The Drunken Boxing Podcast #034 Sudan has been practicing the martial arts for over thirty years and trained in both the USA as well as in China. He has studied Che style Xingyi Quan, Dai Family Xinyi as well as Cheng style Bagua Zhang under Li Tailiang, as well as Ma family Tongbei under Guo Naihui. Additionally he has studied Shuai Jiao under He Guangda and he has competed in Shuai Jiao numerous times achieving good results. He is based in New York city. Sudan Jeffers - CoachSudan@Gmail.Com --...
Mar 17, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 34
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #033 My guest today is Raphael Smith, who also goes by Ralph. He is a 5th generation Song style Xingyi Quan practitioner under Li Yujie. He also studied Chen style Taiji Quan through a Korean lineage which came from Hong Junsheng’s practice of the art, as well as other arts such as Chinese Shuai Jiao and sports combat related practices. He is a cofounder his school, named Jing Wu Pai, and as of a few months ago, returned to the United States where he is now beginning t...
Feb 17, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 33
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #032 Todays podcast features Richard Amos. He is a highly respected and skilled teacher of the art of Karate who has an incredibly interesting life story. I became aware of Richard Amos and his story through a book he wrote and published in 2020 titled - "Chasing Bushido – How I Learnt to Just Say Oss". This book, which is a memoir, recollects Richard Amos’ life in Karate and his ten years of training in Japan at the headquarters of the Japanese Karate Association wher...
Jan 13, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 32
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #031 My guest today is Ilya Profatilov who is a sinologist and ethnographer as well as being a deep practitioner and researcher of Chinese martial arts and Mantis Boxing (Tanglang Quan). He has conducted decades of research in the villages of Shandong on the arts and continues to research, practice and teach today. Ilya Profatilov - Chong De Tang https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511816779057386 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Dec 23, 2021•2 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 31
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #030 My guest today is none other than Daniele Bolelli, who is a martial artist, writer and a university professor of history. He is the host of the Drunken Taoist podcast as well as History on Fire. Daniele is a lifelong martial artist, who has years of experience in various arts including Kung Fu San Soo and Judo both of which he holds a black belts in, as well as Xingyi Quan and Bagua Zhang which he studied under Tim Cartmell, and he also practices Brazilian Jiu Jit...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 30
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #029 My guest today is Brendan Tunks who resides in Australia. Brendan is a seven star mantis practitioner who started his training in the art in Canberra back in 1992 under Wang Xiaohua. In 1997 he started his training in Qingdao, China under the late Kang Zhiqiang and Li Qiming and Li Qiyu. He has experience in competing a various combat formats, including barehanded and those with weapons, as well as Sanda, submission grappling and he also fought in the only edition...
Oct 14, 2021•2 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #028 This month’s guest is the one and only Mark Houghton. Originally from England, Mark moved to Malaysia at a young age to pursue his dream of learning Chinese martial arts. His fate found him then going to Hong Kong to study under the great Lau Kar Leung and Mark became a well known action stuntman within the Hong Kong film industry. He has worked on over 40 movies alongside some of the greatest action stars on films including the Legend of the Drunken Master and Kn...
Sep 16, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 28
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #027 This month’s guest is a dear old friend of mine named Paul Hanrahan who originally hails from Johannesburg South Africa. He has been living and training in Taiwan permanently since 2009 in the Chang Hong System founded by the late Chen Qinghe. He is someone who is deeply passionate about the Chinese martial arts. Paul has always been an exceptional martial artist. In this discussion we cover a broad range of topics regarding his history, training with master Chen ...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 27
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #026 This month’s guest is Thomas Holtman who hails from Germany. Thomas is a formal disciple of Zhong Lian Bao, who is a 5th generation master of the Seven Star Mantis system. Thomas is also a Dog Brother, and regularly participates in their events. On top of this, Thomas is also a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt, a judo black belt and a blade master who teaches his bladecraft method in Germany. He holds a masters degree in Sinology which includes Chinese literature, l...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 26
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #025 This month’s episode features Per Nyfelt. Per studied in Beijing under Sun Jianyun, who was Sun Lutang’s daughter. Per was an early pioneer who traveled to Beijing in order to study the arts of Sun style Xingyi Quan, Bagua Zhang and Taiji Quan directly with the Sun family through Sun Jianyun. During his time studying in China, he also studied Xin Yi Liu He Quan under Li Zunsi in Shanghai, as well as Yi Quan under one of the Yao brothers, Yao Chengrong, whom he sti...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 25
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #024 This is the 2-year anniversary episode of the podcast, and I asked my first guest, Marin Spivack, to return, except this time with a specific topic to discuss. The topic is the contrasts between what we call Chen Jia Gou or Chen Village Taiji Quan today and the style and methods that have been handed down through Chen Fake lineage in Beijing, which continues up until today. This is an in-depth discussion on the subject, which also delves into connected and related...
