Experiencing Real Kung Fu: Tai Chi Qin Na 太极擒拿

Learn Kung Fu from the host A Long, aka Master Zhao! Learn more at wujitaiji.org/
In this episode we travel to Henan province to meet a master of Tai Chi Qin Na (太极擒拿), or Tai Chi grappling.
Sad fact - our aerial photography drone got thrown off by the magnetic field of a nearby mountain and was completely destroyed during the filming of this episode :-(

[@tze-weilim1632]

I enjoyed this show the most of all that I have watched in this series of ''Experiencing Real Kung Fu''. I appreciate it most when Eric is spontaneous and skeptically challenging.

[@gillyonket5117]

tza-weiner!!! small lim!!!

[@EnochDark]

No matter how "staged" or "fake" people say this is at least the theories discussed are solid. Personally I feel that it has been presented this way for the purpose of being educational...

[@irisk5-m182]

He used his aiki power to break the stick

[@EnochDark]

@@irisk5-m182 gonna take your word for it over rewatching a 43 minute video from almost 7 years ago...

[@JohnPoteet]

Excellent video. I was very impressed with the clear demonstrations of Tai Chi combat skills that were very much reflected in my own training. Very inspiring.

[@fdcfghfgfg7130]

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[@melvynobrien6193]

So, you have fights all the time? Inspiring violence?

[@gillyonket5117]

but u can crush an egg cant u ? hippy dippy shite mate!!!

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

John Poteet must be being ironic.

[@Ryooken]

Very true mine too.

[@arthur-eric.5396]

is this a comedy show eheheheheeehaaaahahahahahaa.i am cracking with all the comments .

[@karimdiallo9086]

this guy is for real i love it

[@asbeautifulasasunset5187]

Can someone please tell me how I can purchase a wooden Taiji Chi tool like the one shown in the video?

[@RiccardoBonnema]

+asbeautifulas asunset In Hunyuan Taiji this tool is called a 'Bang', search for 'bang and ruler ' and you will find more techniques.

[@showercurtaintowel]

After watching this man break an egg in the fashion he did here, I'm left with so many questions...

[@julioao1]

The armlock and the rear naked choke were pathetic!

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Everything in this video is. It is just another communist party propaganda and a merchandising paid by "master" Zhao.

[@rafzan]

they want to see he escape an armbar, show a triangle being performed on UFC, proceed to show master try to escape an incorrectly performed armbar and show some cut-up footage

[@daboodeef179]

What animal is that at 6:07 below him?

[@Kazama0r]

謝謝分享 ~ 內家拳, 由其是太極拳應該要鍊到招中有招才能後發而先至 ~ 如果跟對手一招一招拆招很吃虧 ~

[@georiashang1120]

由招熟而渐司懂劲，由懂劲而阶及神明。内家拳其实练的是劲，不是招。

[@kramnic8240]

armbar was wrong, you dont cross your feet, one ankle in the armpit and squeeze the arm between your thighs. Rear naked choke is wrong. He could get out also because you had no hooks in. Btw I am a BJJ white belt and even I know these things.

[@Supermomo2007]

bjj doesnt work against real tai chi master. if the legs and arms are relaxed, submissions are not possible.

[@diemsky8965]

Yeah...no. @Supermomo2007

[@KENNETHedwardMitchell]

great post

[@Tinpinming]

why all the hate? it's totally unnecessary. i dont see you guys talkin' shit at WWE.

[@gillyonket5117]

twat.... cuz wwe aint real,.... this is ment to b. .....idiot (r u like that guy that crys for the wwe, even though he knows its not real. hipocrite shite mate!!!

[@mickm8028]

Your only supposed to apply pressure to the top and bottom dome of the egg , hard to break an egg like that .

[@georiashang1120]

yes,hold the egg with great pressure till it explode.you can judge from the cracks of the egg to see if it is exploded or it is broken by fingers

[@7thcelestial768]

Did anyone not see 28:22? where that red robe broke the broken pot with his fingers?

[@EricCouillard]

nice catch, he was pretty happy we got that on camera, haha

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

So he broke a broken pot. Wow must be really hard.

[@Fufutae]

That's the same Yi Long who fought against Buakaw, right?

[@edwardlu6783]

yah, but without boxing glove

[@georiashang1120]

absolutely different thing,stage boxing and real fight.

[@bassalliance7359]

dope!

