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.
HOPE THIS MAY HERE.
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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
Can you help me to find kung fu background that music like when they play flute.?
Can you help me find kung fu background music in movies as in kung fu panda that flute music background music.|||I go to bearshare and type in Japanese Flute in the search. Some movies that have nice flute music is House of Flaying Daggers, Kill Bill, Hero.|||the forbidden kingdom film 2007-2008 about jackie chan and jet li and a new yorker kid
youtube--chinese martial arts music
kungfu panda and record sound using cell phone
and forbidden kingdom has awsome back grounds look them off google images
youtube--chinese martial arts music
kungfu panda and record sound using cell phone
and forbidden kingdom has awsome back grounds look them off google images
Why arent there any kung fu specialists in the UFC?
other than that lame chainsaw mccarthy. kung fu is fun.. guess its not practical enough though?|||Wow oldways...
Great links, but wrong information. Mostly on the Chuck Liddell front.
Chuck doesn%26#039;t hold a black belt in Kung Fu (most Kung Fu styles do not have a belt system, and a few of them have a sash system)
Kung Fu is a broad spectrum term really, as it is various styles, much like the Karate misnomer.
If you wanted to user a misnomer you would say Chuck Liddell had a black belt in Karate, as he has a Kempo tattoo, from his days under Ed Parker%26#039;s Kempo Karate system.
Chuck will be the first one to tell you his striking ability and prowess in the MMA circle has nothing to do with a Kempo background and has more to do with his trainer John Hackleman than anything else.
Well that and his great wrestling ability, he is able to defend take downs like no ones business and hop back up to his feet.
He is not a %26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; practitioner, I am pretty sure he lists his style as %26quot;Kickboxing and wrestling%26quot; Nor has he ever studied any version of Kung Fu.
With the mistaken notion that %26quot;All Martial Arts come from Kung Fu%26quot; mentality, I can understand how you would make that generalization.
Chuck%26#039;s style is way more Hawaiin Kujukenbo than anything else, and he studied various forms of Karate. But not Kung Fu, or any Chinese Traditional Art.
First off, Kung Fu %26quot;specialist%26quot; would not do well, because there are very few of them doing any realistic training. There is one guy who you could consider a Kung Fu specialist, in the realm of Sanshou champ Cung Le, who is entering MMA now.
But Sanshou is hardly Kung Fu, it is kickboxing that allows takedowns. Some Kung Fu practioners move towards it as a method of competeting their art. (aside from Wushu which is forms based only).
Kung Fu (generally speaking) or the various forms of Kung Fu from Wing Chun/Tsun,, to Hop Gar, or Northern Long Fist, etc. Is generally rarely if ever sparred, and one dimensional at best. Of all Martial Art strikers their punches and kicks have been measured as some of the weakest. (Per Fight Science, a discovery channel show that had some good info and some not so great info, but the punching/kicking power readings were cool)
Generally it isn%26#039;t incredibly practical in the UFC because it is rarely taught or trained properly. Even then it is one dimensional, and generally lacks any form of pressure testing aside from pushing hands and trapping drills.
It isn%26#039;t that the art is entirely unpractical, it is that the focus is on drills, and forms, that only help build the body to perform certain moves, and they never spend time actually fighting and learning how the moves are utilized in a combat form.
Well that and that the vast majority of the moves are indeed inpractical lol.
But just wait there will be more Kung Fu mystic Chi ball lovers coming on here to tell you that it is because it is too deadly, and that a true Kung Fu master would never %26quot;lower his standards%26quot; and that Martial Arts aren%26#039;t about fighting and showing your ability. (Which is quite different than the foundation of most Kung Fu styles, which was to honor their own family or style in fighting competetions)
But hey I am just one guy, that is my opinion. Hope it is helpful.|||Why aren%26#039;t there any KFC specialists in the Yung Fu?|||check out the mma vs. kung-fu fight on youtube where mma practictioner john marsh easil defeats a %26quot;kung-fu master%26quot;. The kung fu guy asked for the fight and everything was allowed ( you can see him try to eye gouge). MMA is just much more realistic.|||you answered you own question, its not practicle enough, the training they do just does not prepare you for a competition, completely different aim from MMA|||Ever seen Kung Pow? He could own them all with his Hamster-Chucks!!|||Chuck Liddell has Kung Fu Kempo tattoo on his arm are you all blind?
http://www.urbin.net/EWW/MA/KF/kempohist...
Kempo well look it up on line
It Is Chinese Kung Fu
and Chuck seems mighty proud of this Tattoo
Chuck is a Black Belt in Kung Fu
Kung Fu styles number in the hundreds, thousands.
