Sorry , Sifu is the cantonese chinese way of saying teacher , but in mandarin chinese i believe you spell it shifu. Sorry , if this caused any confusion !
At the root of Shaolin you will find the teachings of the Buddha. Before Shaolin, or Kung Fu, there was only the Way. And the Way is said to open up the more you practice and tame the mind. Perhaps you will not be as flexible as someone who has trained from a very young age, but you can certainly be as accomplished. You could even be a teacher to Shaolin. It is a matter of will. Follow the Way.
Perhaps it is encouraging to know that Kung Fu did not exist, once. It was one person who understood the Way. Who could see clearly that which is hidden from many, through practice and perseverance. Shaolin is, in the end, only a name. Real Kung Fu comes from within and cannot be taught by form alone.
A hint to help you on Your Way may be found by meditating on these three internal principles, pulled down from Wudang Xing Yi Quan:
* Heart synchronizes with mind
* Mind synchronizes with internal energy
* Internal energy synchronizes with power
I myself find these three principles intriguing. And believe there is great truth to be found if one adheres to the first principle alone. The second and third should come naturally, with enough practice.
como bien dicen estos en ingles, con una buena patada en los huevos se le quitaban todas las tonterías, lo dice uno que sabe full contact, y cuando la pillas... duele!
I think shen chang has the problem. Wu shu was created by taking all the best bits out of shaolin and other styles adding some acrobatics and hence why they call wu shu national art. Do you think monks just do backflips etc because they look good. Xiaotiemo keep up the good work.
doing the splits have nothing to do with your balls, its all about the stretchyness of your thigh joints and muscles, and shaolin monks do training to strengthen all the vital and weak parts of their body, even their nuts, if you kicked them there and they where focused i t would probrably not hurt them
its really not about his split? HE LANDED ON HIS BALLS...That means your body weight landin on your family jewels at 9.8 meters per second. your nutts ain't meant to go through shit like that.
but yeah this video's greaaaaaaaaaat. his whirlwind kick (tornado kick 540) is sooo high. if anybody knows the leg excercises they do to make their jumping kicks that high. pleeaaase tell me. thank you =)
He`s fought competatively around the world, is widely respected as a fighter, though probably has no ambition to don a pair of speedos and sit on some blokes face in a cage...
That seems more a mental American activity.
Yep, they train hard, encorporate Buddhism into their daily doings, and base themselves in the Temples around Song Shang. Defines a Shaolin monk to me anyway.
Maybe to some people only Gordon Lui is true Shaolin.
So whats the problem? Matial practitioners fled the temple from Chank Kei Chek's army, from what I know, and carried on their arts in a less obvious way.
There is a monk here, from the Song Shang Temple, in London, Shi Yanze.
I guess, you don't have any knowledge about shaolin monks, Zhang Li Peng (shi xing peng) is one of the most famous monks in the shaolin temple. maybe you should do more research about him first before call him fake, see the movie SHAOLIN UlYSSES, documentary about 5 monks living in US, or documentary called THIS IS KUNG FU, with Jet Li and him, check Kung Fu magazine, or you can just type his name in GOOGLE.COM or you can go to China, like I did and talck to the real monks about him.
Been to the Shaolin Temple museum a couple of times. Saw Shaolin Ulysses; interesting. Saw This Is Kung Fu. The martial artists in that one have better technique than the ones in Shaolin Ulysses because they come from professional schools. There haven't been any martial monks at the temple in at least 30 years (although there are meditative monks. Ask Jet Li, who was there for several years from the late 70's to the mid-80's.
This is standard contemporary wushu combining changquan and ditanquan. Been to the Shaolin Temple museum a couple of times. Seen Shaolin Ulysses; the "monks" are very athletic. Seen This Is Kung Fu. The martial artists in that one have better technique because they are professionals. There haven't been any martial monks at the temple in at least 30 years (although there are now meditative monks there). Ask Jet Li, who spent several years there from the late 70's to the mid-80's.
I've seen that trick done up close a couple of times at the Shaolin Temple. It's a neat trick, but if you try to grab the bowl in such a way that it can be easily removed, one of the helpers will stop you and make you grab it by the bottom and pull straight back. This way, it's almost guaranteed not to come off. Not qi, but simple physics, as is the trick of being held in the air by 5 spears or breaking a spear with the throat.
