Heinrich Pfaff Martial Arts Demonstration

[bae313]

Why is it that no1 in MMA/other full contact sports fight in this manner? Because it doesn't work in real fights vs skilled opponents.

Will it work vs rowdy drunks/street punks? Definately, but bring on a thug who is really trying to kill you & this style will fold like a paper dragon.

Research the first UFCs when they were still open martial art events & watch the old Gracie challenge videos as they beat other masters.

No, I' not a BJJ guy, BUT I do use some. I follow no single style.

[tekproxy]

I want to fight this guy so bad.

[cheneyxxxxx]

oh mann!-bullshitttt!!!

[wolfofgoldxx]

damn ninja you scary

[11Kralle]

This was the show-event of the WT-Union between two british Linieages and the EWTO.

Sifu Pfaff shows off on purpose - those who think, that this was a demonstration of the WT-System should consider his opinion and watch for the term `advertisement´ in his dictionary.

I would like to have the skill and trust of Sifu Pfaffs Partner appreciated, but some dont - as it appears.

[MichaelDescado]

Wow! Nice and slow and choreographed.... like a real fight!

Oh wait, I mean the opposite of that.

[JDMNaturia]

18 people got their heads snapped by that guy.

[StudioGraficoRotator]

fantastico!!!!!!wonderfull!!!!­

[malhensreturn]

humbug.

hier zu sehen opfer und täter,

[MrSavoro2]

People r commenting on something they obviously do not understand! I have been to his seminars and I can tell this guy is doing WT but has only different teaching methods then most of WT schools. I would like everyone who says he is crap and fake to go to train with him and even challenge him...U would immediately change ur opinion. He is one of the best sifus I ever met. And he is very, very educated regarding martial arts. And he does not disrespect other martial arts like you guys r doing. 

[S3TPROGRAM]

@MrSavoro2 totally agree.

[schorfonkel]

A person showing concepts not techniques, thats what i like him for

[Incubated81]

sieht toll aus und ist schnell, aber mich als fan der eher "westlichen" kampkünste würde echt interessieren wie sich jemand mit einem solchen kampfstil gegen nen guten ringer macht, das wären mal zwei echte gegensätze (auch wenn man beim kung fu nicht selten "kontakt" hat und die bewegungen des gegners spürt im vergleich zu karate oder tae kwon do), würde ich so was gern mal sehen. schätze mal bei so was kommt die kraft wohl eher aus der bewegung, als direkt aus den muckies und den hebeln

[GonG108]

welche grad hat denn der pfaff sehe den das erste mal der hat sein eigenes ding entwickelt schön zu sehen, ich kenne jetzt avci stile , boztepe stile und nun pfaff

[OopsAiee]

good art, but not martiall

[doodoopebbles]

and what is martial?

[tutanota]

tiene una tecnica increible pero es demaciado show para mi gusto

[cmoruk94]

Sifu Paff = the best Sifu i have seen!!

[vamost3o]

this isnt a master his an actor

[Asmodi666]

lol pfaff is one of the best of germans wt artists

[bervlit]

Nice dress!

[hiltibrandt]

chinese pyjamas. no joke!

[Nexuss3]

very very nic but Leung Ting is better xD

[hcdub]

Chuck Norris would knock this flamboyant fairy out with a roundhouse kick.

[tezoAZ]

Is he in a some kind of Hollywood movie?

[Achilles1987]

Sifu Heinrich Pfaff is a very talented WingTsun master. Actually one of the most talented I have ever seen.

[fredsta786]

simply superb, 1 day i will be dat good, but YEARS of hard trainin await, but im up 4 it!! :-)

[p1rvorodniqbrat]

Of course it's Wing Tsun ,Great WC !

[Wingtsuninpo]

i can't stop watching this vid... haha i only hope to be half as good as him one day...

all of you who think that isnt wing tsun just dont understand what they are seeing. at the begining he his doing the wooden dummy form as an air drill. idk about some of those kicks though. i mean i see a lot of Chi-Gurk. but who knows, if he can do it then more power to him.

and if you think that those aren't centerline attacks then you REALLY dont understand WT

[MartinZ123]

The most of the technics which he use in the Video are from the Biu Tze form at last he use some Wooden dummy and chi-gerk parts

[021554171]

niceeeeeeeeeee video .. what's the first song pleaz ?

