Would you be interested in seeing a series on the martial arts of India? Let me know what you think

@huntergrant6520

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Yes, I'm very curious. I want to understand their perspective and principles.

@KevinTangYT

Жыл бұрын

Very. There's not a lot on it especially with compared to Kung Fu styles

@jonahmaddox9341

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Yes, I would love to see more

@bethelacademyofmartialarts3966

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Definitely ❤

@jayasenan

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Hi, yes that would be great. Are you able to show the world about adimurai? I wonder if martial arts like admurai has jing and chi application. Admurai is hand to hand combat and will be interesting for martial arts aficionados

Oh man I studied this for 2 years and this is the first time I’m seeing the technicalities behind it

@MonkeySteelsPeach, originally all forms & kata were trained very slowly as a method of dynamic tension training which cultivates tendons by better promoting blood flow to the tendons. The forms & kata are often taught at a faster pace for brevity but are meant to be practiced very slowly. Also the long static hold stances are meant to cultivate tendon strength.

That was excellent! It's nice to see traditional arts from a teacher with a modern approach who's happy to share explanations and meanings. I'd love to see more from him!

Sanatan Shastar Vidya is a battlefield military melee school of combat from feudal India period prior to the British occupation. Sanatan Shastar Vidya is also a weapons based Punjabi martial art.

Most realistic Payutu I have seen. Most of it looks very performance focussed..

ohh been wanting to see this for a while

Yes. Absolutely. Good stuff as always Wil

I want to get back into this

I love this. Very rare to find proper videos of Indian martial arts. As Chinese martial arts is said to originate from India, the structures and movement's remind me of Xingyi and Bajiquan. It was very cool to see that relationship.

@bobli5315

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Its been dispelled by so many researchers (Chinese martial arts originating from India thing). Even Chinese martial arts spreading to Japan thing I doubt.

@PhilDancer

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@@bobli5315 Chinese to Japanese did happen. More accurately, Okinawan merchants who trained in local fighting systems of the time travelled to Southern China and shared and learned knowledge

@watamutha

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I'm of the opinion kung fu didn't originate from India though I def. see the similarities between the two so I'm not discounting it's influence. I'm pretty sure the martial art of China existed before Boddhidharma's visit to Shaolin.

@PhilDancer

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There were folk systems yes at least from my research. But we have to remember that we're all human and our bodies can only move in certain ways therefore everything almost looks the same

@bobli5315

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@@PhilDancer Okinawans didnt consider themselves to be Japanese. They had their own kingdom and culture. Karate originally Okinawan. not Japanese.

Nice one! Looking fwd to part 2

I did Kalaripayayttu and Adimurai

I would be interested in a series on Indian martial arts!

Kalaripayattu - traditional martial art of Kerala.

Funny how almost all the moves from India look 'healthy' to me. 😯 I don't know.. Dances, 'gymnastics', fighting, everyday life ways of using the body. It all looks 'healthy'/'respectful' of what the human body 'wants' to do. I don't know.. It's like energy is barely channeled and graciously allowed to spring and fully shape a motion, a posture. Like a flower gives the impression it's directly expressing an energy from the earth with minimal matter. Like a flower but without fragility. Everything looks stable enough, well placed on the ground, well aligned, connected and flowing, etc. I don't know.. It's quite a unique impression. Anyone else feeling the same?

@_BillyMandalay

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The 'kata' at the end looked like a great stretching exercise, didn't it. Very nice.

@lelionnoir4523

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Yeah, I totally get what you mean.

great video!. when you learn something is better than showing just techniques!.

SO much like LiuHe XinYi and later Shanxi style XingYi in its shape and form especially with the examples of Rooster and Boar forms

Interesting. He's explaining some interesting concepts. Actually this bears the spirit of those people and is a national heritage. One thing I didnt understand is the circle movements of arms in the "kata", what are they for?

I love it. Anish really illuminates a scientific and remarkable martial art. This ignited a much greater interest in the style. Thanks! I’m ready for more martial arts of India!

@MonkeyStealsPeach

Жыл бұрын

I better start looking at flights

Thank you 🙏

Actually Vadakkan kalari has no empty hand style. The verumkai or barehand in kalari is just a last resort of techniques for a person who lost his weapon in duelling.

Kalari means field or battle field payattu means practice Battlefield practice or training

Interessant, warscheinlich der selbe Grund das der neue Wu Taiji Stile die Wirbelsäule leicht nach vorne neigt, die kommen ja vom chinesischen Ringen!

What was the last move? His own improvisation or actual kalari sequence?

Good to do it bare feet touching Mother Earth.

Please more videos about kalari.thanks

What is the advantage of using a tiny shield as opposed to a big shield, I wonder ? ... As a kid, when I saw photos of kalari practitoners leaping about with great energy with their scary blades and their teeny weeny shields, I've always wondered about that. Gimme a big assed roman shield ! 😄

@alLEDP

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It's more mobile and nimble and in Meole combat you only have to take care of the sword or spear of the opponent so even a metal glove called gauntlet would suffice. Of course this changes with more opponents e.g. Battlefield situation and bow and arrow. But just NY two cents on that subject

@lelionnoir4523

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As a sword and buckler enjoyer, I can give you one big reason : weight. In armed combat, fighting can be long, because the injury risk is real, so with a smaller shield, you can last longer. The only way to make it work, basically, is by holding it out with your arm extended. The shape of the shield creates a cone behind which you are untouchable by any direct blow (so a blow with an arc-like move). It's quite uncanny when you realise that. So with your buckler out (center gripped, with one hand), your opponent needs two tempos to hit you. This gives a massive advantage. A large shield is primarily for blocking incoming arrows or javelins. It's a great tool for mass fighting, but it's much more taxing to wield, because when you do hand to hand fighting with big shields (my experience is with "viking" style round shields, again, center gripped), you want to do most of the fighting with the shield, by blocking your opponent and particularly by jamming his arms against his body. That's quite tiring. With a buckler, you can do that for much longer. But you'll have a tough time blocking anything thrown at you.

