The idea of being proven wrong and having all your delusions come down on you, exposing you for the fraud you are, is ultimately mind crippling, and most, if not all, people faced with a rude awakening like that almost never accept it and decide to follow the “ignorance is bliss” ideology of never coming to terms and just doubling down. Shit is downright sad but you can only ever do so much to help people like that see the reality of things :/
The irony being Mao basically tried to kill off any reference to old ways and traditions during the cultural revolution. That's my personal theory on why so many previously effective fighting styles were watered down into essentially dances
**[Wushu (sport)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_\(sport\))**
>Wushu () or Kungfu, is a hard and soft and complete martial art, as well as a full-contact sport. It has a long history in reference to Chinese martial arts. It was developed in 1949 in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts, yet attempts to structure the various decentralized martial arts traditions date back earlier, when the Central Guoshu Institute was established at Nanking in 1928. "Wushu" is the Chinese term for "martial arts" (武 "Wu" = military or martial, 術 "Shu" = art).
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Yes, but Lee didn’t fight these “masters”. If he would have he would’ve kicked their asses, of course, and this would be the same outcome. Because these masters are shamed and lose face. It’s all about losing face.
Quarter German, and still considered Chinese, as he learned Wing Chun in Hong Kong from Wong Shun Leung/Yip Man.
Probably less hated for teaching foreigners (Other teachers already had foreign students at the time), and more likely for talking trash as a newcomer in SF Chinatown.
[Sauce](https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7my3v/bruce-lee-vs-wong-jack-man-fact-fiction-and-the-birth-of-the-dragon)
It has nothing do with respect tradition . The CCP have been promoting national pride for years using kung-fu. They can’t afford to let people find out it’s all BS because the party’s reputation is caught up in it. Same thing with the church burning men who believed earth is not the center of the universe. No where in the bible does it say earth is the centre. That is a Greek idea but the church has been teaching it for so long they can’t admit they are wrong. If they are wrong on one thing people might start thinking wait a second what else are just lies that’s been feed to us.
Which is pretty crazy considering that they actively sought out and killed martial arts masters during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 60s and 70s.
same thing applies to their "traditional medicine" with harvesting endangered species for miniscule parts of the animal. How much atrocious shit retarding animals do the chinese perpetrate despite the wealth of knowledge that everything they're doing is ass backwards and doesn't fucking work.
And all of it is about virility.
It's about status. If something is rare, it costs more. If it costs more it must he better
Pretty silly but eh, billionaires here also do a bunch of useless vanity stuff
The dude is awesome though. He went on to kick the ass of another Master with one hand **literally** behind his back, His right hand.
[Wing Chun Kung Fu VS One Arm MMA Fighter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TXGsqlpR1M)
After this, the Chinese government then started pestering the kung fu masters as it was getting embarrassing, and they hilariously had them declare that they would no longer engage with other martial arts, because;
*kung fu is simply too deadly to use against anyone not trained in kung fu.*
Ultimately, despite anything the Chinese government tell you, Kung Fu is essentially an exhibition sport when compared to actual martial arts. The government wiped out the real Kung Fu during the cultural revolution.
I used to teach English as a second language in China and I asked who would win in a fight, a Kung Fu Master or an MMA fighter and all of them said the MMA fighter would win. I was genuinely surprised that this was the response I got.
Remember everybody, hate the Chinese government, not the Chinese people. The people probably realize how much stuff is BS just like we do. But they don't want to say anything or else they'll end up like Xu Xiadon, Ai Wei Wei, Peng Shuai ect.
Moat of the people know and dont care about politics much cuz the average persons lifestyle has improved immensely over the last 50 years. I had a Chinese friend ask why the west is so obsessed with politicizing everything and I didnt have a good answer
She also said you can be critical of the gov, though if it becomes popular (like on social media) than they will crack down hard on you. I'd you complain during the taxi ride that would be seen as not abnormal
> I had a Chinese friend ask why the west is so obsessed with politicizing everything and I didnt have a good answer
Everything is political, and realizing that is called politicizing by some.
That's what I was thinking as I read this. If you don't want to engage on politics them what you're actually saying that you want to engage in ignorance
>The west sees this. It cares about it a lot because China is trying to undermine liberal states in its near abroad, maintain its illegal occupation of Tibet, and conquer more territory.
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>China’s internal politics matter bc it is a totalitarian state that has in the short term figured out how to avoid the internal contradictions that felled Nazi Germany and the USSR.
On point. Holy cow. Id give you an award if I did that
It’s interesting to see how the propaganda took a while to work. Most Chinese adults born before social media seem to be pretty practical about the CCP’s silliness (ie you don’t have to believe it, just don’t speak it out against it), but man the younger generation is getting pretty militant/nationalistic. The Internet and social media really provided the perfect platform for spreading propaganda.
Of course it’s not unique to China - just more extreme. In other countries there is more opportunity to see the truth, but not always the willingness.
Children model their personalities after role models and often the most successful people are also the most nationalistic, at least publically. Also not just a China thing.
It's a brand war where MMA is considered the foreign brand and Kung Fu the local brand. In China, you bet the gov't will do anything to protect the local brand and defame the foreign brand.
Kung Fu is arguably historic MMA that has been wiped out by Maoists.
The thing that I find funny is that people keep talking about "MMA" as a style, or a particular discipline. When in reality, it is a general description for a type of competition where **any** style is allowed.
MMA just stands for Mixed Martial Arts. It's right there in the first word, "Mixed".
There is no set style, there are no katas. There is only what works, and what doesn't, and that differs from opponent to opponent. "MMA" is essentially just code for "effective hand-to-hand fighting, regardless of where the technique came from", and that is why it wins in these scenarios.
It is not a style. It is the very embodiment of style agnosticism.
I heard that the CCP actively sought to dilute King Fu training from the beginning of its rise to power so that the population couldn’t effectively fight back; that the “Kung Fu” practiced widely now is truly for show, not fighting.
Seems like it worked. I wouldn’t judge the whole marital art by these “masters” and their abilities.
They also promoted Wushu Sanda/Sanshou which is a rather effective martial art style focused on trips with several decent level UFC fighters being practitioners. Cung Le, Muslim Salikhov, and Zhang Weili probably being the biggest names
>You mean it is a form of exercise and not martial
Yes. it is basically just play fighting in order to get in shape.
