No shout out to the spicy LMNTs, Seth? Whatever, stay salty.

Hey Seth, is Mike ok? Hope he's alright. Hasn't been posting in like a month. Maybe get at your boy, and check in.

Great video btw Sensei. Oos.

@@BarFlyChefdon’t be parasocial. Mikes a grown man with a family and it’s just after the holidays he’s probably spending time with family and on personal stuff.

@@tarettime9392 Psh.

Man, that compliment gave me shivers. That's some respectful shit right there.

Yeah that was great

Thank you for filming my man!! Did you see the email I sent you?

@@SenseiSeth Yes I did, thank you for your kind words, they are enough reward for getting our sport seen! 🙂

​@@SenseiSethmans having a whole conversation on KZfaq comments 💀

@@SenseiSeth I couldn’t believe you came to Lubbock, I was only three hr away from seen you 😭

Dude, I LOVE your 2015 USKSF Lei Tai highlights video!

15:06 Same! I was shocked at his speed, mobility, and high, head-hunting kicks...was def not expecting that from a "husky" guy, either!

@@blajingthe dude has done and is aware of several martial arts. The dude is legit a threat at any weight

TBH Seth really should do some more Sanda. It fits his own style so well, as well as would help eliminate some of his bad habits from Taekwondo, like heavily backfoot weighted high kicks with no setup. Every time he throws one of those I can't help but think "you know better Seth!"

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That was pretty good advice, as in the end it boils down to being careful when in a stressful situation, because when you get jittery & overthinking (as in trying to guess), you're going to make mistakes. Remembering to only react to Strikes once the signs are there that it's coming and *already committed* (even if it can be redirected midway) is a good way to cool your head down under pressure. Of course, it might seem really obvious since it's a fundamental Fighting principle, but out of the great many Elements to keep track of in a Fight/during Sparring, thinking about this one is of great help to get instant results and Refocus.

Honestly, the name hurts it a lot. I think it’s distractingly close to Santa, both said aloud and read. The older name, sanshou, wasn’t too bad, imo. I still call it that all the time when I teach

That said, it's certainly a very very small scene. Lubbock, San Jose, New York, Boston, maybe a handful of other cities with gyms?

Several years ago I heard someone saying that even in China more people are interested in curling (of all things) than in sanda. Not sure if it's true (of if it's still the case), but the thought of it...

Definitely underrated, for sure. I do Muay Thai, and I’d never seen many of the sweeps done here-they’re awesome. And I love that they leave open thr possibility of takedowns, even if it’s likited compared to MMA, sambo, etc.

@@Annokh if there’s an Olympic medal for it , the mainland Chinese government would push its people to get into it basically. If there’s no Olympic medal to be had , it’s really hard to encourage interest in it or they don’t actually care all that much to be honest.

Because those old kung fu movies were about shaolin, mantis, monkey style, etc, etc. Most of America's martial arts outlook is derived from classic movies. That's what I'm guessing.

Sanda is at the program of the Wushu world championships. It would gain far more reception from the audience if Wushu was at the Olympic Games (and since the IWUF is a recognized international federation by the IOC it could actually enter the Olympics in the future) but there are some obstacle to this: 1) The ITF (International Taekwondo Federation) which has its sport as part of the program of the olympics would probably try and block it (the same way they are not to warm with kickboxing or Muay Thai entering the olympics), for such a combat sport would obliterate in terms of audience their crappy point system which is just about placing your foot somewhere on the opponent no matter if it's with no pressure at all. 2) the WKF (World Karate Federation) which got already screwed in 1996 by the ITF (whose president was a close friend to fomrer IOC president, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and got Taekwondo to the program of the Olympics despite being a federation with less members worldwide than Karate), is desperate since over 30 years to have karate become a full program sport to the Olympics (and only managed so far to have it as a provisional sport in Tokyo 2020), also has some leverage to block any further martial art to enter the Olympics program until they're not in. And guess what? WKF has also adopted this lame scoring system the ITF uses. It's a bit better to watch than Olympic Taekwondo, but just a little... 3) China is the country that gets the most medals at the Wushu world championships. USA and China are in severe competition at every olympics to know which country is going to have the most gold medals, and each and every sports or events in a sports that is added or suppressed is closely checked by the sports managements of these two countries in order to make sure it's at their own advantage. As you can guess, China is actively pushing for Wushu to enter the Olympics, but on the other hand, the USA are not so warm since they aren't on the level of China yet in this sport and since the race is so tight between these 2 superpowers, bringing in a sports such as this one would give way more advantage in the medal race to China then to the USA. USA having more leverage on the IOC than China (for now), I guess we're not seeing Wuhsu (and therefore, we're not seeing Sanda) at the Olympics any soon.