Yip Man was good enough to teach Bruce Lee In Hong Kong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man
he was Chinese teaching a Womans Style to Bruce Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_chun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
Being everyone agrees Ch%26#039;n (ancient China ) represents Kung Fu the name equates to Ch%26#039;n arts. ( Actualy it means to be good at something )
You probably wont like your arts true roots in history. Thailand boxing has it%26#039;s root in Buddhism which evolves from Bodhidharma himself in China.
Shinto in Japan
And well Bodhid came from India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dDOvPZEX...
this is rad stuff !!
Thai boxing wins hands down,
just cannot beat it,
they kick bannana trees all day for training.
no one competed.
Like a car hit ya !
But check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTzeQssF...|||Whole buddhist thing is buIlshit!
Thailand is a extremely buddhist country but yet there%26#039;s SO many Muay Thai fighter there. It%26#039;s same with many other south east asia countries. So it throw whole theory about Kung Fu not fighting because of belif out of window.
Plus how the hell can a group keep a such secret in? There could have been a double agent who would just learn all techniques then turn around and teach it to MMA fighter.
The real reason for this is simply... Kung Fu is NOT effective and it is out of date. Don%26#039;t believe me? Those clips will speak for itself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19VsB7__...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QucOnlQW2...
I dare you to find a clip of any Kung Fu who do well in a fight!|||If you train realistically enough (with aliveness: google Matt Thornton for a great description), against non-compliant opponents, you will find that you can fight, no matter what you train. Some things are more realistic and can work better, for various reasons, but you will find that your skills can be applied.
You will ALSO find that what you are doing doesn%26#039;t look like Kung Fu anymore.
When a BJJ guy gets in the ring, you can see him do BJJ, when a Muay Thai guy gets in the ring, you can see the Muay Thai. When a Kung Fu guy gets in the ring, you see what looks like crappy kickboxing.
They don%26#039;t train it realistically enough to find out what works in real life, and so they can%26#039;t apply their moves. The guys who DO train it realistically, throw away the kung fu moves, because there are much more efficient techniques. Then they go crosstrain to fill in the gaps, and they don%26#039;t bother with much Kung Fu.
If Kung Fu COULD win in the UFC, they would sure as heck be doing it, there%26#039;s big money to be made.|||1- the primary reason you won%26#039;t see kung fu or %26quot;CMA%26quot; in MMA is because of the context it was originally invented.
Just like you won%26#039;t see a pure boxer in the UFC, CMAs are primarily striking styles (with throws and locks, etc.), you will never see a CMA ONLY person just like you will never see a pure boxer as they will have no ground defence. This is largely due to cultural limitations of chinese culture where if you were thrown, or on the ground, you generally lost (historically) also since many CMA styles were developed with weapons in mind and warfare, the idea that you were thrown and on the ground meant that you were dead as nothing will protect your defenseless *** from a spear to the gut at that point.
2- while #1 is a reason, it is not the ENTIRE reason. one of the main factors as to why you don%26#039;t see CMA is because as you mentioned, quite frankly most teachers don%26#039;t teach you practical techniques. The actual reason for this can be discussed from now until we are all collecting social security and beyond but generally teachers haven%26#039;t tested what they were taught, and the general training atmosphere was to not question, so like a really bad game of telephone; %26quot;I%26#039;m having dinner with a blonde nymphomaniac with big breasts%26quot; becomes %26quot;pauly shore is standing outside my door%26quot;.
Thats what happens when you don%26#039;t pressure test your techniques (as you did to a degree). So even if one took a CMA class for standup, and learned grappling defence by learning to grapple (not the bogus %26quot;anti-grapple%26quot; crap), then most cma gyms won%26#039;t teach you how to even properly do that.
The teachers often hide thier faulty teachings and faulty understanding of the techniques by claiming %26quot;its too deadly to spar or practice with resistance%26quot;- yes, quick breaks and such as can be found in all styles might be, but just because 5% of your style is untrainable at full resistance or any resistance, then what about the other 95% of it. No style is so deadly that one punch will kill you. yet the dim mak mentality is so prevalent because a teacher is just hiding thier own lack of good training. Which probably came from thier teacher and thier teacher before them.
3- because of all the problems with CMA, if you are looking to be a pro fighter, are you going to take a martial art that is easy to find a teacher that gears itself to a particular form of competition and has been proven time and again to work. Your goal is not to learn and popularize CMA, its to be a successfull UFC fighter. As such, the gap of possibility between CMA (or any traditional martial art not currently represented in the UFC) bieng seen in the UFC becomes wider.
