The Weird Martial Art Used By Special Forces

Why is this kung fu style practiced by the special forces? That man has the answer. His name is Jang Yu Shan and he's the grandmaster of monkey kung fu.

Today he's going to show me why this might be the most underrated I will kick your face and deadliest style of kung fu. So what makes the monkey style so effective is developed in the Shaolin temple but because of the Buddhist doctrines these dangerous techniques are not allowed to practice in the Shaolin monastery. So the monkey style is an external style where the killing and I would say the violent things are taught the secret style of Shaolin.

So the monkey fighters are like the special forces of the Shaolin temple the executioners from the emperor. Well, I'm very excited to learn some of these techniques. Do you mind showing them to me?

We need to go inside. First, your body weapons needs to be prepared. Mhm.

So, this is an ointment you use for the conditioning that your skin doesn't will break. That is iron grains inside. That is the chop.

I let it only fall down. Then you have another skill which is very important because if you hit something and there is an impact the energy travels here through then here through the next point is the elbow. It goes like a domino and then they have this stiff neck and when it reaches the neck it will also reaches the spine.

So you should condition all the joints basically. No actually you only need to condition one and two and it's enough. Here always needs to be loose because you want to be very fast and quick.

Here also you need to have that ability to move very loose so you can have a good breath. Okay. So I I relax.

This is rock solid. It looks so soft. Okay.

Release like this. Concentrate yourself. Sit.

Stand in the kibbadi. Okay. And now let the elbow fall down.

Look at [Music] here. Oh, even you can do this. Oh, like a hammer fist.

If you don't hit it just right, it really hurts. So, that is one. Look at this one.

I can tell that my skin is not really used to this. The skin is only one part we need to train. We call that we train jingu p jing is the tendon.

Goo is the bone and p is the skin. We train from the inside to the out. Mhm.

And from the outside to the in. So you it it will meet each other and it become very solid and firm. Yes.

Not like these swollen, watery hands where you poke in and you have How come we switch places? No. Do this.

Okay. Okay. Yeah.

That is real. It's real. It's granite.

Okay. I feel a little bit bored. Yeah.

I do this. Wait, what? This is metal, right?

Yeah, that is. Okay. Come.

So, look. This is surreal. And look at [Music] this.

Ah, yeah. Okay. And that that you can also Yeah.

No thanks. I'm not ready for this yet. Wow.

Okay. Yeah. As a beginner, Yeah.

you shouldn't play like we play. No, I I understand. It says it has his method where you practice step by step.

You can see that in your hand. Okay. So thick.

Yeah. And also the side of the fist like that thickness. Yeah.

So that is the trademark demon's hand and Buddha's heart. Yeah. Yeah.

So you have the destructive power but you need to have also a kind and noble heart. When to use that kind of power? So can we look at how to apply this deadly force in some techniques?

No big deal. Let's go. Okay.

Look, I will show you something. You do you do a It's okay. Forward.

Actually, you do only in the air. Yeah. You do punch like a classical karate punch.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Look at this. Right. Look.

And look. Mine. Mhm.

I show you again. You do yours. Okay.

[Music] Oh, like a whip almost snapping. This sound is very interesting. It's like a vibration.

Vibration. Yeah. Here in that area.

Yeah. Wow. I don't know if you can hear that in the microphone, but it's like uh Yes.

Okay. Wow. Yeah.

Really? Yeah. Yeah.

When you attack with the fist. Okay. M.

So, you're blocking and striking at the same time. I see. That's why that technique.

And the monkey fist have another special technique. The wing chong have the chain punch. The monkey fist have Oh, the other thing is look at this.

That goes here in front. Yeah. Wow.

Another style which acts like that is the drunken style. Yes. The drunken fist.

Yeah. Yeah. But if you don't have that hand, no.

Then it's useless. If I try to use any of these techniques, I will probably break my hand. But you can almost do anything when you have this level of hand conditioning.

The other thing is you can attack your opponent in angles he even don't know and realize from where it comes. The conventional angles like in boxing we all know. Yes.

But even if I'm here I'm you do something. Okay. Yeah.

That is a different angle. Yes. And up.

Yeah. Right. Right.

Right. Yeah. Smash me right there.

Or even if I'm here, I smash you here in the direct on the point with that monkey hook. Yeah, that one. It is only authentic and applicable if you have the body weapon.

Uh, and that's why you started with the conditioning and that makes the monkey kung fu style the hardest style in Chinese martial art. The next hardest martial art style what you know is tie boxing because they have that condition. Yeah, we have that also.

