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What would really mean something to me Is Bhodi Dharma is not the progenitor of Zen, who was it that imported the Indian/Southeast Asian/Himalayan religion of Buddhism to China? If Bodhi Dharma was the progenitor regardless of what might be said, the use of pranayama or breath and physical yogas has always been a part of Dharma though it has been kept secret more less in certain schools all schools of Buddhism use Trulkhor or Pranayama or Chi Gung in their practices so I cannot accept that there isn’t some truth to the spiritual exercises having links to Shaolin. Can you please share any leads??
THIS IS SPECTACULAR AND MOST BEAUTIFUL AMAZING ART AND LAND WITH THE 2 MOUNTAINS AND VALLEY- TREES AND ROCKS AND IT'S SO PEACEFUL LOOKING WITHOUT ALL THE POLLUTION AND THE SKYSCRAPERS OF CITIES TODAY... ‼️✅👍✅👉 I WISH I COULD HAVE GONE AND SPENT HEALTHY YEARS ENJOYING LEARNING. ✅👉 BUT AT THE LEAST I'M ENJOYING THIS ACCOUNT, VERY WELL DONE- and I think right this second whilst typing this, 😨 ⁉️👉 ARE YOU EVEN READING THIS NOTE TO YOU ? ARE YOU DOING WELL AND STILL EVEN CREATING "CONTENT" FOR THIS SO CALLED CHANNEL I'VE SUBSCRIBED TO⁉️ 👍✅👉 I VERY MUCH HOPE SO.
Having worked on this for the last couple months, we're super grateful for all the fantastic feedback here! Thanks guys! Will, Tomas, see you soon hopefully!
This documentary has answered so many personal questions I had as a kung fu student and practioner that I just wanted to say thank you guys for doing this. Amazing job! Amituofo!
What the first master said about modern vs tradition and this knowledge being lost I feel is true for so much of the country undergoing change so rapidly. It's brilliant to see people valuing this heritage. Such knowledge and passion put into this film - awesome work! I learnt so much. I've always wondered about doing something on martial arts on our channel, but glad we haven't yet. We could never do it this justice!
Your channel is a recent find for me - and I am grateful. I appreciate your content. Well done. Continue your Kung Fu journey - I am virtually following along.
Watched this a couple times now since it was released, great job from everyone involved! Your martial arts insights were excellent as always, but I can tell you really upped the production quality of this one, too - it looked and sounded fantastic!
Thank you for a great documentary. So much wisdom can be heard in the words of the old one, like it's a life long practice, connect your mind with the heart. And finally, the meditation. In time being, we all get old, the body vanishes, but awareness stays, the stepping stone for meditation.
Been watching your videos from the latest ones, like the trip to Taiwan and this is the most recent one I’m watching. Love your respect to Chinese martial arts, it’s amazing how much knowledge and wisdom you’re getting from these different teachers.
That was fantastic! I can't wait for the next "journeys"! I am sorry that I have been unemployed for some time and cannot contribute to Mr. continue your search! 😞 Health and Peace to you, shifu, and success to the Monkey Steals Peach channel! Greetings from Brazil! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
thank you so much. i very much enjoyed and learned a great deal. I come from a daoist, meditative background, and this was a much needed shaolin perspective. it gave me such great CONTEXT to it all. I started wanting to learn kung fu to be tough, but with my practice i realized what i really wanted was peace and harmony with my surroundings. i think this was a great reminder
Young man you did an incredible job on this documentary! I can't express enough how amazing this was. My favorite practitioner of Shaolin is Ro Shehlik from Toronto. She is amazing as a woman, a practitioner, and just all around. I'm throughly impressed with everything about this film too though. From the videography to the writing speaking and being, it was perfect. I'm truly grateful for this small peek into such a mesmerizing esoteric dynasty....I learned a lot of new information and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for all your work and best wishes for you in whatever it be your will to do!
Very good documentary! Well done! I personally had the honor to be introduced to Master Cui Zhongwu back in 2015. He is ‘the real thing’, among bunch of crap around the Temple and Dengfeng! Good work guys!