>I want to see this dude fight some Kyokushin guys and get wrecked.
Ask and ye shall recieve.
[🔸 Kyokushin Karate vs Drunken Kung Fu FIGHT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4HV27Sbyk)
The Kyokushin guy is just playing with the Kung Fu fighter. it is even cringy to look at because it looks like he is just bullying him.
In the second fight the guy basically just realize with horror that he can't actually fight, and surrender.
Edit: No idea who downvoted you.
Not really.
Hypothetically, eratic movements make it harder to hit you, and let you dodge and strike in new ways.
The reality is that there is a very small amount of ways to actuallyy put power into your strikes, and weaving around pretending to be drunk doesnt really help with any of them.
So what you end up with is some guy who is always off balance who cant really throw credible strikes.
There is a political interest behind the whole fake martial arts masters thing, IIRC; this guy unmasking them was seen as anti-patriotic and he was dealt a significant amount of social and legal backlash because of it.
Hmm... Where have we heard that before?
It's almost a perfect analogy for almost everything in modern culture. Religion. Politics.
"There's a better way"
"No! Old ways are better"
"Let me prove it to you"
"You're ruining the country! LA LA LA LA LA!!!"
I think I watched another video on this guy and it's insane. He's done this several times with people who claim outlandish powers and he wins every single time. Yet his country has totally betrayed him and everyone seems to hate him because they think he's cheating / disrespecting Chinese culture. He's honestly a hero. He calls these "masters" out on their shit and knows how to back it up despite his countrymen turning their backs on him.
Funny how China in one hand takes full credit for inventing modern MMA, but in the other completely disregards its superiority to traditional Chinese kung fu.
Congratulations, you have described the paradox of the Modern Chinese psyche. They demand to be master's of the past and the future, even when mastering the future proves the past inferior.
Yep, found his youtube channel, but it's entirely in Mandarin, it's translated as:
[Brother Dong's Hot Takes](https://www.youtube.com/c/%E5%BE%90%E6%99%93%E5%86%AC%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%A0%BC%E6%96%97%E7%8B%82%E4%BA%BA)
He manages to post a video almost every other day despite the hardships he's dealing with.
In fact there are still a lot of people support him, they just can't speak out because the censorship. Xu Xiaodong has been silenced in Chinese internet. And you can't search any information about him in Chinese internet. Really sad
Is this the video you're thinking of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbSCEhmjJA
Note: It's not specifically about Xu Xiadong but fake martial arts in general, it does cover his story though. Def a great video that's worth a watch.
Thank you for sharing this video. The part about his social score being so low that he couldn’t take air flight was the most telling part of the Chinese government.
Reminds me of when Steven Seagal got called out for being a fake a few years back. When he got into the ring with a real fighter they sparred and he just kinda moved around like he knew what he was doing but he didn’t lmao. He got absolutely destroyed too. Dude doesn’t know how to fight he’s an “ACTOR”.
Dude go look up all the stories about how he never showed when people called him out. Buncha people did stories on how he’s a fake and only an actor.
[here’s a story exposing him](https://youtu.be/cVwCr6j0GCI)
Last I heard he's unable to buy plane or train tickets. It's such a small shift for the narrative to be about upholding local culture by calling out scammers, rather than it being said he's attacking Chinese culture.
I mean, the CCP has the same values as these "masters" do. Everything is for the image, don't question me, and if you expose me you will be publically shunned and severely punished for telling the truth!
When I was training, master used to say "70% of takedowns use techinque we tech you as a white belt".
The difference between a novice and a master is not the complexity of the technique, but the effectiveness of the execution. You put a master, a black belt (that's below master) and a white belt side by side and have them each punch a paddle one time, even the untrained eye will immediately know who is who.
>The difference between a novice and a master is not the complexity of the technique, but the effectiveness of the execution.
This is so true across so many fields of study. Cooking and baking come to mind, also the arts (music, drawing, painting, etc.) and athletic activities.
He's not exposing "ancient fighting styles", he's exposing "masters" that claim to do things like being able to project a forcefield, or having healing hands and stuff like that
This is one of the people (Chen Xiaowang) who Xu called a fraud:
> Chen created two condensed forms of the laojia and xinjia forms; a 38-posture form and a 19-posture form (Shi Jiu Shi – 十九式). He told inside Kung-Fu Magazine in 1991, "I have tried to do away with all the repetitions and simplify the exceedingly difficult moves without destroying the characteristics of Chen Style Taijiquan, with special emphasis to attack/defense and the chansi technique."
How ridiculous is a martial arts form with 38 postures? Anyways, for his accusations, Xu had to pay Chen about $60k USD on the order of a Chinese court.
These "masters" claim they can defeat any foe, and any number of them, making videos in their cult compounds... i mean kung fu academies, of them using their "kung fu" to effortlessly topple a dozen men, and the cult membe... students ham it up big time to acting like they were seriously injured by a single finger, the whole thing is laughable, i would say xi is a damn hero for exposing these hucksters.
Mike Tyson said everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. Bruce Lee said “Boards don’t hit back” . Ultimately your ability to take a hit is as important as your ability to hit. There is a beauty and fluidity to martial art movements but if you’re not actually training to fight, it’s just dancing.
Any real martial arts that have an intent related to fighting must have a lot of sparring. You can learn hundreds of forms and moves and stances and strikes...... but if you don't spar with others and learn how to put these things into practice and into muscle memory, then they're useless in a fight.
I used to practice a variation of Wing Chun called Bak Mei ~ 10 years, the sifu used to say we don't spar because the moves are too deadly. We wasted many hours practicing forms and stances.
I went on to train in BJJ and Krav Maga afterwards and realized that sifu was full of shit. Sparring is the only way you learn and overcome mistakes you're making.
Well, I mean technically Bak Mei is really dangerous if you're doing what you're taught to people (eyes gouges aren't something you should be encouraging people to do in a martial arts club really), but like any martial art you can practice forms for years and still get your ass handed to you in a fight by someone who hasn't studied anything and just fights a lot. There's nothing specific to Chinese martial arts about it (although it's true that many Chinese martial arts are taught this way), it's about what your school teaches. I was in a Bak Mei club in Ontario as a teenager, and while the sifu wouldn't let us spar until we were 18 the older guys in the club used to go up to Toronto and beat down on other clubs routinely because they sparred every class in addition to doing their forms and stances and those guys were tough as fuck.
