the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Stephen Brennan
Published on Jun 15, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIOJE1zVfPw

Stephen Brennan
Published on Jun 28, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtZ1Wus3A3k


Stephen Brennan
Published on Jul 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXd8ECpZeiE


Stephen Brennan
Published on Jul 26, 2019

Last part of an interview with Sifu Hung Le on Tai Chi as a fighting system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWRMXJZp8U

Sifu Hung Le is extremely knowledgeable, skilled, humble, and tolerant.

Has anybody else watched this?

There are several times when Stephen strikes Sifu Hung very hard and Yanks on him very abruptly. It seemed to me to come out of nowhere with no warning and was harder than necessary to communicate the point. He then also steps back and composed himself subtly as if he's dealing with a rush of adrenaline.

Watching some of his other videos I also think he's a bit rough when demonstrating with his non resistant students.



Am I just being a pansy or does anybody else see what I'm talking about with this guy?

Yes you are being a bit floral
If a tree falls in the forest and there is no camera does it really fall
I'm sure the other guy is allowing it to be repeated because it is being filmed
The thing that puzzles me how do you develop such bad posture as the guys in the first three clips

Added part 4, final video to OP.

oragami_itto wrote:Has anybody else watched this?

There are several times when Stephen strikes Sifu Hung very hard and Yanks on him very abruptly. It seemed to me to come out of nowhere with no warning and was harder than necessary to communicate the point. He then also steps back and composed himself subtly as if he's dealing with a rush of adrenaline.

No. I didn't see any of that. Do you have a timestamp?

oragami_itto wrote:Watching some of his other videos I also think he's a bit rough when demonstrating with his non resistant students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941J1wbPPyE

Am I just being a pansy or does anybody else see what I'm talking about with this guy?

That video he's demonstrating breaking structure of spine with wing chun. Didn't notice anything too rough.

Like 3:19 in the first is somewhat in context, but still seems a little rude to me.
Okay so like around 8:50 in the second video, where he asks Sifu to touch his shoulder and then he punches Sifu in the shoulder somewhat suddenly out of nowhere.
Around 5:10 in the third, to me when he's yanking on his neck roughly is likewise, to me, unnecessary and a bit unexpected.