As a traditional wushu practitioner I say. When someone understand shuai jiao and incorporate it with striking someone can become a beast. Taiji was once the perfect system to mix both. Nowadays a lot has been lost, but with little adaptations shuai jiao is simply super brutal and efficient.

As a Shuai Jiao practitioner I appreciate you highlighting us. I have 40 years in. It was the perfect addition to my FMA and dumog. IDK if being ambidextrous was a factor for but I've always been combat oriented rather than sports fighting. Before I left Chicago we had open training with various throwing arts. Still not a fan or impressed with BJJ because they didn't do well at those open training sessions. Lots of jujitsu but even they didn't like BJJ. Those were the good ol days

I do both Judo & Wrestling. To me the leverage with a jacket is different than without. When I rolled with Marines, I effectively grabbed their BDUs similar to the way you'd grab a Sambo Jacket; but it looks to me like the Shuai Jaio grabs might be the most practical for Self Defense.

Shuai Jiao throws are similar to the old throws that karate has, which makes sense with how much Chinese martial arts influenced Okinawan karate. Most don't realize that the foundation of karate is not kung fu, but rather tegumi, which is the native Okinawan style of stand up grappling. Today, tegumi looks more like a belt wrestling style while wearing a gi, but originally it was done no-gi.

Another reason I was lucky to be born in Ohio: one of the first Shuai Jiao instructors in the USA was Dr. Daniel Weng, who taught in the Phys Ed dept at Ohio State University. As a result although it wasn’t common in Ohio, you could find it from the early 80’s onward. I was a kid with no car so I couldn’t travel to train it, but you’d see a shuai jiao division in the Kung fu tournaments in the Cleveland area and it was great to watch. You’d see guys that had traveled from NY, CA, or TX, so it was a big deal.

Shuai Chiao is amazing! I saw this gentleman at a tournament, he was judging, but if I remember I think all his students won men and women. Would love to see more of it in the us!

Great interview and super informative on Shuai Jiao. I personally know Harry he’s a dear friend of mine and his knowledge is mind blowing and his throws can be unforgiving so I know this Martial system is the TRUTH‼️

Thank you for your show and intter view, I love it being a true Martial Arts junkie as well as a disabled veteran. Most informative 😮

You cover a lot of systems that I never heard of before. Keep up the good work.

There is a rare style in shuio jiao called shanxi shuio jiao.It’s is basically normal shuio jiao with out the jacket

Shuai Jiao is the original mother art of Gung Fu and the only complete system It is brutal combat fighting on battlefield. All the other styles are derivatives.

I’ll admit that Shuai Jiao is truly in a lot of good kung fu styles, even in Bajiquan. Lots of grappling techniques and throwing in Bajiquan are inspired and taken from Shuai Jiao. Glad to see this, Ilan! Can’t wait to see more

Great video! Matthew is a badass. I'm blessed to have learned Combat Shuai Chiao from Sifu John Wang and now I teach it as well. Thank you for having made this video. As always, you have awesome content.

Shuai Jiao - more specifically, Shou Bo, tournaments - had seamless striking and grappling transition flow in competitions before UFC 1. There are videos here on KZfaq from France that shows some of their practices back in the 80s. The modern Sport Shuai Jiao doesn’t allow striking, and Shou Bo has probably been swallowed up by San Da / Sanshou. But I think some of the European countries still have Shou Bo competitions. It’s a great art. A complete art that gives much needed context back to A LOT of KungFu styles, movements, forms, postures, etc. Especially the popular ones like Tai Chi, Praying Mantis, Long Fist, Hung Ga. Tai Chi is really like an entire system dedicated to the study of countering standup grappling. One thing that makes it unique is the “wheeling.” The constant spinning and interrupting is nuts. Feels like trying to hold onto a tornado. It’s very unique to “kuzushi.” The Mongolians also have a dance that spins and moves the hands in a way that applies to wrestling. We trained out of a Gracie academy, and the BJJ and Judo guys were pretty familiar with some of the throws, but, the wheeling, knee blocking, and leg shaving throws they had never seen. It’s definitely not just “Chinese Judo.” And, of course, there’s the Xing Yi / Sumo-like palm strikes, the knees, elbows, leg kicks, etc. Chinese Groundboxing is pretty wild too lol. It’s the first place I ever saw something that looked like - what they today call - an Imanari Roll.

