Hello from Okinawa, we just reached 100,000 subscribers!

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Good luck Will! 🌟Can't wait to see what you uncover in Okinawa. 🎌 Congratulations on 100K!🥳

[@FuryoTokkosho]

Yeah jesse, you left a lot out on your journey. I think before you, there were some others, i came accross this guy who learned from the grandson of soken matsumura, he has made two documentaries too that are called Hakutsuru The Secrets of the White Crane and In Search of Shaolin. And there is still a lot more like you can see in all the old british documentary series like Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves and the others. What is still unexplored or at least not properly documented in a way to preserve it. Maybe then it is going to be another few centuries in the backyards of okinawa if a rocket does not erase it

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Thank you Jesse! I owe a lot to you for helping out when I was just starting!

[@FuryoTokkosho]

You were already ignoring things regarding the makiwara like monk Chi Sin Sim Si (five elders of shaolin) is said to have originally been a resident monk of the Original Northern Song Shan Shaolin Temple, in Henan. He was a survivor of the destruction of a Southern Shaolin Temple, situated in Fujian

[@FuryoTokkosho]

And you were ignoring like that Monk Mok Ta Shi (莫達士) as an inheritance of the Southern Shaolin Fist in Guangdong province in China were practicing hitting against iron bamboo for normal training too. the style, formerly known as Southern Shaolin Quan, was renamed for the Mok family (Mok Gar)

[@FuryoTokkosho]

It not like some warriors in their former lives became monks and were wandering with armed escorts to china from the south to spread buddhism in china or something .... like monk Xuanzang 6 April 602 - 5 February 664 eventually coming by at japan at some time in the timeline or something

[@skipinkoreaable]

Congratulations. You're brimming with joy and that's great.

[@TheLockWhisperer]

Can't wait to see what's coming next !!!

[@Arashekhoeur]

Gratz on 100k! Major milestone!

[@NigelAinscoe]

Congratulations! So good to see traditional marshall arts celebrated like this. I was particularly stoked to see the Wutan videos in Taiwan, GM Liu left such great legacy.

[@ericb3810]

Congratulations! Where there is a Will, there is a way

[@robertstrauss5945]

It’s brilliant when honestly pays off

[@jeffking9202]

Congratulations, Will!!!

[@JustJay133]

Keep up the good work Will! I am a traditional martial artist for 40 years now. Back in the early 2000’s, as MMA became popular, I switched over for a time. I enjoyed it, the training and competition of it, but I soon realized that wasn’t the reason I was on this journey. So I left the sport aspect of mixed martial arts to return to my roots of traditional martial arts. I appreciate your research!

[@franciscofalsettixavier9010]

Yeaaah! Congrats and have a great trip, man!!! It’s gonna be awesome!

[@JingyJingJing]

Congrats! I followed your journey since it was just your website and it has become part of my own journey of learning, in fact a very big part! Thank you for all your efforts!

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Wow, thanks so much! That’s so cool you followed since back then!

[@EzeHSK]

Congratulations Will, your channel is awesome!

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Really appreciate that!

[@D--man]

💯Congratulations!!! Keep up the great work!!!💯

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Thanks so much!

[@TaoOfTheFist]

Congratulations Will!

[@JaredGenesis444]

You are making huge difference in the martial arts community Will. I see you as a hero man and you are one.

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Thank you so much! That means a lot!

[@JaredGenesis444]

@@MonkeyStealsPeach Always my friend keep being your awesome self! you are an inspiration to many including me 😃❤

[@oldlifter530]

Congratulations. You have a very interesting channel 😊

[@TenguMartialArts]

Congratulations, dude. Wish I could make it down there, but well wishes from Tokyo. Have a fantastic time.

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Oh man, would be so cool! Im sure we can meet in Tokyo in the near future!

[@ZetaMagnus]

Man. I wish someone would spread some more light on one of the rarer styles like Isshin-Ryu or Toon.

[@kyobukanryu9360]

Isshin-Ryu is very popular in Windsor Ontario Canada and for Toon you need to visit Seattle Washington or Vancouver BC - this stuff is not as rare as you think but it depends on your geography :)

[@mgmanten]

Thank you for making all the videos :)

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Thank you!

[@livinginthetruthministries7094]

Ah wish I was there bro, but awesome! Glad you got 100,000 subs

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Im sure they would welcome you with open arms here!

[@lineyking]

Well done Will!

[@DAIXINYI]

Congrats mate! upward and onward!

[@fireislow7270]

long deserved!🎉

[@brianbreeding1]

Congratulations! Hope you can visit a Matsumura Shorin dojo.

[@huzhuiwei]

You're popular because you're not posing, just being yourself, getting out there and allowing others to show their skills - sometimes against you (still wince when I watch that Fujian White Crane master nearly breaking your wrist, owwww).

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Thanks David! And if you like that White Crane one, wait til you see Hokama Sensei’s pressure point attacks on me!

[@Neilgenge774]

Good work 🙂🙏

[@huntergrant6520]

Tell Joel I said Hi. I know you guys are gonna do great

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

Joel says hi!

[@FuryoTokkosho]

If you gonna go for the roots of shorin(ji) things sure gonna get excited

[@brokeheartwolf3733]

Great! Let’s see that Okinawan Folk Monkey Dance…🫶🏽🐒

[@FuryoTokkosho]

True, a lot of kung fu research speaks of some monkey dance beeing the foundation besides the crane movement for footwork. I was always wondering if it might still by in cambodia or india since the baratanatyam dance is looking already like a wild mix of muay thai, kung fu and kalaripayattu

[@MrRourk]

Go find those original Te Styles. If you could show some of the more obscure family styles like White Crane Kempo that would be amazing.

[@areitomusic]

Visit Hokama Sensei. Seriously. Also, Shinzato Katsuhiko Sensei.

[@FuryoTokkosho]

For once MMA is only a niche too, i think there are not even 1 million in the US which is hardly 0,33 percent of Population, but karate is like 18 million which is 6 percent. And of course people are interested in traditional martial arts, if not then all the kung fu flicks would have erased already

[@MonkeyStealsPeach]

That is true