The funny thing is, I saw you and thought "Wow, so I can do Kung Fu, even though I'm 50lbs overweight." I am inspired to get into martial arts, and Crane Style appealed to me, as I feel it would help me with balance and I can utilize my dance background with movement. Thank you.
Your demonstration truly captures the elegance and grace of this form. You sir, are a treasure to humanity. I'm grateful for your efforts and generousity. May your path be blessed.
Brandon, I just stumbled upon your crane form video, and I couldn't help but smile throughout the entire demonstration. It was such a beautiful display of skill and grace. Your dedication and hard work really shine through in your performance. Thank you for sharing this delightful video.
Some Secrets: When stretching... use your muscles and push your leg downwards on the chair / ladder, *as hard as you can... anywhere from a few seconds, up to a minute. Then stop pressing downwards for a short while (relaxed, but still in the stretched position)... and repeat this same cycle over and over again... for at least a few minutes per leg. (Isometric Stretching) *Be careful. Before going full strength... First, make sure that you are at least warmed up (blood pumping), and have done a mild stretch at first... without pressing down. Then, when you do press downwards... start off at like 30%, and gradually increase that power level SLOWLY, each Off and On Rep. If you try to use full power all at once... you might break too many strands, and cause the muscles to refuse to stretch any further for a day or so. This could cause an injury bad enough to prevent you from doing anything more with the legs, for about a week. Additionally.. make sure you are breathing very deeply. Long, slow, and full deep breaths... all throughout the entire stretching process. You should breath IN when you are relaxed... and Breath OUT when you are pressing downwards / stressing. The deep breath cycle will do two main things. 1) It will reduce your pain levels. 2) It will create a much better blood and o2 circulation... which will develop your body faster + heal faster + perform better. As long as you are gradual about things... you should be able to keep from injury... and at the same time, progress your stretching progress about 3x as fast, using this method. Also, In the art I studied... one of the exercises we did, had us stand on one leg (with bent knee positioned directly over the toes), for a full 60 seconds. At the higher levels... that was extended to 2 minutes. If you think that is easy... think again. This would then be extended to include: slowly extending the hanging leg fully away from the body... and leaving it extended for several seconds, before slowly returning it to the hanging knee position. This was repeated over and over again, throughout the 2 min or so drill... (+ 2min, for each individual leg) One of my personally developed drills... was to extend from one kick, into a different kick... such as backwards, forwards, sidewards, circular, low kicks to high kicks, high to low, etc. I cant recall the exact order at the moment.. but you are free to experiment. The whole point here... is to never put the foot down, when transitioning from one kick to the next. I think I did a minimum of 4 different kicks, and repeated the Loop of them, at least 5 times in a row.. minimum... without stopping / setting the foot down. At first, I would do this slowly... and later, I would gradually increase the speed and intensity of these chained kicks. At higher speed and intensity.. it really challenges your stability even more. But if you should develop things slowly with accuracy.. to gain the needed strength and surgical control... before practicing the speed + power drill format.
I always find myself revisiting your videos because theyre just that good, and the desire to learn can be addicting. Have you ever considered doing a video that describes your history with martial arts in detail, how you got into it, the styles youve studied, and the styles youve wanted to study but havent, etc? would definitely be something your subs would enjoy; the students getting to know the teacher if you will :D
I started researching kung fu styles on a whim today, and honestly, this is insanely cool! Very graceful and elegant, I can't wait to start practicing! You're an excellent teacher :)
Very cool!!! Can you do a vid on finger attacks to nerves? My Sifu had us toughen our fingers by jabbing them in sand and other things. Then we learned where the nerves were. Crane is an awesome style. Very good for multiple opponents because you can use both arms and a kick simultaneously in different directions.
Thank you so much sifu. Perhaps in the future we may have you on our show via zoom to have a discussion in depth about Martial arts, devotion, honor and integrity. As well more reminders about the beauty of crane style. Amazing. We are devoted to Martial arts and helping others,you humble us.