As a Sanda instructor (And in my way to become a SJ instructor, hopefully next year) I really apreciate your videos, man. Also, if you like, you should make a video on Bataireacht (Irish stick fighting). I took a masterclass some years ago with master Pablo Herrera Warlet here in Argentina and it was awesome, but then he went back to Spain and noone else here teaches it. 👍

I was at a seminar led by Grandmaster Ch'ang Tung-sheng at The University of Ohio in Columbus, in the early 1980s a few years before his death around 1986. He was soft spoken, short, but built like a fireplug. I think he may have been a main Grandmaster for modern Shuai Jiao and for teaching the military. He did create a "Shuai Jiao" - based Ch'ang style [derived from Yang style, and not Chen style] Long Style Tai Chi, with only a few differences in some forms to lead to throws. His throws [with high level students] were explosive and potentially violent [pulled at the last moment]. And, he showed us some 'illegal' moves taught only to the military at the time, such as one meant to crack the back of the skull [and could not be rolled out of], and one meant to land on the face to break the neck. He discussed Judo and the common history from Chinese Wrestling. Excellent teacher, knowledgeable and patient. I think there are KZfaq videos of some of his presentations. Very sad to see him go. After I left Ohio, I did not keep up with Daniel Wang [1st generation student?] or Matt Mollica [2nd generation?].

I studied at Matt Mollica's school in Columbus Ohio ages ago. Shuai Jiao was my introduction to grappling. I've always been grateful to have had the experience.

Thank you for your distinguished efforts in providing us with everything interesting and enjoyable in the world of martial arts. Your information is considered a reference in combat methods. I hope that you will devote episodes to Russian combat methods, especially combat sambo and hand-to-hand military combat.

Such a really cool system. I'm going to build some of those throwing tools since I do a lot of solo training. Thanks for the informative interview!

😎You are very welcome!Keep training and sharing!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🍵

I remember reading an article about Shuai Jiao in the 80's and the founder said they focus heavy on driving the opponent straight down into the ground vs a more circular approach you could maybe roll out of . Because of this they would train on sand and they didn't do breakfalls because they wouldn't help anyhow. That stuck with me all this time . He said the object was to break as many bones as you could. Sorry if Matt brings this up in interview but I have to finish it later .

Shuai Jiao is what Aikido TRIES to be

Yooo it’s my coach. That’s my Kung fu teacher. I’m sharing this!!

Having a fellow fighter as a neighbor is the dream man.

Interesting what you were saying about height and size around 30:00 It definitely seems that in martial arts and combat sports in general there is a surplus of advice for fighting taller opponents and a vacuum of information on fighting shorter opponents. Part of what is often ignored is that the shorter fighter has adantages of their own and also is often stronger if weight classes are a factor.

Chinese martial arts (wrestling included) were meant for real wars, not sports (games).

Great interview. We practice Shuai Jiao in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and France under Master Yuan Zumou.

Never heard of this before. Thank you

That looks like a really cool martial art. When your buddy starts doing Seminars Keep us posted I live in oregon I would like to attend one.

It's sort of bizarre how much hatred and dismissiveness still gets directed at Chinese martial arts.

All i can say is total respect gentlemen !

Shuai Jiao is badass my instructor does it too, definitely going to be adding this to my arsenal of techniques 🤜🤛

keep the great content coming

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Oh Shiai Jiao is nasty art! Definitely slept on.

Matt's a really great person, lots of integrity, a genuine and kind being,.... awesome to hear him speak about it, Shuai Chiao has given me so much, I'm so thankful for giving myself to it, it's a great craft!! -Always representing Ho Chun

This brought the thought to mind that Judo is much more the manipulation of the Gi. The dojo footage early in the video really had forceful throws. I was losing my breath just watching. I loved this whole video, hearing from someone who has so much experience, but is still very humble about it. Great vid

I think you have similar idea of training tools in Hojo Undo in Okinawa. I like park wrestling where usually not so young wrestler do the art.