[@dimmac2177]

Супер мастера

[@kaizokenshiro2568]

J’ai regardé plusieurs fois les séquences, quand il dit broyer le morceau de bois et ainsi sortir de la clé au sol. J’ai vraiment un doute là dessus

[@davidjen3826]

great vid

[@kujawedann4961]

Thanks

[@entertaichi]

Thanks for sharing! Have an awesome day!

[@bryansinger8906]

this is funny is like a movie

[@mooselee902]

those logs were definitely made in china

[@bassalliance7359]

bboy stance WATUUP

[@johnoullette4908]

while this seems obviously staged , I just hate to see an arrogant hippie westerner challenging two dudes who were minding their own business. Therefore "Eric", whether merely a character in a choreographed fiction or not, deserves to get his ass kicked...end of story

[@RobinTurner]

It's a convention to have the ignorant arrogant foreigner taught a lesson; I guess as the only foreigner there, poor Eric had to play it.

[@gonfreecss7215]

Lol I see an episode about dim mak where eric losed a fight again... It's a running gag 🤣

[@stephanelbcwushu7518]

Tai ji quan 👍👍👍🙏

[@oscillatine]

Hum... where are FX sounds ? Every good chinese fighting movie has its kung-fu fx noises !

[@dedesixhela8270]

Real Kung Fu .. I'm Guna make apple pie

[@daboodeef179]

Just curious. How does someone (the master) practice so much yet still be able to afford food, water, place to sleep, etc?

[@mooselee902]

+daboodeef179 bro hes on the dole

[@timothyfreeman97]

Are you Implying that gong fu masters don't have a sturdy income?

[@user-ds5bm7rg6h]

+daboodeef179 Teaching they earn enough to live well in China.

[@mooselee902]

武龙 yes

[@kaizokenshiro2568]

Je ne dis pas qu’ils ne sont pas bons, loin de là. Mais j’ai un gros doute sur ce documentaire

[@leorodriguez2123]

estaría bueno que este en español :/

[@marcustec8]

even I can break the egg this way... he gotta smash it by aplying power in the edges not in the middle like he did...

[@marcustec8]

hehehe funny being called dumbass by a guy called el boto :D U're probably lives near to me, once the boto is an animal that also lives in my country. I practice grip strenght for about 3 years. And I can do some cool stuff like smashing small apples... but hey, of course! These guys have much more power in hands than I do. Not my intention to disrespect them! But have smashed eggs myself a couple of times, and I know the mess it can do HAHAHAHAHAHA and hey... such a waste of time arguing with ppl on internet, isnt it? :) just try to be more respectful next time thnx

[@JandJsShow]

lol this is so staged

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Exactly. Sadly in communist china it is very common among "traditional" martial arts to pay for these expensive ads. Mostly taichichuan "masters". This Eric Couillard is a shame for participating in all this. Just yet another nerd dreaming in being bruce lee or jet li.

[@EnochDark]

seems so but is this not due to the educational nature of the program?

[@PenandBlade]

O.o what am I watching!?

[@julian.4118]

esta lleno de chantas !!incluso chinos

[@AdamRoss1975]

Very bad arm bar. A white belt could have got out of that.

[@neurohydraulics8713]

