As a practioner of Yang style Tai Ji Chuan for 31 years now I absolutely LOVE your channel and how you get into the history and mystery of these beautiful arts. Always loved how some of it was fantastical but the kid in me loves that part it keeps the idea that one day a new level of skill can be opened to you and to deepen and further your personal cultivation. Been binging your content lately and even thought about learning more Mandarin. I was taught a bit of Cantonese and Mandarin as my Sifu's were very traditional and my great grandmaster was the Chinese defector Da Liu. If you haven't done a video about him our kwoon would be honored to have him made more known to the world.
As a long time practitioner of Tai-chi, would you recommend one to start practicing at home with online lessons? 🤔 And is there any channel or Shifu you would specifically recommend in that case? 🙏🙇🏻
@MarkusMöttus-x7j you can get some decent beginner teachings online. Cant really reccomend anyone per se. Maybe look up some Wu Dang searches and go from there. Getting in depth training online will be hard as a lot of Tai ji is nuanced and you need to feel out certain techniques or be told specific corrections.
Spent 17 years in a Chinese University just back last summer couldn't get past basic pronunciation even though I was fluent in Japanese spent all my time learning taichi and qi gong...Great video
I'm 3 videos in and just loving this content man, thank you. I've studied some of these martial arts in Thailand--can't get enough (kung fu nerd that I am)
Really enjoy these brief glimpses into Chinas martial arts and culture. I have a Chinese wife who is always beating me up 😂😂 (not really) so it’s fun to see where her martial ardour and spirit come from. Thank you 🙏
One of my favorite ways to describe XinYi. If Taijiquan circles around the center of your body, Bagua zhang wraps and coils around the center of the circle, XinYi quan cuts across the circle.
I practice Sun style which incorporates all the internal forms. The videos on the founders of each system has been a lovely surprise and well presented.
@@Genethagenius Both yes and no. Xingji, bagua and taiji practice were separate. Santi (most basic stance in sun style) was emphasised as the core of practice across the three arts. Taiji is the ultimate goal, but foundations in xing yi and bagua are necessary to understand Sun Style as a whole.
Thank you. I found this entertaining, well done. We'll have to check out parts one and two. New sub. All the best to you and yours. Laoshr #60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association
Yue Fei was a great hero that was born out of due time. His consuming passion in life was to lead his army all the way to the Jin Capital and rescue the two Song Emperors that had been captured and held captive by the Jin in order to eradicate the humiliation that the Song Dynasty had suffered. Unfortunately, in his relent pursuit of his objective, he had committed a cardinal political error that would cost him his life. What Yue Fei failed to realize was that if he were to bring back the two Song emperors, what would that make of the then ruling emperor? Would the ruling emperor be obligated to abdicate the throne in favour of the two returning emperors? And if not, would the ruling emperor be considered as usurper? The return of the two captured emperors would thus be a huge predicament for the then ruling emperor. Given that Yue Fei was absolutely determined in his pursuit. the only way for the emperor to solve his predicament would be to have Yue Fei killed. It is widely accepted that Qin Hui was the corrupt prime minister who plotted to kill Yue Fei, but it was obvious that Qin Hui was merely the fall guy who executed the plan. The real culprit behind the killing of Yue Fei was none other than the emperor himself.
In history, Yue Fei has clearly stated that he is loyal to the current emperor and has changed the title of the two emperors in the north to royal relatives. Yue Fei's death was essentially a weak emperor who did not believe that the weak Southern Song dynasty could defeat the powerful Jin dynasty. Therefore, he only wanted peace negotiations, but Yue Fei was a tough hawk who did not agree to negotiations
Great to see you back Ben! I missed you man. And thanks for sharing this story! It feels a little peculiar to hear the legends of my people via a gwei louh on TH-cam but I definitely prefer this to never learning them at all. You have my gratitude!
Fascinating please teach more traditional culture and 'historical supernatural' ; it is very interesting. Im learning other languages now, but Mandaring and the other dialects are on my future list. Your channel came to my attention through these recent videos. Many thanks.