I really enjoyed that, it was entertaining and informative, with beautiful imagery. Something else that stood out to me was 90 year old master Xu. I've seen it time and again; the oldest healthiest people in the world always live in small villages, towns in the middle of nowhere, or up in the mountains... about as far away as you can get from trendy diets, big city doctors, and pharmaceuticals. Anyways, thank you so much for sharing!
This beautifully produced insight into Shaolin heritage is just so impressive. While acknowledging the popular myths of the Shaolin temple it gave me the clearest understanding I have ever had of the actual history and status of Shaolin and the communities and practitioners attached to it. I have to really congratulate Will, Joel, Tomas on their hard work and deep insights into unlocking truths and presenting key characters such as Hu Zhengsheng who are carrying the Shaolin tradition and knowledge forward. I will share and recommend this video to my MA friends everywhere.
Thank you all for the great VIDEO and job you made! My heart is filling! To tell the true in Russia interest to a Traditional Martial Arts is dying. It is not good... I try to give the atmosphere of old masters to my students, but... time chamges...
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Excellent documentary. I don't know if the guys who directed this film have any formal film education, but if they don't, they did a hell of job putting that together. I appreciated the aerial shots, & the content was very interesting. Well done. 👍
This is an amazing documentary, you guys are doing such a great job a preserving this knowledge. Your channel has helped me understand how to train and how to treat my teacher as well as the style I’m learning. It’s also helped me understand the variety of King Fu and how it’s been falsely portrayed. Thank you for your hard work, please keep documenting this amazing knowledge, it’s guiding some of us on the martial way.
the one i love from chinese martial arts is how artsy is the movement are it has a beautiful form, a slow movement but at the end of each movement it shown a person power , it first it is as calm as a river and in the end it shocks a power like a thunder idk how to explain other than that
Thank you Will for this fascinating Documentary. I trained in Shaolin Kung Fu and did a pilgrimage to Shaolin. You deeply inspired me with this... Full of precious training keys.
@@MonkeyStealsPeach I can't tell, have not been back ever since unfortunately. I met a guy there who was from former Eastern Germany and went there on his own to train with the monks when he was 15 (!). He spoke fluent Mandarin.
A beginner in chinese martial arts, I first and very recently noticed the importance and impact of intention when practicing bian gan. Suddenly the staff strikes neatly and barely staggering. I do not think about how to move my body differently. The simple intention of striking effectively does the trick. Since my teacher told me that this is no fluke but actually part of the practice I try to apply the concept also in everyday life. To know its relation to my other favourite style, hebei xingyi quan, is all the more motivating - but I believe I need to run another few hundret drills for the bare mechanics, before I can take that step.
I think that it's great that you study all of these traditional martial arts. I, too, was interested from a young age and studied with many instructors including Bruce Lee but my very best one was from Southern Shaolin, Joe Chu. Many of these arts are very good for one but you have to remember very few are actual Boxing and Wrestling. The combat sport aspect of Shaolin is quite different from the forms and requires youth, determination and the willingness to endure injuries. If the combat sport aspect of the art is not practiced one should not expect to do well in contest with someone who endures it.
That was really well done. I think it's the most accurate and informative documentary I've seen on the Song Shaolin martial arts in the English language.
