The Drunken Boxing Podcast

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 Ko...

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...

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. H...

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...

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...

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 o...

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 a...

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...

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 frie...

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...

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.  Bil...

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 o...

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, chan...

Episode #003: Luc Bendza, is a martial artists, wushu official and actor who was born in Gabon and came to China in 1983. His journey led him to the Shaolin Temple, to the Beijing Sport University, where he spent more than a decade training and eventually graduated with a master’s degree in Wushu, and into the field of films, where he has worked alongside the great Jackie Chan among others. ...

Episode #002: Michael Ashley Wix is a student of Beijing Shuai Jiao Master Li Baoru (李宝如). Originally from New Zealand, Michael has lived in Beijing for 23 years learning various Chinese martial arts, including studying for 3 years at the Beijing University of Sport, and studying Yi quan for 5 years.  Michael was involved in the early development of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA in China, an...

Marin Spivack, who is a well-known Chen Taijiquan practitioner and is Chen Yu’s most senior western disciple. Marin has a wealth of knowledge and experience, as he was one of the early pioneers who came to Beijing to study and practice directly at the source. Marin Spivack's Website: http://molingtaiji.com Support this channel and all my projects: https://www.patreon.com/mushinmartialculture