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What I like about your channel is that there's' so much kung fu. I didn't know there was so much.

This style is awesome! You gotta surprise Icy Mike with these moves next time you see him! LOL

just waiting for the Karate Nerd to show up and say, "We have something like that in karate too."

I absolutely love practical breakdowns like this, while still showing the deep appreciation for the art

Some may underestimate the Preying Mantis System ("like it's good for killing bugs") but surely there's such bodyguards in ancient Chinese martial history that have stories of this style being horribly vicious - just research.

This is probably one of the best Southern Mantis instructors I've seen.

This is a really great explanation of Southern Mantis. I've been enjoying the Hakka arts lately!

Hakka SPM is an entire world, so many elements you don’t even see in most other arts today, like “Air Dantien” and the painful military “chongs” for body conditioning, and the rich and complete medical knowledge preserved.

Also Of note that Jooklum SPM in the American (Lam Sang / Gin Foon Mark) lineages, UK lineages (Lee Yin Sing), and Hong Kong (Wong Yook Gong) lineages are all similar but very unique to one another in some very cool ways. Different than just different flavors, they’re like counters of one another.

Also The guys from Philly, particularly have a lot of experience training at Boxing gyms so their expression of waist power to deal with the outside and overhand strikes is different.

And, Gin Foon Mark and Fook Yeung both taught Bruce Lee some of the SPM, you can see the photo of him at the LB classic doing Som Bo Gin. And also that Bil Sau to flex his Teres muscles. That is in addition to what he learned and demo’d of NPM in his writings.

I love watching all these different martial arts!  I wish I had time to learn each one!!!

I don’t usually comment but It is amazing to see Jook Lum get some recognition! I’ve heard from my sifu that it was taught in many different ways at one point but this video really drove that home. Most of what I saw here are the exact same movements but I’d say some of this is different from how we practice it but utilizes the same combat theory and a lot of what I saw here is an exact move I know but is applied differently than how we typically utilize it. Overall, I feel like I’ve learned something from watching so thanks!

Wow, this definitelly is a very interesting style with some cool concepts especially the constant expanding.

Kevin you are amazing. Giving so much space for great Kung Fu Styles. Top!

So cool. You can really see how powerful he is and his abdomen looks shaped differently from all the four powers practice. Thank you guys.

Love to see some demonstrations of different kung fu styles!

What will really bake your noodle is the exploration of Okinawan Karate (Goju-Ryu, etc) and Hung Gar, the history and translation of application.

SOOOO awesome to see Southern Mantis! Jet Li and classic wushu have made the "mantis hand" ubiquitous, so it's great to hear the concepts in contrasting this SOuthern variety <3

Traditional styles are like an encyclopedia. The moment training methodologies which build this kind of power, as well as the tactics, integrate to mma training is going to be very interesting! If it happens at some point it will probably happen in Chinese mma world, possibly creating a unique blend of sanshou for the striking aspect, shuai jiao for the wrestling, chin na for the locks, supplemented with bjj ground work and then all those weird, unique power-building methods...

This is awesome and Philip has so much knowledge. He learns Bajiquan under Sifu Vincent Mei in WutanNJ

Yes, thank you.
More Chinese Kung Fu, please.