Sifu Dunng. Great video👍🏼. I’ve subscribed to your channel. Very informative and great teaching. I just stumbled upon this video because I watched a crane style video and I saw your video and I was very impressed and I enjoyed it. May GOD bless you and keep on making more videos.
in the intro you are wearing a hung fut uniform and the form looks like hungfut gong fu as a big white guy 330lbs my sifu after 8 sets of ten basics he started with monkey then all others including this beautiful crane form i quickly understood the hardships my sifu went through long live the art
Fun fact: whoever translated the tittle of this video to portuguese translated "crane" as "guindaste", which is not the animal crane ("Garça"). Instead, it means crane as in the big piece of machinery.
RECALL WHY THE EXPERTS TURN TO ANIMAL TECHNICS ; IF YOU ARE FIGHTING A ANIMAL BE ITS WORSE ENEMY, BE THE ANIMAL IT FEARS TO FIGHT AGAINST STRONGER AND MORE FLEXABLE THAN THE ANIMAL YOU ARE FIGHTING, RECALLING EVERY WEAK POINT YOU AND THEY HAVE TO STRIKE TO WIN THE BATTLE !
I’m really getting into crane interception.. I’ve noticed in my own art people aren’t using the subduing hands like we are taught in level one wing chun ..
@Sifu Dunng thank you so much for sharing this video. I couldn't figure out the Shaolin forms being shown at the temple in the pilot of the tv series "Kung Fu" until I saw your animal style videos; they were most likely Choy Li Fut animal styles,right? ~ so cool. So would this particular form be called Hok Ying Kuen(鶴形拳) ? If so, I will definitely search for an instructional dvd. Crane and Praying Mantis are my absolute favorites among animal styles. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful and fascinating cultural heritage.
A flock of cranes uses a flock mind for air traffic control. A flock mind could give one the strength of an entire flock. The seagull technique is the internal art of the flock mind.
I practice Jeet Kune Do since I was about 5 because when I was a kid all I wanted to be was Bruce Lee , I've studied every aspect of combat there is from the way leverage is used to the mentality and everything from a jab to a double spinning jump kick from fists to a Kunai I even learned Martial Arts and Combat Systems to protect the Holstered pistol using pivots , positioning and physics to protect the pistol or rifle and be in the ready fire position Like the SWAT team train I definitely know CQC and CQB. , I was taught my whole life I follow the Jeet Kune Do philosophy of expressing the body through movement Using whatever the most economical attack is required Not really tying myself to a stance but puppetry Drawing in the desired attack and countering The fighting is that of a cobra a creature that doesn't rely on anything but a poisonous strike The Cobra can defeat a Elephant and The Cobra 🐍 doesn't even have arms His attacks are off the center line and are deadly regardless of where they hit So we must make our strikes deadly , venomous even The rear hand is The Cobras head , where the poisonous fists comes from The Lead Hand is the tail Ready to snap out to create distance Be like a cobra
Thanks for watching. Good eye! I primarily practice Choy Li Fut and Yang style Tai Chi. The Hung Gar you see is probably the many elements it shares with CLF, since they're both southern kung fu styles.
@@sifudunng7117 CLF and Hung Gar Are both extremely beautiful systems. I am a praying mantis practitioner from Albany NY. I studied in both Taiwan and in mainland China
You are great sensi. I want ask you if i can combine with 2 technique iiam tall and ilove the crane technique but the dragon technique are atronger so i want ask if its possible to combine the two technique at the same time. And thank you so mush
You potentially could combine techniques like in traditional forms like 5 Animal forms. Most importantly take the time to explore what works for you out of each and focus on quality rather than quantity of number of techniques.
A quick question as an internal martial artist J sometimes feel that I lack some of the athleticism from my practice of choy lay fut Do you know any successful internal practioner who still maintains their external training and what ratio do you think they employ?
The reason for learning is to imrpove your abilities not to bully others.
if true good job !!!!
@@bugs4680 I enjoyed your books.
@@varanid9 I'm glad many martial arts as well help your self
I practice karate but wow I’m blown away by the crane technique. Literally gonna practice this everyday to get it right, it’s beautiful
As your are aware Karate originally from crane
@@stephenchen9208 yes I learn that from karate kid
The funny thing is, I saw you and thought "Wow, so I can do Kung Fu, even though I'm 50lbs overweight." I am inspired to get into martial arts, and Crane Style appealed to me, as I feel it would help me with balance and I can utilize my dance background with movement. Thank you.
