I Learned Kung Fu Broadsword In 30 Days!

foreign [Music] welcome back to Marshall Flex I decided to put myself through my own 30-day Kung Fu Dao challenge or the Chinese broadsword or saber I thought this would be a really cool challenge just to challenge myself to see if I can learn this weapon create goals for myself and Achieve these goals now with all truth be told I did dabble in this weapon and some Kung Fu about 20 years ago at that time to see if I would be interested in pursuing this martial art at the time I had a different idea of what I wanted my martial arts training to be so I did not continue pursuing Kung Fu I stayed with Filipino martial arts and moved into the sea lot martial arts of Southeast Asia explored Jeet Kune doe and a few other martial arts instead however I always had Kung Fu or wushu in the back of my mind that maybe someday this would be a martial art that I would want to explore a little bit more into now with this 30 day challenge I set myself three main goals number one I wanted to learn the basic techniques of the broadsword my second goal was to learn a short sequence of the basic moves with some footwork and stances and the third goal for this 30 day challenge was to learn and complete the basic wushu broadsword form it's like the first form that you would learn now back in my JKD days and even in some of my Kali days forms were always kind of looked down on but I remember doing forms when I was a kid back in Taekwondo and I loved doing forms and this 30-day challenge really reminded me of the benefits that forms give us you get a practice the Precision and Perfection of your Technique the forms build strength coordination agility and flexibility and your overall condition conditioning they're freaking hard even though the form that I'm learning in this video is the very first wushu broadsword form the most basic one that I could find I gotta tell you it was a lot more challenging than I thought a lot of my previous martial arts training was actually interfering with the ability to actually do this form and perform it correctly and precisely now I'm not claiming to be a master I'm not trying to master Kung Fu or the art of the Dao I'm just having fun exploring other martial arts and maybe in future videos I'll also start exploring some other weapons maybe of wushu kung fu or maybe even other martial arts so if there's any other Kung Fu or any other style of martial arts weapon that you would like to see me go through the same kind of process let me know what that weapon is down in the comments below now I really enjoyed this exploration and this 30 day challenge I'm going to continue training the broadsword and maybe in the future I will also try learning a little bit more advanced form with this weapon but that would be after I feel like I've really gained some good precision and maybe a little bit of Mastery over this first form which I know I haven't quite gotten there yet but let's enjoy this 30 day challenge and adventure together remember to hit that Thumbs Up Button show me some love and support for going through this and subscribe to the Marshall Flex Channel and tap that Bell to turn on post notifications so you don't miss any upcoming videos I greatly appreciate it and let's get into it [Music] oh [Music] thank you [Music] in this video we're going to be taking a broadswordworks [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] of this Kung Fu broadsword 30 day challenge is in the books I'm feeling pretty good with the basic techniques but I do have to say it's taken quite a bit of mental focus a lot of the techniques are pretty similar to Filipino martial arts except I would say that wushu is quite more meticular in the Finesse in these little details and I'm noticing like I'm noticing these little details in the left hand in the stance in the timing between the transitions of stances like the footwork with the weapon again there's similarities but there's there's these little nuanced differences that are making it a little bit more challenging which I really like I'm having a lot of fun so far with this Challenge and I'm really looking forward to week two [Music] video we're going to be taking the broadsword and combining it with Choice footwork so if you've not seen the toilet footwork video [Music] oh [Music] downtown [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] so week two in the books I absolutely enjoyed this week's of training I really like the routine that sifu cuddle had put together with the broadsword combined with the Choi Lee foot footwork super challenging not so challenging to learn the sequence once you have the footwork but the footwork man the stances such great leg workout you feel the burn in the legs in the quads in the calves absolutely will be incorporating a lot more of this footwork and the Troy Lee fut training in my personal daily training absolutely really enjoyed that I have a link to sifu cuddles YouTube channel Down Below in the description if you want to check out his channel a lot of really really great Kung Fu training over there on the broadsword and on pretty much everything Kung Fu so I'm feeling pretty good I'm feeling really good in this challenge we got one more goal to go and that is learning the form so we're gonna see how it goes I'm taking two weeks to really work on this form uh because as I'm watching it you know I'm noticing that there's there's some details you know it's not a whole bunch of steps but I it's the details I'm thinking uh they're gonna take a little bit of time to really hone in and and get down so I'm gonna spend two weeks dedicating two weeks to getting this form down I'm gonna work it every single day all right let's get after it [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] okay so week three working this uh broadsword form it's definitely been a lot more challenging than I anticipated in the first place so I found a DVD on the basic wushu broadsword I went ahead and ordered it they came in and I watched through it and it just happens to have the exact same form that I'm working on and I definitely have the moves down I have the sequence of the form however as I'm comparing my footage to this actual video and these other people that are actually performing the form and teaching the form I'm noticing some details are way off the Precision is way off a little bit in the left hand but especially in the lower half in the footwork and in the stances so as I'm kicking into week four I'm going to take at least one or two days and just focus on the lower half of the form and really work the stance in and right now I already know I am not going to have this form down Perfect by the end of this 30 day challenge but I'm no quitter I'm going to give it the best I can but I know if I want True Perfection I'm gonna have to keep training this thing um well beyond this uh 30 day challenge so let's kick into day four and let's see how far I can take this good foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign foreign [Music] I'm back here sitting by the pond reflecting on the past month this 30-day challenge on the Chinese broadsword the saber the doll that I decided to take upon I didn't do as much filming this past week I really just wanted to focus on my practice and my training to really hone in as best as I can and right now I'm thinking about how do I want to film the final performance of the mega goal the form for tomorrow I think I'm just going to give it a go about maybe three or four takes and just choose which one I think is the best and that's the one that is going to be this has been such an amazing and fun experience taking these 30 days and just focusing on something that is relatively new definitely out of my Norm my comfort zone in my martial arts training and maybe this 30 day challenge kind of inspires you to kind of do the same thing you know don't be uh afraid or shy to explore something new something different this 30-day challenge has definitely given me a complete new appreciation and Outlook in kung fu in the Chinese martial arts and the athleticism the performance the focus that really goes into yet another martial art I see you for the final performance which will also be the end of this uh Vlog I guess it is if you like videos like this and you'd like to see me do another like this at some point where I'm exploring a different different weapon from another martial arts hit the Thumbs Up Button let me know in the comments below what weapon you would like to see me do next from what art and don't forget to subscribe to the channel we have over 2 000 subscribers already absolutely amazing to me that's pretty quick so subscribe let's get to 3 000 and I will see you back in the next video to continue our journey together my friend [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you 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