Kung Fu San Soo Harsh Truth: February 2020

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Hello Everyone,

Kung Fu San Soo Master Ron Gatewood made a final post on his website about the San Soo vs. Muay Thai lie. I left this message for him to answer:

Mr. Gatewood,
*Just to let you know the picture for this epilogue post is of a Pradal Serey (Cambodian) fight not a Muay Thai (Thailand) fight.

In your opinion, why did Larry Wikel make this complete absurd lie up?
Did he honestly think he could get away with saying Muay Thai fighters would be scared of fighting san soo guys?

Muay Thai fighters, especially from the 1970's would not ever be afraid of fighting anyone from any style! The story claims the Thais couldn't get approval to come to the USA. Hell, if the story was true (which we know it isn't) Thailand would have gladly flown the San Soo guys to Thailand and held the fights in Lumpinee Stadium or Rajadamnern Stadium. Why? If the Thais actually saw San Soo demonstrated they would gladly accept the challenge and want to show off another victory for Muay Thai in the Stadiums.

Didn't Larry Wikel know that Thailand has accepted and made challenge fights from other martial arts styles (Japan, China, Holland, France, etc.) way before the Gracie Family ever did?

Did Larry Wikel know anything about Muay Thai before this article was ever written?
He should have done some research first before he decided to make up this lie. The time period Larry Wikel mentions this event occurring was the beginning of the Golden Era of Muay Thai. No Muay Thai fighters would have been scared of fighting. Still to this day, the Thais live up to the reputation for accepting fights.

Anyway, it was too the benefit of Kung Fu San Soo this event never even came close to happening. Why? The Muay Thai Fighters would have destroyed any and all of the San Soo guys. If San Soo guys (under Larry Wikel) couldn't beat Kickboxers in 1975 at the Culver City Arena event then they would not last against Muay Thai fighters from Thailand.

Best Regards.
SP Danny

I don't know if he'll answer, but the reason for me leaving my comment on his website was to pretty much call out the San Soo community for a lie made up by one of their own. Bottom line, Muay Thai is superior and back then and even to this day no Muay Thai fighter is scared of San Soo or any martial art. Very few styles exist that are really good for striking and the ones recommended on this blog are the very few.

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Southeast Asian Boxing

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Sanda (San Shou, San Da), Kyuk Too Ki, Shoot Boxing, Yaw Yan

Western Striking

Dutch Kickboxing, Savate, Western Boxing

Grappling and Other

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, Sambo, Pankration, Judo, Shuai Jiao, Kali/Arnis/Escrima

Hello Everyone,

The next real fighter I'm going to present is Chinese Sanda Champion Wu Xiong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pauxf-SE0sY

I truly hope from the bottom of my heart that Sanda explodes all over China and wipes out the useless traditional martial art styles. No offense to them, but the first martial art from China that should have been exposed to the West should have been Sanda (back then it would have been called San Shou)!!!

Then there would have been no stupid Kung Fu jokes and only serious respect would have been given, but the Chinese learned after getting their asses handed to them facing Muay Thai fighters. At least a growing number are learning what works in a fight. I'm also happy to see MMA and Muay Thai growing in China.

In the coming years in America I know there will be at least one martial arts school that will claim to teach Sanda in order to attract students because Sanda's reputation will grow around the world. I don't doubt there will be a san soo school that teaches BJJ along side san soo that will also claim to teach Sanda or try to sell the belief that San Soo is part of Sanda. I have some evidence that a San Soo Master tried to do that on his website a long time ago, but he has now changed his website and only teaches one martial art from my current research (hint: it's not kung fu san soo that he focuses on). Makes me fucking sick the lies that will be told.

Sanda or San Shou or San Da was created by the Chinese Government! It is not an ancient Chinese martial art. It was a system of fighting developed for the modern times! It didn't put belief in mystical bullshit or fancy techniques! It was created and influenced by researching other martial arts that are effective!

Sanda truly is the ultimate Chinese martial art for fighting (besides the grappling style Shuai Jiao).

I'll never forget my Kung Fu San Soo Master telling the class that "San Soo is the best art," "San Soo is superior," etc. Knowing what I know now I wouldn't hesitate to tell him "No, it's not the best martial art because Sanda is better!" "Sanda will always beat kung fu san soo, in the ring, cage, or street."

I don't intend to hurt feelings, but I don't believe my Kung Fu San Soo master could beat a Sanda practitioner with 2 years hard training even though he had decades of training in San Soo. Sanda teaches the brutality of fighting and in the videos of Sanda on youtube of training it looks fun and exciting but it's not for everyone, it's hard, it can hurt physically and mentally, and you really have to be disciplined to train in it. Then again, whoever said training for a fight was easy?

Mark my words: There. Is. Not. One. Kung. Fu. San. Soo. Master. In. The. History. Of. Kung. Fu. San. Soo. That. Can. Teach. A. Sanda. Fighter. Anything. About. Fighting! *I believe if Jimmy H. Woo got in the ring or cage or street against a Sanda Fighter in the same weight class he would be destroyed. I see how Sanda fighters train and fight. I've seen Jimmy H. Woo train and demonstrate his san soo technique. My money is on Sanda. SANDA POWER!