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Thank you so much

Thanks!! Could you talk about lohan and monkey power?

Thank you for elucidating the principles of movement - it helps to practise with awareness

Tiger crane your movements are too wide probably a bad habit from a ti ji quan influences.

Thank you, Sifu Shkar! Thank you for sharing this valuable knowledge and your personal insights based on your many years of assiduous practice and spiritual development. Thank you!

Daniel Larusso called, said he wants his bonzi tree back

Have you found any parallels between your neigong, sufi, or hermetics practices? In terms of feeling qi, analogous mental states, health, etc? Thanks, very interesting stuff

Is this a one time payment or is it monthly like the other courses?

I was raised in a religious cult (Jehovah witnesses), everything you said applies to that group too. Did you read Combating Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan? You went through most of the main points of the book

This is real Kung fu training, this sifu's students are lucky to have him. I am glad he is preserving his system. Thanks so much for sharing.

I have to say that while you have given plenty of signs of cult schools, unfortunately some of them can be a lot more subtle than that. Certainly for me, when I started in my ex Kung Fu teacher's beginner lessons, that was different from when I started going to the forms lessons and next level up lessons. I think he was really good at keeping the beginner beginners separate from the rest, then once you had passed your basic test, (this is how it worked with me anyway), he'd got you reassured this was a nice accepting place and he was a lovely person, then the difficulties kicked in once you started with the wider group. He was different when I moved up a level of lesson, but by then I was hooked on learning Choy Li Fut, and he'd got me hooked on him. I have made a number of videos where I talk about what has happened both with him and his former Kung Fu teacher. The playlist "Choy Li Fut Code of Conduct" is where most of that is, but there are other videos, such as the videos I made about his video where he fakes doing horse stance for nearly ten minutes, and then more recently an issue where after I started going to Capoeira lessons, a woman came along who seemed quite nice and friendly, but turned out to be living with a man who has been stalking me on behalf of my ex Kung Fu teacher for years. His name is Niel Willcott, but he now has erased his name from his website and TH-cam channel and calls himself Lohan Sifu. He calls himself that because he believes he is a reincarnation of Lohan, who according to our mythological history, created the exercises that subsequently became Kung Fu. I did manage to convince his students to mostly have nothing to do with him any more, so he hasn't taught group lessons for years, even before COVID, although he still offers private lessons. His weirdness about this stuff has become more obvious online since.

Would you say that Mong Su Dom Tai is a cult?

Does FEAR exist, in this, dojo? NO SENSEI!!! Does PAIN exist, in this, dojo? NO SENSEI!!! Does DEFEAT exist, in this, dojo? NO SENSEI!!!

amazing insight into practicing Yi...thank you Master Shkar Sharif

Hi Mr. Sharif, would you have time to film a full length demonstration of Jin Zhi Ba Fa? Thanks!

John C. Kim Chung Moo Quan is/ was a cult. Still operating today under the name Oom Yung Doe instead of Chung Moo Quan.

I'm a black belt in Judo and I train kids, I always say that I'm want them to question me and surpass me in skills look This untouchable master philosophy creates weak students.

Dope advice , thanks ; but how is martial art cults different from a mcdojo . Because if they two different things than there's a lot of B.S being taught in streets . 😮

When there learning application just form repetition with no application told not to lift weight , one time I ask about developing eternal power in wing Chun don't worry about that not necessary just repeat form that it I don't believe in energy. Another is you being constantly called or text by sifu. Hounding come to class , where you at , that is occult I been through it it was constant headaches I finally left never progress in that school

Been through u are forced to join every seminar if not you will not be graded, when you train for to be graded you are ignore told you not ready . You are told to clean school , by food , and to do errands, also you never told when is next grade session to move forward you have to wait til when ever the teacher ready . You are forced to come to class and if you miss classes then you given attitude as if u don't have a life. Been through they and if you have questions you get answer that is not even related to question . You scold you haven't been going to seminar you not spending money to support school ect....

Chi level 7 here

Hi again , I was wondering do you have any TH-cam videos of you Demo/ teaching a butterfly knifes set ? Many thanks and kind regards Trevor☯️

Another sign that you are in a martial arts cult is that you dont tell your teacher that he has a sword through his head when he has a sword running through his head... just joking (kinda)... but in all seriousness, this is well though out and well communicated, thank you - there is a common thread of isolation due to insecurity - possibly because the cult's system has become a house of cards waiting to come tumbling down, and their licence to print money (or at least take it off their students for the rest if their lives) will be revoked!

Being told "Don't cross train". Being asked to do things for instructors that have nothing to do with martial arts.

BUJINCON! For sure!

I remember my first and second lessons at kung-fu. The master pushed down on us when we were stretching. He then made me spar against a brown belt who was 18, and I was 14. He kicked me in the face. I had no head gear on, and I didn't have a gum shield. I never went back.