I agree, this is standard contemporary wushu. Just a bunch of flash and little real traditional shaolin techniques. Didnt the monks normally practice Lohan Boxing at the temples before this wushu crap.
they had flips and stuff too the government didnt just make up wushu intirely they just watered down a lot of the forms to create wushu forms but whether these guys are doing doing or even real monks i dont know so i cant say any more on the matter
best shaolin monk I've ever seen never seen anyone close to his skil
Ihdc1 3 weeks ago
FYI everybody shifu is spelled sifu in some places but the shaolin pronounce it shifu
Ihdc1 6 months ago
HE IS READY FOR MMA
latincuteguy83 7 months ago
I knew that "shifu" or "sifu" was the name of a chinese martial arts master, not a circus art master...
Matamune87 7 months ago
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MrCHDP 1 year ago
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You idiot, that aint how you spell Si Fu. You dumbass.
MalikBarrow16 3 years ago
Sorry , Sifu is the cantonese chinese way of saying teacher , but in mandarin chinese i believe you spell it shifu. Sorry , if this caused any confusion !
XiaoLinLong 3 years ago
Shifu did this on Eurosport and in other performances
XiaoLinLong 3 years ago
wish i was shaolin
cones2005 4 years ago
@cones2005
At the root of Shaolin you will find the teachings of the Buddha. Before Shaolin, or Kung Fu, there was only the Way. And the Way is said to open up the more you practice and tame the mind. Perhaps you will not be as flexible as someone who has trained from a very young age, but you can certainly be as accomplished. You could even be a teacher to Shaolin. It is a matter of will. Follow the Way.
colaFRank 1 year ago
@cones2005
Perhaps it is encouraging to know that Kung Fu did not exist, once. It was one person who understood the Way. Who could see clearly that which is hidden from many, through practice and perseverance. Shaolin is, in the end, only a name. Real Kung Fu comes from within and cannot be taught by form alone.
imo
colaFRank 1 year ago
@cones2005
A hint to help you on Your Way may be found by meditating on these three internal principles, pulled down from Wudang Xing Yi Quan:
* Heart synchronizes with mind
* Mind synchronizes with internal energy
* Internal energy synchronizes with power
I myself find these three principles intriguing. And believe there is great truth to be found if one adheres to the first principle alone. The second and third should come naturally, with enough practice.
Again, imo.
colaFRank 1 year ago
como bien dicen estos en ingles, con una buena patada en los huevos se le quitaban todas las tonterías, lo dice uno que sabe full contact, y cuando la pillas... duele!
Lumgarto 4 years ago
he's a pretty spiffy person =)
and those other people who commented...eehh okay ??
he's like superrr de duper' flexible (no freakin' way)
meguchan0923 4 years ago
well, it's still close enough. but hey, he's shaolin.
ironman36 4 years ago
Master Zhang Li Peng was my master too when he was still living in The Netherlands =)
you are very lucky to have him as your master ^_^
RyanL3 4 years ago
I think shen chang has the problem. Wu shu was created by taking all the best bits out of shaolin and other styles adding some acrobatics and hence why they call wu shu national art. Do you think monks just do backflips etc because they look good. Xiaotiemo keep up the good work.
tavmymarker 5 years ago
thanks
xiaotiemo 4 years ago
random drunken back fall w00t (55 seconds in)
wushujake 5 years ago
you guys see that split? Man, these shaolin monks have no regards for their balls!
ironman36 5 years ago
doing the splits have nothing to do with your balls, its all about the stretchyness of your thigh joints and muscles, and shaolin monks do training to strengthen all the vital and weak parts of their body, even their nuts, if you kicked them there and they where focused i t would probrably not hurt them
miztamikeSUSINO 4 years ago
miztamike,
its really not about his split? HE LANDED ON HIS BALLS...That means your body weight landin on your family jewels at 9.8 meters per second. your nutts ain't meant to go through shit like that.
ironman36 4 years ago
he lands on his heel then his calf, his balls barely even hit the ground, watch it carefully
miztamikeSUSINO 4 years ago
Miztamike, Im not talkin about the splits, im talkin about him landin on his family jewels.