I do like the connection of using spear techniques into hand to hand combat… there is a form called “Ng Lung Baat Gwa Gwan” that just happens to be from the Sung Dynasty and apparently still preserved in its original form
Yue Fei, an excellent general, fought many victories in the Southern Song Dynasty, where excellent war horses were scarce. He was even about to recover the lost northern territories of the Song Dynasty, but he encountered a weak and incompetent emperor and a cunning and cunning prime minister. The emperor was afraid of the powerful army of the Northern Jin Kingdom and only hoped to negotiate a ceasefire with the Jin Kingdom, At this moment, the prime minister spread rumors in front of the emperor that Yue Fei was an ambitious warlord, and in the end, the emperor killed this excellent general
There are some approaches that we undertake as practitioners of traditional martial arts, to trace the roots of a martial arts style, including to ascertain whether the martial art can be deemed original or not, are as follows; 1. Through the mention of names of masters, from the last master to the creator of the style. Then, verifying the names of these masters in historical records or conducting interviews with competent figures. 2. Observing the form of its movements, particularly the function and purpose. Even though the movements might appear very different, certain small movements that demonstrate the function and purpose can reveal specific characteristics. 3. The way of energy deployment can also be a source to recognize the roots of its style. Generally, traditional martial arts deploy energy by utilizing certain body structures, not just ordinary muscle exertion. From this way of forming body structure, which later forms energy deployment through certain muscle functions, the characteristics of its source can be identified."
Great stories, and perhaps i learn a few characters. I actually had contact with Taoist hermit and / or an immortal Blue Mountain and am in contact with his son online.
There is other side of the coin - General Yue Fei in his patriotic mind aimed to revenge against the invaders who had captured and taken the previous emperor and his father the previous - previous emperor, along with their wives / children / servants and government officials into slavery back to their own country ( the Humiliation of Jingkang (靖康之恥; Jìngkāng zhī chǐ) and the Disorders of the Jingkang Period (靖康之亂; Jìngkāng zhī luàn) - wiki ). He aimed to rescue them to take them back to South Soon. That means the presiding emperor had to worry about conceding power back to the previous emperor. So it was the presiding emperor who was worry Yue Fei's growing popularity will topple him over and allow the wrongful execution of Yue Fei. Another famous general sufferred similar fate at the end of the South Soon dynasty, and was wrongfully executed, and then nobody could stop the Qing anymore and Qing soon had toppled and ended the South Soon dynasty. History repeats itself during the CCP regime where the president leader ( chairman Mao ) had facilitated the shooting down of the airplane his second hand senior CCP officer who was trying to escape from Mao taking a flight into USRR
While democracy is not perfect, but it will reduce the chance of bad dictatorship power monopoly and corruption because the people give and take the authority away from the government that is not functioning or achieving the result the people wanted, and no need for uprising or revolutions. Overall violence and innocent life lost would be kept to very low level and the guilty party held accountable when the law established by representative of the people are applied equally to common citizens or top political government leaders
Yuefei understanding of tactics was at its peak. Perhaps General Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty was also a master of tactics, but he could only command battles at the brigade level or below. And Yue Fei can command at least ten divisions of troops. His masterpiece was during the Battle of Yancheng. The heavy infantry of the Song Dynasty defeated 15,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Northern Jin Kingdom. These cavalry were both human and horse-clad in iron armor. There were also 40,000 light cavalry on the left and right wings as tactical cover. In the Middle Ages, this kind of The army crushes the infantry like stepping on grass, and it is difficult for the infantry phalanx to win. And he used heavy armored infantry to chop down the knights with long-handled giant axes. In addition, he arranged a kind of infantry equipped with sharp sickles and spears to ambush in the haystacks and cut off the legs of the heavy armored cavalry, causing them to fall，The armor of these heavy knights is very heavy. If they fall from their horses, they have no strength to recover their physical strength and combat effectiveness in a short time.. Then the crossbowmen and hammer soldiers killed all the knights who rushed over and fell to the ground. The victorious troops that the Jin State was proud of were wiped out in this way. This battle directly led to the elimination of the effective forces of the Jin State's third offensive. They could only withdraw to northern China and shrink their strategy, which also led to the decline of the Jin State and the Song Dynasty. However, during the peace talks, Marshal Yue Fei was betrayed and killed as a political bargaining chip in the peace talks. A large part of the reason was the emperor of the Song Dynasty's fear of him, fearing that he had too many troops and was too powerful to prevent Yue Fei. The brother who rescued the emperor who was captured by the Jin Kingdom came back to compete with him for the throne.