[dkay88]

Ich finde die Bewegungen machen das eher etwas affig und bringen den charakter des VT nicht richtig rüber. es sind unnötige bewegungen und fuchteleien die nicht dazu passen, klar es ist eine show und demo, vll macht er das nur hier so. finde seine kicks auf jeden fall klasse. seine schlagtechniken...eher gewöhnungsbedürftig.

[BLADDERCUP]

Check out Kevin Chan Wing Chun. What style is this idiot doing? No centre line attacks and hes there slapping and doing spin back kicks. Wow! What a fraud. I would chain punch him into reality...........

[FelixBeinhart]

lol

[BLADDERCUP]

do u speak english? do u agree with my comment?

[dulaziom]

u r a idiot this is a demo

[BLADDERCUP]

A very crap unrealistic demo yes! Why demo something that is crap wing chun? And why dress like your out of a kung fu movie? This guy is an idiot and so are you....

[2orthodox]

That is fancy Wing Chun.Its good but I think this sifu is using too complicated moves.

[Exeta]

oo greatz

[bekesi13]

szánalmas...

[xDHeReDeFuNbEgInSxP]

heinrich pfaff macht hat doch jetzt seinen eigenen stil entwickelt...young tjun...

[MaKePi1983]

Ist doch nur ne Demo und Show. Ich habe auch mal eine Zeitlang gedacht, es gibt gar keine hohen Tritte. Aber lies mal auf der EWTO Seite den Beitrag "Die Formen liefern nicht die Buchstaben und Chi-Sao nicht nur den Leim".

[tarabyaliaslan]

der hat ja hohe tritte aber in wt gibts normaler weise keinen hohen tritt aber es schaut super aus und effecktif respeckt

[MaKePi1983]

One of the best Wing Tsun videos on youtube!

[wingtsun20]

All posts who direspect the CAT get deleted!!!!

[dragenzX]

Who is your sifu? Are you in the states or are you in Europe?

[Oieieiei]

Watch this crazy stuff!!!

These maniacs are totall nuts!!!

You won`t believe it!!

Amazing

"TAONAMICS - Kampfsystem"

[wingtsun20]

Prob is everyone here sees what is going but because they are not the same level as the person in the video they will never fully understand what is goin on!! :-) :p

[seast91]

You know what I love about you tube? The fact that nearly every video of any of the martial arts is footnoted by comments about how bad they are and how much better something else is. Most of them written by bad mouthed morons. If some of you guys were as good as you thik you are then we'd be atching videos of you on here...

[hiltibrandt]

he´s great, i was a few times in his lessons when he visited my sifu.

[wingtsun20]

He taught my sifu 10 years ago full time. Will always look up to him..

the cat...

[FormlessJoe]

Pfaff is the real deal. I was completely amazed to see him work/teach and have to say that for such an incredible fighter he is one of the nicest fellows I have ever come across. If you ever have the chance to work with him, do it.

[husteek]

Mr. Heirich Remember that other people can attack you back. They are not your obdient students.

[ctackett]

i saw sifu pfaff switch from crane, thai boxing, wrestling, karate, and a few other animal styles without stopping, it was all continous.  he did the same 4 movements, nook sao, with all of them. i've never seen anything like it. i still can't believe it. amazing. it just shows there is no style it is all the same. just how you do it.

[ctackett]

i think he can do anything as far as martial arts goes. this looks video looks most like the crane stuff he did if that helps you guys figure out what style he is doing lol.

[YongTjunTrainer]

Sifu Pfaff's U.S. Seminars in San Antonio and San Francisco...message me or click my name to see link...

[JustGuess500]

He wears such a pretty dress and dances so well. I wish I was half a good a dancer as he is in this video.