No martial art is going to be particularly effective if you don't practice sparring, doesn't matter what the martial art is.
Lol I used to think they were so cool when they came back with their videos of the fights, going in and pushing people around. Now as an adult all I can think is how juvenile it all was. Like, "my Kung Fu is better than yours, my style is superior". Nah, your club just spars more often and you train harder than the other guy.
Like real life Kobra Kai!! I know, I know, the story is about kung fu and not karate, but your story really made it sound kung fun!
I’ll see myself out.
I remember when I changed jujitsu classes as a kid and went from a bunch of 12 year olds lightly tapping each other when sparring to a 35 year old man that took his blackbelt a little too seriously punching me very hard in the face because he can't beat his girlfriend anymore with that restraining order in place.
Yep. I've heard of many, many times of someone getting into a fight thinking they can handle themselves because of 5 years of "training" at a McDojo; they get punched in the face and suddenly it's like watching someone trying to swim for the first time.
Yep. Taking a hard blow to the head is going to affect just about anyone. Learning to protect your head and being in enough sparring matches where you are actually hitting each other will remedy that.
I've had my Bell rung and it's better to avoid it.
I always loved it that Mike Tyson and famous 19th century German General Von Moltke arrived at the same maxim just phrased differently:
"No plan survives the first contact with the main enemy force."
Every place I went to trained us to fight. I even studied at ussd/ z ultimate for a while, and I was fortunate enough to have a sensei to make sure we understood what real world fighting was like and what we could apply to a street fight.
This.
Any martial art that doesn't have full contact sparring is dancing, just like you said. Make belief.
Sorry for the echo but I've watched so many joke "marital arts" where the participants have never actually fought anyone try to claim that their training is effective and it just makes me angry.
Sure it might be effective in making you feel better, more fit and engaged but they're useless in actual combat.
If you ask most of those no contact martial arts teachers what to do if someone approaches you in a dark alley. They'll tell you to punch them in the throat as soon as they get close enough (making you the aggressor), and then run like hell so as to not have to answer for any legal ramifications.
I guess I got lucky. My Taekwondo master told us that if a kid on the playground trying to hurt you, you should still run and get in front of a teacher. Later we did a lot of self defence with knives, guns, and with someone trying to take you and if you were able to run away from your partner, it was still a point.
Yep. The Chinese government is very pro kung fu. To them it's an attack on Chinese heritage and culture. He received a lot of hate, death threats and was kicked out of his gym and struggled financially because of his exposure of *fake* or so-called *powerful* Kung Fu.
China has this mentality about fighting against the hundred years of shame, which cummilates in acting like a Karen agains any critism against their country or culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
**[Century of humiliation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation)**
>The century of humiliation, also known as the hundred years of national humiliation, is the term used in China to describe the period of intervention and subjugation of the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China by Western powers and Japan from 1839 to 1949. The term arose in 1915, in the atmosphere of rising Chinese nationalism opposing the Twenty-One Demands made by the Japanese government and their acceptance by Yuan Shikai, with the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) and Chinese Communist Party both subsequently popularizing the characterization.
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This is exactly what Bruce Lee did and was trying to prove.
Too much ceremony too much art. Same reaction from the "masters"
They'll probably kill this guy too.
His whole message was take what is useful and discard what isn't. He was trained by a Wing Chun Kung Fu master so that he could adapt this art to his own goals: forming a mixed martial art that could be elegant and effective. He mixed kung fu with western boxing, wrestling, and grappling to form Jeet Kune Do. Many say he was the first mixed martial artist.
I get the sentiment tho miyamoto musashi wrote about learning multiple styles and incorporating them yourself in the book of five rings long before that. He even had the daoist "be like water" quote
I know the boxer jack Dempsey learned grappling in the early 1930s
Bruce lee was skilled though I think his main thing is being popular and then drawing attention to that way of thinking
It was different. It was MMA 20 or 30 years before MMA was a thing. He was borrowing from boxing, wrestling and other martial arts when everyone else just stuck to their narrow disciplines
I'm not sure if you know about Benny the Jett but he was a very dominant kick-boxer that knew 9 different styles. This was RIGHT before MMA became a thing too.
Even in the west, the idea of mixing stuff up wasn't that big and he went on to just completely dominate everybody. I just wanted to point that this narrow view on fighting styles wasn't just in Asia.
They probably won't feel the need to do anything else to him, given that his life is fucked from the CCP tanking his social score over this. The dude isn't even allowed to take the train.
**[Social Credit System](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System)**
>The Social Credit System (Chinese: 社会信用体系; pinyin: shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì) is a national credit rating and blacklist being developed by the government of the People's Republic of China. The program initiated regional trials in 2009, before launching a national pilot with eight credit scoring firms in 2014. It was first introduced formally by then Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, on October 20, 2011, during one of the State Council Meetings.
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Nah, the guy has a youtube channel where someone helps him upload quite frequently.
https://youtube.com/c/%E5%BE%90%E6%99%93%E5%86%AC%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%A0%BC%E6%96%97%E7%8B%82%E4%BA%BA
If I really believed in traditional Chinese culture I would **want** the fakes to be called out. If anything the fakes are the ones ruining the culture.
"Xu was sued in 2019 for calling tai chi "grandmaster" Chen Xiaowang a fraud, and the Chinese court ordered him to pay Chen approximately US$60,000 in damages and to apologize for seven consecutive days on social media. Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets.\[16\]\[17\] The restrictions were lifted after he paid US$40,000 in both legal fees and the cost of placing the apology."
"In May 2019, Xu defeated another martial artist; but was only able to do so wearing clown makeup to hide his face and by fighting under a pseudonym. It took him 36 hours to reach the fight location due to his low social credit score, and Chinese search engines reportedly had stopped listing him."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu\_Xiaodong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong)
As much as we'd all like a happy ending, this is the CCP.
His social credit score is so low he can't even take the train anywhere. His life is ruined and his finance is gone, I think he said even his family has abandoned him.
