I Went to the SANDA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

I watched Sanda in action at the 16th World Wushu Championships!

Full Interview and Training in my members page!

Big shoutout to the 16th WWC for bringing me along! If you wanna learn more about wushu, you can here!

Also, Coach Cory has a dope podcast "Grappling with the Classics"!

[ryanmerheb]

Hello, i am the National Team Coach Of Lebanon 🇱🇧 (middle east) thank you for this great video of Sanda and glad you enjoyed the world championship, and great result for team USA

[bruhmoment]

Sanda is like the World Martial Arts Tournament in Dragon Ball. If you fall off the stage, you lose.

[jeffcurry]

Seth, this was one of the best videos I have ever seen covering athletics and Team USA. I honestly believe this could have easily been a TV spot on a major network. I love Sanda and your honest and loving coverage of this tournament, along with your sports enthusiasm and ability to get up close and personal with the fighters and the mats was emotional to watch. This had me on the edge of my chair, with butterflies in my stomach, waiting for the outcomes of such amazing matches. You emotionally hooked me with the introductions, sparring, and story telling and you kept me with the dramatic Team USA coverage. Well done, sir. I love your content, but this and your sumo content is by far and away the best work you've done.

[dandiaz]

Aw man, my heart is so full. Sanda checks all the boxes for me: full contact, use of gear (which can mean less injury, longer careers), traditional Chinese ethos, throws, lives off pressure testing. I wish that it was more popular in the United States and/or it was included into the Olympics (if it isn't already).

[UrmanitaRules]

Thanks for sharing this, Seth. I’m glad to see more martial arts YouTubers cover a highly underrated martial art. I myself would love to train in it, but I’ve yet to find a Kung Fu school that offers it. Hopefully Sanda will be more widely accepted in the U.S. like Muay Thai and BJJ are.

[PBas-qquh]

my boxing instructor fought in Sanda when he was 19 I think, I had no idea he could even kick. So when I realized he could kick, I asked to spar with him. Worst decision of my life.

[fighttips]

Phenomenal video, man 👏 Absolutely love the shot you captured at 13:55 of Coach Cory calling out the combo and Livingston hitting it on cue.

[MrTheil]

Sanda and Savate are two underrated kickboxing styles that I love

[AyazHamid]

I've been practising Sanda for 3 months without any prior martial arts background. It's an insanely fun sport.


Always a pleasure to see your vids Seth!

[NexusJunisBlue]

Thank you again so much for coming out to the HYX 16th World Wushu Championships and featuring our sport of Wushu Sanda, for using some of my footage, and for indulging me when we finally met 😂 I am glad to have met you in-person; like Jeff Chan aka MMAShredded, you are exactly the person you seem like in your videos, which is a genuine and honest quality I feel is lacking in most martial artists, particularly traditionalists, and I hope to meet you again in the future! Also credit to the awesome Serena Chai for inviting you to come watch Sanda and be a guest commentator! I have also passed on your message of thanks to Serena, and she was touched! We hope you had a great time! 🙂

[jasonwang]

Yo watching this I felt myself tearing up because I have been doing Wushu for so long and praising Sanda but no one seemed to take it seriously. Seeing you share this moment and seeing these athletes’ passion for the sport really moved me. Thank you Seth 🙏

[TheElbowMerchant]

The way this video wrapped up was inspiring AF! Especially after knowing everything the American athletes had to sacrifice to get there and be competitive (even getting on the podium) against paid fighters, that gave me goosebumps.

[FahrosXIV]

Bro why did I get emotional at the bit about all the Americans doing this sport just because they love it, and how they struggle to do it when all these other countries get support for it. I was not prepared to be hit in the feels like this

I hope you continue to cover this Seth, and I would love to see you fight in it! I think you'd do great

[JEM-fors]

I discovered San Shou/Sanda when I lived in Baltimore for a few years.
Met Cung Le before his fight, oh he KO’d his opponent in devastating fashion! I already trained in boxing and Wing Chun so I was hooked from the jump!
Anyway, I still can’t understand why this sport hasn’t taken off in US?!? Promoting and awareness is of course a major factor. Even on the amateur level it’s hard to find competition? What a shame.

[TheElbowMerchant]

Even the animation, during the breakdown on how points are scored in Sanda, was entertaining and cool looking. Great stuff, Sensei Seth!

[ashkaunadib]

Sanda is my favorite style I have trained. I traveled to Beijing and trained Sanda for a couple weeks at Beijing Sport University. It was AWESOME!

[Tempest]

I swear the only truly bad part is that this sport isn't more popular and have more places teaching it. It melds well with just about everything and is so much fun! I miss training sanda. Given my current location, I miss kyokushin, Dutch kickboxing, and muay thai as well. Awesome video, Seth!!!!

[CourtneyVarner]

That big about how the other countries have state sponsored athletics, and Americans have to literally give up everything just to compete at the same level hit hard. It makes every medal and win an American gets so much more powerful.

[Gunnar-Peterson]

Great to see Sanda get more recognition, really cool sport

[LunaticReason]

So glad you showcased Sanda. Not many people know it and I feel its the more functional form of Kung Fu because of tournaments like this. For the people who say Kung fu doesnt work. This is the real example. Also super proud of the three competitors.