Q&A: Martial history vs folklore, favourite style, practice and mental health

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@MonkeyStealsPeach 4 ай бұрын

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@TheBlueWizardOfWestVirginia 4 ай бұрын

It did help, thank you. I shall be returning to practice soon, so that i can be a better me.

@MonkeyStealsPeach 4 ай бұрын

That’s great news! Keep it up!

@kwanarchive 3 ай бұрын

I've had some success applying Praying Mantis grappling (eg chin na, trips) experience to (as a yellow belt) Judo grip fighting. Then on the flip side, Judo has helped cast some light on using Praying Mantis techniques in takedowns and throws and some footwork, even.

@tonydemma8638 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for answering my questions!

@chrispope7486 4 ай бұрын

Hey! Thanks for the response! I totally agree that the politics of martial arts lineage is a hindrance to the sort of spirit of the practice. I apologize if the question was a little tendentious or unsophisticated. It just seemed like such an unnecessary claim to make to a new student. I’m going to grab some merch to support!

@MonkeyStealsPeach 4 ай бұрын

Nah it was a good question!

@Capofu 4 ай бұрын

Appreciate you sharing Will. I've actually been training in Baji for the last two years (Wei Hong Bin Baji, Shiye is Master Wei). It's pretty awesome stuff. I asked because unfortunately me and my teacher had a falling out and as I'm planning on moving to China next year was hoping to connect with a new teacher. Still thinking that Master Lin and Incense Shop Boxing will be the move.

@robertsutherland6162 4 ай бұрын

I can relate to basics and basic ideas, as that happened to me around age 30, but now I am on the side that sees not a block but part of a grappling or self defense maneuver. This makes sense to me as it speaks to more what is real as opposed to having the mindset that everyone was and is squaring off like a boxing match. In my research I believe the theatre idea has some legitimacy in probably overtaking what was seen as more original practitioners became fewer.

@cpa314 3 ай бұрын

Looking forward to the series in Okinawai also really enjoyed the short series you did in Taiwan with masters there, especially the Wu Tan Baji one. Will you be revisiting Taiwan to film more there? Would love to see more content from masters in Taiwan.🎉

@MonkeyStealsPeach 3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yea, Im hoping to go back to Taiwan sometime soon and explore the local styles in the south!

@cpa314 3 ай бұрын

@@MonkeyStealsPeach awesome, looking forward to that. Maybe even revisiting Master Liu at Wu Tan and Morris haha ~ what are the most common styles of kung practiced in Taiwan nowadays? White Crane?

@MonkeyStealsPeach 3 ай бұрын

Yea, White Crane, Taizu Quan, Eagle and a couple of others

@DrMARDOC 3 ай бұрын

Going to Okinawa … you should really try to interview GM Fuse KISE of Shorin Ryu MATSUMURA and Tomosada KUDA of MATSUMURA Kenpo. KISE Sensei is quite old now, and studied under the Greatest Old Masters of the 1950’s and ‘60s. As did Master KUDA ( who is rather reclusive and quite humble). This would be a documentary of Historical Proportions!

@MonkeyStealsPeach 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestions!

@D--man 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the q&a!

@MonkeyStealsPeach 4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome

@lawrencecron672 4 ай бұрын

I really like Dante Basili and his expositions into mantis and Shuai Jao concepts and how they link and compliment one another. This also is true for Chen,Bagauzhang and even White Crane etc. I’ve practiced many but if I could choose a new Chinese style it would probably be Tong Bei or a Tong Bei,Baji variant. I am close to Sixty so many of these answers would be from a very different perspective. I went to study BJJ at over 40. Kia ora from down the ditch.

@EdwardH 3 ай бұрын

Trappling is an excellent word - it works. Transcend impostor syndrome, use it and legitimise it!

@MonkeyStealsPeach 3 ай бұрын

Trappling is certainly a great word, we should adopt it!

@hero_time 4 ай бұрын

Kudos on the neologism, trappling! Quite an apt description.

@MonkeyStealsPeach 4 ай бұрын

It is actually a very cool word

@decampo123_nl 4 ай бұрын

If you are interested in other Filipino Martial Arts, you are always welcome to try De Campo 1-2-3 Original with me.

@MonkeyStealsPeach 4 ай бұрын

That's very cool, are you in Sydney?