And truely become super hero who can diagnose any illness faster with more efficient treatment while cost less... Or become super hero who can bail you out from prison with its arguing skill against judges... 😅😁🤣
@@zetareticulan321 I choose engineering instead medic... Eventough my parents wanted me to choose medic... But my job right now is one of Asian parents (or in law) favorite job... 😅
Tattooing was very expensive in Song. Yue’s mum was illiterate. It was probably the family Yue served as a kid that tattooed him. Qin Hui was not the real bad guy. He was used by the emperor, zhao gou, to frame yue. The background story was the jurchen already captured zhao gou’s brother (previous emperor) and their father(previous previous emperor). Song people wanted to rescue the 2 emperors from jurchen’s humiliations and zhao gou wanted to remain as emperor. And so yue fei was killed.
Hsing-I is a real authentic fighting system designed for not retreating. I would venture to say the style of Hsing-I utilizing the half stump is the best among the variations of it. But lol who am i and why would i know lol hahahaha. I'm just a guy that only sides with winners 🏆 and that's 💯% parther.
Wait a second. Jurchens are nomadic horse archers. How can a fighting style that's practiced on foot be used to beat horse archers ? The answer to cavalry is long range weapons not the mid or short range ones.
My friends sensei or master could do amazing spinning kicks apparently 17 before touching the ground a visiting shaolin monk witnessed the movement and rushed off to his master who was in the same country and arranged a meeting they met and as the shaolin master nodded to bow my friends master sucker punched him knocking the old master to the ground he replied that was a surprise and asked him what percentage he used a bit confused he replied full to which the monk said i think 40 percent and then before he could even process the info the monk hit him two palms central mass sending him flying 15m across the dojo and 5m up against the wall cracking 6 of his ribs the monk rushes over helps him up and whispers that was 80 percent 100 would have killed you to which the humbled man replied thank you i have much to learn
One cannot learn ANY martial art from a book. No matter if its internal or external, soft or hard. Fun fact: Most martial arts are not as ancient as those in the West have been led to believe. Lies of physical prowess are common, indeed required.
Please stop and make yourself as an expert in this subject. You know little to none about Chinese culture, history, and it’s written language. The so called the Chinese Kung Fu of “physical prowess” you mentioned that are lies. They’re displayed by young westerners on YT. Running from roof tops to roof tops, scaling high walls bare handed and much more. Just because you cannot do it. You think nobody can. Your comment proves it is so.
Yes you can. There are even martial arts designed to be learned from books such as some forms of military sabre, military combatives, etc... And it is especially true if you mean learn to fight from a book. HEMA has shown that it is possible to learn to fight from a book using very complex martial arts.
You may believe what you will, as it changes nothing. Theory and practice are 2 vastly different things. P.S. I have over 60 years of training in many martial art styles.
@@CAwolfguy What do you disagree with that there aren't styles designed to be learned from books or that HEMA people who learn from books can't fight? Both are demonstrably correct. It doesn't matter how much experience you have, people historically have done it. These people have used these skills to fight in both tournaments and battles/wars.
Well, I think you are right and wrong in here. The right one is, that nobody can learn the exact martial art like the original writer of the book, no matter how you try. Because the book can't represent 100% of the writer's martial art skill. As you don't have the visualization of the original technique from the book. But, the book can inspired you to learn martial art in your term. By using the theory that you read from the book, and use your own martial art / experience to hone your martial art, based on the theory of the book. So basically, the martial art that you learn from a book can't be exactly the same as what the writer of the book intended you to learn. But it doesn't mean that you can't use your own creativity to build a martial art based on the theory of the book.