In the security industry it is common knowledge that most martial arts guys are useless in a real fight. Saying that, if you are a natural born fighter, learning martial arts will show you how to become better, and if you are lucky enough to be properly trained by a genuine internal master you have just won the jackpot of life. They very rarely go public but some Western guys, Bruce Frantzis (Adam Mizner, Damo MItchel, Mark Razmus) are the real thing. The internal skills can only be taught by hands on interaction (at the moment) and turn the body into a set of exquisitely tuned elastic hydraulic rams with sympathetic resonance awareness. Chi is real but a very difficult for the mind to grasp as a concept but let's try anyway;) Bouyancy creates a centre to peripheral potential force that relative to gravity is crucial in terms of biophysics. Like a rubber submarine, with a rubber central heating system inside it. The deeper it goes underwater, the more it pushes back aginst the crushing forces around it. This crushing force is fed through the rubber walls into the rubber pipes and struts inside the submarine and is continuously shifting, changing density and changing volume. Even when completely still, the potential force stored in the elastic tissue is significant. Any oscillations caused by sonic / seismic type energy the submarine encounters due to environmental noise AND internaly generated sound /pressure waves are altered by this potential force because density changes pitch, tone and volume. The curved surfaces angle of the elastic membrane tissue changes as it is compressed and relaxed but even while still, acts as a parabolic sonic mirror to any internal vibrations, curved egg shaped parabolic surfaces being the only efficient shape to deal with pressure differentials and bouyancy requirement. Here for the rubber sub analogy to continue we have to fill the submarine with water and lift it onto the air, let's call it "H.M.S. human body" an anti submarine, whose job is to protect the water inside being evaporated off in all directions, and the sailors called kidneys, liver, spleen from being too dry or roughly treated. The parabolic mirror shape of the fascia and skin type outer layer of the H.M.S. human body means that any regular sonic activity inside the submarine, eg.sailor heart playing his drums, will bounce around the watery internal cavities for a long time as water conducts sound brilliantly. As the sound waves bounce off the satelite dish shaped outer shell, in certain places in the "human body" the sound waves form standing waves and nodal lines of extra volume and relative silence , especially if someone left the sound system on and it is generating feedback in very tight high pitched ultrasonic frequencies, and very low throbbing infrasonic frequencies. Air behaves like a fluid and creates 1.03kg of force per square centimeter at sea level, the human body has on average nealry 2 square metres of skin. That is two tonnes of crushing force being generated at seal level relative to being on a planet such as Mars. If one stand inside a large enough bell jar and releases the potential energy, ie create a vaccuum the body expands as the potetial energy is released. Does that mean that through diligent practice one could gain the ability to dilate the central nervous system in it's entirety and release this potential energy in tiny, invisble ranges of movement? Hell yes! you just have to learn to NOT think for long periods of time as thinking contracts the nerves. Plus have fantastic postural alignments and superlative breathing habits. Come on people, two tonnes of force at your fingertips! The art is called nei kung and is popular in parts of China. I learned it from a strange and wonderful man called Bruce Frantzis who runs a company called energy arts. I am steeped in the language of physics from my family background (Father, grandfather all physicists) yet i learned these skills out of neccessity as i was disabled in my late teens. I am trying to engage with open minded people about the possibility that there is a difference between genuine fighting masters of the art trying to talk to scientists and hippies and armchair warriors mouthing off because they want to feel special. Please check out my KZbin channel where I show these phenomena in action and let me know what you think. While breathing from your lower belly;)

[@thaiboxer5]

I have worked club security as a second job for 12 years. the martial art itself isn't the problem, it's the format in which they are trained. someone who trains in an art with no sparring, and art which focuses on contact sparring, etc - yes, totally useless. but you do have traditional styles which place an emphasis on contact training. Kyokushinkai for example. I worked with a capoeirista who was awesome to have at my side in a fight. but their regularly made contact in the roda at his school and they also regularly sparred guys outside of their style. I have seen karateka who can't fight due to that lack of contact training and i've seen karateka from the same style, different school who were damn good.

[@jimstretch6109]

neuro hydraulics - Bruce Frantzis is hardly "the real thing". he's guessing at the applications. he can't Hsing-i or bagua his way out of a paper bag. does he know the HI animal designed to beat Thai boxers? has he actually been challenged for real? Black, bisio and cartmell could show him a thing or three. but I do agree most so-called martial artists are useless in a real fight. But most real martial artists have the sense not to fight. win or lose, you will be arrested and you will be sued. unless you can do something where it isn't obvious how you poked out his eye, crushed his throat, broke his arm, broke his neck or choked him out. Marc the animal Macyoung has great stuff on all of that macho posturing.

[@neurohydraulics8713]

Sorry never heard of them, please send a link. Not only have I seen and felt Bruces truly otherworldly skill and power, i've met tens, maybe hundreds of other fighters who have too. Have you personaly trained with Bruce? The medical people AND the meditation people are usually freaked out by his skill (if they can handle his no nonsense teaching style), Jim, what is your background that gives you such confidence in your opinion?

[@DavidBrown-rb3ch]

I have been studying qigong for 20+ years and that is, without a doubt, the most idiotic explanation I have ever read.

[@tbishop4961]

Chen xiaowang should be embarrassed. Put someone in the ring

[@femiisme9679]

T'es québécois hein?

[@EricCouillard]

my grandfather was from quebec. i'm from USA.

[@femiisme9679]

Eric Couillard cool great vid btw

[@EricCouillard]

thanks for watching!

