Is kung fu still useful as compared to muay thai and gracie?

Dont get me wrong I am a student of Hung Gar and I love it and will stick with it for years to come. But in this day and age, is Kung fu a preactical martial art?|||Do you allow fear to cloud your abilities? Are you true to your convictions? Will you follow through with the attack determined to neutralize your opponent? The efficiency of any art depends on the ability of the practitioner. Muay Thai is an easy art to learn that is why people can get it to work after a short period of time. With Hung Gar your determination, hard work, and patience will, over time, mold you into a better fighter. Hung Gar is a much more complete system of combat than Muay Thai.


Yes its still useful


Good Luck!!!|||Hung Gar is a great style of Gong fu.Definitely stick with it.Yes Gong fu can defeat mma and muay thai and so on.Just be violent in action and focused.Also remember that most martial art schools will allow you to sit in on a class and watch..it will help your learning greatly. Report Abuse
|||Well that question has been put to the test, ad nausium, in the early gracie challenges, as well as the early UFC ( no gloves or time limits, almost no rules).





Over and Over again Kung fu practitioners were destroyed by other arts, especially BJJ. Go to youtube and check some of these fights out for yourself.|||well as noted above - the gracie skill set is good but ONLY if you are fighting a Single opponent.





Since the real world is less likely to contain %26quot;gangs of one%26quot; Kung Fu seems more likely to be of use there.





Not so sure about the Mua Thai.





But as far as practicallity of your art is concerned, don%26#039;t be afraid in real life to complement one style(or Art!) with another as the situation warrants.|||Kung Fu techniques work but alot of Kung Fu martial artists wont be able to use those techniques well in a real fight because all they may have done are forms, it all depends on the school you go to, but Kung Fu it self is effective, it all depends how to train.





The issue most people have with TMA is that they don%26#039;t spar enough and dont really test to see what works and what doesn%26#039;t|||Yes, it is useful against multiple attackers. Gracie jiujitsu is great one on one but against multiple attackers it has it disadvantage. Muay thai is great but it doesn%26#039;t have the weapon part or form part of the martial art. Kung fu is the most complete martial art. Don%26#039;t worry about the pratical part of kung fu because in the street you will fight against some bullies or some drunk, not against an expert so kung fu is very adequate against them.|||depends on the what kind of Kung fu. If you say bajiquan i%26#039;d say yes, but hung gar, i don%26#039;t really know much about hung gar....


The thing is most kungfu do not spar and punch sandbag. Because in the old days almost all school of kungfu do those things to develop their body and punching skill.





-1 sparring = 10 hours of training alone|||In which way are you talking about in MMA or just self defence?





If in MMA then I would say that it is not a good skill to know because the rules in MMA would hamper the skills that you are taught in Kung Fu. Also from what I have seen you require a good deal of space to use your more effective attacks and your opponent would not let you get the space to do that, but I might be wrong?





But in Self Defence it would still be a good style to know as no rules governing the use of skill so neck stabs, pressure point attacks, hammer hits, and others would be allowed because there are no rules to restrict what you use.





But with MMA I think that Muay Thai and BBJ would be more effective at the moment, but that could change as MMA is a evolving sport so we%26#039;ll just have to wait and see.|||If you mean practical in MMA, then Muay Thai really is more effective. Muay thai fighters really train for in ring fighting.





Now if a Kung Fu guy and Muay Thai guy met on the street, where anything goes, well it would really depend on the skill of the fighters.





I%26#039;m sure a kung fu fighter would do very well in defending himself from an attacker, just as a muay thai fighter would be succesful as well. As long as you%26#039;re good at what you do, anything%26#039;s practical and useful.|||In a ring it probably on it%26#039;s own would not fair well. In self defense if you have had a good instructor and trained hard and raelisticly then yes it could stand up very well. TOO many MMA people on here confuse the ring with self defense. Not street fighting, I said self defense. the early UFC%26#039;s were designed to highlight BJJ because the Gracie%26#039;s started it. I do not see laying on the ground with someone for 10 minutes in a self defense situation.





Self defense is do damage and get safe. Too many BJJ people laugh about Multiple attackers or weapons. guess what they do happen. I am not against MMA I think it would be fine for self defense, but Traditional Arts give you a lot more than just that. Also they try not to teach deadly stuff to anybody who walks in off the street.|||Any art is good if you understand it. Can you generate power without telegraphing? Kungfu or karate without power is just embarrassing. Can you block all attacks? Do you know your arts strengths and weaknesses?





Do you know you art well enough that it is a part of you? This allows you to move at super speeds and frees your mind to concentrate on strategy.|||Absolutely. Kung fu would have fallen off the map by now if it wasn%26#039;t as useful as the other styles mentioned.|||sorry bud, only in the movies.