The Kung Fu Shaolin: Episode 5

As the Shaolin Kung Fu spreads out around the world, it has found its own way of telling itself, not only the techniques but also the spirit. Check out this episode of the documentary series, The Kung Fu Shaolin, to find out more.
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[@Superr93]

Ancient Shaolin temple teached subjects are, 1. Philosophy (zen, Buddhism, Taoism) for mind strongness; 2. Physical training (excercises, Kung fu, meditation) for body strongness; 3. Medicine (herbs knowledge, disease & injuries healing, health science, longevity of natural life).

[@houseofkungfu2543]

The BEST documentary series on Shaolin EVER.

[@pravin85107]

Kung founder from etnic tamilzhan from tamil nadu india. He is name bodhidarman. Chinnese call he name damo. Proud to be tamilzhan. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJmbmGafpdebfM0

[@christinewillis7545]

Was absolutely glued to the screen for all 5 episodes of this documentary. An underlying theme of humility, power and wisdom. A wonderful opportunity to see the monks way of life at the Shaolin Temple and to those ambassadors who have brought Kung Fu to the world. Thank you for posting such a worthy account of this special martial art.

[@mosinnagant2552]

Amazing series.Started when I was bored.Hooked me enough to make me watch till the very last second of the last episode.Respect

[@seanchasty301]

Shaolin Temple, CGTN, Thank you for making these KZbin films. Managed to watch two episodes. Have saved them all to watch many more times. This came to me at the right time. Am learning Traditional Wing Chun for many years. Once again Thank you, came to me at the right moment.

[@macmovieman1]

So sad its over. Truly amazing and thank you for sharing Kung Fu with the world.

[@hassankhawaja6606]

Very happy to see our brothers grow and making a beautiful nation. Long Live China, Iron brother of Pakistan

[@johnholmes2590]

amazing skills Shaolin masters.

[@knoblochalexandra]

Excellent documentary!! I wish Shaolin monks would come to Romania too because we are just know about them through movies but we dont really know about them and they would have incredible success. Chineze culture is extraordinary and there is a lot to learn so I personally would love to learn from them! Thank you for sharing this documentary !!!

[@cristinelgheorghiu5294]

How about learning from someone who trained in China at the real Shaolin Temple?

[@thugitz1990]

this has been such a journey. thank you

[@spytown77]

Amazing! All 5 episodes were outstanding! Thank you for sharing. 🥋👏

[@tommasobucciero1206]

Glad that I watched this!

[@ruiseartalcorn]

A great documentary! :) I've studied martial arts all my life (mostly Kung Fu) but never actually trained in Shaolin. Now, at age 60, I'm thinking of starting :)

[@ruiseartalcorn]

@ Thanks for sharing and for the good wishes. All the best to you too :)

[@JohnDoe-rj2kf]

wow, wishing you all the luck. I am very proud

[@valdeciribeiro6704]

Euvoucomesaatreinakungfu🍓😀🐨

[@valdeciribeiro6704]

Treinakungfushaollmepesado🍀💙🐨

[@valdeciribeiro6704]

Treiinaemuitobom,,🐼🍀

[@m.jenkins8503]

A very good quality video of the shooting kung fu

[@JohnDoe-jz7bj]

Watched them all. :)

[@StimParavane]

Great narration and imagery. I really enjoyed this. More please...!

[@franklem6099]

Very enlightening and very interesting

[@mariskavh8724]

Thank you for the serie ... really enjoy this

[@saktimaankafan9053]

💝 Love 💝 from ❤️ india 💝 jharkhand ❤️ jamshedpur 💝 jugsalai ❤️ chaprahiya 💝 mohallah ❤️ 0:10

[@miq_5239]

this was such a dope serie!! I'm hoping that one day I can learn Shaolin Kung Fu, this series has helped me a lot and motivated me too! thanks CGTN! Respect.

[@areyeh4979]

Great documentary series!👍

[@kims8069]

Ok. So I just want to say I’m very impressed by all these people. They truly are masters of their craft. I do know that times have changed and we’ve progressed as humans. I think it’s great that people are getting excited about Kung Fu. However, I liked the first couple episodes better that focused on the “roots.”

