the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Here are some CCTV-4, “Experiencing Real Kung Fu” episodes :

Chen Style Tai Chi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y872UvKv_XM

Yang Style Tai Chi Yang Style Taij:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprNKGHPrxA

Shen Zhou Yiquan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dejT54E0ZE

Nanquan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSSH524BCc

Wu-Style, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3FIUr2ABQ

Xing Yi Da Cheng:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buflEHy0Omo

Shaolin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhH1hMX55Iw

San Shou:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFIGEiISA0M

Eric Couillard - Beijing Drifter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNchUnsBhY

This show had a great concept:
Go to visit various TCMA
Have (1) the oafish foreigner and (b) the skilled and cultured Chinese chap spar
Dissect

Unfortunately they had to fictionalize it.
When the oafish foreigner spars with the TCMA chaps, it is clearly choreographed. (One exception being the Shaolin/sansau episode, but check out the "pressure point master" and the "taiji master:" There are long shots of them sparring, then we cut to sudden, choreographed "close ups" of the decisive moves);
When the cultured Chinese chaps spart with the masters, it is light contact, "hand-chasing" sparring with neither party actually doing much that resembles fighting.

The Hong Kong TV series, when the show stars (who had significant MA backgrounds, which I am not sure you could say about the peeps in this show) actually spar with the TCMAritsts was far better: They were respectful of those they met, but they sparred for real rather than making up the "fight" parts.


Ho hum.

I said this in another topic about this series:
"This entire series, its staged performance, fake presentation, premise, and deliberate exaggeration of the greatness of the native practitioner over the dumb brute foreigners is not only an insult to the people in the show, but to all Chinese martial arts on a whole. The Chinese are managing very well to further degrade the arts in the eyes of all martial artists who see this shit."

Also, their feats of skill, are all staged and easy to see.....

Andy_S wrote:This show had a great concept:
Go to visit various TCMA
Have (1) the oafish foreigner and (b) the skilled and cultured Chinese chap spar
Dissect

The Hong Kong TV series, when the show stars (who had significant MA backgrounds, which I am not sure you could say about the peeps in this show) actually spar with the TCMAritsts was far better: They were respectful of those they met, but they sparred for real rather than making up the "fight" parts.
Ho hum.

It's a balance of reality, rule sets, & saving face. If I you defeat (make them look bad) the guests, the promotion of their school may suffer. It may be hard finding future guests.

I miss Danny Horgan's Wing Chun Blast episodes, in a similar format :
Chi sau starts @ 6:22:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkHQQBYQ7g

I have noticed that in Yang style, it is a practice pattern that its lineage masters and principals are nowhere to be found per the various encounters (shrine seekers, worshippers, etc) when compared to those of Wu or Chen style Why is that?

I fail to see how anyone with even half a brain can possibly believe this kind of show.