Always when you see the monkey, he's pointing one foot up. Okay, he is blocking in that direction or in that direction. His techniques is also involved in the monkey style with the knee.

Oh, you see that? Yeah. And look.

Yeah. What is that? Like a tie boxer.

And look at this. Oh, yes. Exactly.

Look at this. Because the gloves. Yes.

But actually is and that shows because boxers they they're Hindu and the Hinduism they have the Hanuman. Yes. And the they pray also to Hanuman and there's even some deadly techniques they practice and also devote techniques to Hanuman and that is the monkey god.

And that is the monkey god. Wow. That is one thing.

So the connection goes back in history. The other thing is you know the wrestling in India. Yes.

The Maharajas always practice wrestling. Then it developed in England because the English and uh um I would say lords they practice wrestling. Bring that to England.

It becomes catch wrestling. They know every look and every submission. And now you can see both Hinduism martial art.

One is in India, one is in in Thailand. They practice striking. Right.

Yes. Elbows, knees. Yes.

Oh, that looks like the mo banan. The old ta banan or even much more elder the kayah hood style which is also called the the tree monkey. Really?

Yes. Okay. And because they even climb on somebody and give that they do their climbing technique and that is a monkey style.

Oh that's like the monkey. That is a monkey is a monkey style. Wow.

And then we have another style in India they do only the wrestling. Yes. So you have down and up separated.

One in India, one in Thailand. When you put these together, you have the very beautiful monkey boxing style. When when we fight, I will first give you something something to like I want to grapple you.

Yeah. And then look, I will take that. I will snap first that kick your face.

Look, I will kick your face. Okay. And then look at me.

Yeah, I have that inverted hook. I do this. Okay.

And that's the monkey. Yeah. Look at this.

Ah, so we have that in the form. Now you know and that form. Yeah.

I can show you again in another angle. Look, we go this way. Okay.

Yeah. If I want to attack you suddenly Yes. And dangerously I will bring you back and I will attack you like that.

Oh, okay. Yep. And snap the neck.

That is again here. Same move. You know that.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Right. Exactly. And you know that.

Look at this. And look at this. Look at me now.

No. Look at me. Look at me.

Uh-huh. Oh. Yep.

Yep. Oh, the fingers. Sometimes they do this.

Fingers in the eye. That is the grab. And that is the step in the eyes.

Yeah. So the same movement has several applications. Yes.

Please sit down. Okay. Look at this one.

And here it is again. That is that is again there. It's that move.

Yes. And we have a lot of these. Even if I do this.

Okay. Wrist lock me. Okay.

Like this. Yeah. You can grab and look what I do.

Oh, you smash my fingers. Okay. I smash the fingers and then I apply a technique where I can go back again.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. If I'm here, Yeah.

Okay. You do. I smash the fingers.

Yeah. Then I go here. I grab.

Look. Look at this. In the monkey style, we don't use the thumb to grab.

Really? No. Okay.

That is like in Greco Roman, we do this. Ah, right. That's why you do these moves.

If you grip. Okay. Now the attack is coming.

Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh look at me.

Yeah. Yeah. Ah.

Oh yeah. Yep. Yep.

So that goes actually to the vital point. Sometimes when I do this movement Yeah. people they don't understand.

And when I do this movement they don't understand. Even when I do this Yeah. This people say, "What kind of weird martial art is that?

" It's a hidden. Yeah. Different level.

Yes. And we have hoen the wood monkey, the stone monkey, the law monkey, the shy monkey, the drunken monkey. That is the five ways of the monkey.

Mostly monkey king oriented. Okay. Then you have the bay.

Mhm. where you have much more rolling movements and bigger movements and powerful movements inside in combination with breathing. And then you have the ginho, the golden monkey.

Okay, which is only an internal art that makes the monkey fist door a little bit different than other monkey kung fu schools. And why is it called the monkey fist door? What is the meaning of the door?

In ancient time when you enter a school they have a door and when you in that door inside it is locked behind and nobody know what is going on inside. I see a door is a school which is closed. No other people from the outside have an inside.

As soon as you read there is a school with one kind of a door then you know it is the original school didn't change for generations and generations. They preserve something which is a treasure. That is the most important and I'm very happy to meet you.

Yes. Likewise. Call you my friend.

Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. So, in the future we can have a lot of good tea and exchanging of different skills.

Yeah. Okay. How about we have some tea right now?

That is a must. Let's go. Okay.

Thank you. To have a complete muscle system or style, you need to emphasize these principles. I will translate that for you in an easy way.

So means hand techniques. How to develop your hand. You practice and boxing and fast grab something out of somebody's hand.