[@changingspiritually9540]

Thank you for this educational video. @CGTN #CGTN

[@mato7773]

amazing series, thank you

[@Storysuspensecomedy123]

Great man

[@catonpillow]

Exceptional series. Hope more episodes are coming.

[@valdeciribeiro6704]

Treinar pesado🐼🍀

[@marcussherrill9384]

Great series!!!!!!

[@jobjoab9913]

谢谢 🙏

[@lenrice7482]

amazing documentary

[@D3MON_KOR3]

Great Shaolin documentary ✊👊👊

[@chinankh8934]

others will find it difficult to understand Chinese Kung-Fu...anybody can learn to punch and kick....but FEW can learn the discipline not to do it....thus, the meditation of the martial art

[@dataclashers]

Wonderful series.

[@tealeh2]

Unbelievable. ..

[@rukiakuchiki3515]

i want to learn kung fu but i cant find anyone to teach me so i am training at home but if travel to UK and live their in the future i will definitely visit this temple i hope they will accept me as a student its my dream to learn kung fu

[@b03shm01]

the monk is not concerned about spreading culture or make a country powerful ..he should help other people raise their consciousness by the teaching Bodhi Dharma

[@Sallei_Dean]

🤚🤛

[@annes9954]

how to join the Shaolin temple in China?

[@saktimaankafan9053]

❤️ Kalyug ❤️ ke ❤️ Krishna ❤️ Sri ❤️ acharya ❤️ Prashant ❤️ ji ❤️ ki ❤️ jai ❤️ ho ❤️ 0:24

[@leocaprioli]

The dude Training with sun glasses on got me fucked up hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@vijaysangam7350]

Please one documentary for poison hand techniques in sholing tecnique👋👋

[@saktimaankafan9053]

Love ❤️ from india jharkhand jamshedpur jugsalai chaprahiya mohallah home town Bihar Chapra jila gram khanpur ekma 0:08

[@chinalocaltravel]

nice shot .

[@MustAfaalik]

Thank you all & special thanks to the narrator Randall Lee Rose. It is said that the philosophical meaning of Kung Fu is " to turn a bar of iron into a needle". 🙏

[@AdmiringOceanSunset-sy7ys]

🤠🥰😇 atraction, offencive flow...

[@kennyleung1017]

Shaolin kung fu vs mma, MMA win shaolin kung ku.20.10.20

[@charlesbetancourt7337]

The national geographic article " battle for the soul of kungfu"mentions when a film crew went there to film a pro MMA fighter testing his skills against a monk. The article goes on to say the MMA fighter went home bruised. You've had students with MMA experience sparring the monks there. To think they would"t be prepared for something like that is foolish.

[@MrBlinder514]

It's naive to expect the foreigners to embrace Chinese culture, just like the people practicing yoga don't have to be identified with indian culture. Chinese culture has a very high hurdle for foreigners to even comprehend the surface.

[@m.h2247]

3:00 he isn’t a Frenchman of African descent. He’s said in many other interviews that he’s Cameroonian. No reason to present him as French here, even if he currently lives there.

[@p.vanslooten5124]

If he has a french pasport he is french

[@coppercolors2463]

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@mistwomsv1644]

i liked

[@daswordofgork9823]

"But after we kicked their asses, things started to take root" - Shi Yanzi, I fucking bet XD

[@Storysuspensecomedy123]

I dream to be like him

[@jbello1968]

Great series but the last episode should have included Shaolin Monk Shi Yan Ming who was the first to defect to America (NYC) in 1992 , Amituofo !!

[@cedricjosephayissi2067]

Actually he's from Cameroon... 🙄

[@Anditrx27]

Where IPman ?

[@chrisrushlau]

Is someone asked me what the special talent or skill of people in the US--what our cultural deposit--is, I would say it's being able to deal with chaos, since we all have lived in chaos all our lives. We can't do anything because we can't cooperate with each other, but nobody can do anything to us either. Supposedly the Nazi general in charge of the Western Front in World War Two said, "If the Americans had ever gotten organized, I could have beat them." Am I joking here? No. What comes of this? We have no bad habits to lose, for the only habit we have is refusing to cooperate with anybody. We are Peter Pan: "I'll never grow up." So if we ever decide to grow up, we will grow up very fast.