@@MoreAwsomeMetal don't you just hate petty politics...

I am doing muy Thai now, and let me tell it's just as brutal, and it's a practical martial art

I started training Shotokan Karate Do, now I'm doing Sanda. I love both styles. Oss! 🤜🏾🫷🏾

Watch. Karate, sanda, and sumo will be Seth's top 3.

Best gym I've ever been a part of and I've been in quite a few.

It’s pretty slick

Good luck for the tournment. I trained at Shaolin Temple UK with Shifu Shi Yan Zi. One of our guys got silver at the Worlds a while back. Muslim Salhaikov got gold.

That's why the best will always be the best. They don't let their own biases stop them.

Where and what’s it called?

Sanda is Kung fu updated.

I would love to see that as well

that would be a great video to see

PLEASE get this man to try Shuai Jao and eventually contact American Changai

Means a lot to me 🙏🙏

Theres no kung fu in sanda at all,its kickboxing with Chinese wrestling

@@scarred10 your comment is exactly what I was talking about. Thanks for proving my point.

@@scarred10 kung fu is literally just "chinese martial arts". So, yea sanda is kung fu. You probably thought kung fu equaled shaolin style kung fu (tiger, mantis, etc), which is a popular misconception and what the other guy was talking about.

@@MyZ001 tbf, I practice Shaolin kung fu myself and when sparring ut would be exactly like MMA. The problem lies with people trying to fight like in movies, thinking you should fight stylized. Actual application for Shaolin forms, for example, are exactly as what you see in Sanda. The stylized forms are nothing but a method for practicing techniques and conditioning the body.

@@MyZ001 I know exactly what sanda and kung fu are but theres virtually no kung fu techs in sanda outside shuai chaoi

Sounds like fun! I've attended seminars for several different disciplines over the years, but my primary background is Muay Thai. Sanda is something I've never trained at all, but the original Sanda video and this one have me really intrigued. Plus, I have relatives near Lubbock, so I'm running out of excuses to not give it a shot.

@@TheElbowMerchant I did a lot of Kyokushin and wushu and I thought there'd be some Chinese similarities God Was I wrong tho, You should give it a go dude I had a blast because I got whooped and felt 'new' to martial arts again, hell of a nice feeling

Hell yeah Sambo and Sanda is a killer combo

What is like doing both, they both have striking and grappling

@@jacobharris954 More similar than I thought they'd be sambo leads well to takedowns obviously and Sanda is catching kicks and sitting people on their arse, although some of the sanda dudes there ran circles around me just kicking me because my striking isnt that great but it was still fun.

Maybe one day, I’m in Ohio, and there’s only one or two gyms that I know of that teach Sanda/Sanshou

Nice I’ve only heard of Boston Sanda in Watertown

@@himmyturner101 yeah, it’s a weirdly big town for sanda.

Yeah he adapts pretty well. He's living proof of Bruce Li's Be like water!

Yan Xiaonan will fight the first Chinese UFC Champion Zhang Weili, both coming from Wushu Sanda backgrounds, at UFC 300 on April 13th. There is also Chinese UFC Bantamweight Song Yadong, who was a former Wushu and Sanda student of School of Songjiang Wu.

Catch wrestling alliance teach sanda. Even if only online. Although mainly for MMA along with catch wrestling.