The Most Beautiful but DIFFICULT Weapons

I tried one of the most impressive acrobatic kung fu styles but this time... with weapons

Shout out to Imari from East Cloud Kung fu for helping make this video!

[ethansites]

Thanks so much for letting me teach you part of the Wushu spear form! I was really impressed by how well you pulled off the lotus kick — honestly looked better than mine!

[TheElbowMerchant]

When Sensei Seth was swinging that chain weapon around, I started having flashbacks of the time I got whipped in face by a wallet chain. I've been hurt far worse than that incident, but the wallet chain stuck with me psychologically, because it stung so bad, across the entirety of my face, and the sound it made still haunts me, haha.

[Duskydog]

This was legit like watching Poe learn his first kung fu forms😂 you still did a great job. Better than most starters.

[NexusJunisBlue]

Thank you for revisiting Wushu again and for continuing to be being open-minded! 🙂

0:02 Cameo by US Wushu Team member, collegiate Wushu champion and Pan American silver medalist Queenie Li, who also served as a fellow ENG Team member I was part of at the HYX 16th World Wushu Championships (footage courtesy of Matthew Choi aka Blue Hippo Films)!

1:10 Just a quick clarification, the modern Wushu Taolu (套路； tàolù, forms) apparatuses are derived from the four popular Chinese weapons in most Chinese martial arts styles, dao (刀； dāo, saber/broadsword), gun (棍；gùn, staff), jian (劍； jiàn, sword/straight sword) and qiang (枪； qiāng, spear), including Choy Li Fut (蔡李佛; càilǐfó) which is a traditional southern Chinese martial arts style, however most modern Wushu techniques and movements were standardized from the northern Chinese martial arts styles that include, but are not limited to, Chaquan (查拳; cháquán), Huaquan (華拳; huáquán; Flower Fist), Hongquan (紅拳; hóngquán; Red Fist), and Piguaquan (劈挂拳; pīguàquán, Chop-Hanging Fist) or Piguazhang (劈挂掌; pīguàzhǎng, literally “chop-hanging palm”).

5:35 Jiayou Hope!!!

[namedjasonc]

I practiced Choy Li Fut for about a decade, I appreciate the callout! Flexible weapons like the chain whip are great for training sensitivity where you learn how to read the way that the weapon wants to move and how to guide it into the flow that you want it to be in. It's easy to "muscle" a sword into whatever swing you want it to be in, but doing so means you're fighting against the weapon and so are spending more energy to do less; the lessons that you take from the flexible weapons apply to every weapon you might pick up!

[danlewis]

People bag on these types of martial arts because they have many elements of dance and gymnastics. These are seen as feminine and consequently of a lesser worth as they are not focused on more practical matters like dealing out destruction and death. However, this outlook is like the person who says that poetry and horticulture aren't important and then also wants to find someone to love them.

Life is not meant to be separated into shards and sections where some are meritorious and others are not. All of life's experiences from pain to grief to embarrassment to hope and joy; from birth to life and death, all forms of life; from the seed to the mighty oak, from the sword to the rake from the stone to the mountain.

All life has purpose and meaning. One simply has to be open to discovery and not rush to judge without experience.

Seth understands this.

[zibafu]

drunken kung fu is what you should try next

[yolosubmarine]

I've done kung fu for 20 years because it's just cool... I had no judgement. I started Muay Thai for the same reason. Martial arts can just be cool, not always "the most effective". This hobby rules and you do an awesome job of showing that.

[DragonTrainer]

You know a Wing Chun guy. Just ask Kevin Lee about the long pole. 😜

[aura-pprenti]

Man
They didn't get that speaker joke at all

[arcbueno]

I really like how Seth is kind of silly but in a good way, with all the bad jokes and light content. If I had a son or daughter I definetly would watch these videos with them.

[SpikeOriundo]

Really liked what you said in the end. Form competitions and the such always get trashed and kinda thrown to the side, but can easily be harder than sparring sometimes. I do like hearing when sparring athletes talk about how hard forms can be, tho. If you prefer to put some gear and possibly get kicked to the face, over doing some forms while being judged because it's too hard, then that means that forms athletes are not slacking.

[fnargler]

Chain whips are pretty fun. I learned the basics with them as a teenager and it helped a ton when i eventually moved on to rope dart, which is my favorite weapon that i still practice.

[meoka]

For the sword sounds, remember the internal force you learnt with Dmitriy and the hand moving fast enough to make sound?
Maybe taking some of that knowledge into the swords could help them snap better.

[slade]

And this is a situation why you need to wear shoes, because if the bo hits your feet, your scream would be seen in the moon

[willythewelder]

You gotta get icymike to try some kungfu😂

[jacktough]

With each passing week/lesson, Seth becomes an even greater danger--to himself 💥😫💥😫💥😫

[danielazevedo]

Man, you should totally practice Choy Lay Fut, it's a southern style with very strong fighting techniques, but also with a lot of weapons training.
I practice Choy Lay Fut, along with Sanda and Shuai Jiao for some time, and this sequence of videos of yours hit too close to home, and I couldn't stop but to comment here. You did a very good job there, Congrats!
We also use this log pole, it's supposed to be the mast of a boat.

[Berengier]

2:00 "dont tell me ehat to do!"

I wanna see long pole

[Getsuhebi]

Wing chun guy here. It's called a dragon pole. My sifu said that they were originally giant sticks that boatmen used to reach the bottom of the water and push off the ground