[@eangthaingov9923]

Hello there! I suggest the Shaolin monk in Germany use Google translate to translate the Buddhist scriptures and save time. Amen and Allah knows Yahweh! Om Mani Pad Me Hum! ETN...

[@Ryu_Matsumoto06]

Mma toxic fans left the group

[@rafiq6649]

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[@alanprice1993]

Tidetindubbistyoga

[@mengwolong5651]

To be a Shaolin monk or an "ambassador" of the Temple, is it mandatory to accept the Buddhist faith? Or is it possible to have a Christian representative from the Shaolin Temple, for example?

[@elvinccw]

You don't need to change faith or embrace Buddhism but in order to deeply understand Shaolin martial arts spirit and values, you must at least cultivate Buddhism, as Shaolin foundation is built on Buddhism itself

[@akinakinsiku6818]

depends on what you mean by 'representative from the Shaolin Temple". At the temple, you have full ordinated monks with complete Buddhists vows and you have secular disciples. If you live in the temple you will undoubtably need to study Buddhism and engage with temple religious practices. However if you study Shaolin martial arts outside the temple, you do not necessarily have to, but will be exposed to and learn some aspects of the philosophy. There are numerous practitioners and masters that aren't Buddhists. There are some masters that believe you cannot get the fullness of Shaolin martial arts without the religion, but there are other Shaolin masters that believe otherwise.

[@MaharlikaAWA]

Shaolin Kung Fu is a great way to make a lot of money with foreigners.

But don't you think that by bringing Kung Fu to the masses makes it flourish and be increasingly popular? Kung Fu has to be like a shark. If the shark stops swimming, it will actually die.

[@MaharlikaAWA]

@ of course bringing any kind of martial arts to people is great. I'm just saying really if you're a foreigner and you go and train in China and go back to your native country then you're going to make tons of money and be very popular. Especially in a third world country.

[@Xind0898]

if it makes you feel better, been a foreigner and live China makes you money automatically

[@toria7616]

CHeck out tHiS bROTheR doing his thing... AfriCan Kung FU specialist, all sorts people... niCeE!!!

[@waynebynoe99]

HEY! THE BROTHER IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO TEACH! FAR FROM! AND HE'S SEEN, TO CARRIE THE IDEA! THAT, THE PROGRESS OF KUNGFU! IS FOR PERSONAL LARGESS! CLEARLY JUST KNOWS BARELY HOW TO DEFEND! HE'S TO SLOW AND HIS LEGS AREN'T STRONG ENOUGH FAR FROM! ALSO, HIS BONES NEED TO B BROKEN TO ACHIEVE CORRECT POSTURE! AND MOVEMENT!

[@j.pocket]

I requires deep understanding: how can a monk be "eminent"? Like, "chao lin the inevitable celibate warrior"? lol.

[@Oscuros]

How is a Cardinal addressed as "His eminence" since before your country was even invented? You just can't speak English properly plus have no imagination. You shouldn't think that's normal project it out like that.

[@chineseboxer108]