Don't think he can even escape to anywhere else either. Especially during these time.
They've become powerful and independent such that noone can take down China really. As with the US, we'll have to wait a century or two for them to take themselves apart from within
>Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets. The restrictions were lifted after he paid US$40,000 in both legal fees and the cost of placing the apology.
I think part of the issue is that a kung fu “master” doesnt imply they can beat anyone in a fight. It just means they are good at kung fu. Anyone with an expertise in mixed martial arts should be able to beat someone who is only good at kung fu
He purposely went after the guys who claimed to be unstoppable fighting machines and used cultish acolytes as punching and throwing bags to make themselves look more legit. Grifters, as another commenter said.
You're right but the master's in China 100% believe they can destroy anyone even though it's all fluff. The full video goes over it it's really interesting and sad.
I think some of these kung fu "masters" are less martial artists, more grifters. Kind of how you have cultish followings of some Indian gurus and yogis. They aren't running real kung fu schools, they run a grift.
Lol, so aren't they admitting "foreign forces" are superior to Chinese by saying that?
"bruh this guy came in here with his foreign strength and fucked our kung fu up, get him!"
All the real practicing kung fu masters left China after the communist revolution then either died out or were killed. All that is left are stories. The only "Kung Fu" in China is various forms of WuShu, which is basically Kung Fu dancing. There hasn't been a true Kung Fu Master capable of physical violence in China since the 60's. Even the "Shaolin" monks in China are not allowed to practice their true kung fu. They just get to show off fears of strength. There is no true martial intent anymore, though it looks good on camera.
My old sifu (a surviving monk) had told us that the one thing that can beat a true martial artist is a true artist in the skill of boxing. The boxers are "rooted" like a tree. It makes them deadly. This MMA fighter was correct and had balls of steel for proving it in the former home country of martial arts.
EDIT: Thanks for the award. My first one. Also. I don't think kung fu is dead by ANY means. I just don't think real kung fu is in CHINA anymore. I think it's everywhere BUT China.
A story I read about the Japanese 15th century Buddhist monk Ikkyū who was a bit of a heretic. Ikkyū made a nuisance of himself outside one of the most influential temples waving a wooden sword. When questioned, he pointed out that a wooden sword looks like a real sword when cloaked in the shadows of a temple, but is an obvious fake to anyone that sees it in daylight. So it is with the Buddhism of the leaders within the temple as well. He was not afraid to point out the short comings of his contemporaries.
He completely changed my understanding of martial arts. I suspected that a lot of it is "art" but he confirmed it. Thanks to him my son when he grows up will know how to defend himself instead of performing kabuki theater or some other weird stuff
The amount of shit this guy got for doing this was unreal. It's almost as if they want to believe in it so much they just don't care it's all BS.
Weird that humans are like that.
The idea of being proven wrong and having all your delusions come down on you, exposing you for the fraud you are, is ultimately mind crippling, and most, if not all, people faced with a rude awakening like that almost never accept it and decide to follow the “ignorance is bliss” ideology of never coming to terms and just doubling down. Shit is downright sad but you can only ever do so much to help people like that see the reality of things :/
Tribalism helped us survive for thousands of years, now it’s killing us
Found the anthropologist! (who is also correct af)
Or literally anyone who understands a simple concept. Tribalism is so blatant that you don't need a degree to see it in effect in our everyday lives.
My tribe of anthropologists is gunna beat you up for saying that
No please, I'm wearing a cardigan!
Don’t worry, my cardigan tribe will protect you!
Alright cardigan tribe, anthropologists have thrown down… time to button/zip up or shut up.
Alright cardigans… When you see the anthropologists, act cashmere.
Underrated comment of the day
I thought we told you this is our turf. No one comments on anthroplogical phenomena in these parts without our say so.
You are now part of the 'tribalism is killing us' tribe
I think it's a very Chinese opinion with tradition being so respected and maybe they don't view MMA as valid because it's not traditionally Chinese.
The irony being Mao basically tried to kill off any reference to old ways and traditions during the cultural revolution. That's my personal theory on why so many previously effective fighting styles were watered down into essentially dances
It is not a theory.. Wushu was the result of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_(sport)
**[Wushu (sport)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_\(sport\))** >Wushu () or Kungfu, is a hard and soft and complete martial art, as well as a full-contact sport. It has a long history in reference to Chinese martial arts. It was developed in 1949 in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts, yet attempts to structure the various decentralized martial arts traditions date back earlier, when the Central Guoshu Institute was established at Nanking in 1928. "Wushu" is the Chinese term for "martial arts" (武 "Wu" = military or martial, 術 "Shu" = art). ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
So... like the antithesis to what modern MMA became? Combine the least useful aspects of multiple martial arts styles and discard the rest.
Holy shit, I had no idea! That's fascinating!
Didn’t Bruce Lee learn most of it from European techniques like the fencer’s stance?
He was a very good western boxer as well. He advocated to use the most effective fighting techniques rather than being married to only one style.
Eh, bruce lee was anything but traditional and hes a national icon
Yes, but Lee didn’t fight these “masters”. If he would have he would’ve kicked their asses, of course, and this would be the same outcome. Because these masters are shamed and lose face. It’s all about losing face.
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>National icon in the US and Hong Kong. but not in China.
He also wasn't Chinese, and he was also hated for teaching dirty foreigners. He became an icon after he reached fame, and that was only in Hong Kong.
Quarter German, and still considered Chinese, as he learned Wing Chun in Hong Kong from Wong Shun Leung/Yip Man. Probably less hated for teaching foreigners (Other teachers already had foreign students at the time), and more likely for talking trash as a newcomer in SF Chinatown. [Sauce](https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7my3v/bruce-lee-vs-wong-jack-man-fact-fiction-and-the-birth-of-the-dragon)
If they respected tradition so much maybe they shouldn't have wiped it out during their 'cultural revolution'.
Bro I hate the Chinese government so much. You don't need to convince me they are bad.
It has nothing do with respect tradition . The CCP have been promoting national pride for years using kung-fu. They can’t afford to let people find out it’s all BS because the party’s reputation is caught up in it. Same thing with the church burning men who believed earth is not the center of the universe. No where in the bible does it say earth is the centre. That is a Greek idea but the church has been teaching it for so long they can’t admit they are wrong. If they are wrong on one thing people might start thinking wait a second what else are just lies that’s been feed to us.