I just love your standing yoga routine! Keep with the hard work!
Your demonstration truly captures the elegance and grace of this form. You sir, are a treasure to humanity. I'm grateful for your efforts and generousity. May your path be blessed.
Best crane form out there in kung fu universe
Brandon, I just stumbled upon your crane form video, and I couldn't help but smile throughout the entire demonstration. It was such a beautiful display of skill and grace. Your dedication and hard work really shine through in your performance. Thank you for sharing this delightful video.
Some Secrets: When stretching... use your muscles and push your leg downwards on the chair / ladder, *as hard as you can... anywhere from a few seconds, up to a minute. Then stop pressing downwards for a short while (relaxed, but still in the stretched position)... and repeat this same cycle over and over again... for at least a few minutes per leg. (Isometric Stretching)
*Be careful. Before going full strength... First, make sure that you are at least warmed up (blood pumping), and have done a mild stretch at first... without pressing down. Then, when you do press downwards... start off at like 30%, and gradually increase that power level SLOWLY, each Off and On Rep. If you try to use full power all at once... you might break too many strands, and cause the muscles to refuse to stretch any further for a day or so. This could cause an injury bad enough to prevent you from doing anything more with the legs, for about a week.
Additionally.. make sure you are breathing very deeply. Long, slow, and full deep breaths... all throughout the entire stretching process. You should breath IN when you are relaxed... and Breath OUT when you are pressing downwards / stressing. The deep breath cycle will do two main things. 1) It will reduce your pain levels. 2) It will create a much better blood and o2 circulation... which will develop your body faster + heal faster + perform better.
As long as you are gradual about things... you should be able to keep from injury... and at the same time, progress your stretching progress about 3x as fast, using this method.
Also, In the art I studied... one of the exercises we did, had us stand on one leg (with bent knee positioned directly over the toes), for a full 60 seconds. At the higher levels... that was extended to 2 minutes. If you think that is easy... think again. This would then be extended to include: slowly extending the hanging leg fully away from the body... and leaving it extended for several seconds, before slowly returning it to the hanging knee position. This was repeated over and over again, throughout the 2 min or so drill... (+ 2min, for each individual leg)
One of my personally developed drills... was to extend from one kick, into a different kick... such as backwards, forwards, sidewards, circular, low kicks to high kicks, high to low, etc. I cant recall the exact order at the moment.. but you are free to experiment. The whole point here... is to never put the foot down, when transitioning from one kick to the next. I think I did a minimum of 4 different kicks, and repeated the Loop of them, at least 5 times in a row.. minimum... without stopping / setting the foot down.
At first, I would do this slowly... and later, I would gradually increase the speed and intensity of these chained kicks. At higher speed and intensity.. it really challenges your stability even more. But if you should develop things slowly with accuracy.. to gain the needed strength and surgical control... before practicing the speed + power drill format.
The crane!!! Beutiful
Excellent training Sifu
Thank you, and Thanks for watching.
Great video! I really gain a lot from your videos. Please keep them coming!
Thank you! I'll do my best
Great piece sifu dunng 🐉
Thank you!
Kung Fu has been great for me. I just got my white sash! Your opening crane form was beautiful.
I always find myself revisiting your videos because theyre just that good, and the desire to learn can be addicting. Have you ever considered doing a video that describes your history with martial arts in detail, how you got into it, the styles youve studied, and the styles youve wanted to study but havent, etc? would definitely be something your subs would enjoy; the students getting to know the teacher if you will :D
That's a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion. It will be one I will release in the future.
I love that Crain form
I loved your "shadow" opponent!!! Very cool.
Thank you so much! It's challenging finding someone to work with at this point so I had to get creative. Haha
Thanks for watching!
Thank you
At 6'7", this is a style that may suit me.
Thank you very much for the training sir.
I'd like to see more crane applications with a real person attacking with strikes and grabs etc.
Great to learn crane fist from you
I started researching kung fu styles on a whim today, and honestly, this is insanely cool! Very graceful and elegant, I can't wait to start practicing! You're an excellent teacher :)
Thx for the knowledge sifu
Very cool!!! Can you do a vid on finger attacks to nerves? My Sifu had us toughen our fingers by jabbing them in sand and other things. Then we learned where the nerves were. Crane is an awesome style. Very good for multiple opponents because you can use both arms and a kick simultaneously in different directions.