Is it not remarkable that one small good action can lead to great things and one act of meanness can bring disaster to a country? Does this not answer plainly to those who throw up their hands and say "what can I do?". Act kindly and let heaven decide the rest.
Bruce Lee said a someone with limited boxing & wrestling experience can beat a seasoned martial artist. I'm inclined to believe that rather than this book-learned BS.
Yue Fei is not a martial artist, he is a strategist and military strategist. In addition, he is also very accomplished in the art of calligraphy and poetry. He is the only general in the 25 dynasties in Chinese history who has never been defeated. Listen, in the 4100 years since China's first dynasty to now, among the 25 dynasties, there is only one general who has no record of defeat. But he was killed by the emperor, and he was not 40 years old when he died.
The wandering teacher master is a real thing they would often give a nugget away and sometimes pass a whole system on to a trained person .
yue fei - the icon for patriotism in chinese history
As a practioner of Yang style Tai Ji Chuan for 31 years now I absolutely LOVE your channel and how you get into the history and mystery of these beautiful arts. Always loved how some of it was fantastical but the kid in me loves that part it keeps the idea that one day a new level of skill can be opened to you and to deepen and further your personal cultivation. Been binging your content lately and even thought about learning more Mandarin. I was taught a bit of Cantonese and Mandarin as my Sifu's were very traditional and my great grandmaster was the Chinese defector Da Liu. If you haven't done a video about him our kwoon would be honored to have him made more known to the world.
As a long time practitioner of Tai-chi, would you recommend one to start practicing at home with online lessons? 🤔
And is there any channel or Shifu you would specifically recommend in that case? 🙏🙇🏻
@MarkusMöttus-x7j you can get some decent beginner teachings online. Cant really reccomend anyone per se. Maybe look up some Wu Dang searches and go from there. Getting in depth training online will be hard as a lot of Tai ji is nuanced and you need to feel out certain techniques or be told specific corrections.
Spent 17 years in a Chinese University just back last summer couldn't get past basic pronunciation even though I was fluent in Japanese spent all my time learning taichi and qi gong...Great video
I'm 3 videos in and just loving this content man, thank you. I've studied some of these martial arts in Thailand--can't get enough (kung fu nerd that I am)
Really enjoy these brief glimpses into Chinas martial arts and culture. I have a Chinese wife who is always beating me up 😂😂 (not really) so it’s fun to see where her martial ardour and spirit come from. Thank you 🙏
Love it! I bet my students will love it too. Thank you thank you thank you.
Thanks I enjoy hearing about legendary martial artists 😊
A wandering Daoist told me about this video. Good stuff.
One of my favorite ways to describe XinYi. If Taijiquan circles around the center of your body, Bagua zhang wraps and coils around the center of the circle, XinYi quan cuts across the circle.
I study Hebei style and this is a very well presented introduction to the history of the style
Brilliant narrative 😊
I practice Sun style which incorporates all the internal forms. The videos on the founders of each system has been a lovely surprise and well presented.
When you say Sun style, do you mean Sun style Tai Chi? Or a different art? Thanks!
@@Genethagenius Both yes and no. Xingji, bagua and taiji practice were separate. Santi (most basic stance in sun style) was emphasised as the core of practice across the three arts.
Taiji is the ultimate goal, but foundations in xing yi and bagua are necessary to understand Sun Style as a whole.
Thank you. I found this entertaining, well done. We'll have to check out parts one and two. New sub.
All the best to you and yours.
Laoshr #60
Ching Yi Kung Fu Association
I'm really enjoying your content. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much . 岳飞is my favorite hero ...
