Shifu Yan Lei demonstrating Shaolin steel jacket

[itsabomberscope]

He hates those bricks! ;o)

[redheaddavey]

Monk: KICK ME IN THE JIMMY!!!!!

[SilverLion567]

@afreiden you obviously haven't heard of chi gong that shaolin monks practise, which muay thai doesnt include.

[cartesio81]

If i punch him i break my hand i think!!!

[glutaminepowder]

lol hes beating off 

[XxTBOMBERxX]

ahahahah first nation kung fu people

[fiendin281]

all those people that criticize him just don't know jack and are all ignorant haters. He's trained all his life and his entire life is dedicated to training and martial arts, why is there any reason to doubt his abilities. he's not even showing this to show off, just to inform in a very humble way yet there are still all these dumbass haters out there talking shit for nothing. you should all go challenge him in real life or just shut the fuck up. thank you.

[TheSUBGAMER]

1.this aint shaolin,just look at him,too much muscles

2.go in the cage if you are so dangerous,prove there how tough you are

[wopsang]

@TheSUBGAMER you really have no idea what you are talking about

[TheSUBGAMER]

@wopsang ok my friend

[wopsang]

@wopsang Its cool, us Chinese AND North Americans don't expect a Mexican to understand

[MrnothingTR]

real life krillin Respect Shifu yan lei !

[hooperqi]

For a person that doesn't eat meat he sure is buff. Is a shaolin monk allowed to have sex given his religious beliefs?

[nils4545]

@hooperqi You can be buffed without eating meat. Having sex is not allowed. :)

[nimbusjules]

Awesome Iron body Training. Cant train chin though....

[thefabledleviathan]

@nimbusjules look up dim mak, i've seen old chinese guys uppercutting themselves over and over again. functional? not sure, however... i'd imagine they eat teeth for breakfast

[CampinBush]

The best martial artist in the world he is.

[Johnwingchun]

@CampinBush - for some reason I can only read your comment in the voice of Yoda - "Best martial artist in the world he is" lol

[shiifu]

is he teaching steel jacket?

[MaharlikaAWA]

How does this guy get ripped? does he lift weights? or does he do other stuff?

[ahxingmrelectro990]

@MaharlikaAWA he do shaolin kung fu

[MaharlikaAWA]

@ahxingmrelectro990 So does he lift weights?

[ahxingmrelectro990]

@MaharlikaAWA i don't know he have because chinese shaolin kung fu training style is insane... the lift weight is too junior for him i think

[Johnwingchun]

@MaharlikaAWA I asked him once if he lifts weights and he said no, his body is just from his Qi gong, martial arts training and body training such as push ups etc

[CampinBush]

@Johnwingchun What the hell is Qi Gong, I wanna learn that.

[MaharlikaAWA]

@Johnwingchun I find that hard to believe. Im pretty sure at one point in his life he had lifted weights, or lifted something heavy around his training area to get so buff.

[MechPhantom]

FUCKING REAL SHAOLIN KUNG FU !!! NOT SHIT PERFORMANCE shaolin wushu stuff, that are super useless in fight and will get the monk killed. This is the real deal !!

[afreiden]

The only thing remotely impressive about this demo were the kicks to the side of the arm. Muay thai conditioning is a lot more intense than this. If you all think that taking a 3 oz. stick to your body is more impressive than taking a 20 lb (320 oz) shin, then we have a problem.. A monk nuthugger sent me to this video to impress me. Is that the best y'all got? 

[chicoscisuckscushe]

@afreiden OK!OK!OK!OK!OK!OK..IF MUAY THAI is alot more intense you schedule a fight and fight him with your muay thay shin...

[Elbottoo]

@afreiden and yet, you wouldnt last 5 seconds in the ring with him.

[WCcontactDLR]

@afreiden lol i practice Muay Thai but i still have way more respect to the shaoilin monks than Thai fighters because of how honnerable they are and the training and skill they recieve. i love muay thai, i really do. but the shaolin monks training is much more intense than any other fighter's training out there. if you really want to see thier training, copy and paste this. Myths & Logic Of Shaolin Monks Pt 1. whach parts 1 through5. PS: and this is not even a quater of the training they recieve

[SSHIFUU]

Yan Lei for UFC!!!!!!!!!

[funkeemon]

This real Shaolin style. MMA is for those wanna be warrior. This martial art was using in the war for many centuries.

