Many of our world’s folk fighting cultures were not in the form of codified martial arts. While the European master-at-arms maybe have published fencing manuscripts, and the Japanese and Chinese maintained lineages of combat skills, most martial arts were traditionally practiced by the community as a community, or within a warrior-society.

Vincent Tseng began childhood with a profound love of nature and the skills to thrive within in. In the livelihood of the hunter, one can see the primordial martial capability - something that some cultures have honed to deadly effectiveness. On his adventures, Vincent seeks out indigenous communities which have maintained the spirit of their Hunter-Warrior ethos.

In Taiwan he follows the old trails of the indigenous people, learns to crafts the blades and bows and arrows, and continues to learn about the ancient “Men’s lodge complex” of southern Taiwan which used to raise notorious headhunters. He looks forward to immersing in the Cordillera of the Philippines and learning about their martial head taking heritage as well. Soon he will adventure in Sarawak’s jungles and along her rivers, learning the Dayak ways of war and headhunting as well.

In Mongolia, the culture is one of pastoral herding, but the anchin (hunter) is vital as well. Archery, musketry and trapping allowed Mongols to hunt game and hone martial skills. The ‘surround hunt’ was a fundamental group hunting strategy which also instilled the basic discipline and skills for formation fighting in battle.

Someday he will also return to Guyana to the rain forests and mighty rivers - land of the notorious Carib peoples like the Makushi, Kapon, Kalina and Wai Wai. Once known to be fierce warriors and claimed to be cannibals, there’s a deep martial tradition there that deserves recognition.