Welcome to the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Internet Site!
网站于 2023 年 06 月 07 日更新
About a week ago I finished a “smashing” interview with Kru Mac, inheritor of an ancient traditional weapons-based martial art here in Northwest Thailand called “Muay Jeung” – a still mostly secret martial art coalesced primarily in the military during the Lanna Kingdom (1296–1317) Period. Muay Jeung however has roots much older and wider in the region and beyond. Super-light sparring with Kru Mac in a ring was huge fun, as was interviewing and videoing his art fascinating. It took me almost a week to produce four videos, Parts 1 and 2 for each of YouTube and TikTok. [I was surprised at the very strict guidelines for use of music on TikTok; it took two entire days and a lot searching and re-compilations to get some music approved! Wow!] The heart of the story however is in the article for www.kungfumagazine.com to be published in the near future (July/Aug/Sept.).
I posted the above videos Parts 1 and 2 featuring Kru Mac’s demonstrations of Muay Jeung on the Thailand page (under 2023), on the Menu above during the past week. Or, someone can find them on my YouTube and TikTok channel lists below.
For other updates, videos & photos, see -> 2023 -> Thailand page on menu above or click here.
Some people might say Taekwondo is not Kung Fu. But, if that person speaks Chinese, they know it is Kung Fu – a highly refined art and discipline. And, naturally, the Silk Road Kung Fu traveler is not prejudiced in any way against any art that promulgates healthy discipline, fitness, self-knowledge, awareness and control.
Below are just a few photos of the Silk Road Kung Fu travelers’ adventures over the past eight years.
To help pay the bills the intrepid Silk Road Nomad, martial (and most other) arts and sciences explorer, Coach Stone, also sometimes tutors exceptional students (only) in the nuances of the fine art of English as a foreign language (EFL) online. (To see the video in China, go to “English” tab on menu above.) So during the past few days, a new group of friends assembled to assist in my ALL NEW experimental film production career! 😉🤣
The visitor to this site might be surprised at some of the people I meet along the ancient roads. Some places and people have not changed that much. Others! Wow! Science fiction cities of the future.
In December 15 2022 the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour added a new YouTube Channel featuring new Silk Road videos with an ever expanding collection about the Martial arts, Silk Road history & culture in the Chiang Mai area of North Thailand.
After getting a foothold on YouTube it was time to explore the wonderful world of TikTok while getting to know different people and places around town now, and during the past 12,000 years or so.
In the meantime, I self-taught video production skills however will be happy when a real videographer comes along. Exploring new music for those videos is a challenge and fun too. Many thanks to the artists at https://pixabay.com/music/search for use of music and images.
16个丝绸之路国家，无数公里的陆路旅行，至今已有12000年的历史。
16 Silk Road countries, uncountable kilometers of land travel and 12 thousand years of history so far.
丝绸之路旅行家、作家、武术家和丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅的创始人格雷戈里·布伦戴奇（石龙）于1973年开始学习功夫。 首先，他的文章发表在功夫杂志（在加利福尼亚出版），然后他收集这些文章并出版成书。
Silk Road traveler, writer, martial artist and founder of the Silk Road Martial Art Friendship Tour Gregory Brundage started learning Judo and Taekwondo in 1969, and Kung Fu in 1972. He first moved to southeast Asia in 1992, and started the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour and Silk Road Taekwondo Quest in 2015 while living in Beijing. First, his articles are published in Kung Fu Magazine (California) and then he collects those articles and publishes them in books. A similar arrangement was made with Taekwondo Times magazine also published in the US and a book emerged as well.
“功夫”是指一种超凡的技能发展水平。
“Kung Fu” refers to a transcendent level of skill development.
它是关于建设，而不是破坏。
It is about building, never destroying.
Land travel, training with and interviewing the Kung Masters along humanities most ancient pathways of civilization and trade: Around China, Kabul, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, to Istanbul, Turkey, the western terminal of the land Silk Roads.
The journey continues through: Pakistan – Gansu China – Qatar – Addis Ababa, Tigray Ethiopia – Vietnam – Japan – Indonesia – Shanghai, Ningbo, Yuyao China – Thailand and Hong Kong
Starting sometime soon, we will visit two more cities in Thailand and then 9 more countries: Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Tajikistan.
But, curious minds want to know, WHERE TO NEXT?
Ah, ha! That is being debated in the parietal lobe areas (central in somatosensory processing, navigation, and calculating and processing of numbers) of my and a few friends’ brains.
The answers depend on a branch equation measuring local broadcast media salability of the Silk Road Martial Arts Friendship Tour in the destination country as a newsworthy event. More news to come! (March 19, 2023)
逃离矩阵！ 尝试现实生活来改变。
Escape the Matrix!
丝绸之路是“真实的东西”，是世界的心脏，而且一直都是。
The Silk Roads are the real thing – the heart of the world and always have been.
Looking into the eyes of the King of the Desert, time/space unfolded.
一个地方只是一个地方； 是朋友让它变得特别。 下面是丝路功夫记者 G. Brundage（石龙）与越南国家武术队在河内训练总部，2019年6月6日。，2019 年 6 月 6 日。
A place is just a place; it’s friends that make it special.
上图是丝绸之路功夫记者 G. Brundage 与越南国家武术队在河内训练总部的合影，2019 年 6 月 6 日。
Above is Silk Road Kung Fu reporter G. Brundage with the Vietnamese National Wushu team at their training headquarters in Hanoi, June 6, 2019.