[@iswahono6379]

very interesting to see how to escape those mma/bjj moves

[@tangcnwu5285]

徐晓冬知道这个人不，去试试

[@LGrice]

This is actually the new comedy show in China

[@ChibiZone]

3:00 They don't look or give any characteristics of martial artists. The "fight" between Eric and the villagers is absolutely ridiculous. I'm not sure if that was a skit or an actual little fight you had. The fidgety motion, the twitchy hands and legs. Obviously inexperienced in any form of fighting and especially in Chinese Martial Arts.

[@ChibiZone]

And they even brought in YiLong. Any legitimacy this video had is now ruined.

[@samuraishodownusa4478]

Not to mention on the arm bar his hands and feet where not correct. On the rear naked choke he didn't have hooks in. You want to know real self protection take BJJ.

[@thaiboxer5]

I disagree. bjj can be terrible in some instances - like club security. glass on the floor, people all around - friends of your opponent and randoms who just want to take a cheap shot because a fight is happening. The ground is NOT where you wanna be in that scenario. bjj is great one on one with no chance of outside interference. but In the situations I work in, you are much better off with boxing / thai boxing and judo.

[@thaiboxer5]

Also, when standing and kneeling, you don't set hooks on a rear naked, if you are referring to his technique around 16:16 - you set hooks when you are on the ground. the defense here was perfectly viable for a rear naked. I would've first pulled the arm down and tucked my chin so he couldn't choke me at all though.

[@Supermomo2007]

thai boxing and boxing are sports, i would recommend kung fu with some judo

[@JackyMChua]

The ankle twist on the arm bar can work but not before the opponent break his arm first. Yet, in dire situations where there is no tapping, taking a limp for a limp could be an alternative if he can withstand the pain from the arm break.

[@AngloSaxon1]

samurai shodown USA Nono, BJJ for the ring not for the street

[@femiisme9679]

Gong fu is the best f what these mm a guys said

[@melvynobrien6193]

Violence masquerading as spirituality.

[@user-df7tk3dx7q]

ㅎㅎ 계란은 나도깬다😁

[@MsOpineminded]

Problem with MMA groupies is they don't understand these sort of traditional martial arts needs time invested and takes longer to master. BUT when mastered, they are more lethal then the homoerotic grappling you see in the cage which is in any case unrealistic to real life situations. I've had a skinny chap give me pressure point massage when I was recovering from paralysis. That TCM doctor's fingers were like iron nails. If he wanted to do hurt you, it would have been lethal. All these BJJ restrains just open up targets for the Taichi chap. You are effectively giving him the opportunity to hurt you. There are no rules in a real fight.

[@mrblaque215]

I get it, this show is 100% anti-western propaganda, just like America has its own propaganda. But the facts are, Eric doesn't know how to strike properly or apply proper BJJ holds, and Mr. Zhu isn't a real Chinese grappler either. And if either of you make your way to Philadelphia, please let me know, and I'll demonstrate real Chinese grappling if you're interested.

[@Supermomo2007]

joe rogan is representer of american bjj propaganda

[@mrblaque215]

Supermomo2007 you know nothing of grappling. Shut up.

[@Supermomo2007]

you shut up. iam second dan in judo and i practice shuai jiao. you know nothing about grappling.

[@mrblaque215]

Supermomo2007 lol sure you are, cool story bro

[@Supermomo2007]

aha and what are you?

[@ccoorrddxx5313]

29:29 That "balls' cracking" convinced me. Real masters of egg sqeezing 0_o

[@nadiabarsi4851]

What's his surname the teacher Zhu? Thanks. best video

[@michaeldan1287]

+Nada Baggiani His name is Xuefeng. A good student of Master Xiaowang Chen.

[@chenyenyu88]

These China vids are as real as Donald Trump's hair.

[@DurgaOmm]

Charlie show something better yourself"

[@thomasshaw4855]

i agree. I'm not martial artist, but I bet i could land a few punches at least, this guys isn't even trying, look how slow he's moving, how after he's grabbed he does nothing....cmon fam

[@nw9884]

wow oh maygod

[@DavidBrown-rb3ch]

I stopped watching at the arm bar. Eric, are you really that awful of a martial artist or are you intentionally half assing it to make the master (and his son) look better? I would appreciate an honest answer.

[@mofogie]

And ya the sifu didn't even do a proper arm bar escape, not that even a proper escape has good odds of success once your arm is already extended into a weakened low tensile position

[@a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i93]

Master, please make me your disciple...

[@Kenkalsi]

Cameraman is useless, cant c anything clearly and no slow motions.