Thank you, sensei.
Thank you so much sifu. Perhaps in the future we may have you on our show via zoom to have a discussion in depth about Martial arts, devotion, honor and integrity. As well more reminders about the beauty of crane style. Amazing. We are devoted to Martial arts and helping others,you humble us.
Sifu Dunng.
Great video👍🏼. I’ve subscribed to your channel. Very informative and great teaching. I just stumbled upon this video because I watched a crane style video and I saw your video and I was very impressed and I enjoyed it.
May GOD bless you and keep on making more videos.
Thanks for watching.
Real crane style thankx for the film
great video! thanks!!
the intro is awesome!!
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching!
You did the form very beautifuly. I'm impressed :')
in the intro you are wearing a hung fut uniform and the form looks like hungfut gong fu
as a big white guy 330lbs my sifu after 8 sets of ten basics he started with monkey then all others including this beautiful crane form i quickly understood the hardships my sifu went through long live the art
Wow love this
You're great teacher, enjoying your video..
Very well explain
Great video Sifu !
Thank you!!
Please uplod mantis fight training
Fun fact: whoever translated the tittle of this video to portuguese translated "crane" as "guindaste", which is not the animal crane ("Garça"). Instead, it means crane as in the big piece of machinery.
😆😆😆 That's Funny. Thanks for watching.
🤣I wonder what this style could look like :).
RECALL WHY THE EXPERTS TURN TO ANIMAL TECHNICS ; IF YOU ARE FIGHTING A ANIMAL BE ITS WORSE ENEMY, BE THE ANIMAL IT FEARS TO FIGHT AGAINST STRONGER AND MORE FLEXABLE THAN THE ANIMAL YOU ARE FIGHTING, RECALLING EVERY WEAK POINT YOU AND THEY HAVE TO STRIKE TO WIN THE BATTLE !
Thank you sifu 👍👍👍
Thank you master. ❤️❤️ can you teach us how to do that your begining performance step by step? 🙂🙂
make the video in slow motion than learn it one by one
Good stuff! Keep up the vids!
Loved the video. This is definitely a style I want to learn. Will you do more videos about it?
Thanks for watching. I got more coming.
Great video good info…….
Great music
Very interesting I used to practice a choy lay fut plum blossom set
Some of these movements looked very familiar
Thank u
Great one😜💥🐉😎
Back at it😜🔥💥💯
I’m really getting into crane interception.. I’ve noticed in my own art people aren’t using the subduing hands like we are taught in level one wing chun ..
@Sifu Dunng thank you so much for sharing this video. I couldn't figure out the Shaolin forms being shown at the temple in the pilot of the tv series "Kung Fu" until I saw your animal style videos; they were most likely Choy Li Fut animal styles,right? ~ so cool. So would this particular form be called Hok Ying Kuen(鶴形拳) ? If so, I will definitely search for an instructional dvd. Crane and Praying Mantis are my absolute favorites among animal styles. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful and fascinating cultural heritage.
Namaste great master my name is priest jonathan move Beautiful
Checking in
now i need to get a ladder tomorrow! :-D
I want to ask if you know the wolf style. Thank you so much like your videos
hello sir please do you have this crane style or is this style fight enough?
Too bad 'crane style' is not very popular in martial arts movies ................. RARE AND BEAUTIFUL!!
Definitely. Check out Fist of the White Lotus. A little comical but old school kung fu flick with some tiger and crane style, and the classic Pai Mei
@Pa Mu ALRIGHT, I'll definitely look into these, THNX mate.
What style of crane style is this?
Nice!
A flock of cranes uses a flock mind for air traffic control. A flock mind could give one the strength of an entire flock. The seagull technique is the internal art of the flock mind.
This is the form I do when I show Choy Lay Fut to someone.
Man this dude is GOD ( 0: 32 )
"Crane style" is the same that "white crane style" ((bai he quan)) or "fujian white crane" ?
Is it this technique that inspired the Crane Kick in Karaté Kid ? ;)
I'm sure it had it's influence on it. Thanks for watching.