Yue Fei was a great hero that was born out of due time. His consuming passion in life was to lead his army all the way to the Jin Capital and rescue the two Song Emperors that had been captured and held captive by the Jin in order to eradicate the humiliation that the Song Dynasty had suffered. Unfortunately, in his relent pursuit of his objective, he had committed a cardinal political error that would cost him his life. What Yue Fei failed to realize was that if he were to bring back the two Song emperors, what would that make of the then ruling emperor? Would the ruling emperor be obligated to abdicate the throne in favour of the two returning emperors? And if not, would the ruling emperor be considered as usurper? The return of the two captured emperors would thus be a huge predicament for the then ruling emperor. Given that Yue Fei was absolutely determined in his pursuit. the only way for the emperor to solve his predicament would be to have Yue Fei killed. It is widely accepted that Qin Hui was the corrupt prime minister who plotted to kill Yue Fei, but it was obvious that Qin Hui was merely the fall guy who executed the plan. The real culprit behind the killing of Yue Fei was none other than the emperor himself.
In history, Yue Fei has clearly stated that he is loyal to the current emperor and has changed the title of the two emperors in the north to royal relatives. Yue Fei's death was essentially a weak emperor who did not believe that the weak Southern Song dynasty could defeat the powerful Jin dynasty. Therefore, he only wanted peace negotiations, but Yue Fei was a tough hawk who did not agree to negotiations
Fantastic presentation. Would be awesome to watch a video of the mantis system from you.
Great to see you back Ben! I missed you man. And thanks for sharing this story! It feels a little peculiar to hear the legends of my people via a gwei louh on TH-cam but I definitely prefer this to never learning them at all. You have my gratitude!
Fascinating please teach more traditional culture and 'historical supernatural' ; it is very interesting. Im learning other languages now, but Mandaring and the other dialects are on my future list. Your channel came to my attention through these recent videos. Many thanks.
Perhaps North Korea's fantasy tales about its leaders super-human feats were inspired by the stories of Yue Fei. 😅
Thank you for another wonderful video!
More kung fu history, more please.❤
I do like the connection of using spear techniques into hand to hand combat… there is a form called “Ng Lung Baat Gwa Gwan” that just happens to be from the Sung Dynasty and apparently still preserved in its original form
Awesome videos
Great videos!
Yue Fei, an excellent general, fought many victories in the Southern Song Dynasty, where excellent war horses were scarce. He was even about to recover the lost northern territories of the Song Dynasty, but he encountered a weak and incompetent emperor and a cunning and cunning prime minister. The emperor was afraid of the powerful army of the Northern Jin Kingdom and only hoped to negotiate a ceasefire with the Jin Kingdom, At this moment, the prime minister spread rumors in front of the emperor that Yue Fei was an ambitious warlord, and in the end, the emperor killed this excellent general
Xingyiquan is my favorite art form great story thanks
Can you list the videos you used in this video?
There are some approaches that we undertake as practitioners of traditional martial arts, to trace the roots of a martial arts style, including to ascertain whether the martial art can be deemed original or not, are as follows;
1. Through the mention of names of masters, from the last master to the creator of the style. Then, verifying the names of these masters in historical records or conducting interviews with competent figures.
2. Observing the form of its movements, particularly the function and purpose. Even though the movements might appear very different, certain small movements that demonstrate the function and purpose can reveal specific characteristics.
3. The way of energy deployment can also be a source to recognize the roots of its style. Generally, traditional martial arts deploy energy by utilizing certain body structures, not just ordinary muscle exertion. From this way of forming body structure, which later forms energy deployment through certain muscle functions, the characteristics of its source can be identified."
great insights into Chinese culture.
Great stories, and perhaps i learn a few characters. I actually had contact with Taoist hermit and / or an immortal Blue Mountain and am in contact with his son online.
Hahaha interesting, very special kungfu vlog, 加油🎉
Do a video on Chuan fa
nice one, thank you
Good job
Ba ji quan , please 🙏
Ha! I'm in this video. (Only in the chart, though)
Found you! Thanks for watching.