Nice to see you getting into the documentary style videos now. Still waiting on the General Qi Jiguang pin point xD It's amazing how it starts with some army training to families learning to defend themselves, to everyone trying to create their own styles and run to Shaolin with it. The folk lore and stories are lovely but in hindsight, Kung Fu comes from poorly educated men who knew how to fight essentially and proved their worth back then by fighting for money & respect, then turning into everyone trying to teach their styles for a living and having the Kung Fu wars and roof top duels. To nowadays where they teach people to look and feel good doing some fancy techniques and try to keep them coming back to rake in the money. Instruction has changed so much over the years going from teaching principles and how to effectively deal with your opponent to really focusing on each individual technique and selling the idea it takes years and years to master the style (an army doesn't have years and years to focus on techniques, bare this is mind if you are a believer in this concept that it takes years to master Kung Fu). And even with modern Kung Fu that springs up during the late 1800's, mid 1900s such as Wing Chun, another style trying to recreate General Qi Jiguang's Southern short strike boxing, that takes all its inspiration from the theory and principles of Yong Chun White crane and Xingyi Quan as those styles are lead to be believed are more closely related to the scriptures back from the 1600-1700s when Kung Fu was first developed. This is hugely the main reason that Kung Fu is not popular in China, due to the messiness and diverse misconceptions due to the Qing revolution. This is why in China the majority will practice Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, San Da and not traditional Chinese martial arts (except Tai Chi in the park for the elderly). The main styles across China seem to be XingYi Quan, Bagua Zhang, Baiji Quan, Chen & Yang Tai Chi. Sad part is, doesn't matter if we are talking about temples, styles, or lineages, there are so many misconceptions and lies it is virtually impossible to say yeah this is 100% fact and this what it is and where it comes from. Nonetheless, I love Kung Fu and have learnt not to get involved in the politics and just enjoy the practice of health. It is nice to see that some of the Chinese are starting to implement the Western science into their styles such as the Sp02, HRV, and all that stuff. After all if you can't use it to kill people, at least use it as a sport to make the most of the style, unless you are doing it for spiritualism and health then you don't need rigorous training systems to train like an athlete to further your development in your Kung Fu. Anyway I could be here for ages, I will stop there haha
Nice one Will, many thanks for taking so much trouble with this. BTW, those dents in the floor from monks stamping at Shaolin are not a recent tourist industry addition; they were there when I visited in 1985, and the temple was still part ruin.
Joël did all the editing, so the trouble was his lol! I knew the dents were there, they are in the old Jet Li movie. As to their real origin could it just be uneven ground/dampness/result of the fire? Or actually monks training?
What I got from this is that practicing is more profound than explaining and that the history of Shaolin has not yet been separated from the folklore of Shaolin. It is very clear that the academic study of Shaolin temple has not reached an appreciable degree of sophistication. That may be due to an incomplete portrayal by the persons sharing their understanding in the video, but that is the only takeaway the video would permit. "Shaolin absorbed martial arts and served as a hub" - it's a claim that wasn't backed up by any source. Nor more grandiose and vague claims like it being involved in dynastic changes. When an official monk rattles off demonstrably false folklore and portrays it as history, it leaves a bad impression. Chinese bureaucracy has been so vast. So much is documented. You'd expect more.
Great watch. From 36mins a butchered way of understanding from the heart would be muscle memory and the unconscious intent to fight. Either way what a very logical philosophy to be at one with Kung Fu.
Great job, Will! I'm all for a Xinyiquan documentary. And a Xingyiquan one after that. Of course, my screen name is the English translation of Hengquan, so I might be a little biased.
Amazing video. Love the intro music at the beginning. But i dont see it listed in the description, only the other 2 songs. What is the song that starts at very beginning ends at 1:33?
Re: Xingyiba... "Is this not meditation?" Yes (so I'm told). It's meditation in motion: moving meditation. These 'internal' arts (Xing-Yi Quan, Bagua Zhang, & Tai-Ji Quan) are purely Chinese in origin (so I'm told - not from India or elsewhere outside of China as in the 'external' arts); & such are literally forms of moving meditation (I believe based in Daoist meditation). Since Shaolin seems to be a martial-art magnet (essentially gleaning martial art knowledge from all who pass by), I wonder if they've made their own versions of western wrestling & western boxing yet (it would be interesting to see & compare). 🤔
Hi. Did you guys know about Shi De Jian? he follow the lineage of Wu Gu Lun. He was disciple of Zhang Qing He, Zhang Qing He was disciple of Wu Shan Lin, the son of Wu Gu Lun. Wu Gu Lun is in the paint in the old wall that show in this doc. His lineage is an important lineage of old Shaolin GongFu. Thanks. Good Doc!
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push your tongue later in west called mewing
What would really mean something to me Is Bhodi Dharma is not the progenitor of Zen, who was it that imported the Indian/Southeast Asian/Himalayan religion of Buddhism to China? If Bodhi Dharma was the progenitor regardless of what might be said, the use of pranayama or breath and physical yogas has always been a part of Dharma though it has been kept secret more less in certain schools all schools of Buddhism use Trulkhor or Pranayama or Chi Gung in their practices so I cannot accept that there isn’t some truth to the spiritual exercises having links to Shaolin.