ironman36 4 years ago
real cool
does somebody has the
Shaolin Xiao Gong form on tape?
not the xiao hong quan i mean
thnx
g
g888 5 years ago
moonhoolie's got a good point.
but yeah this video's greaaaaaaaaaat. his whirlwind kick (tornado kick 540) is sooo high. if anybody knows the leg excercises they do to make their jumping kicks that high. pleeaaase tell me. thank you =)
kfboi03 5 years ago
2 of the 5 warrior
Monks are In Houston Texas
steeldrone1 5 years ago
He`s fought competatively around the world, is widely respected as a fighter, though probably has no ambition to don a pair of speedos and sit on some blokes face in a cage...
That seems more a mental American activity.
Yep, they train hard, encorporate Buddhism into their daily doings, and base themselves in the Temples around Song Shang. Defines a Shaolin monk to me anyway.
Maybe to some people only Gordon Lui is true Shaolin.
moonhoolie 5 years ago
So whats the problem? Matial practitioners fled the temple from Chank Kei Chek's army, from what I know, and carried on their arts in a less obvious way.
There is a monk here, from the Song Shang Temple, in London, Shi Yanze.
moonhoolie 5 years ago
Ah, these diehard armchair experts...
These cycles of doom and oblivion are nothing new in the history of the temple, and each time it comes back together and goes on as before.
Its admirable.
And they practice forms and techniques handed down from fecking hundreds of years back.
moonhoolie 5 years ago
Very athletic. Technique is not as good as the professionals, but one of the better fake monks I've seen.
taijiguy 5 years ago
I guess, you don't have any knowledge about shaolin monks, Zhang Li Peng (shi xing peng) is one of the most famous monks in the shaolin temple. maybe you should do more research about him first before call him fake, see the movie SHAOLIN UlYSSES, documentary about 5 monks living in US, or documentary called THIS IS KUNG FU, with Jet Li and him, check Kung Fu magazine, or you can just type his name in GOOGLE.COM or you can go to China, like I did and talck to the real monks about him.
xiaotiemo 5 years ago
Been to the Shaolin Temple museum a couple of times. Saw Shaolin Ulysses; interesting. Saw This Is Kung Fu. The martial artists in that one have better technique than the ones in Shaolin Ulysses because they come from professional schools. There haven't been any martial monks at the temple in at least 30 years (although there are meditative monks. Ask Jet Li, who was there for several years from the late 70's to the mid-80's.
taijiguy 5 years ago
This is standard contemporary wushu combining changquan and ditanquan. Been to the Shaolin Temple museum a couple of times. Seen Shaolin Ulysses; the "monks" are very athletic. Seen This Is Kung Fu. The martial artists in that one have better technique because they are professionals. There haven't been any martial monks at the temple in at least 30 years (although there are now meditative monks there). Ask Jet Li, who spent several years there from the late 70's to the mid-80's.
taijiguy 5 years ago
so, Zhang Li Peng was in Shaolin Ulysses and in This is kung fu, he was the one with the bowl on the stomach
xiaotiemo 5 years ago
I've seen that trick done up close a couple of times at the Shaolin Temple. It's a neat trick, but if you try to grab the bowl in such a way that it can be easily removed, one of the helpers will stop you and make you grab it by the bottom and pull straight back. This way, it's almost guaranteed not to come off. Not qi, but simple physics, as is the trick of being held in the air by 5 spears or breaking a spear with the throat.
taijiguy 5 years ago
I agree, this is standard contemporary wushu. Just a bunch of flash and little real traditional shaolin techniques. Didnt the monks normally practice Lohan Boxing at the temples before this wushu crap.
redsamuraidragon 5 years ago
they had flips and stuff too the government didnt just make up wushu intirely they just watered down a lot of the forms to create wushu forms but whether these guys are doing doing or even real monks i dont know so i cant say any more on the matter
xKonvictx 5 years ago
you have some real problem of knowledge on the real TRADITIONAL monks!!!
ShenChang 5 years ago
my message was for xiaotiemo!
ShenChang 5 years ago
I don't think i have a problem, I even been in shaolin and know monks, and my shifu is one of the famous monks, everybody knows him in the temple.
xiaotiemo 5 years ago
Great
kungfu1st 5 years ago