Their hands there needs to be not only fast, quick, strong, also also they need to be very sensitive. M you see my hand touch it very soft. Yeah I can see also and I can feel it.

Yeah and also very straight. The only thing what I cannot do and I I cannot grab the small pinky because the meat here is you see that there is a gap. No because the meat here and the meat here is a little bit thick.

Yeah. Here I can do it. Oh okay.

Yeah. So that is my small hand that grabbing one and that is my smashing one. Ah so they have different purposes.

They have different skill. That is a different skill. Okay.

And that is a different skill. Okay. Even the training method is a little bit they differ a little bit.

Yeah. So that is so okay. Yen is the second word what we need to have and these are the eyes.

The eyes are the first one. Observe the opponent. Yes.

The eyes must be quick and clear because the eyes are is connected to our brain and to our mind to give information. Yeah. You immediately can decide enemy, friend.

Only by the appearance, the first appearance what you observe before you even cross hands. No, there is even no cross hands. You you see somebody, he got here a little bit thick.

Yeah. And here a little bit like leather and a little bit cauliflower. You know immediately, oh, he's a ground fighter.

And you see here a little bit forward. That means he also do some boxing because he eat a lot of jabs. Oh yeah.

So you know you can see that very clearly. The other thing is the nose that is very clear. And this our eyes can observe what kind of fighter he is.

Then the next is his shoulder a little bit forward. Yes. Then you know oh he got fast hands.

Mhm. Yeah. Then you know his shoulder is a little bit fast.

And then how he walks. Can he kick quick? This is the first thing what you're doing.

You scan the in front of you. Yeah. And when you see he's very strong in every aspect, you make him as a friend.

That is important. That's the art of war. That is you don't want that anyway.

You want these kind of guys always next to you and go to the war. Yes. Together.

We are going together. That is very clear. And also the eyes they make decisions.

When you accidentally go into a fight. Yeah. You see you can see the opportunities quicker.

Yes. M the eyes can also redirect the attention of you. You look down and hit up.

Yes. Yeah. And you can see immediately with the eyes how his breath is open mouth or very calm and slow nose breather or nose in mouth out.

You can already analyze what kind of energy he is developing when he's breathing in. And now nose in and mouth out. We know immediately he is in the wind road.

The wind road is a method but always people are practicing when they do fast movements. They can't breathe in the dantian and make another road which is the fire road. Ah the fire road goes from the nose in and goes downward to the danten or the psychic center and moves upward on the opposite direction then the windro and at the highest point on sending you breathe out fast movements implies wind road like jogging.

Ah okay. When you joke you can't breathe in your dungeon. It go shoots immediately.

The ego shoots immediately to the head and goes back. That's why you can move fast unerobic movements. You can do boxing, sparring, all these kind of things.

Wind already says it's quick. Yes. Okay.

The fire is developing for your energy and you only can do that when you do the slow cutters. Yes. Like the chiong cutters.

and emphasize the expanding and contracting on your uh har. Yes. Or we call that we you do the good ka breathing in Japanese terms.

No. Um actually we only develop our psychic center and accumulate energy then you use the fire road. So sun is the third attribute.

Sh means shenti body. You need to develop your body. You need to be very flexible.

you that your internal organs are also function very well. Every movement will also massage your internal organs. And when your internal organs are massaged internally, not externally from somebody, you're healthy.

You need to be flexible that you don't injure your spine and other joints like your hips, your knees and the ankle and the shoulders, the elbow and the hand. That means shen and the body should always be soft. like a dragon's birth because to de to have that kind of soft body you can accumulate and circulate your energy.

Okay. So and far means method. What kind what kind of style are you doing?

Are you doing karate style? Are you doing uh five ancestor style, white crane style, praying mentor whatsoever? Because this method will help you to to get what you actually want your goal.

I see. Yes. Yeah.

To become the path. The fifth one is the boo. Bu is the buffer.

The footwork. When you see for example a very strong fighter, I give an example from Mike Tyson. His lower trunk and his ability to move as quick and change angles was amazing.

Yeah. Even for his size. M.

So a fighter with a very stable trunk is very difficult to move and when he's also quick in his feet is very difficult to catch. Yeah. And all the power which are generated in your fist have actually the root on the foot.

We say we borrowing the power from the ground. These are the five recommendations what we need to consider. And when we see a western boxer, yeah, he got the hands right, he got the eyes, he know when to hit and he got he got the body very well developed.

No, good muscles everywhere. No, then he got the method different kind of combination and he got a good footwork. Next chapter are the five internal principles.

Jing means the essence. Mhm. What kind of person you are?

