Kaz Here- Internal martial arts

Kaz finds different martial arts groups in New York City. In this first installment she visits Roberto Sharpe's class in Tompkins Square Park. sacredpeaks.net

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• MMA
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• tai
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• baguazhang
• xingyi
• hsingi

[agutinoff]

He are good man. BUT will this work in practice? He must search and learn from the REAL masters.

[OneRoomSchoolHouse]

who did you have in mind?

[hypnobhavin]

What's he on about. If he is researching black martial arts he only has to look at Africa. There are all kinds of fighting traditions their. Senegalese wrestling for example.

[OneRoomSchoolHouse]

he was talking about 30 years ago when he started in the martail arts as a teenager. he is a pioneer who has done the research.

[OneRoomSchoolHouse]

his students are out there on weekends, he is ususually busy then, check for Jamar Clarke in the park.

[OneRoomSchoolHouse]

yeah, he is out there. group class-11a.m. Mon and wed the corner of 10th and B in Tompkin's square park. He is available for private lessons also.

[majaimay]

@hypnobhavin

or dambe "boxing" for example, if you can call it that, it's incredibly unique and from the little i've seen of it's pretty damn brutal as well as fairly complex

[TheShinobidog]

White people have no culture now, either.  I have adopted the old world Chinese culture as my own. It's my cultural surrogate mother.

[Dragon34th]

It doesnt matter ur black white or Chinese & it doesnt matter what style u learn. Just learn a few good styles & be able 2 adapt 2 any fighting situation. Bruce Lee said: "be like water, shapeless & style_less". U may be an expert in a particular style boxing Gongfu etc... but in a real fight, u still have 2 learn how ur opponent moves adapting 2 him & trying 2 exploit his weaknesses "be like water my friend" Im black & I do Shaolin, Wudang have a solid boxing background good luck.

[zellzhou88]

Yes, martial art is VAST, no one can master everything. Each of us are different and gifted in different physique. He might not be a master but he is definitely respected for his humble attitude towards learning and respecting each and everyone's martial art. Thus, practice & applying whats good and suitable for him.

[bloated]

go move to China and stop mooching off the public park system!

[trondyne]

Hey Robert.. Where you at???

[DANTHETUBEMAN]

BEFORE SLAVERY,,,well there egipt. shoka zulu was only stoped by the inglish with guns,,lol. everyone should aply what thay have lerned in a living way.

i like this vid.

[Acerzeon]

Have to love this guy. 

[lmaffonso]

This Robert Sharpe is very, very good....at my first site it wasn´t serching for him, i judge at my first view and then i took a look on his deep study in what he are doing...I am a black belt in diferents traditional Japanese martial arts and practicing constant since 1978 and in Robert you can see that he study very good what he are doing, maibe it is not a traditional martial art, but he develop his own martial art...and that i apretiate to see that are people allways looking for more...

[rAFiCoRe]

@trevorhirby: he didn't mean it geographic, he meant it from it's ... i don't know, nature, body mechanics, the bunch of black people that were friggin boxing champions