[glutaminepowder]

@funkeemon yea he prolly shoot a fire balls like dbz

[sophisticatedplayboy]

TRY IT AT HOME!! HAHA!

[TheTaeKwonDoHero]

sticks and stones may break my bones......... wait....... no they don't

[lordwhite0]

@TheTaeKwonDoHero lol nice

[shiifu]

How did he get that buffed ? did he go to the gym?

[nagi85]

@shiifu Body weight exercises and various different exercises on different days. Many different kinds of push ups and continuous punches. I think Shifu Yan Lei explains it on his website.

[TheOverfiendDj]

@shiifu No he doesn't use weights.In the shaolin temple they only train using their own body weight but each monk specializes in a different areas.He specializes in Shaolin steel jacket meaning he trained his body to be able to take heavy blows.As you saw you can kick him full force in the stomach and it doesnt hurt him.The Shaolin monks are very deadly

[shiifu]

@TheOverfiendDj, Im sorry but almost all of the monk train steel jacket, there are some monks that dont train martial art at all, but all monks do that, and the thing that he dong get hurt, its called Qi qong, all of them specialize for it. Yes they are very deadly and explosive, All sifus in all martial art are very deadly. But the deadliest of them all are Neija fighters.

[TheOverfiendDj]

@shiifu thats not what i said.I said he "specializes" in steel jacket he said so himself.I never said that other monks dont do it.

[cutterr]

@TheOverfiendDj The monks don't have weights, but they do have very similar tools they use.

For example the iron wrings worn around the wrist.

[TheOverfiendDj]

@cutterr Yeah ive seen those before i thought they used them as a defensive weapon.

[moelicious1]

Men like that are reasons we have to carry guns. Doesn't seem like there is much else that would stop him besides a car at full speed.

[QueUnlimited]

Makes me sad to see this. Terrible just terrible. Bad for the body and bad for the soul. :0(

[Crosshandz]

@QueUnlimited Why?

[QueUnlimited]

@Crosshandz Because there are more beautiful ways and things to spend your time developing. For me, a high level martial artist inspires love and respect...so much so that a enemy falls or fails to lift a hand. Also, if one trains to resist stikes, strikes is what they call.  If one trains to evade strikes, strikes will not find no place to land. Much better I freel

[Crosshandz]

@QueUnlimited You are naturally entitled to your opinion but I think you should learn more about Shi Yan Lei before you make judgements about him as a person. From what I've seen Yan Lei is a superb martial artist and not just for his steel jacket Qigong.

[QueUnlimited]

@Crosshandz Don't know him to judge him. Like you said. Just my opinion. I'm sure he is a really nice guy. lol

[QueUnlimited]

@Crosshandz I don't know him to judge him. Don't thing that was even impied but this is, as you said, my opinion. I'm sure he is a great human being.

[ParkourBeanie]

@Afegs Sifu is a title and his name is Yen

[hooperqi]

Momma there goes that man...

[dragonbut]

Would be the last person to fight on the street

[Namriu94]

hate the lady in the back ground

[waldomarek]

wow.. this shaolin monk is buff O_O

[superawesomefilm]

this is the real shit

imagine you do nothing but eat sleep train for 20 years in killing people

this is art of martial

[rob6487]

Master, teach me your ways!

[sithunter2]

They dont do push ups and likes no they runs up mountains they harden their fingas with striking into a tree until there is a big mark in it

[fiendin281]

this is true power. his mind is so focused

[alekx58]

ai se bu ta kong zuo ih ting goa hong zai ai

[shifudan]

it doesnt go against shaolin code to fight. Also to say mma guys couldnt phase him is ridiculous, i like his stuff, but he would be like any other mma fighter, he would win some and lose some.

[hero0fdarkthepker]

When Shifu Yan Lei was young he loved fighting. Does anyone think he would ever pick up his old habbits and maybe enter the UFC for just a little bit??? Even though it would totally go against his shaolin monk code? :o ???

[JKT6]

WOW!

[2cdd7]

deam, this monks are perfect killing machine 

[walatalalaw]

okay, first time I see it like this. Usualy the wooden pole breaks at the first blow, so it looks like the wood could be some realy light, crapy wood, easily breakable....

here it actualy looks like he's taking a serious beating! this is awesome!