All kung fu definitely did NOT originate at the Shaolin Temple. That is the most ridiculous claim that for some reason keeps getting repeated over and over again. That's like saying they invented running and jumping, kicking and punching. People had martial art systems long before the Shaolin Temple was around. Damo a.k.a Bodhidharma, the monk who first taught physical training (not specifically fighting arts but stretching and breathing exercises (Yi Jin Jing and Xisui Jing) to help the Shaolin monks improve their meditation practice) to the monks at Shaolin was from India. He likely didn't invent it because Yoga was already being practiced in India long before Damo came along. As for the Lohan 18 hands, Damo likely didn't invent that either. And for your information, I've never seen two coaches or monks in China at the Shaolin Temple or anywhere on Earth do the Lohan 18 hands the same, ever! (I know that's flawed logic but then please show me the "real" original Lohan 18 hands?) So none of them are likely authentic. And even if any of them are, they originated elsewhere, and not from Shaolin. Likely India. Martial arts, a.k.a Military Arts, literally Wu-shu in Mandarin also existed in China long before the Shaolin Temple existed as did it wherever there were people. Do you mean to suggest that they never had any training system anywhere else before? LOL Here is a big fat simple clue for you, Guan Yu a.k.a General Kwan was swinging around his Kwan Dao long before Damo arrived at Shaolin Temple. lol Any historian from anywhere would laugh at you for suggesting the idea that "all martial arts comes from Shaolin." Shaolin Temple isn't even the only temple where monks practiced martial arts. Much of the real history of Shaolin Temple is confused with legends from fictional literature. Hey, ever hear of the Olympic Games? They were around for hundreds of years before Shaolin was dreamed of, and wrestling was one of the competition categories as were other martial arts like javelin throwing. Most of the weapons the monks use today also pre-date Shaolin Temple by over a 1000 years, for example; staff, swords, spears, halberds... Over time Shaolin Temple was a place that collected and developed many Chinese martial arts styles and were spread out from there. I'm sure some other martial arts that were invented on their own, likely claimed it originated from Shaolin as to appear more legitimate because Shaolin had/has a perceived reputation and therefore gave the style more prowess and credibility. Look at the history/legend of Praying Mantis style for example. In a nut shell; Guy challenges monks to a fight. He loses. Goes out into the woods and sees some praying mantises fighting. Studies their movements and adapts them to his training and beats the monks. Now praying mantis style is a part of the Shaolin system. This is what happens when you believe at face value what some country bumpkin uneducated illiterate communist/capitalist "monks" who don't know better themselves. Stop spreading BS because eventually people will figure it out and you will be the one looking stupid, like I once did. Today Shaolin Kung fu is a great thing on its own, no need to spread extra lies to promote it. If you think I'm talking shit, check some history books or even some dates on Wikipedia.

[@cristinelgheorghiu5294]

It's very true what you are saying. When you arrive in Dengfeng there is a statue which saying: Shaolin, the birthplace of all martial arts! it's nice to be seen for the tourist but it's not true. Kung Fu was in China long before Shaolin Temple.

[@yushi911]

Promote or business? Informing is one thing but opening a school and teach to whoever paid for the course...this is again KungFu philosophy. As KungFu is a very powerfull art and could be very dangerous, master choose "pure heart" student. Basic. Even kids know that. Kunfu is different that taking a yoga class...i guess the master doesn't teach everything.

[@MrBlinder514]

Kungfu can be trained, just like yoga for many normal people for health purpose.

[@vincent1712]

Interesting. I would have preferred if it had been on shaolin KUNG FU instead of kung fu SHAOLINS; learn more about the techniques instead of the people who practice it. There definitely has to be more room for women in Kung Fu : men dedicate themselves to that art while women raise the family... tradition can sometimes be good but at some point it's also a box trapping the culture and the gender roles. A culture grows and I liked the part where the practitioners were open to new clienteles, technologies and training approches. I think it's ok to expect your students to work hard and try their very best but abusing them isn't the right way to go in encouraging them, developing a sense of accomplishment and a will to pursue this hard path. Also, Even though Kung Fu is about "perfecting" who's to say what's perfect? And everyone can reach their own ideal level of commitment and skills without "having failed" at learning something, and for the teacher without "having failed" at teaching something. If life is about that balance, why try to force it ?

[@eddiehizo3365]

He is...Asian Brad Pitt.

[@renehildebrand6153]

😀👍 bitte auf deitsch

[@johnthebeastfromtheeast6943]

Was für eine Sprache ist deitsch?

[@krystiankososhi915]

Xu Xiaodong.

[@charlesbetancourt7337]

There's an iron palm shaolin monk there who not only breaks stones with his hands but also Ripa deck of c ards cards. Xu Xiadong won't challenge him. Too risky. He's on video.

[@VLADIMIR007ISH]

Just a black guy using the Kung Fu to earn money and fame

[@mortgagefinancing5558]

These people are right out of it...laughable