Friday, November 18, 2011

Where can I get me there one of those Buddhist Palm Kung Fu books?

I would like to create world peace.





Or maybe it won%26#039;t work unless I am a 1 in a million kung fu genius?|||In a movie. or maybe a homeless bum will jump out and hand you one if you are the chosen.|||Also AMAZON also search monk fist boxing.|||ebay|||Try asking Stephen Chow.|||I%26#039;m taking that you watch Kung Fu Hustle the other night on SPIKE, huh? Screw world peace. go for world domination and then you could create your own kind of worl peace. Anyways, according to Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber, even with a 1 in a million chance....you still have a chance! try amazon.com

What is the right age to start Kung-Fu training?

I%26#039;m 17, and I%26#039;m very interested in taking up a martial arts discipline such as Kung-Fu, but I worry that I%26#039;m too old to start, considering I probably won%26#039;t be able to do it until I%26#039;m 18 and have my own money to spend on it... I was just wondering if it is as easy to find classes for adults as it is for children? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but thanks for your help...|||Its even easier when your an adult to get real training from a credible facility. This is because most real facilities require you to be 18 or older to even be considered. The places that take anyone are just trying to make a buck. Look for a place that has strict admissions, where you will have to interview to be considered as a student (I would recommend wing chun discipline). You will find the best training there. Not a dumb question at all friend.|||Too old? No way too old, man! I%26#039;ve known cats that started in their late 20%26#039;s. Your age is a pretty good one to start because you%26#039;ll be allowed to learn the scarier more effective techniques that aren%26#039;t taught to minors. In the style I studied, you can%26#039;t have a black belt until you%26#039;re 18. With kids, we teach predominantly forms, weapon forms, and minor takedown and self defense techniques. Good luck, bruddah.|||You are at a perfect age, but if you train in a kung fu system it may take longer to learn than TKD, and other non Chinese systems. %26quot;Soft%26quot; systems like Ba-Gua,Tai Chi take even longer to learn but they will be well worth it. Just be patient.|||alright you can never really be %26quot;too%26quot; old to learn kung fu i have been training martial arts all of my life i can tell you a great school in richardson if u live in that area but back to the subject u can learn martial arts at any age so go for it dude!!!!!!!|||For the internal martial arts, one should be AT LEAST at the age of cognizance.


.|||No time but the present will do...of course youthful vigor and flexibility doesn%26#039;t make up for age old trickery...This is a quote from one of my teachers. He didn%26#039;t start until he was in the military at 18. He passed away 2 years ago at 83. It matters only at how long you stay on the trail...getting there though is half the battle...good luck...





Sensei Strickler|||This is not a dumb question dude.





I started training in Wing Chun when I was 22. Often I would reflect and think to myself that I wished that I had started earlier but then I realised that in order for me to get to the place that I needed to be in to be a dedicated Wing Chun practioner I had to wait until then, if I had discovered it even 6 months before I did then I don%26#039;t believe I would still be doing it today due to my priorities at the time.





Also beare this in mind...





If it is going to take you a week to get somewhere and you start today then next week you will be where you wanted to be today. But if you put it off for a week because it seems to far away then next week you will still be a week away from your destination.|||now|||The earlier the better. Remember if you start kung fu at age 17 then other 17 year olds who started at age 6 will have 11 years of experience over you.|||Actually you are at a perfect age to begin training. your body is still in the developmental stage. You will gain much balance and coordination as well as strength. It will be something that you will not regret. But definitely take it seriously and try your best to continue the program in which you get involved in. Try to join classes with those that are around the same age or older than you!|||17 is a perfect age to start training, your body is almost grown so tendons will develop and build your kung fu structure by the time your 21. You will benifit greatly as your body will be moulded to what you are trying to acheive, the perfect body mechanics for kung fu. I feel there is you can never be to old to train, aslong as you are willing to that is all that should matter. Have you thought of what style to persue. If you have not already decide do a web search for these classes in your area!


chow gar, pak hok, lung ying, bak mei and hung gar.


Good luck|||Well i have begining with 8 year old, now i have 14 i trainning karate on mondeys and frideys.


So i think u are ready.





good luck!|||The only dumb question is the question not asked. Teenage years are still very young! The earlier you get into martial arts the better but still. You know David Carradine from the two Kung -Fu shows? He didn%26#039;t start doing Kung Fu until the middle or end of the show. While filming he just learned what he had to and then he loved it so much he started taking classes and now he%26#039;s been doing it for around 30 years! It%26#039;s never too late to start! Good Luck!

Is Kung Fu really effective in a sticky situation?

Many teenagers (boys) enjoy to fight and %26#039;murk%26#039; other boys, these are normally chosen randomly, I live in a rough area and go to a rough school, I am not very strong either compared to these tough guys whom hate me for no reason, if I learned Kung-Fu, possibly a specific type, could I overcome them in a fight?