Above is the Indonesian National Wushu Kung Fu Team. (2019)
上图是埃塞俄比亚国家武术功夫队的一部分，左为托菲克大师，中为石龙。 (2018)
Above is part of Ethiopia’s National Wushu Kung Fu team with Master Tofik center left and Stone Dragon center right. (2018)
以上：2017年巴基斯坦国家武术队。
Above: A part of Pakistan’s National Wushu Sanda Team, 2017.
土耳其青年队——我在 2016 年访问了他们在安卡拉的国家总部
Above: Turkish Junior Team – My visit to their national HQ in Ankara, 2016
格鲁吉亚国家少年武术队，2016 年 7 月
Georgia’s national Junior Wushu Team, July 2016
还有很多！ And many more!
All the articles compiled in the above books were first published in www.kungfumagazine.com (California, USA) as part of an ongoing seven year series. Eight years if including the original four Kung Fu in Kabul articles, also published in Kung Fu Magazine, shortly before launching the long journey across all of Asia and so many other land and maritime Silk Road countries. Now, we’re working on Part 41, the 3rd installment of Kung Fu in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
下面是丝绸之路功夫记者石龙走访的丝绸之路沿线人物和地点的随机采集。
Below is a random collection of people and places along the Silk Roads visited by Silk Road Kung Fu reporter stone dragon.
Mosaic of different people and places… so many friends along the roads.
Azerbaijan National Museum of History – Who never know who you might meet along the Silk Roads. Photo by G. Brundage
丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅
SILK ROAD KUNG FU FRIENDSHIP TOUR
我们目前正在寻找与我们一起旅行的摄像师/视频编辑、额外的摄影师和中国武术功夫练习者，以及赞助商。 请参阅“关于”页面。 我们是一个非营利组织。
We are currently looking for a videographer/video editor, additional photographer and Chinese Wushu Kung Fu practitioner to travel with us, and sponsors. See “About” page. We are a not-for-profit organization.
什么是“开明的自我利益”？What is “enlightened self-interest?”
Curious minds want to know! 好奇的人想知道
您可以下载石龙的丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅（第一卷和第二卷）（免费PDF版本），以及他撰写的另外两本书，分别为：“重建北少林 – 2010 – 2020”和“北少林， 历史、文化和轮回”从上面菜单的下载页面。 那里还有其他有趣和启发性的书籍——全部免费。
You can download (free PDF versions) of 石龙的 Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour books Volume 1 and Volume 2, as well as two other books titled: “Rebuilding the North Shaolin – 2010 – 2020” and “North Shaolin, History, Culture and Reincarnation” from the Download page on the menu above. There are other other entertaining and enlightening books there as well – all for free.
我们正在制作的丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅系列的第三本书将是最令人兴奋的，因为我们正在添加视频，将在每个地点花费更多时间并在在线旅游博客中分享发生的事件 .
This third book in the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour series we’re working on now will be the most exciting of all as we’re adding videos, will spend more time in each location and sharing events as they happen in an online Travel Blog.
第一次丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅始于北京，沿北方丝绸之路，再经里海和黑海以南，到达陆上丝绸之路西端的土耳其伊斯坦布尔。
The first Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour started in Beijing, followed the Northern Silk Road and then swung south of the Caspian and Black Seas to Istanbul, Turkey on the western end of the land Silk Roads.
Stone Dragon riding across part of Mingsha Shan Desert, Dunhuang, Northwest China. At night the skies are washed white with stars.
李先生，值得信赖和睿智的朋友，指导我们第一次到鸣沙山过夜。 他也是极少数会说英语的导游之一。
Mr. Li, trusted, wise friend and guide for our first overnight journey into Mingsha Shan. He’s also one of few guides that speaks English.
丝路功夫友谊之旅是海南先锋丝路文化教育咨询有限公司的非营利性子公司。
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour is a non-profit subsidiary of
Hainan Pioneer Silk Road Culture Education Consulting Ltd.
A lesson to be learned: It’s a bit slippery there on the top of a sand dune. Swords, bows and arrows and punches might be better than kicks, but best of all is to be nice to people so fighting really isn’t necessary. Still, training must go on.
欢迎来到丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅正在进行的冒险！
Welcome to the ongoing adventures of the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour!
沿着这些道路，伟大的过去、现在和未来——在伟大的城市、城镇和村庄、沙漠、丛林、山脉和海洋中相遇。
Where great pasts, presents and futures – meet – in great cities, towns and villages, deserts, jungles, mountains and oceans.
What is the difference between great people and great mountains?
Great mountains never meet.
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左上至右下：图1缅甸世界武术锦标赛的Myat Noe Eain，西安体育大学的2、3，2019上海世界武术锦标赛的4散打，5（红衫白裤）徐琳女士 西安体育教育大学套路系主任6、（白T恤黑裤）唐军，西安体育大学螳螂式，7在河内执教越南国家少年散打队。 照片由石龙拍摄。
Upper left to lower right: Photo 1 Myat Noe Eain from Myanmar at World Wushu Championships, 2 & 3 from Xi’an Physical Education University, 4 Sanda at 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, 5 (red shirt white pants) Ms Xu Lin Director of Taolu Xian Phy Ed University 6, (white T-shirt, black pants) Tang Jun, Mantis Style, also Physical Ed University 7 Coaching Vietnam’s National Junior Sanda team in Hanoi. Photos by 石龙.
Now in our 8th year.
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