Martial Arts Odyssey: VoVinam, Hanoi Part 2

Teacher Tuan uses slow kicking techniques to help Antonio Graceffo work on his flexability, balance and technique. Slow kicking helps build good fundamentals. Teacher Tuan then demonstrates more self-defense applications. Some look like judo, some like aikido, some like wing chun, but they are all VoVinam. Later Antonio spars with several of the VoVinam team members, but they have to do slow, easy sparring with no gloves, because most of them have very little experience with fighting.
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[brooklynmonk1]

@MrArmstrong1990 True, but, it is undeniable that the religion, langauge and martial arts of Vietnam were permanently influenced by china. even the imperial system of bao Dai was based on the chinese court. Vietnam has it's own unique language and culture, but we must recognize the Chinese influence.

[MrArmstrong1990]

@lucirz they did controlled us from 1000 yrs even more. There were brief periods of Independence but they were very short. That doesnt mean anything- while other cultures may have accepted being conquered we managed to hang on to our heritage and won back the independence even after 1000 years.

[MrArmstrong1990]

@brooklynmonk1 No dude, we didnt use chinese as the written language, we used Chu nom which used the writing system from the Chinese but it wasnt Chinesse. If you talk to one of my friend, he would give you at least an hour talk about how Chinese and Vietnamese are not the same.

And 60% to 80% thing is not true.

[Akira654]

I;m viet, i <3 this vid

[brooklynmonk1]

@GuardianDemonX Vietnamese is a mon-Khmer language, which should make most of the words multi-sylabic. but the majority of vietnamese words are single syllable compound words which match, identically to their corresponding Chinese characters. and once you have studied BOTH languages, then you see the correlation. The religion, the culture, the royal house, the language and the martial arts of Vietnam clearly have Chinese roots. You should study Vietnamese history and language.

[brooklynmonk1]

@GuardianDemonX I never claimed you could understand Chinese. In fact, i don't find it hard to believe that you have never studied the langauge. 60-80% of vietnamese vocabulary comes from Chinese. Until the twentieth century, Chinese was the only written language widely used in Vietnam. in fact there is no ancestral written language in Vietnam, predating the French alphabet. That fact, plus 1,000 of Chinese domination, brought a lot of Chinese langauge and culture to Vietnam.

[GuardianDemonX]

@brooklynmonk1 u keep saying 80% vietnamese language is coming from the chinese is start to piss me off dude, vietnamese language got nothing to do with the chinese, we cannot understand chinese dude

[lazy702622]

@brooklynmonk1 60% is chinese, natualize chinese words would push it up to maybe 70% but not 80% that is a fact. look it up yourself. 80% is a figure most amateur linguist come up with due to confusing austro asiatic words which were naturalized into chinese, which some mistaken as a borrowing from chinese but actual has a vietnamese root. example. Chinese Jiang is a borrowng from Vetnamese SONG which is river. or chinese Gou(dog) from vietnamese Cho(dog) etc. =] alot of new info

[xxvietnamxx]

Good video =)

[scoutcube1]

this guy really knows his material.

i'm surprised he does not have more comments.