Can you please share any leads??
THIS IS SPECTACULAR AND MOST BEAUTIFUL
AMAZING ART AND LAND WITH THE 2 MOUNTAINS AND VALLEY- TREES AND ROCKS AND IT'S SO PEACEFUL LOOKING WITHOUT ALL THE POLLUTION AND THE SKYSCRAPERS OF CITIES TODAY...
‼️✅👍✅👉 I WISH I COULD HAVE GONE AND SPENT HEALTHY YEARS ENJOYING LEARNING.
✅👉 BUT AT THE LEAST I'M ENJOYING THIS ACCOUNT, VERY WELL DONE- and I think right this second whilst typing this, 😨 ⁉️👉 ARE YOU EVEN READING THIS NOTE TO YOU ? ARE YOU DOING WELL AND STILL EVEN CREATING
"CONTENT" FOR THIS SO CALLED CHANNEL I'VE SUBSCRIBED TO⁉️
👍✅👉 I VERY MUCH HOPE SO.
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this documentary; it was professional enough to be on a TV channel!
Thanks mate! Maybe one day we will!
too good for tv!
@@CatoniusBingo!
Boomers.
This documentary is so valuable for traditional martial arts practitioners. Thank you for your research and work, and for sharing it with us!
Having worked on this for the last couple months, we're super grateful for all the fantastic feedback here! Thanks guys! Will, Tomas, see you soon hopefully!
This documentary has answered so many personal questions I had as a kung fu student and practioner that I just wanted to say thank you guys for doing this. Amazing job! Amituofo!
So glad to hear it was of benefit to you!
That was amazing. I really appreciate all the cultural nuances.
What the first master said about modern vs tradition and this knowledge being lost I feel is true for so much of the country undergoing change so rapidly. It's brilliant to see people valuing this heritage. Such knowledge and passion put into this film - awesome work! I learnt so much. I've always wondered about doing something on martial arts on our channel, but glad we haven't yet. We could never do it this justice!
It's gonna be a long 20 hours...
I'm going to get comfy af for when this drops.
Your channel is a recent find for me - and I am grateful. I appreciate your content. Well done. Continue your Kung Fu journey - I am virtually following along.
Thanks guys. Will and Joel, looking forward for the next journey together.
Looking forward to seeing your documentary too!
Watched this a couple times now since it was released, great job from everyone involved! Your martial arts insights were excellent as always, but I can tell you really upped the production quality of this one, too - it looked and sounded fantastic!
Thank you for a great documentary. So much wisdom can be heard in the words of the old one, like it's a life long practice, connect your mind with the heart. And finally, the meditation. In time being, we all get old, the body vanishes, but awareness stays, the stepping stone for meditation.
Been watching your videos from the latest ones, like the trip to Taiwan and this is the most recent one I’m watching. Love your respect to Chinese martial arts, it’s amazing how much knowledge and wisdom you’re getting from these different teachers.
That was fantastic! I can't wait for the next "journeys"!
I am sorry that I have been unemployed for some time and cannot contribute to Mr. continue your search! 😞
Health and Peace to you, shifu, and success to the Monkey Steals Peach channel!
Greetings from Brazil! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
High quality production by guys who take the culture seriously. The next best thing to being there. Thx!
sungguh indah pemandangannya.
thank you so much. i very much enjoyed and learned a great deal. I come from a daoist, meditative background, and this was a much needed shaolin perspective. it gave me such great CONTEXT to it all. I started wanting to learn kung fu to be tough, but with my practice i realized what i really wanted was peace and harmony with my surroundings. i think this was a great reminder
Young man you did an incredible job on this documentary! I can't express enough how amazing this was. My favorite practitioner of Shaolin is Ro Shehlik from Toronto. She is amazing as a woman, a practitioner, and just all around. I'm throughly impressed with everything about this film too though. From the videography to the writing speaking and being, it was perfect. I'm truly grateful for this small peek into such a mesmerizing esoteric dynasty....I learned a lot of new information and enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for all your work and best wishes for you in whatever it be your will to do!