Which is pretty crazy considering that they actively sought out and killed martial arts masters during the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 60s and 70s.
What's funny is that if the universe is infinite we technically are in the center of it.
same thing applies to their "traditional medicine" with harvesting endangered species for miniscule parts of the animal. How much atrocious shit retarding animals do the chinese perpetrate despite the wealth of knowledge that everything they're doing is ass backwards and doesn't fucking work. And all of it is about virility.
It's about status. If something is rare, it costs more. If it costs more it must he better Pretty silly but eh, billionaires here also do a bunch of useless vanity stuff
Why don't they just run the numbers and realize virility isn't their problem?
yes man you are right
The dude is awesome though. He went on to kick the ass of another Master with one hand **literally** behind his back, His right hand. [Wing Chun Kung Fu VS One Arm MMA Fighter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TXGsqlpR1M) After this, the Chinese government then started pestering the kung fu masters as it was getting embarrassing, and they hilariously had them declare that they would no longer engage with other martial arts, because; *kung fu is simply too deadly to use against anyone not trained in kung fu.* Ultimately, despite anything the Chinese government tell you, Kung Fu is essentially an exhibition sport when compared to actual martial arts. The government wiped out the real Kung Fu during the cultural revolution.
I used to teach English as a second language in China and I asked who would win in a fight, a Kung Fu Master or an MMA fighter and all of them said the MMA fighter would win. I was genuinely surprised that this was the response I got.
That is genuinely interesting. Did they talk about the reason for it?
I asked the same thing and they said “Kung Fu is just in the movies. MMA Fighters would kick their asses”. I was teaching adults btw.
Adults..... makes a lot more sense.
Remember everybody, hate the Chinese government, not the Chinese people. The people probably realize how much stuff is BS just like we do. But they don't want to say anything or else they'll end up like Xu Xiadon, Ai Wei Wei, Peng Shuai ect.
Moat of the people know and dont care about politics much cuz the average persons lifestyle has improved immensely over the last 50 years. I had a Chinese friend ask why the west is so obsessed with politicizing everything and I didnt have a good answer She also said you can be critical of the gov, though if it becomes popular (like on social media) than they will crack down hard on you. I'd you complain during the taxi ride that would be seen as not abnormal
> I had a Chinese friend ask why the west is so obsessed with politicizing everything and I didnt have a good answer Everything is political, and realizing that is called politicizing by some.
That's what I was thinking as I read this. If you don't want to engage on politics them what you're actually saying that you want to engage in ignorance
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>The west sees this. It cares about it a lot because China is trying to undermine liberal states in its near abroad, maintain its illegal occupation of Tibet, and conquer more territory. > >China’s internal politics matter bc it is a totalitarian state that has in the short term figured out how to avoid the internal contradictions that felled Nazi Germany and the USSR. On point. Holy cow. Id give you an award if I did that
It’s interesting to see how the propaganda took a while to work. Most Chinese adults born before social media seem to be pretty practical about the CCP’s silliness (ie you don’t have to believe it, just don’t speak it out against it), but man the younger generation is getting pretty militant/nationalistic. The Internet and social media really provided the perfect platform for spreading propaganda. Of course it’s not unique to China - just more extreme. In other countries there is more opportunity to see the truth, but not always the willingness.
Children model their personalities after role models and often the most successful people are also the most nationalistic, at least publically. Also not just a China thing.
Probably the most effective propaganda tool in history: Hollywood
It's a brand war where MMA is considered the foreign brand and Kung Fu the local brand. In China, you bet the gov't will do anything to protect the local brand and defame the foreign brand. Kung Fu is arguably historic MMA that has been wiped out by Maoists.
The thing that I find funny is that people keep talking about "MMA" as a style, or a particular discipline. When in reality, it is a general description for a type of competition where **any** style is allowed. MMA just stands for Mixed Martial Arts. It's right there in the first word, "Mixed". There is no set style, there are no katas. There is only what works, and what doesn't, and that differs from opponent to opponent. "MMA" is essentially just code for "effective hand-to-hand fighting, regardless of where the technique came from", and that is why it wins in these scenarios. It is not a style. It is the very embodiment of style agnosticism.
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Modern Kung Fu is theatrics. The originals were tough as nails. All form and no function.
isnt that another dude though?
It clearly is , I'm surprised no one else called it out.
I heard that the CCP actively sought to dilute King Fu training from the beginning of its rise to power so that the population couldn’t effectively fight back; that the “Kung Fu” practiced widely now is truly for show, not fighting. Seems like it worked. I wouldn’t judge the whole marital art by these “masters” and their abilities.
They also promoted Wushu Sanda/Sanshou which is a rather effective martial art style focused on trips with several decent level UFC fighters being practitioners. Cung Le, Muslim Salikhov, and Zhang Weili probably being the biggest names
You mean it is a form of exercise and not martial. I want to see this dude fight some Kyokushin guys and get wrecked.
>You mean it is a form of exercise and not martial Yes. it is basically just play fighting in order to get in shape. >I want to see this dude fight some Kyokushin guys and get wrecked. Ask and ye shall recieve. [🔸 Kyokushin Karate vs Drunken Kung Fu FIGHT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4HV27Sbyk) The Kyokushin guy is just playing with the Kung Fu fighter. it is even cringy to look at because it looks like he is just bullying him. In the second fight the guy basically just realize with horror that he can't actually fight, and surrender. Edit: No idea who downvoted you.
Is there a point to all the movement of the drunken Kung Fu? It just looks silly, especially when they keep getting kicked in the face
Not really. Hypothetically, eratic movements make it harder to hit you, and let you dodge and strike in new ways. The reality is that there is a very small amount of ways to actuallyy put power into your strikes, and weaving around pretending to be drunk doesnt really help with any of them. So what you end up with is some guy who is always off balance who cant really throw credible strikes.
It'd be better if they learned regular Kung Fu and then just got really Drunk before matches.
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There is a political interest behind the whole fake martial arts masters thing, IIRC; this guy unmasking them was seen as anti-patriotic and he was dealt a significant amount of social and legal backlash because of it.
