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Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:50 pm
by aamc
Swedish dude's travel to Taiwan to whack boards and do jiben gong


Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 12:09 am
by Trick
Too bad I can’t see the vid. Since I’m a Swede it would be fun to see what this fellow Swede‘s doing. Any chance it can be found on the Chinese tubes?

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:30 am
by Bao
Just a lot of hard conditioning, basic stuff. You would be disappointed if you expect anything that looks like Monkey Style. :-\

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:06 am
by Bhassler
Here's the next vid:


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

It seems that the hard qigong and conditioning is what they specifically wanted to learn about, and they were only there for a week. It's too bad they weren't more into the martial aspects and/or didn't have more time. I would have liked to see how the jibengong tied into the actual fighting system.

Overall, though, I found it pretty interesting. It showed a lot more depth than is typically seen in videos that touch on hard qigong.

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:37 am
by Trick
Bao wrote:Just a lot of hard conditioning, basic stuff. You would be disappointed if you expect anything that looks like Monkey Style. :-\

Not too much GongFu schools around in Sweden, any idea who the guys are?

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:52 am
by Trick
My first Taiji teacher had been to Japan to further his karate(Kyokushin) studies. On his way back to Sweden he thought to make a brief stop in Taipei and after that a quickie to India to meet his yoga teacher and then Sweden. On his first day in Taipei he met an teacher of “eagle claw” GongFu that agreed to show him some of his GongFu the next day, but the next day no eagle was around instead my teacher came to study with a sword master and his brief stop became a couple of months.………The more adventurous way seem more fun than the tourists way

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 8:48 am
by Bhassler
Trick wrote:Not too much GongFu schools around in Sweden, any idea who the guys are?


I think they're fitness guys, not martial artists. Here's the website: https://www.vahvafitness.com/

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:13 am
by Trick
That website won’t open. Fitness guys? Wonder where monkey Gongfu fit in to the fitness business

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 1:20 pm
by Bao
Trick wrote:Wonder where monkey Gongfu fit in to the fitness business


Wonder how Monkey Kung Fu fits into what is shown in these vids... :-\

I also wonder about that teacher's background and what entitle him to be called "master". :P

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:49 pm
by Overlord


I think he was ex special force or some sort.
He loves Monkey kungfu and devoted his life on it.
And he also learn Dai Xinyi as well, anything Monkey.

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:45 am
by Trick
Special force, sound “special”……but Swedish “special forces”? But if he’s into Daishi Xinyiquan and teaching that in Sweden, that’s a little special anyway.

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 4:19 am
by Trick
Bhassler wrote:
Trick wrote:Not too much GongFu schools around in Sweden, any idea who the guys are?


I think they're fitness guys, not martial artists. Here's the website: https://www.vahvafitness.com/

Now that website opened. They’re Finnish guys, I don’t know how “deep” into the East Asian(Chinese) MA’s they have so far managed to go in such a short span of time. But I like their “Sisu” of traveling the world experiencing/exploring ways of body training methods......

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 11:46 am
by oskar
Yeah they are Finnish, not Swedish. Actually i just saw this dude training in our local sports hall last week, just after i saw those videos. I think they are just some fitness guys, not martial artist. This "monkey kungfu master" was few years ago featured in one Finnish TV-show called Kill Arman. In that show this guy "Arman" who is not a martial artist (he is taylor and tv host) went to train with different martial artists around the world for one week and after the week fought the master (or his student). This monkey master really seems to enjoy hurting other people... :D

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:28 pm
by aamc

Re: Training with Taiwan's Master of monkey kungfu

PostPosted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:32 pm
by aamc


Now with applications. Practical use of the forms IMHO