[theoldboxer]

he moves well

[tonglongTony]

What the hell is this crp. Utterly disregarding all the basic principles that make Wingchun actually effective.

[ctackett]

it is a demonstration. read the title.

[tonglongTony]

Fair enough, title says martial arts... descriptions says WT though. And that ain't WT. Bits of it are.

[ctackett]

oh my screen shows heinrich pfaff martial arts demonstration

[tonglongTony]

I suggest you get a bigger screen then, one that doesn't cut off the 'about this video' description to the right of the video. Then you won't have to debate things you obviously can't see.

[ctackett]

i dont know what you are saying. your first post says what the hell is this crap. i replied its a demo. on my screen it says demo on the title and the about this video on the right.

[serbokroate]

heinrich du bist voll die schwuchtel. du möchtegern chinese verpiss dich du flasche. emin fickt deine mutter.

[Fastlan3]

Jsampras3, WT may look like Slappy Fights in demonstration, But there is much understood the same in this style as in Muay Thai and BJJ. If you took true competitors of these styles, they would agree on much the same. But the truth is there is a place for everything. Much of WC has been sought after for show, but many of the theory's and concepts are deeply in-bedded in other martial arts, that includes the styles you mentioned.

[jsampras3]

Wow _ing _un is awesome if you want to have slappy fights and punch some hat tree wooden things.

Man if only i could use it to fight. . . Oh well, back to Muay Thai and BJJ for me i guess :( Maybe we can "discover" t3h r33l BJJ slapfighting.

[JayBlueSummers]

Wing chun isn't entirely about slap-fighting. It employs the technique known as fa-jing. Unfortunately if you over-train this technique it damages joints thus it is not used in demonstrations due to it's effectiveness and danger of inflicting damage on your opponent.

[Nomad101]

what? fajing damaging the joints? how?

[JayBlueSummers]

Because of the bodys make-up if you use fajing without hitting your pulling on joints in the wrong way and force itself rips on the tendons and muscles.

[wingtsun20]

he is hittin him but with control... other got a fat bruise on his face after he was kicked in the face!

[kickmasta]

wing chun.. one the most efficient non flashy fighting system in the world..and also the only one made by a woman ;-)

[WT650]

Classic clip. Still looks good after all these years.

[BLADDERCUP]

yeh but this is flashy crap! i study wing chun and we would never use those slappy non centre line strikes this fake was doing. Hes a wanna be!!!!!!!

[p1rvorodniqbrat]

U are a TARD !

[BLADDERCUP]

U are fool!!!! hahaha lol

[iloveesr]

When looking at a Wing Tsun being practiced or demonstrated, it's easy to miss the effectiveness of it. WT is not a sport, so it cannot be demonstrated by way of awarding points. It has no acrobatics, and so often it not look as impressive as some other martial arts.

I can understand why someone may call it a "stupid martial art", as they clearly have no knowledge of the art, and are just watching someone demonstrate it.

[YongTjunTrainer]

I'm one of Sifu Pfaff's students and the only YT teacher in the US. I'm in San Antonio, Texas. I'd like to prove any BJJ guys wrong about traditional WT or YT. BJJ is a sport with rules, it fails in real combat.

[monji112000]

hmm just go and MMA.

[ikokujin]

How do you explain Royce Gracie in early UFC, then? Back then, UFC was close to "real combat", except it's only 1vs1, whereas in reality, you might have multiple opponents. In that case, BJJ fails, of course.

[testobooster]

hoch lebe mein sifu heinrich :)

[ctackett]

Sifu Pfaff has been doing martial arts since he was 12. He is like almost 40 now. He taught at the castle 8 hours a day 6 days a week for many years. Then he would train his stuff on top of that. He is also very good in escrima and can switch back and forth between the two with ease. Actually I have seen him switch from Wrestling to Boxing to Muay Thai to Chinese animal styles.

Many of you will say you can beat him up. But you have not.