May 15, 2021•2 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 24
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #023 My guest is Phil Morrell. Phil hails from the United Kingdom and is a practitioner of Fan style Bagua Zhang under Wen Dasheng. Phil Morrell has trained in Beijing under Wen Dasheng, who is the official lineage holder for the art, for many years. He recounts his history and training in the art and discusses the intricacies of this style of Bagua Zhang in this episode. As usual, it was a very interesting and enjoyable discussion. Phil Morrell's Fan Style Bagua Zhang...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 23
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #022 My guest today is none other than Mario Napoli. I heard about Mario many many years ago. He rose to fame due to the fact that he was the first and the last non Chinese to enter the Chen village push hands championships and win. After he did this, aspects of participation were changed permanently to avoid such things from happening again in such a manner. Mario’s study of the art of Taiji was through his teacher, Stanley Israel, who was a highly respected Judo teac...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 22
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #021 My guest today is Tom Bisio. Tom Bisio is a well known Chinese medical practitioner and martial artist hailing from New York. He has an extensive background in martial arts practice starting in his teens in the Filipino martial arts. In the 80's he started studying both Chinese medicine and martial arts under Vince Black and he then went on to train under numerous renowned teachers of Xingyi Quan, Bagua Zhang and taijiquan over the course of many trips to China an...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 21
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #020 My guest today is James Carss. James is currently based in England and has a lifetime of experience in the practice of martial arts. At the age of 12 he began his studies in Wing Chun. He then went on to study the south east Asian martial arts of Muay Thai and Silat while at the same time pursued an amateur boxing career. He later got involved in classical Chinese internal arts and decided to relocate to Hong Kong in 2005 to pursue his studies of Chinese martial a...
Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 20
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #019 My guest today is the esteemed Ma Lianzhen who is the son of the great professor and martial artist Ma Mingda, and the grandson of the legend Ma Fengtu. Arguably, the Ma family is one of the most important families in Chinese martial arts over the last 100 years. Ma Lianzhen is an accomplished martial artist who also holds a doctorate and continues research into the field of martial studies in his father’s footsteps. He has been actively promoting the Ma family To...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 19
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #018 My guest today is Marcus Brinkman who is an early pioneer from the USA to travel to east Asia in pursuit of his studies, which included both medical studies as well as martial studies. He eventually ended up in Taiwan, where he studied under Hong Yixiang directly and then under Luo Dexiu as well. He currently is still residing in Taiwan where he continues his medical and martial practices and is also teaching. Marcus Brinkman's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube...
Nov 18, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Season 1Ep. 18
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #016 My guest today is Veronika Partikova. Veronika who hails from the Czech Republic and started her martial arts training in 1999 with Shotokan Karate, and thereafter started to practice the southern Chinese style of Hung Ga Kune. In 2013 she relocated permanently to Hong Kong in order to study Hung Ga Kune closely with her Shifu Wong Chung Man. While in Hong Kong, she completed her PhD in sports psychology with a focus on mental toughness and collectivism in traditi...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 16
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #015 Today's guest is Leslie Conn. He was originally born in Zimbabwe in 1961 and he moved to Hong Kong in 1987 in his pursuit of martial arts and its related cultures. He went on to complete a 20 year apprenticeship with master Kwan Run Chang as his closed door disciple. Les was always deeply fascinated with martial and China’s military history and he embarked on deep research which he has done none stop since. His focus was on the lost and forgotten aspects of Chines...
Aug 13, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 15
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #014 Today's guest is Tim Cartmell who is a well-known pioneer within the Chinese martial arts most notably within the styles of Xingyi Quan, Bagua Zhang and Taiji Quan. He started with Kung Fu San Soo at a young age and moved to Taiwan at the age of 23 to pursue further studies in the Chinese martial arts and he studied with people like Xu Hongji and Luo Dexiu. He also traveled to mainland China to study these arts and spent time with Sun Jianyun, Liang Kequan, Mao Mi...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 14
The Drunken Boxing Podcast #013 Today's guest is Jarek Szymanski who originally hails from Poland. Jarek is a pioneering legend within Chinese martial arts, particularly within the styles of Xinyi and Xingyi Quan, Bagua Zhang and Taiji Quan, as he was one of the early westerners to come into the heart of China and study these at a time when the reality of the martial arts environment in the northern part of china was relatively unknown to the outside world. He started website "China From Inside"...
