Welcome back once again, ladies and gentlemen's. Wow, I think I just doubled my

listenership. Thanks to all you Chinese martial arts lovers for taking the time to

check out the last episode. Las La Montgomery here with part two of this very very brief overview of a subject that

deserves its own podcast genre it's so vast. Last time we convene I tried to show

how Chinese martial arts gong--fu, kung-fu, wushu, all those different names for the same thing,

how this all started and how it developed in China throughout the centuries.

I know a lot of you were hoping I was going to introduce more of the styles and techniques and whatnot associated with each school.

Chris B. out in the great football capital of Manchester, England was really lobbying for Tai Chi-Chuan to be included.

That'll get its own episode one of these days.

Martial arts, it's one of those things, to introduce the subtleties and mark differences of even a few of the more popular styles.

And once you start talking about this, you've to talk about that and on and on it goes.

And, well, I didn't want to make this another Su Kucian Shoo.

So I hope you still enjoy the, well I hesitate to call it the fast food version that stuff's not good for you I know a lot of you were hoping to get a deeper dive than what I was able to put together if at least a few of you got inspired to explore martial arts a little bit more

and my job is done I could die in peace once again a lot of Cantonese and Mandarin names and terms.

Everything is located on my website at teacup. Media, if you want to follow along,

all the Chinese English, and I put the Cantonese ruminization as well, that might make it easier to follow.

Wing Chun, or Yongchun in Mandarin.

That's a style of gong-ung Fu that's popular and practiced in probably every country

on the planet I'm guessing. It's a global thing, not to mention something of great cultural pride to a lot of Chinese for you know their

particular contribution to bringing this to the world.

Martial arts didn't only come out of China I mean anywhere there were humans congregating together, these arts emerged.

Every culture and civilization, past and present, have their own martial arts history. But like with Chinese tea,

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