That daoist is a menace
There is other side of the coin - General Yue Fei in his patriotic mind aimed to revenge against the invaders who had captured and taken the previous emperor and his father the previous - previous emperor, along with their wives / children / servants and government officials into slavery back to their own country ( the Humiliation of Jingkang (靖康之恥; Jìngkāng zhī chǐ) and the Disorders of the Jingkang Period (靖康之亂; Jìngkāng zhī luàn) - wiki ). He aimed to rescue them to take them back to South Soon. That means the presiding emperor had to worry about conceding power back to the previous emperor. So it was the presiding emperor who was worry Yue Fei's growing popularity will topple him over and allow the wrongful execution of Yue Fei. Another famous general sufferred similar fate at the end of the South Soon dynasty, and was wrongfully executed, and then nobody could stop the Qing anymore and Qing soon had toppled and ended the South Soon dynasty. History repeats itself during the CCP regime where the president leader ( chairman Mao ) had facilitated the shooting down of the airplane his second hand senior CCP officer who was trying to escape from Mao taking a flight into USRR
While democracy is not perfect, but it will reduce the chance of bad dictatorship power monopoly and corruption because the people give and take the authority away from the government that is not functioning or achieving the result the people wanted, and no need for uprising or revolutions. Overall violence and innocent life lost would be kept to very low level and the guilty party held accountable when the law established by representative of the people are applied equally to common citizens or top political government leaders
Yuefei understanding of tactics was at its peak. Perhaps General Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty was also a master of tactics, but he could only command battles at the brigade level or below. And Yue Fei can command at least ten divisions of troops. His masterpiece was during the Battle of Yancheng. The heavy infantry of the Song Dynasty defeated 15,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Northern Jin Kingdom. These cavalry were both human and horse-clad in iron armor. There were also 40,000 light cavalry on the left and right wings as tactical cover. In the Middle Ages, this kind of The army crushes the infantry like stepping on grass, and it is difficult for the infantry phalanx to win. And he used heavy armored infantry to chop down the knights with long-handled giant axes. In addition, he arranged a kind of infantry equipped with sharp sickles and spears to ambush in the haystacks and cut off the legs of the heavy armored cavalry, causing them to fall，The armor of these heavy knights is very heavy. If they fall from their horses, they have no strength to recover their physical strength and combat effectiveness in a short time.. Then the crossbowmen and hammer soldiers killed all the knights who rushed over and fell to the ground. The victorious troops that the Jin State was proud of were wiped out in this way. This battle directly led to the elimination of the effective forces of the Jin State's third offensive. They could only withdraw to northern China and shrink their strategy, which also led to the decline of the Jin State and the Song Dynasty. However, during the peace talks, Marshal Yue Fei was betrayed and killed as a political bargaining chip in the peace talks. A large part of the reason was the emperor of the Song Dynasty's fear of him, fearing that he had too many troops and was too powerful to prevent Yue Fei. The brother who rescued the emperor who was captured by the Jin Kingdom came back to compete with him for the throne.
Funny how similar Xing Yi is to my traditional style, Wing Chun! (The straight-line, overwhelming strikes)
Yue Fei... The father of Northern Shaolin Eagle Claw system (Shaolin Ying Ziao Fan Zi Moon).
If i had a quarter for everytome i hear a master stumbling upon animals fighting and formatted a whole system from it😅😅😅😅
Lucy Vista
This is how Asian parents trick their children into studying. If you study hard, you'll become a superhero with super powers.
And truely become super hero who can diagnose any illness faster with more efficient treatment while cost less...
Or become super hero who can bail you out from prison with its arguing skill against judges... 😅😁🤣
Are you doctor yet?@@AerisReyha
@@zetareticulan321 I choose engineering instead medic... Eventough my parents wanted me to choose medic...
But my job right now is one of Asian parents (or in law) favorite job... 😅
Tattooing was very expensive in Song. Yue’s mum was illiterate. It was probably the family Yue served as a kid that tattooed him.
Qin Hui was not the real bad guy. He was used by the emperor, zhao gou, to frame yue.
The background story was the jurchen already captured zhao gou’s brother (previous emperor) and their father(previous previous emperor).
Song people wanted to rescue the 2 emperors from jurchen’s humiliations and zhao gou wanted to remain as emperor. And so yue fei was killed.