Thanks for the kind words
Very good documentary! Well done! I personally had the honor to be introduced to Master Cui Zhongwu back in 2015. He is ‘the real thing’, among bunch of crap around the Temple and Dengfeng! Good work guys!
Thanks man! Yea, Master Cui was great! A real honour to spend time tome him!
I can't wait for this!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I really enjoyed that, it was entertaining and informative, with beautiful imagery. Something else that stood out to me was 90 year old master Xu. I've seen it time and again; the oldest healthiest people in the world always live in small villages, towns in the middle of nowhere, or up in the mountains... about as far away as you can get from trendy diets, big city doctors, and pharmaceuticals. Anyways, thank you so much for sharing!
Beautiful. Will watch again!
This beautifully produced insight into Shaolin heritage is just so impressive. While acknowledging the popular myths of the Shaolin temple it gave me the clearest understanding I have ever had of the actual history and status of Shaolin and the communities and practitioners attached to it. I have to really congratulate Will, Joel, Tomas on their hard work and deep insights into unlocking truths and presenting key characters such as Hu Zhengsheng who are carrying the Shaolin tradition and knowledge forward. I will share and recommend this video to my MA friends everywhere.
Thanks so much James!
Thank you very much for the Documentary Will. It's professional quality!! 😀
Thank you all for the great VIDEO and job you made! My heart is filling! To tell the true in Russia interest to a Traditional Martial Arts is dying. It is not good... I try to give the atmosphere of old masters to my students, but... time chamges...
Great work, always a good thing when you see and hear others instil what you were taught/teach, peace, love and happiness... 阿弥陀佛 🙏🏻🙏🏼🙏🏾
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Excellent documentary. I don't know if the guys who directed this film have any formal film education, but if they don't, they did a hell of job putting that together. I appreciated the aerial shots, & the content was very interesting. Well done. 👍
Thank you! No we don’t have any formal education in film making, was just a project of passion
Done. Very happy to offer some support. It's very meaningful to preserve this tradition. Thank you for your work Will!
This is an amazing documentary, you guys are doing such a great job a preserving this knowledge. Your channel has helped me understand how to train and how to treat my teacher as well as the style I’m learning. It’s also helped me understand the variety of King Fu and how it’s been falsely portrayed. Thank you for your hard work, please keep documenting this amazing knowledge, it’s guiding some of us on the martial way.
Very nice documentary, it’s also very interesting to see how close the principles of the different styles are.
Wow i love Martial Arts
This video is an amazing achievement! Great Job! I will have to watch it at least twice.
the one i love from chinese martial arts is how artsy is the movement are
it has a beautiful form, a slow movement but at the end of each movement it shown a person power , it first it is as calm as a river and in the end it shocks a power like a thunder
idk how to explain other than that
I feel bad that the original temple was burned. It’s like the burning of the library of Alexandria.. I’m glad that the tradition still continues
You made a beautiful documentary! Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to see more.
Thank you Will for this fascinating Documentary. I trained in Shaolin Kung Fu and did a pilgrimage to Shaolin. You deeply inspired me with this... Full of precious training keys.
Let's be more precise... Watching this made me TRAIN. Even more important after nearly 15 years of no practice... Thank you Will.
Glad to hear you got back into it! I bet Shaolin changed a fair bit since you were there!
@@MonkeyStealsPeach I can't tell, have not been back ever since unfortunately. I met a guy there who was from former Eastern Germany and went there on his own to train with the monks when he was 15 (!). He spoke fluent Mandarin.
A beginner in chinese martial arts, I first and very recently noticed the importance and impact of intention when practicing bian gan. Suddenly the staff strikes neatly and barely staggering. I do not think about how to move my body differently. The simple intention of striking effectively does the trick. Since my teacher told me that this is no fluke but actually part of the practice I try to apply the concept also in everyday life. To know its relation to my other favourite style, hebei xingyi quan, is all the more motivating - but I believe I need to run another few hundret drills for the bare mechanics, before I can take that step.
I think that it's great that you study all of these traditional martial arts. I, too, was interested from a young age and studied with many instructors including Bruce Lee but my very best one was from Southern Shaolin, Joe Chu. Many of these arts are very good for one but you have to remember very few are actual Boxing and Wrestling. The combat sport aspect of Shaolin is quite different from the forms and requires youth, determination and the willingness to endure injuries. If the combat sport aspect of the art is not practiced one should not expect to do well in contest with someone who endures it.