Daniel.|||Kung fu is a wonderful art. To tell you what style, it depends on what you are more comfortable with. Southern kung fu requires low stances and focuses on punching while northern kung fu focuses on kicking although it has many punching techniques. I study northern shaolin kung fu and i would recommend it. Also, see if it includes chin-na (joint locking) as this can be very useful. An example of this is if someone grabs your wrist, use your free hand to hold his hand on your wrist and move your hand inward and push on the top of the other persons wrist to put pressure on it (hopefully this makes sense).


Kung fu also strenghens your mind and will teach you to try to not fight and to use your energy wisely.


Hope this helps .|||I would suggest Kung Fu San Soo.





Kung Fu San Soo is a traditional and practical combat art.





According to %26quot;Inside Kung Fu Magazine%26quot;:


This is not a spectator sport. San Soo is a savagely effective fighting style that trains the warrior to instantly adapt to any combat situation. First, you have the brutally effective fighting style of kung-fu san soo, founded by grandmaster Jimmy H. Woo, a style that is popularly associated with the phrase, %26quot;Tread lightly, and carry a big stick.%26quot; This is not a sport or a game, but a warrior discipline. While some martial arts styles focus on a specific technique - as with judo for throws and karate for kicks and punches - san soo teaches the full family of techniques, which allows the fighter to adjust their style according to the situation they are in. The punches and kicks, the leverages, the nerve attacks, the takedowns - all directed to vital parts of the body - are executed in a perfect rhythm that can make the flow of movement compelling, even beautiful, to witness. But at its very core is also a raw brutality that emphasizes the san soo focus on self-defense.





%26quot;San soo is to the point,%26quot; describes Frater. %26quot;You go for the most critical, vulnerable points of the body. You eye gouge, you bite, you try to kick the joints out; you do things as brutally as you possibly can to get to the end of the fight as quickly as possible. Maximum results with minimal effort.%26quot;|||My opinion is: dont be let down just because you dont know kung fu.





If you dont think you can overcome them if you didnt learn it then learn it because then your mind thinks you can overcome them which means you%26#039;ll have more encouragement :D





But dont think just because you know kung fu you can just take down anybody (if you didnt already) because you have to train up your body to meet the requirements e.g. no point in learning how to fight if you didnt have the stamina to last a minute.





So i would advise you to train your body as well:D





Also, you should only attempt to fight these boys when they attack you first if you just go up to them and start attacking them they might get more people to get you the next day or something.





But on the otherhand maybe you dont need to take down these boys just because they hassle you. Have you tried talking to them? ( I know youll probably hear this from most people you tlak to but maybe it will work) or tried avoiding them until they dont hassle you anymore.





P.S i think you should learn kung fu even if your not going to use it in a fight because its good for the body and who knows when you going to need it?|||Kung Fu is a very effective martial art and would most likely significantly improve your chances of success if you got in a fight with these kids. Not only that, but just about any martial art increases your confidence and improves your self-esteem. I was bullied a lot in school (including high school) until I took martial arts and the bullying died quickly because I learned how to act confident and calm. Kung fu will hopefully not only teach you to fight physically but also explain how body language and psychological factors play into situation of violence and bullying.





Be sure to find a studio that teaches what you are looking for and is practical.





Best of luck.|||No, you wouldn%26#039;t, Kung Fu gives you skill but not confidence, you are relying too heavily on the art and not enough on yourself, to truly overcome them, you must believe that you can defeat them. if you must, a good martial art for many enemies at once would be Elephant, but seeing as my Sifu is the only man within a 2000 mile radius that teaches it, I%26#039;d go with Taekwondo for multiple enemies, not Gongfu.|||Learning kung-fu will definitely make you faster and stronger. Anyone with experience in combat will have an advantage over them. It can definitely help you get out of a tough situation. However, it is not good to engage in a street fight.


Best solution for a street fight: Block and back up and retreat|||yeah i think you should learn some kung fu. it will help you a bit if you get into a fight but you best defence would be to not be there at all. cant get beaten up if you are not there... so try avoid them. and dont fight unless there is no way for you to escape.|||I learned kickboxing and Karate and boxing. And when it came down to fighting in the street, it was more wrestling than anything else. But i use my hands more than my legs so i think boxing is the better sport. Try to avoid those idiots

Which do you tihnk is better, or tell me the difference between Kung Fu and Wushu?

I would like to know the answer to my question. I am thinking about starting but I don%26#039;t really know the difference besides the fact that Kung Fu is for fighting and Wushu is for performance reasons. Thanks for your time.|||Oh dear... Ok... Number 1. Kung Fu and Gung Fu are the same thing and mean the same thing (just different spelling or pronounciation).





%26amp; number 2. Most %26quot;kung fu%26quot; styles also train weapons. There are about 16 (at least most likely hundereds of different variations, essentially there are only really 3 different types of weapons) I think off the top of my head in Shaolin alone.





Now onto your question... The difference between Kung Fu and Wu Shu? Essentially nothing...





