star Praying Mantis.
Reminds me of full body day at the dojo. 100 of everything and all of the exercises feel borderline impossible. Don't forget '2 is 1', or two punches = 1 rep, so all in all you punch 200 times. Ah, I miss the sweat and the pain😌.
Dimitri is awesome
we need to see you do real crossing hands freestyle with this guy. im sorry kevin but take one for the team LOL!
Bro's wrists must be made of adamantium
Dmitriy did this probably for 20 plus years or something for sure.
Just wow...
Don't you also do wrist exercises like that in Wing Chun so you can snap in the rolling punch? I've done all those push up variations but as separate exercises. Combining them is a great idea. It will save time.
Hello from algeria and OSS
please kevin make episode with style kyoshin kai karate. OSS
3:54 my bones and wrist hurt just watching that omgggg
The thumbnails from these channels 😂
Awesome 🔥✨💫🤩💫✨🔥
Try Augustine Fong or Danny Chan in Tucson maybe someday. Sifu Dimitri is the real deal and very personable at the same time.
If you do all those...small workouts, you're getting up to 300 plus push-ups a day.
He looks like it.
Great video for strengthening the wrists and hands. Thanks.
I'd hate to see master angry. Lol
Damn. He is a beast. Wish he was my shifu
Shifu is amazing!
Oss , I like them sir . We would have to do push-ups holding a cali stick while balancing your knuckles on your other stick
In the wood is actually easier, the give on the mats de-estabilizes your grip and gives your friction burns. In a good day I can do this in my knees for 2 sets of 15... But I do it in the wall 99% of the times because I need my fingers functioning in the next day...
Edit: Never do this cold turkey, warm up regularly and slap a sandbag for a couple minutes before hand... Can't explain why, but hurts less and my wrists feel more firm but less stiff...
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3rd view, 1st like... that's a first for me
Tried these exersizes; as someone who exersizes hands a lot I know what gain feels like there, this is gain.
Going to attempt adding these to daily routine and I'll update anyone who cares in the comments.
I won't be starting until feb 2nd because my family is moving and our currently floor has dog tampering.
And if csn is good to work on twofonget and thumb pesss ups too as will realy strengthen your fingers amd strikes and if improve acutely
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The methods of hsing-I are what make it unique. It is not karate. It would be helpful if he showed the five elements and 12 animals. Linking forms. Basho, etc. How it is used.
His fingers are knives.
Kevin my Sifu made us to plank with butterfly swords in hands, I was like no chance than he took ones from guys who made cheap one from like 3or4mm sheet of steel just by cutting the profile and glued wood as handle. He start to plank so balance was only on this 3-4mm per sword and then he start to bend his wrist to sides and moving back. Black magic I say, not even his best student were able to emulate that.
One of the main wrist strength exercises that Ive seen, involves the Traditional Wing Chun Long Pole. You grasp it at the very end with one hand.. and slowly raise and lower the tip of the pole. Since most people cant hold the pole at the very end.. you tend to have to grip the pole, a foot or more forwards... to lessen the overall weight.
If you have ever seen "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin"... one of the Exercises, was to use a semi-flexible pole, that had a heavy weight attached to it. You had to hold the pole with one arm... and keep hitting the massive Metal Prayer Bell, with the weight... over and over again.. All while keeping the proper Timing / Pace, with the other Monks tapping of a stick on a wooden bowl.
I made a custom training device... where you basically use a rope / strap around your wrists... and on the other end of the rope, you attach a mass, or a water bottle.. and fill it with water, or pebbles, or BBs. You then do extended arm movement exercises, like the part of the first form thats repeated 3 times in a row... in slow motion... while having that extra mass attached to your wrists. 30 seconds to fully extend.. and 30 seconds to fully retract, for each arm movement (which is how its also supposed to be performed in the actual form, too).
@@johndough8115 Yes I know it and I saw 36th chamber of shaolin, but lets be real it took me like year to get my sword plank to one minute. :)
@@jatsantsa If you saw that movie... then maybe you missed the main point of the film...
You see... most of the Monks there.. were not progressing very well... because they were not putting in 100%, all of the time.
But Gordon Liu's character... he was different. He was training with a level of seriousness, and passion.. that the others lacked. As such... whatever he did, he did it too 100% of his full potentials... every single time.