Great system. Love to see tradition staying practical and useful, wish there was more of it around. I would like to have seen strike training more, even that he said that his grabs, sweeps etc. are also strikes; maybe you can ask him to make a video to see what their striking is all about and how it's trained specifically. If you have a link of their striking, pass it on. Striking must be a main element in a realistic martial art. Good video!

Authentic Chinese Kung Fu contains Ti,Da, Na, Shuai & weapons .Shuai is one element of the old style kung fu.

Shuai Jiao makes you go WOW -Christopher Walken

I want to root for Judo because of my japanese ancestory, but i can't deny that some of these chinese styles of wrestling are probably superior. even though judo is pretty damn effective

9:37 - 9:45 As a practitioner of Shuai Jiao, that's an accurate observation. 19:28 demo & competition clips

Shuai Chiao and Baji Quan = deadly combination !!!!!

Finally! Someone recognizing Shuai Jiao as well as its martial value!

This dude used to grab onto my lower rib cage and pull

Props ! looks great ! However in the grappling tournaments i've seen judo 99% win rate vs Shuai Jiao . just from my experiences, maybe other people see it differently ??

There's also a modern off-shoot of Shuai Jiao called Shou Bo, which includes striking. Information on it is hard to come by. maybe you can get your Sherlock Holmes hat on and investigate 😉

Shuai Joao is supposedly the mother of Tai Ji Chuan.

any wrestling form can be as dangerous as the user need to be :V beside because human only had one had two arm and leg most of it are fairly similar

Is there a tie between Mongel wrestling and Shuai Jiao.

It did SJ a few decades ago -it was mostly Baoding with Mongolian wrestling- and came from a Judo and wrestling background. While it does have some cool techniques and it fun to watch and train, I didn't have any problems beating all of them with freestyle wrestling (and a bit of Greco-Roman) and a few years of competitive Judo. And this was before the BJJ/MMA revolution where cross training became the norm. This is also why American wrestler Matt F. went to China and easily won the SJ world championships. But if I was going to do any Kung Fu style it would probably would've been SJ, fun to do! The ones I saw that were good at it were practitioners who had done other grappling styles.. Purists stand little chance, just my 2 cents.

Can you do the kesi fighting system

Comparing shuai jiao and judo, which has better advantage in skill quality?

Can't believe people still fall for claims about something like this being an ancient martial art. It would be like claiming greco-roman wrestling is an ancient sport tracing back to ancient greece and rome.

Great foundation for B a G U A

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Can you show us more actual shuai Jiao ? Like sparring or tech drills

It looks very useable and no bull.... Moves.

Shen Yun is deadly.

The Chinese wrestling originally came from Mongolia

I would love you to see a kungfu takedown called Fatman takes the chair, just for absurdity sake.

Look like Judo and Greco Roman wrestling.

So because is deadly we don't see it in mma? I'm guessing .

Ancestor of Judo

I look these clips and it looks like some of what taijiquan has lost over the decades.

It’s meant to be one of the oldest styles of combat 🤜🤛

Tell that tu Xu Xai Dong 😂

Judo without some of the safety features.

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No shit Chinese martial art are badass.

The real kung fu is in Taiwan . The wushu is in China and Hong Kong has a mixture

No credit this is Judo.

So, it's basically a Chinese version of Judo with Sambo uniforms 🙄

@Inside Fighting - Elon, if you translate “Shuai Jiao” into English…it literally means “ to fall down”.

Interesting but I don’t see how it will work well in the streets in real life events. Maybe for someone who knows no martial arts whatsoever if it’s so good step into the octagon, bare knuckle fist, let’s see how it works out.

the Army using BJJ as a "combat hand to hand" art is STUPID. They would have been better served to either stay with defendu or do shuai chiao

BJJ is NOT good on the streets. If you do shuai chiao and throw someone as soon as they get close enough, they will NOT want to continue fighting, as they will be injured. No reason to lay on the ground and roll Round. Self Defense is NOT the UFC.

"Shuai Jiao" was pretty much lost after the 16th century and didn't "reappear" until after China sent an envoy to Japan to study Judo. So you can guess...despite what the Nationalist and Sinophiles would have you beleive what Shuai Jiao is really based off of. It is basically a Chinese rip of Judo and a rather poor one at that.