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Yep, Shaolin Way was a great shop, called in there a few times visiting london and chatted with the owner yap leong

Hard to find a decent set of shaolin steel ring weights without breaking the bank these days as well

Traditional martial arts.

Playing with some double broadsword basics i was taught by sifu pj bennis many moons ago. I practice eskrima and kali but the footwork tends to be shorter and more compact.

I learnt these xingyi sets from wong wei yue in Nantes, I was told it was hebei xingyi. I dont have any further info than that. I learnt the jiang bagua set and tan tui from wong as well.

Thanks for answering! I noticed that it looked a bit smaller than the metal ring I have, but I don't know your dimensions, so that could be one thing. (I'm a big guy(so the ring would look a bit smaller in my practice), about six feet and two inches tall and I walk around at 260lbs these days, although I am on a mission to lose around 20 more pounds. I learned that this is the weight range I move and feel the best at. Sorry for going off topic there.

@@SurJVaguely my understanding is the ideal diameter, is the distance from crook of elbow to the beginning of wrist and for s smaller ring either half or 2/3rds that distance.

@@SurJVaguely thanks for watching as well and wishing you the best on the martial journey

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 Thanks again! I knew there was a rule of thumb, yet I had forgot. You are Matt P's friend, correct? He speaks very highly of you, Matt and I have been gung fu brothers for more than a decade. My best wishes to you and your loved ones.

@@SurJVaguely i am indeed, hopefully one of these days, i might be over in the usa and can meet up. Best wishes to you and yours from ireland 🇮🇪

Most wing chun rings are from 18, 16 and 25cm in diameter.

WC is a very small part of much larger Northern Chinese systems so I was told.

More than welcome hope alls going well in Germany

Hoping to record application videos in coming weeks

Lot of uses for this method, there is alot of throws and knock downs in it

You're welcome, any questions gimme a shout. hoping to do a few more application vids over coming weeks, mix and match the animals and elements.

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching

More than welcome and glad you found interesting and useful

Check out the dragon and tiger 🐯 🐲 video i posted a few weeks back

@@cortocombateeskrima1799Definitely will!

More than welcome

thanks for watching and glad you found useful

they're great weapons to work with, so many layered applications in both

Yep grange stone circle, in county Limerick is a really special place. There's another 3 smaller stone circles nearby also

More than welcome, hopefully uploads a few more things in coming days

Thanks for your kind words Tyler. Its a great training tool, and its sad alot of wing chun people dismiss it as a fad. Imho The jook wan huen and luk wan (iron or wood roller) are integral to building real world skills. Best wishes from ireland.

Not all of wing chun is straight lines. Mainland wing chun has alot of circles and double hand moves.

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 jeeeesus

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 it is made in straight lines... therefor the circles is wierd.. so why do you use your hands when its made for elsbows...?

@@macewindu1515 ill do a video on it in the near future, but in nutshell, circle straight, soft hard, ying yang is the the essence of martial tactics. Wing chun uses elbows for striking, check some of my other videos. I have chosen not to show some the elbow strikes with the use of the jook wan. The setups with the ring are a bit more complex. This video was a basic introduction video. Thanks for watching

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 i am not here for training.. i am here to ask you why you do things opposite than the system i designed to be used and then still say and claim and call it the same.... some sort of fake news ?

Silat people can fight, most choose not to.

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 Nope, took silat for years back in the mid 90's. They are nice people, they have interesting movements, but they can't fight to save their lives. Great example is this very example. The guy throws a strike that wouldn't have hit the practitioner to start with, the practitioner slips (the strike that wouldn't have landed..which..isn't..a slip..) and waits a 1/4 second, then finally - voila! merely throws the towel over his face.. Oh, and he "twists" it. Yeah. That's a move. They can't fight.

Plenty of people learn silat n other martial arts n most of them cant master it bcoz they learn for fun or just for hobby …pls come again to one of the silat practitioners and see if you can go back in one piece

@@supportbmf9113 heh. nice scary talk. they are welcome to visit my MMA class anytime they like. I'll do a whole coaching segment on "phony esoteric martial arts". You don't sound like you can fight.

@@supportbmf9113 Where are you - lets meet. See, I travel a lot. I go to a lot of MMA gyms to train across the nation. Which Silat seminar will you be at? I'd like to fight both the instructor, and afterwards, you. We will record the whole thing, and Post it to youtube. Then I'd like to tell the instructor you are the one who put him up to it - invited me without his consent - to fight him. he deserves to know your big mouth set him up for it. So, where will you be. Lets meet.