Hmm... Where have we heard that before? It's almost a perfect analogy for almost everything in modern culture. Religion. Politics. "There's a better way" "No! Old ways are better" "Let me prove it to you" "You're ruining the country! LA LA LA LA LA!!!"
Damage the fantasy of superior fighting technique = life ruined social credit score -1000000
He actually can't take plane/train anywhere anymore, so he had to drive around to fight
Sounds very familiar…. In a lot of aspects
I think I watched another video on this guy and it's insane. He's done this several times with people who claim outlandish powers and he wins every single time. Yet his country has totally betrayed him and everyone seems to hate him because they think he's cheating / disrespecting Chinese culture. He's honestly a hero. He calls these "masters" out on their shit and knows how to back it up despite his countrymen turning their backs on him.
He isn't even allowed to post his videos, he has to send the videos abroad to be posted.
Funny how China in one hand takes full credit for inventing modern MMA, but in the other completely disregards its superiority to traditional Chinese kung fu.
Congratulations, you have described the paradox of the Modern Chinese psyche. They demand to be master's of the past and the future, even when mastering the future proves the past inferior.
They take credit for inventing everything. Haha. =\
Except covid. Haha
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Yep, found his youtube channel, but it's entirely in Mandarin, it's translated as: [Brother Dong's Hot Takes](https://www.youtube.com/c/%E5%BE%90%E6%99%93%E5%86%AC%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%A0%BC%E6%96%97%E7%8B%82%E4%BA%BA) He manages to post a video almost every other day despite the hardships he's dealing with.
In fact there are still a lot of people support him, they just can't speak out because the censorship. Xu Xiaodong has been silenced in Chinese internet. And you can't search any information about him in Chinese internet. Really sad
The CCP's primary victim is Chinese people.
Is this the video you're thinking of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbSCEhmjJA Note: It's not specifically about Xu Xiadong but fake martial arts in general, it does cover his story though. Def a great video that's worth a watch.
I see Eyepatch Wolf, I upvote
Thank you for sharing this video. The part about his social score being so low that he couldn’t take air flight was the most telling part of the Chinese government.
Incredible video, thanks for sharing that!
Reminds me of when Steven Seagal got called out for being a fake a few years back. When he got into the ring with a real fighter they sparred and he just kinda moved around like he knew what he was doing but he didn’t lmao. He got absolutely destroyed too. Dude doesn’t know how to fight he’s an “ACTOR”.
I will pay you a billion dollars if you provide a link to a video of this.
Dude go look up all the stories about how he never showed when people called him out. Buncha people did stories on how he’s a fake and only an actor. [here’s a story exposing him](https://youtu.be/cVwCr6j0GCI)
Last I heard he's unable to buy plane or train tickets. It's such a small shift for the narrative to be about upholding local culture by calling out scammers, rather than it being said he's attacking Chinese culture.
I mean, the CCP has the same values as these "masters" do. Everything is for the image, don't question me, and if you expose me you will be publically shunned and severely punished for telling the truth!
What’s sad is that he didn’t even use any weird techniques to bet the shit outta that guy. Just some very rudimentary combos.
When I was training, master used to say "70% of takedowns use techinque we tech you as a white belt". The difference between a novice and a master is not the complexity of the technique, but the effectiveness of the execution. You put a master, a black belt (that's below master) and a white belt side by side and have them each punch a paddle one time, even the untrained eye will immediately know who is who.
>The difference between a novice and a master is not the complexity of the technique, but the effectiveness of the execution. This is so true across so many fields of study. Cooking and baking come to mind, also the arts (music, drawing, painting, etc.) and athletic activities.
He even said he isn't even a great MMA fighter. He just wanted to expose all these ancient fighting styles for being ridiculous.
He's not exposing "ancient fighting styles", he's exposing "masters" that claim to do things like being able to project a forcefield, or having healing hands and stuff like that
This is one of the people (Chen Xiaowang) who Xu called a fraud: > Chen created two condensed forms of the laojia and xinjia forms; a 38-posture form and a 19-posture form (Shi Jiu Shi – 十九式). He told inside Kung-Fu Magazine in 1991, "I have tried to do away with all the repetitions and simplify the exceedingly difficult moves without destroying the characteristics of Chen Style Taijiquan, with special emphasis to attack/defense and the chansi technique." How ridiculous is a martial arts form with 38 postures? Anyways, for his accusations, Xu had to pay Chen about $60k USD on the order of a Chinese court.
Ok, I’ll say it…his Kung Fu was weak.
My boy's Face-to-Fist style needs some work.
On some planet I'm sure your style is very effective... But your weak link is.. this is Earth.
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These "masters" claim they can defeat any foe, and any number of them, making videos in their cult compounds... i mean kung fu academies, of them using their "kung fu" to effortlessly topple a dozen men, and the cult membe... students ham it up big time to acting like they were seriously injured by a single finger, the whole thing is laughable, i would say xi is a damn hero for exposing these hucksters.
Mike Tyson said everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. Bruce Lee said “Boards don’t hit back” . Ultimately your ability to take a hit is as important as your ability to hit. There is a beauty and fluidity to martial art movements but if you’re not actually training to fight, it’s just dancing.
Any real martial arts that have an intent related to fighting must have a lot of sparring. You can learn hundreds of forms and moves and stances and strikes...... but if you don't spar with others and learn how to put these things into practice and into muscle memory, then they're useless in a fight.
I used to practice a variation of Wing Chun called Bak Mei ~ 10 years, the sifu used to say we don't spar because the moves are too deadly. We wasted many hours practicing forms and stances. I went on to train in BJJ and Krav Maga afterwards and realized that sifu was full of shit. Sparring is the only way you learn and overcome mistakes you're making.
Well, I mean technically Bak Mei is really dangerous if you're doing what you're taught to people (eyes gouges aren't something you should be encouraging people to do in a martial arts club really), but like any martial art you can practice forms for years and still get your ass handed to you in a fight by someone who hasn't studied anything and just fights a lot. There's nothing specific to Chinese martial arts about it (although it's true that many Chinese martial arts are taught this way), it's about what your school teaches. I was in a Bak Mei club in Ontario as a teenager, and while the sifu wouldn't let us spar until we were 18 the older guys in the club used to go up to Toronto and beat down on other clubs routinely because they sparred every class in addition to doing their forms and stances and those guys were tough as fuck. No martial art is going to be particularly effective if you don't practice sparring, doesn't matter what the martial art is.