Jun 16, 2020•2 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
My guest today is Will Wain-Williams. Will has lived in China for over a decade and has studied Taiji Mantis with Zhou Zhendong in Yantai, Shandong province. He is better known for his YouTube channel, Monkey Steals Peach, which is a travelogue where he has been showcasing Chinese martial arts from its source. He has dedicated years of his life to the study of his chosen art of Taiji Tanglang Quan or Taiji Mantis, and is steeped in the culture. Monkey Steals Peach YouTube Channel: https://www.yo...
May 20, 2020•2 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 12
My guest today is Guan Nan Wang, who is also known as Chris Wang. His father, Wang Guang Quan, is a well-known martial artist who acted as the emperor, Li Shimin, alongside Jet Li in the famous movie, the Shaolin temple. Chris Wang has been doing martial arts for the majority of his life, and has studied styles including Shao Bei, Yi Quan, Tang Lang Quan or Mantis fist, Taijiquan and others. His key focus over the past few years has been on deep Taijiquan practice, and more recently he has start...
Apr 13, 2020•2 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 11
My guest today is Lavell Marshall. Hailing from the USA, Lavell started his training in the Southern style of Hung Gar Kune and then he moved on to Chinese wrestling system known as Shuai Jiao. In 2019 he left his life behind in the USA and along with his wife, relocated to Inner-Mongolia, China to further deepen his studies in the arts. This put him in contact with the Mongolian wrestling art of Bokh which he has fully immersed himself in. Lavell Marshall's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...
Mar 13, 2020•2 hr 12 min
On today's episode I share a podcast (Talking Fists Podcast) I was on a couple of months ago which featured an in depth discussion on Xingyi, Bagua, Chinese martial arts and related topics. It was a great discussion where we tackled many of the often repeated myths, misunderstandings, many of which I have been asked about repeatedly. I am sure you guys will enjoy this discussion and I hope to be able to go out and interview guests soon once this virus calms down ab it here. I also recommend you ...
Feb 15, 2020•2 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In today’s episode I have two guests joining me, Simon Lockett from Japan and Marc Mastrandrea from the USA, currently residing in Beijing. Simon Lockett has lived in Japan for the past 26 years. Originally from New Zealand, He studied under Feng Zhengbao for 8 years fully learning his Bagua Zhang system. More recently he started to study Yin style Bagua Zhang under Xu Shixi through his close friend Marc Mastrandrea. Marc is originally New York, he is a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner. H...
Jan 13, 2020•2 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Hailing from Canada, Andrea Falk started practicing martial arts in 1972, and realized Chinese Martial Arts would be her life’s path. She applied and won a scholarship to the Beijing College of Physical Education, also known as the Beijing Sports University where she arrived in 1980, as the first group of westerners to be enrolled officially in the Wushu program there, and she studied there for 3 years with Xia Bohua as her main coach. It was during her time in China that she fell in love with a...
Dec 05, 2019•2 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Bill Mattucci has over 46 years of martial arts training experience in various arts starting early on with Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido and western boxing. In 1992 he started training with the great Ted Wong who was one of Bruce Lee’s last personal students and training partners, who Bill studied under until Ted’s passing. Bill is one of Ted Wong’s first certified Jeet Kune Do instructors. Bill further studied and researched Chinese martial arts, taijiquan, meditation and other practices, which helped h...
Nov 08, 2019•2 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This is a bonus episode of the drunken boxing podcast. It’s an interview conducted with Byron Jacobs (host of The Drunken Boxing Podcast) in 2017, by the European/International Wushu Federation’s Vice-President during 4th European Continental Kung Fu Championships held in Tbilisi - Georgia. We discussed various aspects related to Chinese traditional martial arts. Some valuable insight came out though this discussion regarding these arts. Support this channel and all my projects: https://www.patr...
Oct 18, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Andy Pi is the father of MMA in China. Andy grew up in the USA where he got into Gracie Jiu Jitsu, he came to China and went on to be the catalyst for the origins of MMA and BJJ in the central kingdom. He is the direct reason why Xu Xiaodong moved on from Sanda and got into MMA, as Andy Pi fought Xu Xiaodong in the early 90’s when Xu was a sanda fighter and Andy submitted him with an arm bar, changing Xu’s trajectory for the rest of his life. Zhang Weili, who is China’s first UFC champion, was f...
Oct 01, 2019•2 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
