Martial Arts Odyssey: Shaolin Bangkok Part 1

A one-time student of the Shaolin Temple in China, host, Antonio Graceffo, pas a visit to the Shaolin Temple, Bangkok, where he meets the chief instructor Liu Gao Jie. It was Antonios Shaloin experience that spawned his first book, The Monk from Brooklyn, and subsequently lead to Antonios nick name, the Brooklyn Monk. Spending time with the solid and skillful monks of Shaolin tool Antonio back to the beginning of his martial arts odyssey, back in 2001.

Liu Gao Jie explains how he is able to teach Kung Fu in a country that is crazy for Muay Thai.
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[XiaoLinLong]

What's your personal opinion about Sanda and Muay Thai?

[brooklynmonk1]

@XiaoLinLong Watch the video, I explain my personal opinion quite clearly.

[TheArtofBoxing]

Choy li fut boxers have never been defeated by muay thai.

Choy is probably the most popular of all kung fu as well.

Muay thai,came from kung fu as well......i personally use both styles,,...as a good ol uppercut is a ko and so is chap choy at long range.

muay has better ,realistic training methods but the spiritual strenth you build from quan cannot be replaced.

good luck on your journey....dont be stuck on one way of anything...the universe is not like that,so dont be either.

[brooklynmonk1]

@TheArtofBoxing What is "Choy li fut boxers" do you have any documentation, any actual data showing that they came to Thailand, fought, and won? Be cause I have lived in Thailand for years and have never heard of this. I also lived in China for years and never heard of it. Why would you think I am stuck on one style? I have done over 160 episodes of Martial Arts Odyssey, chronicling my ten years of training in various Asian countries.

[brooklynmonk1]

@SoundwaveSuperior373 once again, there are ZERO kung fu fighters in MMA or K1. i got in the ring 28 or 30 times at shaolin and won all but two bouts. i watched the shaolin san da championships and many of champions would have beat me but not beat even low level lumpini fighters. so please tell me where these great kung fu fighters are hiding.

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

@brooklynmonk1 not every martial arts is about winning competition maybe people who dont go to competitions are uncomfortable with competition not everyone trains to compete and as for the people you say cant fight well thats them not everyone stereotyping is not exactly very valid

[brooklynmonk1]

@SoundwaveSuperior373 one of the main reasons i am friends with these guys is that i also studied at shaolin in china. and i know first hand they cant fight at all. if there are kung fu people fighting profesionally in K1 or UFC please let me know their names.

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

@brooklynmonk1 no u got it all wrong i didnt say ur friends were i just said u shouldnt judge an arts effectiveness from a few bad ppl u saw and i dont see wat u mean by they dont train to fight training in kung fu is to train to fight if ur not training to fight i dun see that as kung fu training i just see that as exercise its not kung fu cant fight or can fight martial arts is only knowledge is up to ppl who practice it to fight so i dun see how u can say kung fu cant fight

[brooklynmonk1]

@SoundwaveSuperior373 it sounds like you agree that kung fu can't fight today. if you were implying that my friends in this video arent good at kung fu, you are way off. all three of them were raised at the shaolin temple. the younger ones only left the temple a month before the video was shot. they cant fight because kung fu cant fight. they absolutely dont train for fighting.

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

u cant really judge if an art is effective or not just from a bunch of ppl who happens to be bad at it all martial arts were created 4 fighting alot of traditional arts have the combat emphasis taken out of it because it doesnt have a full contact sport to compete in arts muay thai emphasize alot on fighting because its a sport and they have to compete kung fu training method was made 4 the old way of life where u had all day to train that is y alot of ppl r not good at kung fu as of now