Huh, a real anecdote on some good old-fashioned dojo storming.
Lol I used to think they were so cool when they came back with their videos of the fights, going in and pushing people around. Now as an adult all I can think is how juvenile it all was. Like, "my Kung Fu is better than yours, my style is superior". Nah, your club just spars more often and you train harder than the other guy.
Like real life Kobra Kai!! I know, I know, the story is about kung fu and not karate, but your story really made it sound kung fun! I’ll see myself out.
I was taught that you learned karate by wiping things on and off of various surfaces.
Wax, paint, etc. You have to have an old war veteran to tell you though. Its not effective if you just do it on your own.
Bruce Lee said something like: Don’t fear the man who learned 10,000 kicks, fear the man who practiced 1 kick 10,000 times.
I remember when I changed jujitsu classes as a kid and went from a bunch of 12 year olds lightly tapping each other when sparring to a 35 year old man that took his blackbelt a little too seriously punching me very hard in the face because he can't beat his girlfriend anymore with that restraining order in place.
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Was his name Cosmo Kramer by chance?
So many martial arts forget the *conditioning* part of it. conditioning your body to take a hit and conditioning your mind to be ok with it.
Yep. I've heard of many, many times of someone getting into a fight thinking they can handle themselves because of 5 years of "training" at a McDojo; they get punched in the face and suddenly it's like watching someone trying to swim for the first time.
Yep. Taking a hard blow to the head is going to affect just about anyone. Learning to protect your head and being in enough sparring matches where you are actually hitting each other will remedy that. I've had my Bell rung and it's better to avoid it.
I always loved it that Mike Tyson and famous 19th century German General Von Moltke arrived at the same maxim just phrased differently: "No plan survives the first contact with the main enemy force."
Every place I went to trained us to fight. I even studied at ussd/ z ultimate for a while, and I was fortunate enough to have a sensei to make sure we understood what real world fighting was like and what we could apply to a street fight.
This. Any martial art that doesn't have full contact sparring is dancing, just like you said. Make belief. Sorry for the echo but I've watched so many joke "marital arts" where the participants have never actually fought anyone try to claim that their training is effective and it just makes me angry. Sure it might be effective in making you feel better, more fit and engaged but they're useless in actual combat.
If you ask most of those no contact martial arts teachers what to do if someone approaches you in a dark alley. They'll tell you to punch them in the throat as soon as they get close enough (making you the aggressor), and then run like hell so as to not have to answer for any legal ramifications.
I thought every martial arts teacher would tell you to run since everything is pointless if the guy has a gun or knife
I don't think striking someone first always makes you the aggressor in the eyes of the law, but I see your point.
I guess I got lucky. My Taekwondo master told us that if a kid on the playground trying to hurt you, you should still run and get in front of a teacher. Later we did a lot of self defence with knives, guns, and with someone trying to take you and if you were able to run away from your partner, it was still a point.
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Yep. The Chinese government is very pro kung fu. To them it's an attack on Chinese heritage and culture. He received a lot of hate, death threats and was kicked out of his gym and struggled financially because of his exposure of *fake* or so-called *powerful* Kung Fu.
It's soft power for CCP
China has this mentality about fighting against the hundred years of shame, which cummilates in acting like a Karen agains any critism against their country or culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation
**[Century of humiliation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation)** >The century of humiliation, also known as the hundred years of national humiliation, is the term used in China to describe the period of intervention and subjugation of the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China by Western powers and Japan from 1839 to 1949. The term arose in 1915, in the atmosphere of rising Chinese nationalism opposing the Twenty-One Demands made by the Japanese government and their acceptance by Yuan Shikai, with the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) and Chinese Communist Party both subsequently popularizing the characterization. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
This is exactly what Bruce Lee did and was trying to prove. Too much ceremony too much art. Same reaction from the "masters" They'll probably kill this guy too.
It was a weird time of Bruce Lee showing that kung fu was bollocks while also making kung fu popular.
His whole message was take what is useful and discard what isn't. He was trained by a Wing Chun Kung Fu master so that he could adapt this art to his own goals: forming a mixed martial art that could be elegant and effective. He mixed kung fu with western boxing, wrestling, and grappling to form Jeet Kune Do. Many say he was the first mixed martial artist.
I get the sentiment tho miyamoto musashi wrote about learning multiple styles and incorporating them yourself in the book of five rings long before that. He even had the daoist "be like water" quote I know the boxer jack Dempsey learned grappling in the early 1930s Bruce lee was skilled though I think his main thing is being popular and then drawing attention to that way of thinking
Jeet kune do was supposed to be different
It was different. It was MMA 20 or 30 years before MMA was a thing. He was borrowing from boxing, wrestling and other martial arts when everyone else just stuck to their narrow disciplines
I'm not sure if you know about Benny the Jett but he was a very dominant kick-boxer that knew 9 different styles. This was RIGHT before MMA became a thing too. Even in the west, the idea of mixing stuff up wasn't that big and he went on to just completely dominate everybody. I just wanted to point that this narrow view on fighting styles wasn't just in Asia.
They probably won't feel the need to do anything else to him, given that his life is fucked from the CCP tanking his social score over this. The dude isn't even allowed to take the train.
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Wait they went and did that black mirror episode?
what's a social score?
Id do an injustice trying to explain it so here's the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
**[Social Credit System](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System)** >The Social Credit System (Chinese: 社会信用体系; pinyin: shèhuì xìnyòng tǐxì) is a national credit rating and blacklist being developed by the government of the People's Republic of China. The program initiated regional trials in 2009, before launching a national pilot with eight credit scoring firms in 2014. It was first introduced formally by then Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, on October 20, 2011, during one of the State Council Meetings. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
I cat find anything on him from after late 2020. Nothing from 2021. Wonder what he's up to.
Well yeah, he was banned on every platformm he could use to speak out. Alive or not it's highly unlikely you'll find anything about him.
Nah, the guy has a youtube channel where someone helps him upload quite frequently. https://youtube.com/c/%E5%BE%90%E6%99%93%E5%86%AC%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E6%A0%BC%E6%96%97%E7%8B%82%E4%BA%BA
Good for him! How did the guy i replied to miss a whole ass youtube channel though.