@decampo123_nl 4 ай бұрын

@@MonkeyStealsPeach no im in the Netherlands, but I do some stuff through Zoom as well.

@KilicArslanBahadur 4 ай бұрын

If you like xinyi liuhe due to it having but one form, you should check out yiquan, particularly from Yao Chengguang and Yao Chengrong lineage, as there are no forms there You shouldn't have problem finding that in Yantai

@mushinwarrior 4 ай бұрын

Hello I love your videos and I practice for long time . Right now mantis and Hsing yi. But I wanted to ask if there is a way to research a kungfu-style I learned lot of really mythic claims. Five family style.

@bradmartin1967 Ай бұрын

I noticed in the past you trained in Wing Chun. In the lineage i've trained under, at the end of the 3rd set Bui Gee, there is a hand clasping movement similar to when you pray. Have you seen this movement in another styles? Do you have any idea of what it's application might be?

@kwanarchive 3 ай бұрын

To further your point about people trying to overly stylize Chinese martial arts, I think people buy too much into the "traditional" vs "mixed" martial arts, as if people in the past never mixed martial arts at all. We have countless stories of people challenging each other - the loser becoming a student, or two masters testing each other and then becoming mutual teachers of each other. Xingyi and Bagua cross-training etc etc. Shaolin having many animal styles, which they all learn at some point. We see in modern times with "modern" martial arts like BJJ where some develop the same mentality of "you will never need to learn another martial art" as so-called "traditional" arts. That attitude comes about from commoditization of martial arts and the need to keep students for the income. Nothing to do with "tradition". It's just the same old story of people seeing money in martial arts, which evolves into branding wars.

@dollarstore.trumanshow 29 күн бұрын

100 per cent this. Spot on! The entire history of Choy Li Fut can be considered mixed martial arts. Choy Gar, Li Gar and Buddha Palm are all different stuff. Is that not mixed martial arts in essence? I study Bak Mei. Our sijo Cheung Lai Chuen founded the style off four different martial arts he learned previously, and continued to experiment after when he was instructor at the Whampoa Military for the KMT. Is that not, in a way, "mixed" martial arts?

@damianayre2130 4 ай бұрын

impostor Syndrome isn't just in the martial arts. I'm an RN and when I had to take the state exam to get my license there was a little voice in my head telling me that I was going to fail. I ended up with a perfect score. When I got my first job I thought there are going to see right through me and know that I'm a fraud. I felt that way for the firsy two months. Then I realized that the other nurses were coming to me for help. it was the same in fighting. I've been in the martial arts since I was 6 and when I was 22 I got a job as a bouncer. They weren't going to hire me ay first because I was too small. I'm 5' 11 210 LBS. I had never been told in my life that I was too small for anything. But the GM was from the same city I was so he gave me a shot. he said, "But the first time you get your ass kicked one-on-one you're fired. I had only been in one fight in my life and that was in high school, everything else was sparring. So I was very nervour and the day cam that I was the only bouncer there and three guys started trouble and I had to tell them to leave. They just laughed and ignored me. They were sitting down and I put my hand on the shoulder of one of them and it was on. When I was over all three of them were on the floor and I hadn't been hit even once. I played that fight over and over in my head so many times. It took me awhile to realize that I was a very competent nurse and a very good fighter. I remembered a story that I had read many years ago about a famous Japanese karate master who had been the national champion when he was younger. He said when he went to the national championship for the first time he was very intimdated by the other fighters because they were all tournament champions. He was as well but it was a fairly small tournament. He was a very humble person. He had his first match and won, then he won his second match. Then before he realized it he is in the final against the current national champion. That fighter was famous and was well known for many years. He was very intimidated. He was thinking to himself, "I can't fight him !!! That's Masaaki Kobayashi !!! (not his real name) He would destroy me !!! I'm not in his class !!! He's the best fighter in Japan !!!" So there he is standing across from him and the match starts. He tried a kick that he had made up and practiced a lot, a front kick transitioned into a roundhouse. The champion went to block the front kick and he hit him in the face with the roundhouse...POINT... The fight continued and then suddenly it was over and he won 3-0. He didn't even realize at that moment that he was now the national champion. He sid the lesson is that the only limitations you have are the ones you give yourself. So don't let fear be your enemy Just go out and do it, don't think about, What if ?