What kind of body structure you inherit from your parents that is manifested in the essence. Are you short? Are you tall?

Are you athletic more or very skinny and tiny? Then that will define what person you actually are, what you are built of. This is the ching.

The other five before with the eyes and that you can build. Yes. Even a person who is not I will say a talent talent can be built too.

But the gene that is inherited from generations and generations from your family scroll to you. Yeah. Okay.

And that is you can't build. Let us say sh is the spirit. The spirit in martial art is there already there.

But how to awaken that kind of spirit? Our marshall way will help us to emphasize the internal spirit which exist to let it bloom out of yourself. You will learn the discipline and all the codecs.

This is what you do and this is what is not allowed to do what we have in the Buddha way or the bushida way. The art of the warriors this warrior spirit that our ability is only for the good where you go in what kind of area you go into a restaurant actually you can see you position yourself in a good seat already because you don't want something is behind right and then you have the vision because where you are then it's safe for everybody that is your responsibility as a martial artist. Mhm.

You can see our ladies and gentlemen actually you are safe because I'm here. Yeah. And if you see another guy he's also very strong.

Yeah. You too now you're a team. Something happened you work up as a team.

Yeah. I said already don't make enemies or we go together. Yeah.

Chi is the next one. Now we come to the chi. Ah the key in Japanese.

The key. Yeah. Yeah.

The key. Ah, that is very important that you do exercises with breathing. You are equipped with a certain amount of chi only for your life being and chi is not only breathing exercise.

Chi is everywhere. You need to be very clear that the energy what we are or the air chi means also air is not only uh air. There are more agents inside.

Even the old Egyptians they know that kind of knowledge that air is not only air. Mhm. And when you do your movement you can feel actually how you can swim in the air.

You can even when you do these kind of ah you can touch it. Actually you cannot see it but you can touch it. That is here.

Then the next is Lee. Lee is physical power. A martial art skill without physical power is very I would say not very effective.

No. Yeah. So you need to build up a certain amount of power to make your marshall skill more effective.

Yeah. A lot of people say, "Oh, don't use your mind. Don't use brute force.

Use your mind. " Like in the Tai Chi world. Mhm.

That is a misconception. That is that is correct what they say. But how people read that?

That is totally wrong. You can see the old Taii masters. Do they look weak?

Yang Chan Fu the sty the founder of the young family. He had his nickname the invisible one. Mhm.

I don't think if you're an old China and you are a fighter and they give you the nickname the invisible uh that you're weak. No. You must be very strong.

Even his nephew, young nephew, Yang Luchan, he was over 190 cm tall and his weight was over 130 kg heavy. Wow. Is the big guy, you know, when the use when you see that young style, Tai Chi old pictures, I think that kind of I would say elephant.

Whatever he's doing, he can uh promote every style. Because he's so strong. He looks like a Zumo wrestler.

M and that also shows my goodness when it comes to fighting you don't have muscles, you don't have power. Yeah. You're weak.

Yeah. And that is also the misconception of martial art people. You need to know how to wrestle yourself out of different situations.

Yeah. That is very important. Yes.

Not only by touching and say in three days you're dead. That is utopia. The last attribute what I also say from these five internal keywords is the gong.

Gong like in gung fu. Yeah. Gong means also how much marshall gong have you invest like marshall and gong that means what kind of ability you have?

Are you deep rooted? Are you loose? Can you open and can you close your muscles and tendons and faces?

That is the ugong where martial artist are actually uh categorized. That's why only when you perform your form, they can read this already how strong your ugong is and they analyze again like they're scanning your body weapons. Yeah.

your body structure, your power, your spirit, what all is inside. Gong also means how much effort you put in your training. Are you training every day or one or two times per day or one or two times a week like most people if you train like that you will gain nothing and you are a slow learner is not because uh you can't grab it because you're too lazy.

M I consider myself as a slow learner. Mhm. Even I practice every day and I also I'm very lucky that I have a I have the chance to learn different styles in my life and different information came to me through elder masters.

You are a master. Oh no no. Okay.

Yeah. That that is very of course you are. You have the opportunity to travel around, to research, to investigate, to look and develop your own karate style.

What I'm already very very curious about in the future because I see your development. Yeah. But I was I see you already.

Thank you very much. Yeah. But a lot of people they don't like you and still follow you.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

That is also what I see in the in the internet world in the social media and especially the enemies. They always follow you because they are the one looking for some weak points. Yeah.

No, don't care about them. No. No.

Only only be sure. Don't care and talk about how a man should be. Be first one.

That is nothing more to say. Okay, I'm done.