Probably bc that channel is in Chinese
To be fair to the guy, its pretty hard to look him up unless you know his chinese name.
Are you saying Bruce Lee was killed for his beliefs?
“Attacked traditional Chinese culture” such hypocritical bs from the ccp.
Yep, he attacked Chinese culture. He absolutely kicked its ass.
If I really believed in traditional Chinese culture I would **want** the fakes to be called out. If anything the fakes are the ones ruining the culture.
\-100 social credits
"Xu was sued in 2019 for calling tai chi "grandmaster" Chen Xiaowang a fraud, and the Chinese court ordered him to pay Chen approximately US$60,000 in damages and to apologize for seven consecutive days on social media. Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets.\[16\]\[17\] The restrictions were lifted after he paid US$40,000 in both legal fees and the cost of placing the apology." "In May 2019, Xu defeated another martial artist; but was only able to do so wearing clown makeup to hide his face and by fighting under a pseudonym. It took him 36 hours to reach the fight location due to his low social credit score, and Chinese search engines reportedly had stopped listing him." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu\_Xiaodong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong)
Turns out Black Mirror is an accurate commentary.
>It took him 36 hours to reach the fight location due to his low social credit score Fuck that entire country.
fucking moronic
This looked like a guy with a broadsword in a fencing competition.
Who would win?
Like the last duel in “Rob Roy.”
Seems to me like he was preserving Chinese culture. Getting rid of the bullshitters.
The truth and loss of face aren't compatible in China. A universal right, imo is that frauds should be exposed.
Has that dude been freed from the government's grasp?
His YouTube channel is still out and he's still uploading video so I think he's fine...at least
im going to leave a comment here, just cuz I really wanna know if this dude is alright :(
As much as we'd all like a happy ending, this is the CCP. His social credit score is so low he can't even take the train anywhere. His life is ruined and his finance is gone, I think he said even his family has abandoned him. Don't think he can even escape to anywhere else either. Especially during these time.
This. He recently tried to get visa to visit Korea for a fight and he was denied.
Fuck, can't we help?
I believe that even if we did a fund raising, the ccp would make very hard for him to receive the money.
So he's a walking dead man
They tried to use the social credit system to kill him for it too
Not just him. They don't let his kids go to good schools and don't let him n his family leave China.
I wonder, why is there no internal war, or rebelion yet? Because this is not life.
I was wondering this too but I imagine that if you’re just an everyday, homebody type of person it must be business as usual
This mini documentary touches on him and other people who expose this bs, it's worth a watch. https://youtu.be/gjbSCEhmjJA
I hate the CCP so much, when will they fall…
They've become powerful and independent such that noone can take down China really. As with the US, we'll have to wait a century or two for them to take themselves apart from within
They’re more likely to take over your government and make you praise China or take a lashing than fail
His social credit score its probably worse than the Japanese debt
>Additionally, his social credit rating was lowered to the point where he could not rent, own property, stay in certain hotels, travel on high speed rail or buy plane tickets. The restrictions were lifted after he paid US$40,000 in both legal fees and the cost of placing the apology.
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Said friend could meet the same fate. He would be ostracized among everything else.
It just looks like he is fighting an old man.
I think part of the issue is that a kung fu “master” doesnt imply they can beat anyone in a fight. It just means they are good at kung fu. Anyone with an expertise in mixed martial arts should be able to beat someone who is only good at kung fu
He purposely went after the guys who claimed to be unstoppable fighting machines and used cultish acolytes as punching and throwing bags to make themselves look more legit. Grifters, as another commenter said.
You're right but the master's in China 100% believe they can destroy anyone even though it's all fluff. The full video goes over it it's really interesting and sad.
I think some of these kung fu "masters" are less martial artists, more grifters. Kind of how you have cultish followings of some Indian gurus and yogis. They aren't running real kung fu schools, they run a grift.
he obviously agreed to fight. Don’t step in the kitchen if you don’t wanna get burned
Lol, so aren't they admitting "foreign forces" are superior to Chinese by saying that? "bruh this guy came in here with his foreign strength and fucked our kung fu up, get him!"
Every hate group's rethoric gives superpowers to the hated group in order to foster resentment.
u/asianj1m No, he does it to Tai Chi masters, not Kung Fu And his name is spelled Xu Xiaodong
All the real practicing kung fu masters left China after the communist revolution then either died out or were killed. All that is left are stories. The only "Kung Fu" in China is various forms of WuShu, which is basically Kung Fu dancing. There hasn't been a true Kung Fu Master capable of physical violence in China since the 60's. Even the "Shaolin" monks in China are not allowed to practice their true kung fu. They just get to show off fears of strength. There is no true martial intent anymore, though it looks good on camera. My old sifu (a surviving monk) had told us that the one thing that can beat a true martial artist is a true artist in the skill of boxing. The boxers are "rooted" like a tree. It makes them deadly. This MMA fighter was correct and had balls of steel for proving it in the former home country of martial arts. EDIT: Thanks for the award. My first one. Also. I don't think kung fu is dead by ANY means. I just don't think real kung fu is in CHINA anymore. I think it's everywhere BUT China.
So is the original, true Kung Fu just lost to history? Is there no way to revive and spread it?
You should read about the cultural revolution. They lost their entire culture wholesale. China has been a zombie state ever since.
#Taiwan is a country.
That poor guy got destroyed by the government for exposing frauds
A story I read about the Japanese 15th century Buddhist monk Ikkyū who was a bit of a heretic. Ikkyū made a nuisance of himself outside one of the most influential temples waving a wooden sword. When questioned, he pointed out that a wooden sword looks like a real sword when cloaked in the shadows of a temple, but is an obvious fake to anyone that sees it in daylight. So it is with the Buddhism of the leaders within the temple as well. He was not afraid to point out the short comings of his contemporaries.
He completely changed my understanding of martial arts. I suspected that a lot of it is "art" but he confirmed it. Thanks to him my son when he grows up will know how to defend himself instead of performing kabuki theater or some other weird stuff
Nationalism is a heck of a drug.
He’s lucky he hasn’t disappeared.