Warriors of China: Episode Two: Shaolin Monk Shi De Yang

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These documentaries are great I wish I had all of them.

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Unbelievable dedication

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[@buckaroobonsi555]

The real problem with Kung Fu today is that most not all most that practice it are so far removed from it's practical use to make it redundant. It is more like ballet or dance than it is a true martial art in many ways. The strict dogma and patterns associated with it beyond learning the moves themselves start to work against the student at some point instead of for the student. I am not covering new ground it is much the same as what Bruce Lee said, taught, wrote about and demonstrated. I am not saying we should toss the baby out with the bath water only that it would be nice to see some graduation to very practical application and at some point a parring down of the wasted movements. To my way of thinking this is the same outcome as what we have seen happen to TKD due to it's transformation into "sport fighting" from it's early roots. In this case the pendulum of idea's and practice swung the opposite direction of TKD but it has still produced a less than ideal product. Having been in martial arts since 1979 and attained high ranks in many different martial arts, worked in bars, security, street fights and sports fighting I speak from experience when I say that for ever 3 martial artists or combative athletes I have seen do well in a fight on the street 7 have had their rear ends handed to them. No one martial art really doing any better than the other. The ones that did well where trained to actual use their martial art in real life with the expectation that you would need to save your life. The training reflected. Shaolin's teachings and training where once far far ahead of their time as in hundreds of years ahead of their time but I do not see that reflected much today!

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Ask what is the purpose of a martial art? In your view it is to win a fight in the street. In traditional martial arts this is very far from the actual purpose. Very few people in China would get into a streetlight - a Shaolin Monk, who are Chan Buddhists - never! In Japan the main Budo Federation that oversees all martial arts, lists the precepts and benefits in their handbook and winning a streetlight or any fight, is not among them. We have visited Shaolin many times over the last 3 decades and have asked the question why? Shaolin do have a combat program using 'Sanda' as the fighting style similar to kickboxing that the young students join who wish to test their skills - these I add or not yet monks!

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Buckaroobondi555 & Emptymindfilms I agree with both of your statements. Winning a street fight, purpose is not to win a street fight, whatever you name it; a fight is still a fight. Hands will be thrown and damage will be done. I believe any martial art, whether traditional or modern, in their raw form is hands down to fight and do some dirt. Buckaroobondi555 Kung fu of any style definitely has problems with its ineffectiveness to really do what it once claimed to do. Right, government banning the practice of martial arts at one point, introduction to modern wushu, and just the time of a new era where people are not fighting for the reason of just because; has turned the practice of kung fu into learning and preserving an art, tradition, and culture. And appreciating it for being one of the most notable tradition of a people and their nation, as should all arts not to say they're not. So that, I believe is where the lost in translation of technique to application is blurred. Some know as much as the last person showed them, what is remembered may or may not be the actual technique/application, there's various applications for one technique as there are various techniques to one application, the people teaching the art may not know how to implement and apply the two together, or they just don't know it at all. The way to fix it and make it applicable in modern times is to learn whatever it is, look at the perspective of that from multiple sources e.g masters/coaches, and learn from multiple arts that are currently working and see the influences and similarities then apply them together. Emptymindfilms All martial arts can argue that they agree with Bruce Lee "the art of fighting without fighting". They all certainly teach it. Many of them just don't teach it at the same level in tune with spirituality as seen with Shaolin. And they certainly do not teach martial arts for the sole purpose of achieving victory in street fights, but rather providing a person with the skills to hopefully be victorious in one; should the situation call for it. And Shaolin Kung fu, or any, does exactly that too. The only thing that makes a Shaolin monk different is that they are a monk. Even so, Shaolin monks have a complicated history because some of their greatest feats was literally fighting like the 13 warrior monks helping Li Shimin against Wang Shichong. But yes, Shaolin Temple, as well as other kung fu schools offer the traditional program and Sanda program. From my experience, the traditional programs do not touch base on combative techniques with partner interaction like Sanda does or at all. That is also dependent on the school and coaches. All martial arts' purpose is to cultivate an individual's Body, Mind, and Spirit, and I still side with my take that all martial arts in their raw form is to fight. What a person decides to do with such skills or fight for is entirely up to them whether they're a Shaolin monk, or just a person like everyone else.