You do see other disciplines besides san da, appearing in san da tournaments. However this is under a specific ruleset that may have throwing, but is not as ground intensive and lax in regulations as the UFC.
As such people who train in CMA- even realistic CMA and not just %26quot;pajama party%26quot; LARPers (live action role players) are going to be people who are generally not going to be interested in competing, but people who want to learn to fight realistically (or LARP as the case may be) but not compete.|||if you hop around like a swan you%26#039;ll get killed thats why|||there are some Kung Fu-ist in the ufc its just that its MIXED martial arts so even tho there is kung fu it doesnt look like it because it is Meshed in with so much other stuff that and Kung Fu alone is designed to be used in a defensive manner but the martial artist in the ufc are so evolved Not unless the kung fu guy was just GEEZUS fast he would not have time to do what he is trained to do defend, parry, attack
Great links, but wrong information. Mostly on the Chuck Liddell front.
Chuck doesn%26#039;t hold a black belt in Kung Fu (most Kung Fu styles do not have a belt system, and a few of them have a sash system)
Kung Fu is a broad spectrum term really, as it is various styles, much like the Karate misnomer.
If you wanted to user a misnomer you would say Chuck Liddell had a black belt in Karate, as he has a Kempo tattoo, from his days under Ed Parker%26#039;s Kempo Karate system.
Chuck will be the first one to tell you his striking ability and prowess in the MMA circle has nothing to do with a Kempo background and has more to do with his trainer John Hackleman than anything else.
Well that and his great wrestling ability, he is able to defend take downs like no ones business and hop back up to his feet.
He is not a %26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; practitioner, I am pretty sure he lists his style as %26quot;Kickboxing and wrestling%26quot; Nor has he ever studied any version of Kung Fu.
With the mistaken notion that %26quot;All Martial Arts come from Kung Fu%26quot; mentality, I can understand how you would make that generalization.
Chuck%26#039;s style is way more Hawaiin Kujukenbo than anything else, and he studied various forms of Karate. But not Kung Fu, or any Chinese Traditional Art.
First off, Kung Fu %26quot;specialist%26quot; would not do well, because there are very few of them doing any realistic training. There is one guy who you could consider a Kung Fu specialist, in the realm of Sanshou champ Cung Le, who is entering MMA now.
But Sanshou is hardly Kung Fu, it is kickboxing that allows takedowns. Some Kung Fu practioners move towards it as a method of competeting their art. (aside from Wushu which is forms based only).
Kung Fu (generally speaking) or the various forms of Kung Fu from Wing Chun/Tsun,, to Hop Gar, or Northern Long Fist, etc. Is generally rarely if ever sparred, and one dimensional at best. Of all Martial Art strikers their punches and kicks have been measured as some of the weakest. (Per Fight Science, a discovery channel show that had some good info and some not so great info, but the punching/kicking power readings were cool)
Generally it isn%26#039;t incredibly practical in the UFC because it is rarely taught or trained properly. Even then it is one dimensional, and generally lacks any form of pressure testing aside from pushing hands and trapping drills.
It isn%26#039;t that the art is entirely unpractical, it is that the focus is on drills, and forms, that only help build the body to perform certain moves, and they never spend time actually fighting and learning how the moves are utilized in a combat form.
Well that and that the vast majority of the moves are indeed inpractical lol.
But just wait there will be more Kung Fu mystic Chi ball lovers coming on here to tell you that it is because it is too deadly, and that a true Kung Fu master would never %26quot;lower his standards%26quot; and that Martial Arts aren%26#039;t about fighting and showing your ability. (Which is quite different than the foundation of most Kung Fu styles, which was to honor their own family or style in fighting competetions)
But hey I am just one guy, that is my opinion. Hope it is helpful.|||Why aren%26#039;t there any KFC specialists in the Yung Fu?|||check out the mma vs. kung-fu fight on youtube where mma practictioner john marsh easil defeats a %26quot;kung-fu master%26quot;. The kung fu guy asked for the fight and everything was allowed ( you can see him try to eye gouge). MMA is just much more realistic.|||you answered you own question, its not practicle enough, the training they do just does not prepare you for a competition, completely different aim from MMA|||Ever seen Kung Pow? He could own them all with his Hamster-Chucks!!|||Chuck Liddell has Kung Fu Kempo tattoo on his arm are you all blind?
http://www.urbin.net/EWW/MA/KF/kempohist...