[burnt1tofu]

hmm, did not expect that.

[ryan110001]

Conditioning and skill are two different things, this guy is conditionned very well but his actual skill\talent I cant tell..

[fiendin281]

@ryan110001 if he has achieved this level of conditioning i will bet his skill is equally impressive.

[oscie1]

real shaolin disciple

[smilingdaf]

Truely amazing ☸ڿڰۣ 

[kftkft]

these days we see a lot of shaolin demonstrations doing these long stick shots to the body that are mainly carnival tricks buut, its people like shifu shi yan lei who show the real shaolin practice, just look at this powerfull strikes to the ribs, to a really vulnerable par of his body, i dare someone to tell me this is a carnival trick.

[mrgabest]

Notice that he turns to take the blows on the muscle, not the bone. He also moves into the blows rather than backing away, which reduces the swinger's ability to build momentum.

[DjRodimusPrimeXyZ]

this dude is awesome his conditioning is just super kewl i got along way to go, but this is defintly inspiring.

[Shantou1]

Great conditioning. Shaolin no1 for body conditioning

[ichibanniko]

this man is amazing...

[wushumaro]

@UnluckyFerSumm whoa man, why do you have to disrespect MMA style? I am an MMA fighter but I can appreciate any style. Why do you say MMA practicioners are thugs? I graduated from one of the top universities in the U.S., I'm a law abiding citizen, I study philosophies and eastern religions, I also have studied various forms of art. I feel calling any style a "thug" shows little Wu De. I'm after finding out what's effective, just as Bruce Lee once said. Why does that make me a thug?

[Shantou1]

@wushumaro Bruc elee did say lost of crap, soem put it down to all the drugs he took

[Afeqs]

Sifu is awesome that pain and energy has to go out a different way so he vocalizes it to re divert it. Its like bottling up emotional energy sometimes its gotta get out he makes sure he doesnt bottle up any of it.

[oscie1]

@Afeqs You dont know what your talking about! without chi development his shouting will be useless, by the way all his dvds and books are shit he only teaches breathing coordinated with movements which is not the real shaolin method.

[julian88song]

@Afeqs NO

[oscie1]

@Afeqs WRONG

[Elbottoo]

All you bandwagon hopping mma fanclowns, take a good look at this.

[Belphybear]

haha funny reactions from the body hits. oiii oiii oiiwwwww ;D truly amazing shaolin warrior >=D

[ub4777]

Hey sampochin whats pones skill? I only asked a question because trust me sparring them is a tall order mate let alone fighting them in a competition

[ub4777]

Has Shifu Yan Lei ever fought a cage fighter to test his skills?

[sampochin]

is that the only way to prove pones skill?

[elysium28]

I can't agree with you more. MMA allows people to become ignorant to the wise styles that it came from. Peace to all

[cloud491]

this guy could easily kill an mma fighter

[darkgreensoldier666]

@cloud491

Does budhist monks killing ?

[ThisIsRickyGervais]

He was my favorite teacher, strict too and thats the best way to learn.

[lilwarrior89]

i like the sounds he makes lol it makes me laugh hes a true warrior wt else can they say he just putted qi once thts it

[DangerousDan2]

5:03 to 5:07 he gets beat with that huge stick than when it breaks he ask the person in the crowd "Are you ok" LoL what I wanna know is how the hell do you get you body as hard as stone like that????..you gotta do alot more than just situps and pushups that's for sure, cause I work out all the time and my body isn't like that

[originparcour]

just train everday eat the right food ofcourse practice alot qigong hit ur body wiv pad practice wiv tht thn improve your qi wivout air in ur stomach it be hard its hard i knw thts hw it is

[ThisIsRickyGervais]

Condition the body.

[SamuiHakai]

breathing excersises are important, I suggest you just go find a kung fu temple or something , and ask to learn qi gong.

[duplacite]

MMA fighters don't have a single chance in fazing this guy...

Sticks that size and length, swung by the arms of a fellow disciple all full strength to the ribs and all he got from it was a bit red skinned from the increase in blood flow... Not a single wound and he didn't take 1 step back, and still standing and smiling. Holy shit!!