*Adam Mizner intensifies*

This has happened to me twice already, I joined traditional Chinese wushu schools, after a few years I reached the level of instructor and only then everything became obvious to me. At such moments, the leader's inability to trust a new significant person with the system of this school becomes clearly expressed, interference in social activity begins (prevention of contacts with other schools, third-party seminars, competitions). The leaders of such schools receive some status in various ways and then stop developing themselves and isolate themselves from external influence, forming a cult. I think it is worth noting an important point - people who go to these cults also have similar distortions as the leaders (lack of trust or similar fears) or they want to be in the company of such a powerful person and trust the "only right" path Thank you very much for raising this topic, It is not something that should be kept silent about

So i have been doing different martial arts for almost 30 years now. And i have found the cult like behaviour is the worst in chinese martial arts. I find the teachers, particularly the ones from china, claim to have a very special chi power from training the system, one so deadly they cant really demonstrate in a sparring match or real fight. A lot of made up stories about being in street fights or underground challenge matches, and taking the crap out of all other styles or even other teachers of the same style, saying they dont have the correct lineage and teaching. I trained in one style in london a southern chinese system, all they do in a class is a few exercises, a special kind of press up, a grinding arm exercise and some 2 man sets that work on strength. Apparently training these for years gives you "shock power" so when you hit someone they will going flying back. They will never spar or try and test there skills against others. Of course training any martial art will give you some skill and strength. But not some amazing abilities to the levels these guys claim. And its followers never question or see if if this training actually works, so carry on blindly

I could not find a martial arts cult so I started my own🥷☯️🕉. You are like the saying pot calling the kettle black 👹🤡✋️

Thank you so much. 🙏

Sounds like a modern day political party!

Interesting. Didnt realise cultism also happened in martial arts. I did find out it's very prevalent in many yoga groups and mindfulness groups. Never understood how some people cant see theough this stuff. Probably the need for community and believe is what blinds them

Especially in Southern Gung Fu! Ancestors worship! My last Jung Shee, broke away, because of this 😳my friend is a high level Sifu/ Sensei 🫡 was Tong/ Triad, affiliated 😵‍💫very nice 🤗nine ring Broadsword! Thanks, Sifu 😬

Does this course teach the Bodhidharma Yijinjing exercises from the program, like the one posted on your youtube channel from week 12? :)

The title is a little ironic..

Yes! I was in what I call the 'Cult of the White Robes'! Fortunately, I recognised the inconsistencies and got out! Pretty much everything you said is what I experienced: - 1. Regular Gradings. 2. Senior Students having no mind of their own in favour of whatever the "master" dictates. 3. Totally unnecessary "seminars" to move onto the 'Black Belt' level. 4. Toxic Teacher Syndrome - it was / is a family business, and that family is weird as f**k! 5. Insecure teacher, withholding tuition because he's misinterpreted something said innocuously, and took it personally. 6. Racism - White Supremacy. 7. Getting trolled on social media because I refuse to be brainwashed. 8. Students being told to unfriend / unfollow me from social media platforms. 9. Toxic Teacher talking shit about other behind their backs - me included! 10. Toxic Teacher thinks he's the best! I am glad I saw the signs and got out! Never looked back! Thank you!

Thanks for this, i was thinking a few days ago that i’d like tips on how to classify cult behaviour. And here it is! Sometimes i think people want to act in a cult like way even if the leader or group leading it didn’t necessarily instigate it. I’ve seen that in a local education school with a particular set of values and the parents would not allow criticism of the school in any way. They ostracised those with legitimate concerns and in the end the school was shut down after very suspect issues arose. I think the people running it fell foul of not critically examining their ethics and the awareness that no one would challenge them made it worse

Oh man, I was enrolled in a martial arts school like that in the 90s before I realized that it was a cult and left. To this day I can remember the fanaticism in their eyes. It was scary.

This is very interesting from the point of view of someone training yiquan. The founder of yiquan did incorporate some white crane into his art, and it's quite evident for me now.

a very valuable explanation of the principles and nature of internal martial training

吞吐浮沈功練氣 飛鳴宿食定心神

amazing energy

I appreciate you more advanced talks. Good for people who are at a level that it really means something and good for people who are not there yet to have things to aspire to. Bagua systems talk about rotation around the middle finger and pointing as you describe. Some taiji and qigong systems talk about using the laogong points in the center of palms. Maybe they are really doing the same thing. The only thing I find (IMHO) is that the elbows really need to be sunk and can not be outside the frame of the body. Otherwise the tissues will pull ( like qigong) but will not connect to the center. I wish you well in your on line training venture . Great to see people spreading good gong fu. Especially shaolin systems were people thing everything is wushu. Continued good luck

Thank you, Sifu Shkar

Great video and amazing wisdom Sifu

Another question,not sure if spiritualy related but...what is to cross the Abyss?

Any texts/ vids recommended?

Question about san zhan. The first battle is done through the yijinjing process, basically changing the body. Is the second done through the xisuijing or the energy system? If I remember well you mentioned orbits and similar energy work. Is the third spiritual battle still done through the form or it changes to seated meditation?