[ctackett]

Sifu Pfaff lives in Germany. He just left the organization. Alot of other schools want to join him. He is very busy. I think the instructor from Austria is a little confused about what to teach. That stuff is for beginning students and can be added to everything else in the normal programs. For example if it deals with knees and elbows it would go into student level 5 program.

[RipRabbo]

That's one of the most hilarious videos I've ever seen. It's a fucking mockery, seriously.

As for the guy that said Mr. Pfaff would "whip" up anyone in MMA, well, why doesn't he? Practically everything he did in this video would be allowed in the major promotions.

And before someone accuses me of MMA elitism: I practise a traditional art myself.

[Siracuza]

Hahaha! Check this out: www.yongtjun.at

[Siracuza]

He has LatSao programms with big boxing gloves...And the biggest problem: no sparring.Now I'm not sayin' he's not a good technician or even a good fighter,but unfortunately he also chooses to be firstly a salesman.Too bad.

[Siracuza]

Pfaff didn't left EWTO ''a few years ago'' - he started his own organization at the beginning of 2005. And you do know what's the deal with his sistem - but I do. And it's not something nice.In 6 months he showed 3 different Siu Lim Tao, he's always changing it.The last one looks like freakin' shaolin or something.I think he's inspiring from some of the ''mainland China'' Wing Chun branches.Wider movements and muscle force.

[wingtsun20]

Jugger if you feel like that then goto Germany and challenge the guy and see how you get on! :-)

[juggernaughty]

Speaking from 8 years of Muay thai and 3 years of wrestling/ brazilian jiu jitsu, I know for a fact that I would be able to pound that guy like he was a little kid. Martial arts like that are so fucking inneficient. Pretty, but thats about it. I've gone to plenty of dojo's and had my rough and ready group fight against their leaders and stuff, and its always the same... Domination. Sorry, this stuff just doesnt work.

[jkdsifu06]

the actual deal is in infight he would beat u even on the ground just at kicking distance u might have a chance.. n i dont think hes that good n just 2 say it i did wt,muay t,ju j,boxing,chines boxing,n savate i can kill u P

[awakenedstream]

what would a demo from your rough and tumble group look like? (cuz this is a demo, and extremely exagerrated so that the audience can see. any good fighter would know that you cant judge a book by its cover.)

[wingtsun20]

Heinrich Pfaff left EWTO a few years back so I don't know how he is running his own system!!

[Siracuza]

In Austria. And I also attended 2 seminars with H. Pfaff.Impressive speed, great sensitivity - but nothing free. The assistents are tryin' to hit in the beginnning - but not too convincing - and then they become ''flesh&bones dummies''.Too much time spent in EWTO (the no sparring-land).

[wingtsun20]

Where did you study YongTjun too..?

[Siracuza]

The teacher himself said that all the drills from level 1-3 are just ''preparation ''.And guess what?We never go further - even guys with one year in the school, they are still doin' the 1-3 programms.And those drills you do them empty handed for 15 minutes and another 20 min. with big boxing gloves.Siu Lim Tao we do once in a week, one time - and only the first section.And when I asked the teacher about sparring, he said we have too many drills to train, there's no time for sparring.

[GregoryWS]

Wow.. you need a better teacher.

[Siracuza]

Question for you ''SifuVT'': do u know what's the training like in Pfaff Yong Tjun?More than 20 minutes of warming up - including push-ups, stretching and some soccer-type jumps ( but they call this Leopard Step, tiger step, snake step, crane step).And then you have everytime the same 3 or four drills from Pak Sao flow - stuff that instead of helping, they give you dangerous habits - like trying to stop a hook with inside Pak Sao.

[Siracuza]

A demo like this made me join one of his schools.I wasted 6 months training on this shite - and still have to pay for the classes till december (although I'm not attenting anymore) - because you must sign a contract for an year when u join. And -yeah - I was dumb enough to sign it...

[SifuVT]

Well. It depends on the individual training and self devotion to the aystem of WT. If someone never train his forms and sit watching some videos, he can never learn.