[idliketosay]

@duplacite ...well, i wouldn't say that. i respect shaolin monks and the dedication they put into their training. however, to say MMA fighters don't have a chance is to say you are ignorant. the only way he can truly prove his training is effective in a fight is to get into one and win. duh. simple as that. and the truth is, the only way to really do that properly and legally, and credibly is to do it in an MMA fight. plus, he's got to become champ and defend his title for a long time. =)

[kobain4u]

That difference between Shaolin Monks and MMA fighters are of a few centuries of evolution and advancement. Shaolin Monks do more than just train physically they meditate (which is a small word but makes all the difference). They go beyond their physical ability. So myths like them internally bursting the heart with a finger starts making sense. And mma is very shallow, they just have more and bigger muscles. A 100 year old monk can generate more strength that the best of mma fighters.

[xiaou2]

@idliketosay - All it would prove is play fighting. A real fight, Bare Fist, no rules..etc.. and a guy like this would trounce the typical sport fighter in mere seconds. Sport fighters dont train real combat. They train play fighting.

[kftkft]

@xiaou2

completely agree, with you all they do is play fighting, people like shifu yan lei, are very brutal in fights, they are real martial artists, that express real fighting power.

i had the honour of training with him in london a couple of years back, he is a beast.

[hero0fdarkthepker]

@duplacite That's steel jacket, the only reason why it's red is the same reason your skin turns red from a "5 star slap".

[supralee]

@duplacite he is full of wounds he quickly put his jacket on to hide that look again

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee are you stupid? you know who he is you must not heird of shifu yan lei or or hes brother i doubt u never heird of shaolin aswel anyway can you take power kick like that or you know how to defend yourself? if you can do it then u can talk

[supralee]

@lilwarrior89 this man can take strong punch and kicks but any fighter can.but the damage he did is just useless to himself.its better not to let yourself kick but if that happens in real fight then anyone can take it.now this is all show only thing that isworth to look let this shaolin superman fight some real mma fighter how long can he last?30 seconds no 20!and even that only if he can run without fighting.this is facts all other is just show all those breakings and iron shirts.

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee lol all this is to show he can take hits, hes gettn full hits no1 wud stand their and get hit like tht hes shwn us wat ur body can do if u can take some1 kicks then it be easy to hurt any1 wts wiv mma? u never heird of shaolin come on they train everday 1 hour kicking 1 hr standing still wiv leg bend can any1 hold for 30 mins come on they run up the mountain and crawl back using their hand search bout shaolin mountin its very high, i dnt see no mma trainin like tht so dnt disrespect k

[supralee]

@lilwarrior89 you dont need to run all day or kick 3 hours a day to be good fighter. you need do right training and not more than needed. they do too much of things that have no connection to real fight.so real fight will be not running in mountains or just kicking one body, i would punch his face as long or take him down as long as he would realise that fighting and show are 2 diferent things.in real fight u must forgot all this running and iron shirt shows.so how mony real fights he has done?

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee lets just say one of hes freinds enterted mma fightin and i heird he owned them badly and this teacher took that guys punch and kicks like it was nothin, the trainin hes goin through is showing you what you can do example running will make you have good stamina say alot people chase you and your by urself you have to run right if u cant run long then u be trouble and iron shirt proves that when you makin your body strong then you can take any1 punch or kicks without gettn knocked out

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee answer this qoution if your in exam a person prapared for it and revised everything all the time and the other person didnt revise he says he knows it so when it gets to exam day who would it be easy to pass the test answer that, cuss prapering and rushing is different if u trainin everday means wtver trouble u facin u wrnt fear notin cuss u revised in another words practised

[supralee]

@lilwarrior89 to put it very shortly and simply his exam is real mma fight if he can test himself there and pass it only then his training was right.but if he would be knocked clean out within seconds and i think this will happen, so all hhis running was menaingless:)

[supralee]

@lilwarrior89 to put it very shortly and simply his exam is real mma fight if he can test himself there and pass it only then his training was right.but if he would be knocked clean out within seconds and i think this will happen, so all his running and iron shirts were utterly meaningless:).so can he do that:) no he cant within his skin he knows that he is not good fighter and not matter what shaolin he does or how many hours trains within old system it cant never make one real fighter.