Kempo well look it up on line
It Is Chinese Kung Fu
and Chuck seems mighty proud of this Tattoo
Chuck is a Black Belt in Kung Fu
Kung Fu styles number in the hundreds, thousands.
Yip Man was good enough to teach Bruce Lee In Hong Kong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man
he was Chinese teaching a Womans Style to Bruce Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_chun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
Being everyone agrees Ch%26#039;n (ancient China ) represents Kung Fu the name equates to Ch%26#039;n arts. ( Actualy it means to be good at something )
You probably wont like your arts true roots in history. Thailand boxing has it%26#039;s root in Buddhism which evolves from Bodhidharma himself in China.
Shinto in Japan
And well Bodhid came from India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dDOvPZEX...
this is rad stuff !!
Thai boxing wins hands down,
just cannot beat it,
they kick bannana trees all day for training.
no one competed.
Like a car hit ya !
But check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTzeQssF...|||Whole buddhist thing is buIlshit!
Thailand is a extremely buddhist country but yet there%26#039;s SO many Muay Thai fighter there. It%26#039;s same with many other south east asia countries. So it throw whole theory about Kung Fu not fighting because of belif out of window.
Plus how the hell can a group keep a such secret in? There could have been a double agent who would just learn all techniques then turn around and teach it to MMA fighter.
The real reason for this is simply... Kung Fu is NOT effective and it is out of date. Don%26#039;t believe me? Those clips will speak for itself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S19VsB7__...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QucOnlQW2...
I dare you to find a clip of any Kung Fu who do well in a fight!|||If you train realistically enough (with aliveness: google Matt Thornton for a great description), against non-compliant opponents, you will find that you can fight, no matter what you train. Some things are more realistic and can work better, for various reasons, but you will find that your skills can be applied.
You will ALSO find that what you are doing doesn%26#039;t look like Kung Fu anymore.
When a BJJ guy gets in the ring, you can see him do BJJ, when a Muay Thai guy gets in the ring, you can see the Muay Thai. When a Kung Fu guy gets in the ring, you see what looks like crappy kickboxing.
They don%26#039;t train it realistically enough to find out what works in real life, and so they can%26#039;t apply their moves. The guys who DO train it realistically, throw away the kung fu moves, because there are much more efficient techniques. Then they go crosstrain to fill in the gaps, and they don%26#039;t bother with much Kung Fu.
If Kung Fu COULD win in the UFC, they would sure as heck be doing it, there%26#039;s big money to be made.|||1- the primary reason you won%26#039;t see kung fu or %26quot;CMA%26quot; in MMA is because of the context it was originally invented.
Just like you won%26#039;t see a pure boxer in the UFC, CMAs are primarily striking styles (with throws and locks, etc.), you will never see a CMA ONLY person just like you will never see a pure boxer as they will have no ground defence. This is largely due to cultural limitations of chinese culture where if you were thrown, or on the ground, you generally lost (historically) also since many CMA styles were developed with weapons in mind and warfare, the idea that you were thrown and on the ground meant that you were dead as nothing will protect your defenseless *** from a spear to the gut at that point.
2- while #1 is a reason, it is not the ENTIRE reason. one of the main factors as to why you don%26#039;t see CMA is because as you mentioned, quite frankly most teachers don%26#039;t teach you practical techniques. The actual reason for this can be discussed from now until we are all collecting social security and beyond but generally teachers haven%26#039;t tested what they were taught, and the general training atmosphere was to not question, so like a really bad game of telephone; %26quot;I%26#039;m having dinner with a blonde nymphomaniac with big breasts%26quot; becomes %26quot;pauly shore is standing outside my door%26quot;.
Thats what happens when you don%26#039;t pressure test your techniques (as you did to a degree). So even if one took a CMA class for standup, and learned grappling defence by learning to grapple (not the bogus %26quot;anti-grapple%26quot; crap), then most cma gyms won%26#039;t teach you how to even properly do that.
The teachers often hide thier faulty teachings and faulty understanding of the techniques by claiming %26quot;its too deadly to spar or practice with resistance%26quot;- yes, quick breaks and such as can be found in all styles might be, but just because 5% of your style is untrainable at full resistance or any resistance, then what about the other 95% of it. No style is so deadly that one punch will kill you. yet the dim mak mentality is so prevalent because a teacher is just hiding thier own lack of good training. Which probably came from thier teacher and thier teacher before them.