Kung Fu translates to %26quot;aquired skill%26quot; where as Wu Shu is the actual Chinese word for what we can Kung Fu.





In most cases these days Wu Shu is more sport foccussed, but they still come from traditional martial arts, Many %26quot;shaloin monks%26quot; are actually from the chinese institute of sports. A school teaching Wu Shu will likely teach you many different styles/forms of kung fu and also some fancy gymnastic type stuff to, whereas most things that call them selves something specific for example Wing Chun Kung Fu, will just teach you one style.





Just have a look around and figure out what is best for you. I learn Wing Chun myself as it focusses more on realism and for fun I just do gymnatics as that%26#039;s pretty much what they add to Wu Shu for show, though they do also do traditional styles and sparring. If you want something cool to show your friends go Wu Shu, but chicks aren%26#039;t really impressed by it sorry to say lol.|||all i know is that kung uses only arms and legs while wu shu uses weapons such as swords etc.|||Kung Fu is Bruce Lee%26#039;s Martial Arts that is not a discipline in Olympics but wushu is an Olympic Discipline|||they are both arts.





kung fu - literally translated is %26quot;skill%26quot;


wushu - literally translated is %26quot;dance%26quot;





both are beautiful, disciplined, and strong.





good luck with either one!|||%26quot;Wushu%26quot; is coined by mainland China to encompass all martial arts and Chinese Wushu can be mainly divided into two subsets. Subset %26quot;Chuantong Wushu%26quot; or %26quot;Traditional Wushu%26quot; ideally refers to the classical martial arts styles that haven%26#039;t been tainted with competition requirements but are taught for effectiveness. %26quot;Xiandai Wushu%26quot; or %26quot;Modern Wushu%26quot; is essentially flashy performance and competition sets with no applicability at one extreme and kickboxing-like Sanda in the other extreme with no moderation in between as most Modern Wushu practitioners train in either one or the other but not both. (The western world generally use %26quot;Wushu%26quot; in references to Modern Wushu performance routines, %26quot;Sanda%26quot; to mean the Modern Wushu contact sports, and %26quot;KungFu/GungFu/GongFu%26quot; to mean Traditional Wushu.)|||Ok, for one, Bruce lee started out in Gung Fu, not Kung Fu. Yes he did know Kung Fu, but he knew Gung Fu well before he did Kung Fu. I dont consider either better than the other. Kung Fu uses the opponents energy against themselves. And it is a very powerful art. As for Wushu, people make the misconception that is it only a performance art. Look at Jet Li, he is a master of Wushu. I have been in the MA%26#039;s for many years, and I am smart enough to know that he would probably, with not too much problem, beat me. Both would be excellent to learn. Both have much knowledge and power. Both would be excellent for Self defense.|||Wushu is a type of Kung Fu. When communist China banned all religious schools from accepting new students the effectively killed Kung Fu within their borders. Realizing this they changed their policy in regards to the Shaolin temple. They also formed a new martial art based on traditional Kung Fu styles that they blended together to form Wushu.





Wushu is very fluid and pretty but not as practical a fighting style as real Kung Fu. Sanshou, the sparring counterpart to Wushu is now considered a separate art and is more realistic.|||kung fu incompass all chinese martial arts, wu shu is kung fu, wu shu is the national art of china





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11 degree chain belt|||same thing

What are the best excercises for kung fu?

i currently do many forms of chinese kung fu, but i want to know more excercises. also, how about some weapons? how would i make some practice weapons like: 3 section staff, numchucks, etc. by the way, does anyone have any recomendation of how to do iron bone training %26quot;properly%26quot;?|||play dead

Kung Fu training trip to china: Where and How much?

I want to go to china to live in a kung fu academy for 4-5 years. Is there any cheap school with a good quality of training, food and acomodations? If yes, please give me the name, website, prices, etc...|||Some of them:


http://www.cngongfu.com/english.html


http://www.gfwjpx.cn/gfwjpx/yw.aspx


http://www.beijingshaolinwuxiao.com/engl...


http://www.qiluedu.com.cn/indexenglish.h...|||YES, I THINK THERE ARE MANY SCHOOL SPECIALIZE ON KUNG FU. PLENTY OF THEM FOR SO MANY OF SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPE KUNG FU WE HAVE. BUT THERE ARE SO FEW ENGLISH KUNG FU WEBSITE AVAILABLE IN CHINA, BUT PLENTY CHINESE WETSITE. AND ABOUT THE PRICES IT WON`T BE VERY EXPENSIVE.


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Friday, May 21, 2010

Is there a website where I can see a list of Kung-fu movies?

I want a list of movies, or better yet a website the movies there already. They can be from any country and any time and be in any language. I don%26#039;t care. I just like the fighting seens. They can be Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Tony Jaa and anyone for that matter. If you have a list of actors, could you post them please and thank you.|||kung fu cimenma dont know how to spell that, but you could go to http://www.hkcinemagic.com/ and type in the names of people if you want to see what movies they starred in