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee lol ok shaolin is not to prove one is a good fighter like mma shaolin teaches you peace it has the art which means no fight so simply if they trainin as much it dnt matter cuss they not hurtin anybody they want better health you dont know wat these ppl can do alot ppl think shaolin uses magic but its all about your mind, if you set urself in a fight then thts wat ur mind is going to think but if you set ur mind straight and focus about life then it will teach u peace and respect ever1

[supralee]

@lilwarrior89 i remember myself reading that group of russians went to shaolin and afer some month win all shaolin tournaments!why?they were boxers, karate man, kick boxers, so basically they learn nothing about fighting.now what about peace.peace is not running in mountains not breaking sticks..peace has no connections of any shaolin or other practises. peace is so simple thing that if u give up nervous thinking peace will grow.but shaolin makes one robot like in every area be it fighting or..

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee ok i just said to you shaolin is not about fight its bout peace now you saying its not peace did you ever heird of mediation before they do all that they start mediating without moving what you call that? that practise tai chi through mediation comes the internal engery so basiclly thy not prapering to go in ring they are practising for better life they dont care about torniment ok if mma can mediate for hours and control their body then thats cool if not then thy jst fighters right?

[lilwarrior89]

@supralee *meditation

[supralee]

@lilwarrior89 meditation is just word .anyone can hide behind it.they ceartanly have their own mental exercises but exercises are just noises not actual peace.so they practise lesser noises but it still noise:) why we cant afce a truth-any fightin system must be put inti hard test in real fight and any word of meditation must be removed and also put into very hard test.

[lilwarrior89]

@lilwarrior89 lol everything i say is negative to you why?? first you said about fightin i said is not bout fightin then u went to about them been peace now you talkin about medaation see i can carry on and on talk about different subiject u only got one subject you keep bringing, fight come on let me ask you somthing do you practise martial art cuss the people who study know how it is if you dont study its easy for you to talk 5 year old can talk you wasting my time am done talk to yourself

[lilwarrior89]

@lilwarrior89 lets say this after you fight you have broken bones or bruces right can mma heal that? cuss shaolin people are taught qigong to heal someone and if you think its fake my own teacher knows it so before you carry on bout fightin can they heal themselfs if they hurted badly? the answer is no so what does that answer you? shaolin has the knowlege any1 can fight but its about ur brain think bout it

[lilwarrior89]

@lilwarrior89 so i dont care how good fighter mma are if some1 can control themselves thats the once i respect if u knw alot about qigong it can kill so i dont think mma know about qigong they only focus fightin whereas shaolin has alot things to focus all at once so no time for fightin just peace get it now

[lilwarrior89]

@lilwarrior89 why u stoped commentin you relising wat i said is right? if you dont know anything about dont comment on their videos ok do me that favour

[newbielives]

@duplacite if an MMA fighter were to beat this guy it would need to be a grapple where leverage can beat super human strength. Standup game, you probably couldn't hurt this guy

[Namriu94]

@newbielives everthing starts off standing up = .= , you only be ably to get him down if he kicked or mad a poor stance , but considering how strong he is he would just wait in horse stance and take the hits , grapping would be the key to beating this guy ( or really sharp hands ) but you would still need some sort of impact full move to knock him off

[cocacoxx]

i can do that to but wihout ribs ... ouch

[SuperTutorialKing]

Awesome!

[jimbob202019]

hey Shifu Yan Lei i loved training with you back in england still got the clips on my phone from you snapping the baseball bat on your shine lol THATS A POINT U OWE ME A BATT lol anyways my friend you take care of your self and rember you said you would come back to england i'll hold you to that lol

take care Shifu Yan Lei and enjoy what ever comes your way :)

[kerrly007]

Shi Fi Another fantastic demostration. I wish you luck and good health in setting up Shaolin Temple Berkley!

[Elbottoo]

Now thats power.

San shou ftw

[kickmasta]

what we are watching here is true evidence of what hard training gives back in its rewards. many train hard to give out punishment, but a good martial artist, learns also to take punishment. balance. incredible.

[TheRealVerbz]

Thanks to his American family Vance and Bonnie!

My dad and mom.

:o)

Go Shifu!

[DaTruthsHere]

@TheRealVerbz why are you saying thanks to his American family Vance and bonnie, just curious lol

[TheRealVerbz]

@DaTruthsHere Because he's my master and when he comes to America he stays at my home. We call each other brother and my father and mother are like a mom and dad to him.

:o)

I should upload the better quality footage of this event from the other angle.

[DaTruthsHere]

@TheRealVerbz good to hear :)