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Sifu, lo que usted hace es choi lee fut, no un estilo de grulla blanca.
I practice Jeet Kune Do since I was about 5 because when I was a kid all I wanted to be was Bruce Lee , I've studied every aspect of combat there is from the way leverage is used to the mentality and everything from a jab to a double spinning jump kick from fists to a Kunai
I even learned Martial Arts and Combat Systems to protect the Holstered pistol using pivots , positioning and physics to protect the pistol or rifle and be in the ready fire position
Like the SWAT team train
I definitely know CQC and CQB. , I was taught my whole life
I follow the Jeet Kune Do philosophy of expressing the body through movement
Using whatever the most economical attack is required
Not really tying myself to a stance but puppetry
Drawing in the desired attack and countering
The fighting is that of a cobra a creature that doesn't rely on anything but a poisonous strike
The Cobra can defeat a Elephant and The Cobra 🐍 doesn't even have arms
His attacks are off the center line and are deadly regardless of where they hit
So we must make our strikes deadly , venomous even
The rear hand is The Cobras head , where the poisonous fists comes from
The Lead Hand is the tail
Ready to snap out to create distance
Be like a cobra
Hi sifu! ㊙️
I see elements of Choy li fut and hung gar... do you teach these arts?
Thanks for watching. Good eye! I primarily practice Choy Li Fut and Yang style Tai Chi. The Hung Gar you see is probably the many elements it shares with CLF, since they're both southern kung fu styles.
@@sifudunng7117 CLF and Hung Gar Are both extremely beautiful systems. I am a praying mantis practitioner from Albany NY. I studied in both Taiwan and in mainland China
@@zyx7478 That's excellent! I have a student who is also a mantis practitioner. Another beautiful style!
You are great sensi. I want ask you if i can combine with 2 technique iiam tall and ilove the crane technique but the dragon technique are atronger so i want ask if its possible to combine the two technique at the same time. And thank you so mush
You potentially could combine techniques like in traditional forms like 5 Animal forms. Most importantly take the time to explore what works for you out of each and focus on quality rather than quantity of number of techniques.
@@sifudunng7117 thank you sir you right. We waiting for more vedois.
Thanks guru iam looking yes ✋✊👍😍
Need more videos ji
I really want him to cover the Praying Mantis Kung Fu
A quick question as an internal martial artist
J sometimes feel that I lack some of the athleticism from my practice of choy lay fut
Do you know any successful internal practioner who still maintains their external training and what ratio do you think they employ?
Whats the track name of the song playing during your ladder exercise
Which crane style is this?
This Crane style comes from the Choy Li Fut system. Thanks for watching.
wirklich derziemlich einzigste Superkanal über kung fu die Musik hab ich ausgemacht
youre really a kung fu man Not a Martial Art Freak only
5k soon
fly brotha fly
Me being tall will this help with my back pain
Thanks for watching. It may help you, but I would suggest more stretching before and after training, and before getting into heavy training
@@sifudunng7117 thank u
Up studying 😂💥🤘😜
Nanto Seiken (Fist of the South Stars) is based off this fluid form. Of course their finger tips cut everything in that story, hahaha.
Изумитильно ето знания 👟⬛🔱✔🙇💙☝
👍👍
That's amazing how you have a shadow opponent.
Thank you. Thanks for watching!
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Now let's see him be like Larry fishburn and fly around to beat up neo in yhe dojo.
I have practiced Jeet June do for 2 years. This type of crane style does not exist here in Montreal unfortunately.
Класс.......
His shadow sometimes looks like a bird. Sometime a crane perhaps.
👍🏾✌🏾🤝🏾
This was great now that pesky ghost that punches me from to time is gonna pay
You could call it a puppet strike no? Lol just kidding! Figured I’d stop by n brush up!
Para ser profesor de grulla tiene menos equilibrio que un anciano
Well I only mastered toad style Kung Fu
The white crane gongfu is the best style of chinese gongfu.Good bye!.
Bro, where r your hairs right now,
😂
This is a art not fighting correct?
watch "The Kung-Fu Watermelon Challenge" of this white guy to know the damage of finger striking...
I can stand in a moving bus
Entirely diff from Southern