It wasnt just the intensity either. When the other monks were resting... He kept training, on his own. (IE: man-hours per day, week, month, year... )
In my elder Wing Chun school... we had 2 hr long classes. The entire 1st hour, was a hardcore CORE workout routine. There were 3 sets of slow motion vertical fist pushups, 3 sets of Crunches, and slow motion leg lifts + leg spins.. and more.
I was going to all 4 classes per week. Sometimes, when I wasnt working... Id go to both the day, and night classes.
But that wasnt the end of it, either. I was also doing the full workout on my own, outside of classes, every single day, 365 days a year... in addition to training many other things... as well as eventually sparring against other non-wc fighters (after my 1st year in wc).
Also.. even when I was walking places, or when I was at work... I would be repeating hand drills, punching, kicking... etc.. every few minutes, all throughout the entire day/night... no matter where I was. This included hand techs while walking the malls halls... Standing on one Leg, while in long lines at the bank / stores. Doing various things in the backroom at work... between my work. And much more.
Because of that... I racked up thousands of Reps of various techniques, per single Day. And countless thousands, by the end of an entire Month.
As such...It only took me about 3 months, to be able to complete the entire workout routine in-class... without taking any rests, and maintaining the same Pace / Reps as the class leader.
Mind you... I used to be the kid they picked Last in gym class.. as I was clumsy, weak, and "Fragile" (under-weight, and too easily injured). I think it took another 2 yrs, before I gained some pretty notable muscle mass. At least an Inch gain on my waistline, a Chiseled Jaw, a set of Rock hard abs... etc.
So, your progress is really just a reflection of your own level of Passion, and Intensity. If you want to be on the "100 year to Never Plan".. thats always your choice. But I wanted realistic results, in less than a decade, or less.
By my 3rd year, I was taking on blackbelt level fighters.. often nearly double my own mass and strength... and outclassing + defeating them. By my 5th year, Id reached Masterclass level potentials (lethal short range power, perfect precision in my techs...able to maintain proper form in heavy / full contact sparring / combat).
Not many people reach my level of potentials.. not even the 3 former instructors that Ive had. This again, always was due to a level of passion, and hardcore efforts.
Similar to the movie, I had even more of an issue of Jealousy from other students, and other artists... because of how hard I worked, and how quickly I progressed... as well as how much better my results were.
In the film, the Jealousy was pretty Mild, compared to the bad attitudes that I got, in real life.
I think you should try stone lifting too.
Traditional Chinese push ups 3:55
That pickle jar is not gonna see this coming!
It's over if he punches you lol
And they say eye finger jabs aka Biu Sau won’t work ? Only if one don’t train them ..MMA fights they are illegal. Just get accidentally hit and one of these they get a couple men break imagine a real fight or one was trained ain’t giving you that break .
you can copy his form but to direct the energy flow from your abdomen require true teaching, high level these are flash punch and the opponent not even has the chance to blink his eyes
Most people barely do 3 sets of ten of normal pushups... Lol
@@CoachSteveJandS what can I say…he is a beast.
In my former Wing Chun school... the classes were about 2hrs long. The entire first hour, was a hardcore "Core" workout routine. It had 3 sets of centered vertical fist knuckle pushups, done in Slow-Motion (making them 10x harder). Also, 3 sets of Crunches. Followed immediately by slow motion leg lifts, and leg spins (making basketball sized circles. maybe 3 to 4 minutes worth of those brutal exercises, right after you had just burned your abs up... via 3 sets of Crunches).
I believe it took me about 3 months of hardcore daily efforts, before I was able to fully complete the entire workout without stopping for Rests... and to fully keep up with the Pace of the exercise Leader (same amount of reps).
That said... I was doing the whole exercise routine, both in class... and outside of classes at home... 7 days a week.
Before I started... I was weak, somewhat clumsy, and feeble. But training at that pace, and intensity... I became as Agile as a Cat, and Strong and Hardened as a Lion.
One time, for kicks... I picked up one of those Ab workout VHS Tapes, from Blockbuster Video's clearance racks. I didnt realize, that the tape had 3 different levels on it... but I just completed all 3 levels, without stopping. It was actually too easy, compared to what I was already doing.