Thanks for your effort!! Best for you all!
Absolutely beautiful documentary extremely well done hats off to you gifted sharer of knowledge 👏👍😎
Thank you kindly!
Great documentary Will I look forward to the rest of your work.
Yessss
Nicely done! This is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen on the subject.
Documentary of southern shaolin just like this one and talk about the 5 family legend
That was really well done. I think it's the most accurate and informative documentary I've seen on the Song Shaolin martial arts in the English language.
Such an amazing work 😇😇😇
Thanks from Argentina. Awesome!!!
I can put into words how wonderful this is! Amazing work and research!
Great work. Thoughtful and informative. I am thankful to see this final product.
FINALLY!!!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🎉🎇🎆
appreciate the work put into it, this video is so amazing, thank you so much for sharing it with us .. Great content man.
thank you for sharing this . loved every minute . well documented and represented.
Muy interesante video que muestra parte de la cultura de un pueblo
Nice video thank you for sharing stay safe stay healthy stay connected good luck with your wonderful days wow Kung Fu very great 👍
I would have loved to have been able to learn with those masters and been able to learn to speak Chinese with them.
Excellent disposition. Loved it. Great explanation... Thank you.
Dude, this was good. Thanks for going to China and researching/filming all of this.
Wow- great documentary. Keep the videos rolling...
Nice production. Well done!
Beautiful my brothers
Thanks for fulfilling my dream, brother.🙏
I love your content. Your video are worth to watch. Keep connected always.
Good job!!!
Well done! ✊
beautifully done!
Thank you for sharing this video. :)
Well done Will. Great documentary
Excellent content! 👏👏👏
Very enjoyable and left me want to learn more and more. Nicely done!
Wow, awesome to get to see some real explaining! Good job with this, give us more! :)
Thanks! More coming soon!
Well done, and quite interesting. Lots of similarities with my own xing yi quan practice indeed.
awesome work as usual man, very well put together
Really enjoyed watching this. Inspiring and motivating 🙏
Nice documentary. I shared it on our facebook page 🙏
Awesome, thank you!
Nice to see you getting into the documentary style videos now. Still waiting on the General Qi Jiguang pin point xD It's amazing how it starts with some army training to families learning to defend themselves, to everyone trying to create their own styles and run to Shaolin with it. The folk lore and stories are lovely but in hindsight, Kung Fu comes from poorly educated men who knew how to fight essentially and proved their worth back then by fighting for money & respect, then turning into everyone trying to teach their styles for a living and having the Kung Fu wars and roof top duels. To nowadays where they teach people to look and feel good doing some fancy techniques and try to keep them coming back to rake in the money. Instruction has changed so much over the years going from teaching principles and how to effectively deal with your opponent to really focusing on each individual technique and selling the idea it takes years and years to master the style (an army doesn't have years and years to focus on techniques, bare this is mind if you are a believer in this concept that it takes years to master Kung Fu). And even with modern Kung Fu that springs up during the late 1800's, mid 1900s such as Wing Chun, another style trying to recreate General Qi Jiguang's Southern short strike boxing, that takes all its inspiration from the theory and principles of Yong Chun White crane and Xingyi Quan as those styles are lead to be believed are more closely related to the scriptures back from the 1600-1700s when Kung Fu was first developed. This is hugely the main reason that Kung Fu is not popular in China, due to the messiness and diverse misconceptions due to the Qing revolution. This is why in China the majority will practice Tae Kwon Do, Boxing, San Da and not traditional Chinese martial arts (except Tai Chi in the park for the elderly). The main styles across China seem to be XingYi Quan, Bagua Zhang, Baiji Quan, Chen & Yang Tai Chi. Sad part is, doesn't matter if we are talking about temples, styles, or lineages, there are so many misconceptions and lies it is virtually impossible to say yeah this is 100% fact and this what it is and where it comes from. Nonetheless, I love Kung Fu and have learnt not to get involved in the politics and just enjoy the practice of health. It is nice to see that some of the Chinese are starting to implement the Western science into their styles such as the Sp02, HRV, and all that stuff. After all if you can't use it to kill people, at least use it as a sport to make the most of the style, unless you are doing it for spiritualism and health then you don't need rigorous training systems to train like an athlete to further your development in your Kung Fu. Anyway I could be here for ages, I will stop there haha
Nice video, great job
Nice one Will, many thanks for taking so much trouble with this. BTW, those dents in the floor from monks stamping at Shaolin are not a recent tourist industry addition; they were there when I visited in 1985, and the temple was still part ruin.