Thanks tristram, he taught so many things from kung fu, kicboxing, eskrima, boxing...a multi talented martial artist. All of us who were taught by him were very fortunate.

i was shown some basics with the sarong and rope, mainly joint locks. its good to explore it as a restraint or arrest device.

I think one thing HK wc lost compared to the mainland wc is the sei ging, tan tou fou cham (吞吐浮沉; swallow-spit-float-sink). The bigger ring actually helps isolate the delts, lats, and core muscles quite alot for the delivery of force.

​@cortocombateeskrima1799 you are right about that. My opinion is the Ip Man was not motivated to teach but forced by poverty. I think he knew way more than he taught to his students... but it's history. The big ring might be actually good as you mentioned. If someone trains a lot by himself it can do the job. Still not a big fan of it 😂

Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Well then, you must know every style of wing chun, weng chun, yong chun, wing tsun, a living kung fu encyclopedia, the bible of kung fu, the word according to the god of wing chun. Comments like this is what brings chinese martial arts down. Dont like it, don't comment just Just move on.

​@@cortocombateeskrima1799 I understand your point of view. The Chinese martial arts, in our case Wing Chun, have some problems. In Wing Chun, the main problem is that there are many people who teach and teach what they know and understand. That's actually fine, apart from the problem of having as many different knowledge and understandings as practitioners. And so we have to somehow make sure that what we say is right. Otherwise nobody will understand and believe anything, and rightly so. Saam Baai Fat is a separate hand form in Siu Lam Wing Chun and I have talked to direct students of Yip Man to make sure how it is meant in Hong Kong Wing Chun. Here it is the part in the Biu Zi hand form with the three bows at the end. With both hands. This is important because only Buddha uses one Buddha hand. People who bow to Buddha 3 times (Saam Baai Fat) have to do it with both hands, and so the content of this clip and your statement, backed up by multiple sources, is wrong. Sorry, it's nothing personal. I just take the time to try to correct it. 🙏

@SiulamwingchunOrg-info I learnt this from a person who studied a fat san of wing chun, I dont claim to be siu lam weng chun, Hoffman, chung chu man lineage, nearly every form in nam kuen has a form called sap jee. Only so many names for forms and sets. I was also taught wc San sau, a form called bat kiu fat (eight bridge skill), siu lim tao, jook wan methods etc. Not every line fits into a convenient box.

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 That is correct and understandable. But .... Saam Baai Fai means bowing three times to Buddha. So as long as someone is bowing to a Buddha, he / she would close both hands and bow three times. What you show is a movement that exists in every Wing Chun / Weng Chun lineage, but nowhere is called "Saam Baai Fat". It is done with one hand. Only a Buddha uses the one handed "Buddha" hand. Why should a Buddha bow to another Buddha? That makes no sense at all, it is pure logic and was confirmed by all my teachers from Wing Chun / Siu Lam Wing Chun lineages, I don't care what a German grandmaster would say, he possibly says the same, but would have to bow 10000 times. Possibly you can ask your Sifu for further information. 🙏🫶

thanks for the kind words Bobbe, best wishes from ireland

Been meaning to edit down some of the big rings uses in other styles, inc chang quan, bagua etc, its a great and adaptable tool

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 Yes I totally agree and would be happy to see bagua stuff with it. There are very few videos (that I know of) on using it with bagua. Keep up the great videos!

More than welcome

more than welcome Hubert, thanks for the support and encouragement.

thanks for the encouragement

More than welcome. Will show a few more combined techniques over coming weeks.

@@cortocombateeskrima1799 I'm looking forward.

more than welcome, last throw was something i have'nt shown before which is from 'go along the Sichuan Road" - hard doing alot of the takedowns without mats, but we do our best.

Bagua is a principles based martial art, this is a 'walk through' just as a bjj instructor 'walks through' setting up an arm, triangle or choke. How you pressure test and prevail under pressure testing is another thing altogether. you honestly think people just spar and go full contact, immediately?

Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Ive never injured a student in over the 10 years ive been sharing martial arts, including silat, eskrima and chinese martial arts and weapons. I learnt at an early age what locks to put on and pull back from. Have a look at how yang jwing ming demonstrates on his students. Also in trad cma you allow locks to be put on so you can "feel how the technique works" usually to 50% force. I get people to go slow when learning basics and I keep a watchful eye when people practice joint locks.

that's one thing i found about some forms, its hard to break them apart into their separate components. i think its good to go through single postures and movements, and re-link them, good for adaption and neuro-plasticity. also helps when linking chains of combative techniques and doing different set ups.