[@user-hx7ls1rg9q]

Плохая древесина

[@drcub2302]

Chinese kung fu trying to be Japanese AiKiDo how is it working ? not good at all, everything is off, the balance, no power, no real internal strength, even though wing Chun is surprisingly a good style with limited movements but combine it with Aikido and you will be amazed, the rest of Chinese styles has a real potential if it had any power or balance . Bruce lee found out early that kung fu alone is useless in front of other real martial arts schools such as karate or Aikido or any other form of martial arts so he adopted and reinvented wing chun with different styles from Thailand to philippines to Japanese schools of martial arts. I love kung fu but I love more what works as a street defense practice and not a show.

[@tonywang9026]

From your comment, I find you have no idea how to fight.

[@maxwellwang5567]

Dr Cub Do you even know Japanese actually copied everything from China?

[@orionbassmaster666]

That statement is not 100% accurate sir, as it is very true that most early forms of early combat systems /oriental medicine were imported from china , ( especially the hard style) which many traces can be found within the Okinawan arts of "Te"( Modernly referred to as Karate}. many of the koryu Japanese or traditional Japanese school hold original movement and combat theroies that are uniquely Japanese as it was the byproduct of constant civil warfare that expanded throughout most of japan's feudal history... this rule applies to both unarmed ( yawara, taijutsu, jujutsu) and armed ( Kenjutsu, battojutsu, yarijutsu)...China's trade and cultural expansion covers most of the contienant and no one can deny that , however it is unfair to claim that every neighbouring nation did nothing but copy Chinese methods , as unique forms exist all over Asia from japan to the indo-malay archipelago ( Silat) , similarly many chinese forms especially Shaolin style hold their roots to the teaching of an Indian Buddhist monk known as Bodhidharma , who is is hailed by many as the found of the chan or zen school of Buddhism

[@thaiboxer5]

Acutally, nobody knows that to be true. it was said that the original jujutsu was created by a physician who took 9 or so wrist and arm locking techniques and expanded on them, making it an entirely japanese system, but that is only one story. another story is a man from china named Chingempin told three men about the chinese art of chin na sand showed them a couple of techniques and explained the principles of the art. the three men used these chinese principles to create more locks. These were the first jujutsu styles. Another story is that a sorcerer appeared and showed a man several locks. Another story is a man went to china and learned an art called hakuda. the art consisted of kicks and strikes. he also learned several methods of reviving a man from death. when he got back to japan, he saw snow on a willow branch and noticed how it yielded, unlike the pine which was rigid. he used this yielding concept and created another 300 techniques. there are A LOT of stories. and that's what they are - stories. None of us were there, so we can't really verify. that being sad, no not all arts came from china. african arts, Indian arts, old european arts - developed on their own. ALL cultures have their own forms of indigenous wrestling as well. that did not come from china. silat DOES have a chinese influence. there are even chinese silat styles - kuntao silat is an example. the term pencak came from the chinese term penchak, meaning deflect. some styles train chinese weapons like the jian, and remember that the first indonesian settlers came from india... and we have already mentioned that chinese arts were influenced by india so there is still commonality there. taijutsu has a chinese influence also. and Koryu has a very chinese origin. the name itself translates to old school china hand (koryu karate)

[@Supermomo2007]

every eastern martial comes from china, even muay thai. a kung fu monk traveled to thailand teached the people self defense called muay boran.

[@alberrioss6781]

jajaja la batalla mas gay del mundo

[@melvynobrien6193]

Bullshit violence. And you don't have time in a real fight for anything fancy.

[@petrsvarctchajti]

Funny and horrible in the same time...

[@Kslip21]

😐why take time out of your day to post BS

[@PhoeniixCircle]

HAhahahaha omg wtf was that xDD

[@KeithOng]

wow...so fake...

[@oliveoil2632]

开场表演真尼玛尬

[@calisthenicsnoob9990]

This is so fake that its funny

[@tonywang9026]

Savage.

[@calisthenicsnoob9990]

Людмила Павличенко you make no sense

[@caineheffner4232]

Just like American reality TV.

[@THX-vb8yz]

This is a joke, right? What in the world was this? This is why Kung Fu has a bad name when it comes to reality in combative arts. I'm a student and teacher Choy Li Fut and Sun Chien (family style), and we spar for real. Not kick your teeth in, but hard. This is crap!

[@joggautube123]

white guy? funny discription, others there are same shade of skin. if they are chinese, then you are indian gypsy boy? keeping like for like comparison

[@dedesixhela8270]

Real Kung Fu .. I'm Guna make apple pie