NUBIAN MARTIAL ARTS grandmaster washington

started in nubia and kemet then past down to the hebrews and ethiopians(kushites) now its here in america.the Chinese learned from us they traced their genes and found out it goes to the original man.

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[Steadno]

'grandmaster'?

[TheAntoine9891]

@ronin752

I believe that he is demonstrating the Shaolin Long Fist form # 1. Africans did have there own martial arts. Those arts as any other did influence other arts. One art that was clearly African is Capoeria. With Brazilians attempting to put their own twist to the art it still remains African in history, movement, and theory. Their are many great African Martial arts.. people should not attempt to claim someone else's history.

[sealie15]

Capoeria is a marital art like karate, but the enslaved people had to disguise this as a dance for it to survive.

[TheTheswaggera]

nothing is stolen anywhere ideas are passed down through time through humans and through different lands and are always improved as time goes on and in one the value of an idea might go up and go down in another place.

[TheTheswaggera]

@ronin752 even the japanese believe that the origins of martial arts are in Africa and then spread to india and then on to china and the shaolin arts are more religious and mystical than the origins in africa the mastering your energy and chi is what is unique but they get that from india everyone develops their own thing but the basic technique originate from africa

[Sensaistar7]

@DaiBoxer wrong. do your homework!

[DaiBoxer]

This gentleman a Grandmaster is nonsense. A very bad demonstration of mock Jiao Men (Moslem Longfist) Gongfu. Not Nubian MA. Stop making things up! Most African MA deal with wrestling and weapons reflective of that particular environment. None resemble Gongfu this much. Diff arts resemble their geographical environment. All old people of the world had their own war arts. Man always has to try to dominate his fellow and lay claim on evrything there is. STOP THIS.

[ronin752]

Respond to this video...

As far as a modern martial art, to collect fighting techniques, and practice them without "kata" or forms is very modern. And that is exactly what Africans did, as did European cultures. Secondly, Africa is extremely vast, and home to a variety of cultures and civilizations, past and present. So it is absurd to generalize about them.

[ronin752]

@harvardlaw95

African. They will even go so far as to discredit the European "fathers" of history, such as Herodotus and Strabo. Herodotus and Strabo both state that the Egyptians, Colcheans and the Ethiopians are all of the same racial group, having dark skin and wooly hair. Champollion attempted to claim that the Ancient Egyptians were not African, or Negroid, but actually Caucasian. It is funny because these Eurocentrist consistantly blur the lines of race when convenient .

[ronin752]

@TheAntoine9891

Really, Capoeira was created as a direct rebellion to the slave trade. What evidence is there that Capoeira influenced Shaolin arts. I know that there have been African fighting traditions, including grappling traditions. But they were not codified and passed down like Chinese Arts. The Chinese have done something unique with regard to martial arts. It is their contribution. I don't like it when others claim African contributions, and we shouldn't do it to the Chinese.

[ronin752]

@harvardlaw95

Some African Americans do make exaggerated claims. Like the exaggerated claims of eurocentrist. If I were to make a blanket statement about Europeans based on the claims of Eurocentrist, I would accuse Europeans of stealing culture. Your statement implies the same of African Americans. Not the type of fallacious argument I would expect from a Harvard trained lawyer.

For instance, Eurocentrist, have attempted to claim for years that Egyptian culture was something other than

[harvardlaw95]

@ronin752 - Inflammatory? You bet. Have you ever been to Africa? I have, and African Americans are always desperately making claims about their ancestors that are simply not true. None of the African tribes 400 years ago had what we would consider to be a modern 'martial art'. Yes, of course, they knew how to fight. But that was with war clubs, spears and shields. Simplicity was their hallmark. The Zulu were badasses, but not because they knew Kung Fu.