Joël did all the editing, so the trouble was his lol! I knew the dents were there, they are in the old Jet Li movie. As to their real origin could it just be uneven ground/dampness/result of the fire? Or actually monks training?
@@MonkeyStealsPeach Ah well, congrats to Joel then :-) So difficult to know anything's true origin...
Fantastic job. Stuff never seen before.
spoken words fly away, written words remain, written words fly away, forms remain
Good stuff! Thanks a million!
great video, I can see a picture on the wall of of the master wu sanlin.
thanks for this!
Really leaves me wondering what Northern and Eastern courtyard boxing motion would have had been like
Me too!!!
great video man
Ancestral or not, the qi xing quan form is really beautiful..
nice to see you Will!
Hello 白鸽！好久不见
What I got from this is that practicing is more profound than explaining and that the history of Shaolin has not yet been separated from the folklore of Shaolin. It is very clear that the academic study of Shaolin temple has not reached an appreciable degree of sophistication. That may be due to an incomplete portrayal by the persons sharing their understanding in the video, but that is the only takeaway the video would permit. "Shaolin absorbed martial arts and served as a hub" - it's a claim that wasn't backed up by any source. Nor more grandiose and vague claims like it being involved in dynastic changes. When an official monk rattles off demonstrably false folklore and portrays it as history, it leaves a bad impression.
Chinese bureaucracy has been so vast. So much is documented. You'd expect more.
Amazing brother
Great watch. From 36mins a butchered way of understanding from the heart would be muscle memory and the unconscious intent to fight. Either way what a very logical philosophy to be at one with Kung Fu.
very nice video
nice content. thanks
Great stuff
great!
Great job, Will! I'm all for a Xinyiquan documentary. And a Xingyiquan one after that. Of course, my screen name is the English translation of Hengquan, so I might be a little biased.
Yep, that is the plan. I will probably do Xingyi and Xinyi as one documentary released in two parts though.
Amazing video. Love the intro music at the beginning. But i dont see it listed in the description, only the other 2 songs. What is the song that starts at very beginning ends at 1:33?
Re: Xingyiba...
"Is this not meditation?"
Yes (so I'm told).
It's meditation in motion: moving meditation.
These 'internal' arts (Xing-Yi Quan, Bagua Zhang, & Tai-Ji Quan) are purely Chinese in origin (so I'm told - not from India or elsewhere outside of China as in the 'external' arts); & such are literally forms of moving meditation (I believe based in Daoist meditation).
Since Shaolin seems to be a martial-art magnet (essentially gleaning martial art knowledge from all who pass by), I wonder if they've made their own versions of western wrestling & western boxing yet (it would be interesting to see & compare). 🤔
nice videos
Good job! Very well done!
Thanks Dom!
Excelente!!!!
Aah a great explanation of soft power accumulation at 31:30 ish
Vocês vão longe com o canal parabéns mesmo!
disclaimer: no tea was harmed in any way during the footage! ;DD awesome work!
More tea was harmed when I was in Fujian in southern China!
@@MonkeyStealsPeach damn psychopaths! ;D
Hi. Did you guys know about Shi De Jian? he follow the lineage of Wu Gu Lun. He was disciple of Zhang Qing He, Zhang Qing He was disciple of Wu Shan Lin, the son of Wu Gu Lun. Wu Gu Lun is in the paint in the old wall that show in this doc. His lineage is an important lineage of old Shaolin GongFu.
Thanks. Good Doc!
Yes, I’m planning to visit him or Wu Nan Fang in a future follow up
@@MonkeyStealsPeach Nice. Good work guys!