@bobli5315

Жыл бұрын

Plus you tire less with carrying something light.

Where is your location

Go to Sifu Sergio pls

@Gieszkanne

Жыл бұрын

Why, there are enough videos from him out there.

Is there a link between shaolin kung fu?

@MonkeyStealsPeach

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Anish shares his thoughts on this in p2

@ilikedinosaurs4992

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@@analogtothefuture2503 I don't think Bodhidharma was a real person. And even if he was, who said he knew martial arts?

@ilikedinosaurs4992

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No, that is Indian pseudo history. It is part of Hindu culture to lay claim to inventions from other people's ancestors by rewriting history so that Indian history appears greater than it was.

@Gieszkanne

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@@analogtothefuture2503 Its very likely that he was persian not indian. He was discribed as pale skinned very hairy and blue eyed. Mahayan Buddhism was very popular in central asia at his time. Islam wasnt even there. Some older sources also mentioned him as persian orign.

@komedykingdom

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@@Gieszkanne he is not persian,after buddhabhadra he is the 2nd indian monk who goes to shaolin temple in china.

To me Kalaripayattu is halfway Hatha Yoga. Its not a real battle martial art. Like many Kung Fu styles are halftway Qi Gong. There is a very serious indian Martial Art. That is realy made for killing and a pure battle martial art. Its called Sanatan Shastar Vidya. Its from the Sikhs in Punjab.

@DAIXINYI

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What you mention as legit, has pretty much been revealed as bogus. A lot of Sikh's got very angry with that guy. Wont go into specifics, but the information is easily found.

@Gieszkanne

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@@DAIXINYI I know. But you know there are always people who criticise! You just have to watch some videos of him to see that he has realy good knowledge and skill. Something you dont see in Kalari or Gatka. Envy is a powerful poison!

@anantasheshanaga3666

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@@DAIXINYI It's just slander directed at him since his religious beliefs are different from mainstream Sikhs. I know people who have attended his seminars and are his students. It is an extraordinary system.

@jassimarsingh6505

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@@DAIXINYI it's not bogus, as a sikh i can say this, we have our own issues but that doesn't mean that it's bogus.

The forms in Kalaripayattu are remarkably abstract when in comparison to something like Kata in Karate, which is more obvious in its applications.

The martial arts of Kerala fall mainly into two traditions - The Parashurama tradition and the Agastya Muni tradition. The Parashurama tradition belongs the coastal area near the Western Ghats, so from the Konkan coast of Maharashtra to Goa to Tulunadu to Kerala. The Agastya tradition is the martial arts of the Tamil people. Back in the day, Kerala used to be a part of the Tamil lands(Tamizhakam). The language of Kerala called Malayalam used to be a dialect of Tamil called Malanaatu Tamizh (Mala means mountain). The term Malayalam originally used to refer to the land, people and culture. Hence, Kerala's culture and traditions are influenced by both the culture of the Konkan coast/Tulunadu and Tamil culture since it's part of both the coastal area and Tamizhakam. That's why both the martial traditions are present in Kerala. What is today called Northern Kalaripayattu is from the Parashurama tradition and what's called Southern Kalaripayattu is part of the Agastya Muni tradition.

@MonkeyStealsPeach

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Thanks for providing more background. It’s really fascinating, and I definitely reckon I should make a trip to Kerala and Tamil. Do you know much about the wrestling traditions too? I’ve seen some stuff on the channel Flowing Dutchman from around Varanasi

@anantasheshanaga3666

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@@MonkeyStealsPeach I don't know a lot about the different wrestling traditions of India that exist today. There are a lot of minor wrestling styles from what I can see that are indigenous to India. For example, there's Malyutham in Tamil Nadu and the Kalaripayattu traditions have their own form of wrestling/grappling. There are regional variations and so on. The most commonly practiced form of wrestling in India however is of Persian origin. Even the word for wrestling in a lot of languages is Kushti, which is the Persian word for wrestling. People think that Kushti in India is a mixture of Persian wrestling methods and Indian wrestling methods. This is not true. So what you see today when you visit a wrestling gym in Punjab, or Varanasi or Bengal or Maharashtra is basically the Persian form of wrestling. We have no doubt that it's Persian in origin since the techniques and wrestling methodology are almost identical to what is found in Iranian wrestling schools today. What is Indian about Indian schools of Kushti are primarily the training methods - Mace swinging, Indian Squats and push-ups, etc ( club swinging is found in Persian Kushti as well) as well as some of the cultural stuff that Indians do - like slapping their arms, thighs and chest before a match. We don't where club swinging originated exactly since it has been in both Persia and India since ancient times. But there are differences between clubs that are of Persian origin and Indian origin.

@MonkeyStealsPeach

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@@anantasheshanaga3666 really fascinating, thanks for sharing. I figured there might be a strong Persian influence, so thanks for that