[chainpuncher]

Yeah, some people just don't get it...try something basic like TKD (by the way, contracts do suck)

[wingtsun20]

It's a demo... If it was a fight demo it would be a BLUR and pointless for the un trained EYE to watch.....

[maximsonia]

beautiful... true beautiful... scary stuff... he just may be able to knock the skin off a rice pudding... but thats all

[SifuVT]

MMA suits the ring. Wing Chun is for the street. Those UFC fighters are used to submision skills and takedowns. Real fights go in seconds, you get hit and you are dead. Wing Chun will always be the best in speed and borrowing your opponent force against him.

[Sokaku]

Blabla "wing chun is for the street". I don't know how many times I've heard that shitty argument. What makes _ing_un better than MMA firstly?It's "chi sao" or it's forms and various drills?OR IT'S FUCKING LACK OF SPARRING AND ALIVENESS maybe? And what makes you think that a profighter who trains and fight all the time, and compete against other pro fighters (with minimal rules),would have more problems than a wing chuner who does nothing but DRILLS and forms shit? Are you retarded or something?

[chainpuncher]

How many pro fighters is the average martial arts guy going to encounter on the street? Wing tsun is self protection for the everyday person. You don't have to be some roided up gorilla to maske it work like in MMA

[RipRabbo]

It's been proven over and over again that being a "roided up gorilla" is NOT enough to win in MMA against quality opposition.

The only opponents the "gorillas" can beat in MMA seem to actually be guys like those demonstrating in this video.

Not a single top fighter, and very few lower-class fighers, succeed in MMA using physical power alone. All of them train technique rigoriously, and most of them have prior training in other martial sports.

[hiddenintheREED]

hmm, nothing but drills and forms? lat sao and chi sao are in many ways fighting, not drills or forms. i'm only in pg.5 and its still way more powerful and alive than any other art I've trainned in.

[tillerbear]

Yeah its a good Demo. Theres some cool Biu Tze strikes in there.

[statiklingon]

Dead forms, scripted patterns. This is beautiful in the same way ballet is beautiful, but it is not fighting.

[lucari]

impresive, ..hmm, i wonder where he got those robes, i want some...

but it's a lil disappointing not to see some chinese ppl wearing these and doing the demonstration..

[pooeater69]

yeh i he must be great especially because his opponent resists so much! I also like how his opponent doesn't fake falling to the ground from blows that don't actually land, oh and also how he telegraphs every blow thats coming as well as even jumping from a fake palm uppercut...amazing

[chainpuncher]

give me a break!what's he supposed to do, kill him???IT'S A DEMO!

[cloud0123]

.....I love CMA and all, but you guys are dellusional if you think he will beat anyone in MMA/UFC, and I don't even like MMA that much.

[SifuVT]

Why, what makes MMA so special in your opinion. Wing Tsun is very direct and faster than MMA techniques. Some people goes for the looks of people. They think being aggressive looking and big muscled is the whole thing. Wing Chun is borrowing force and the bigger the opponent, the more power can be used against him.

[Sokaku]

What makes MMA so special? MMA fighters are professional fighters that train every GODDAMN days, plus they undergo a serious diet and they do musculation. That's the first thing that makes these MMAers WAY better than 99.9999% of the _ing_uners.The second and most important thing is that they CROSS-TRAIN in different arts.Usually BJJ muay thai and wrestling._ing_un is already crappy, so it wouldn't be able to do shit against a pro MMA fighter.

[wingtsun20]

Go find a Practioner in WingTsun a Master 5th and above and get him to hit you with Bui Tze... Then you will understand... For all those people that think it looks kak.. Well in the demo he can't go full on cos he'd kill the guy or he'd end up smashed to pieces...

[wingtsun20]

He was nicknamed the CAT and he taught my instructor at Langenzell castle in Germany for 3 1/2 years full time... I was happy to achieve my Technician there! :p

[sihing]

i have been to one of his seminars and he moves faster then is on the clip and he yes would whip on anyone in a mma or ufc because if you really knew your stuff you would be able to see how clean he moves and from feeling first hand. he is holding back alot!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dustbag]

Excellant Martial arts.