American Shaolin: Kickboxing

[Timmy4pawz]

im learning/training sanda atm, great video

[Intilo]

weeeena!!!! nice and clean techniques!!!!

saludos desde chile

[MatthewPolly]

@Intilo Gracias.

Mateo Polly

[RectaRatio1540]

That was by far the best sanda I've ever seen.

[MatthewPolly]

@RectaRatio1540

Thanks, mate.

[AkatsukiPR0]

I liked the part with sanda.

[ThisGuy9508]

I just finished reading your book! It was great! I took about 4 years of Tae Kwon Do, but I've been out of it for 2 years now. I wish i was still in it...

[katsunogi02]

i read your book and im glad i picked it up it was funny and enlightening at the same time .

[MatthewPolly]

Amituofo

[goudmol15]

which book do you mean?

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

everybody was sanda fighting

[mthai66]

Awesome. Do you have any more footage?

[roflman79]

1.30 - is that the part where your opponent from the final accidentally hit the Japanese fighter and broke his nose? Sanda looks hardcore.

[MatthewPolly]

Ha! No, this was a tournament the day after mine. I was lucky enough to have survived in sufficient shape to videotape it. Sanda is pretty hardcore.

[taoistwarrior]

That was a great sweep on 0:19. The guy was like "Yea I'm going to puch you dead in your face. Super Punn..."

Then wham the guy swept his leg. LOL.

[zahnpastatube33]

damn the fighting style looks ugly. but it seems to be effective. .

[stephew01]

Thanks for sharing these. A friend in Karate class recommended your book and it was really engaging. It's great to see clips of the people and techniques you write about.

[Pawnz0r]

Oh, so these are the matches from the time period of your book? Awesome. This wouldn't be the tournament you entered, would it?

[MatthewPolly]

Good question. No this tournament took place in the Shaolin village the day after the Zheng Zhou tournament in September of 1993. Only Chinese students from local schools were allowed to enter out of concern for the safety of foreign fighters. The promoters banned the chest protection that is normal in San Shou tournaments. A number of fighters were carried off on stretchers from accidental knees to the solar plexus. I was glad to be an observer.

[Pawnz0r]

Thanks for the reply. You should post on Gene's KFM forums again, Matt. We need decent people over there now that's it's become an MMA vs. TMA battleground.

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

there is no mma vs tma dichotemy its just retards vs smart ppl

[Pawnz0r]

How recent were these matches, Matt?

[MatthewPolly]

I filmed this in 1993. So it was awhile ago.

[uir4felipe]

i do muay thai, but i love sanshou/sanda, its great :D

nive vid.

[MatthewPolly]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I've taken Muay Thai as well. It's a beautiful art.

[efficiency27]

Since Shaolin Monks train in different forms, is Sanda what they would use for practical self defense? (with the addition of strikes to the vital points of course)

[MatthewPolly]

It depended. Most of the monks considered sanda to be the most efficient form of fighting. But there were some who still preferred to use only traditional techniques. And there was one or two who adapted modern wushu gymnastics to fighting situations.

[pnshmntmma4life]

looks very similar to Lei Thai

[ironandsilk]

yea, lei tai is the name of the platform they fight on. lei tai refers to the sport sanda.

[dalesalsa]

Great footage of sanda.

Who is that guy at 1:21 that went down? And who is the guy that punched him? He hit him with a Left Hook AND Left Roundhouse to the body right?

[MatthewPolly]

I didn't know those guys personally. But yes it was a left hook and left roundhouse.

[theshadowboy607]

nice

[lborowai]

Sparring is the best way to learn ur weaknesses, to me sparring is not about winnind, its about learning!

[bowegie]

Doesn't stop some people with a good lawyer.

[volt209]

Law suits? But isn't there a contract and a waiver you sign before you train?

[MatthewPolly]

a waiver can't stop a lawsuit.

[bowegie]

thanks. My teachers are great guys and have been doing it since before they knew their abc's.^.^

[bowegie]

We spar at my school all the time, just not bare knuckle and I'm from NY. Not all of us wusses.

[MatthewPolly]

I didn't mean to suggest that there weren't a number of schools in the US that had a lot of sparring. I just think there should be more. It's good to hear that your school is serious about its training. You're lucky.

[MatthewPolly]

glad you liked it. i agree totally. sparring is the key to getting better but the fear of lawsuits prevent schools from using it enough.

[davetherave209]

nice to see people posting san shou fights on the net. It is an honourable and fantastic format of sparring. I spar san hou at my local class. I agree that lawsuits and all the rage about health and safety are destroying one of the most traditional ways of sparring kung fu

[Shroomzz]

i dun get it r they monks?

[MatthewPolly]

No, these guys are not monks. They are students of the monks. Teenage boys who studied kickboxing at the Shaolin Temple.