Hsing-I is a real authentic fighting system designed for not retreating. I would venture to say the style of Hsing-I utilizing the half stump is the best among the variations of it. But lol who am i and why would i know lol hahahaha. I'm just a guy that only sides with winners 🏆 and that's 💯% parther.
Wait a second. Jurchens are nomadic horse archers. How can a fighting style that's practiced on foot be used to beat horse archers ? The answer to cavalry is long range weapons not the mid or short range ones.
Raven Cliff
Julius Hills
Great channal!!! but not accurate PinYin subtitle .
My friends sensei or master could do amazing spinning kicks apparently 17 before touching the ground a visiting shaolin monk witnessed the movement and rushed off to his master who was in the same country and arranged a meeting they met and as the shaolin master nodded to bow my friends master sucker punched him knocking the old master to the ground he replied that was a surprise and asked him what percentage he used a bit confused he replied full to which the monk said i think 40 percent and then before he could even process the info the monk hit him two palms central mass sending him flying 15m across the dojo and 5m up against the wall cracking 6 of his ribs the monk rushes over helps him up and whispers that was 80 percent 100 would have killed you to which the humbled man replied thank you i have much to learn
One cannot learn ANY martial art from a book. No matter if its internal or external, soft or hard. Fun fact: Most martial arts are not as ancient as those in the West have been led to believe. Lies of physical prowess are common, indeed required.
Please stop and make yourself as an expert in this subject. You know little to none about Chinese culture, history, and it’s written language.
The so called the Chinese Kung Fu of “physical prowess” you mentioned that are lies. They’re displayed by young westerners on YT. Running from roof tops to roof tops, scaling high walls bare handed and much more.
Just because you cannot do it. You think nobody can. Your comment proves it is so.
Yes you can. There are even martial arts designed to be learned from books such as some forms of military sabre, military combatives, etc... And it is especially true if you mean learn to fight from a book. HEMA has shown that it is possible to learn to fight from a book using very complex martial arts.
You may believe what you will, as it changes nothing. Theory and practice are 2 vastly different things. P.S. I have over 60 years of training in many martial art styles.
@@CAwolfguy What do you disagree with that there aren't styles designed to be learned from books or that HEMA people who learn from books can't fight? Both are demonstrably correct.
It doesn't matter how much experience you have, people historically have done it. These people have used these skills to fight in both tournaments and battles/wars.
Well, I think you are right and wrong in here. The right one is, that nobody can learn the exact martial art like the original writer of the book, no matter how you try. Because the book can't represent 100% of the writer's martial art skill. As you don't have the visualization of the original technique from the book. But, the book can inspired you to learn martial art in your term. By using the theory that you read from the book, and use your own martial art / experience to hone your martial art, based on the theory of the book. So basically, the martial art that you learn from a book can't be exactly the same as what the writer of the book intended you to learn. But it doesn't mean that you can't use your own creativity to build a martial art based on the theory of the book.
Hey, are you a shen Yun dancer?
As a wandering Taoist myself… kthxbye
Is it not remarkable that one small good action can lead to great things and one act of meanness can bring disaster to a country? Does this not answer plainly to those who throw up their hands and say "what can I do?". Act kindly and let heaven decide the rest.
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your funny they always learn the supernatural skills from a wandering daost that's all we know .
Many question things they do not know...
Many more talk about things they have a little knowledge on...
Few listen and observe to learn.
Bruce Lee said a someone with limited boxing & wrestling experience can beat a seasoned martial artist. I'm inclined to believe that rather than this book-learned BS.
Yue Fei is not a martial artist, he is a strategist and military strategist. In addition, he is also very accomplished in the art of calligraphy and poetry.
He is the only general in the 25 dynasties in Chinese history who has never been defeated.
Listen, in the 4100 years since China's first dynasty to now, among the 25 dynasties, there is only one general who has no record of defeat.
But he was killed by the emperor, and he was not 40 years old when he died.
Power related jealousy is real, even in the lowest of the low people