3- because of all the problems with CMA, if you are looking to be a pro fighter, are you going to take a martial art that is easy to find a teacher that gears itself to a particular form of competition and has been proven time and again to work. Your goal is not to learn and popularize CMA, its to be a successfull UFC fighter. As such, the gap of possibility between CMA (or any traditional martial art not currently represented in the UFC) bieng seen in the UFC becomes wider.
You do see other disciplines besides san da, appearing in san da tournaments. However this is under a specific ruleset that may have throwing, but is not as ground intensive and lax in regulations as the UFC.
As such people who train in CMA- even realistic CMA and not just %26quot;pajama party%26quot; LARPers (live action role players) are going to be people who are generally not going to be interested in competing, but people who want to learn to fight realistically (or LARP as the case may be) but not compete.|||if you hop around like a swan you%26#039;ll get killed thats why|||there are some Kung Fu-ist in the ufc its just that its MIXED martial arts so even tho there is kung fu it doesnt look like it because it is Meshed in with so much other stuff that and Kung Fu alone is designed to be used in a defensive manner but the martial artist in the ufc are so evolved Not unless the kung fu guy was just GEEZUS fast he would not have time to do what he is trained to do defend, parry, attack
What's the difference between Karate and Kung-Fu?
Karate= japanese for empty hand, mostly uses linear punches and kicks, with open handed chops, elbow and knee strikes as well.
Kung Fu= chinese term meaning hard earned or well practiced skill, popularized, redefined and coined by martial artist in the U.S. during the 70s to mean the chinese martial arts. The actual chinese term for martial arts is %26quot;Wushu%26quot;. Usually employs circular strikes and parries, is divided into external and internal styles. There are many styles of Wushu.|||karate self defencing art. but kung fu self defence and also we can protect a lot of other persons|||Karate is all about power, and Kung Fu uses speed and techniques more.|||Kung Fu is a Chinese martial form
Karate is Japanese|||Karate emphasizes power and methods aimed at ending a confrontation quickly. It embodies the samurai idea of one stroke, one kill.
Kung Fu has much more flourish and aims at developing speed rather than strength.
Of course, practicing karate will make you faster just as learning kung fu strikes will make your blows stronger, but that is not their prime emphasis.|||Karate ( kara=empty te=hand), comes from Okinawa, and spread to the Japanese home islands. %26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; or gung -fu is Chinese and comes according to legand from the Shao Lin monastery. Kung Fu is good especially for very short range and fast hand to hand combat, but also has some less practical, ballet type movements which are still good for fitness. karate is less acrobatic, and focuses on punches blocks strikes and kicks. the blocks are very useful.|||Spelling...
Pronunciation...
Year of origin...
Moves...
Founders...
Uniform...|||Karate is a japenese art form that started in Okinawa. Its based on linear attacks and defence. powerfull strikes and blocks from a strong base. Kung Fu is Chinesse with several different styles under it. Shoalin, Long Fist, Wing Chun and Choy Lay Flut, just to name a few. Kung Fu relies on fast strikes, deception, and manipulation.|||I trained 1 year in karate %26amp; 5 years in kung fu. From my experience %26amp; not studying I would say karate is a great martial arts if you have big muscles already in your arms %26amp; legs. Kung fu teaches more about how to use your whole body to stop an opponent so in day 1 in kung fu I felt like I could throw a stronger punch before I started building up the muscles.
Kung fu seems to have a lot more versatility too. Covers a wider range of things; we do throws %26amp; joint locks %26amp; ground defenses, etc.|||karate comes from japan and it means empty hands or free handed, useing your hands as the wepons and kung-fu is chinese and it means expert... on the styles... their are many styles of each and cant realy be explaned cause theirs so many styles from kung fu and some from karate that are very similer... but most schools in the USA just say thier school is karate cause they know that word and some poeple dont even know what is kung fu.... i hope this would help...|||Karate uses linear techniques.
Kung fu uses circular techniques.|||karate is more about straight and simple kicks%26amp;punches,
kung-fu has a deeper meaning like yoga, and the beauty and flowing of movements, also a style matters|||Different fighting styles.|||Karate is from Japan and SUCKS!!!
Kung Fu is from China and SUCKS!!!|||Te (1/2 of Kara-Te) was an ancient Okinawan striking system.. and Kara (1/2 of Karate) refers to Kung Fu, specifically southern Kung fu of the Fukien Province, China. Karate is developed from Karate, especially Okinawan Karate, as it changed more when it moved to Japan and Korea.
Kung Fu= chinese term meaning hard earned or well practiced skill, popularized, redefined and coined by martial artist in the U.S. during the 70s to mean the chinese martial arts. The actual chinese term for martial arts is %26quot;Wushu%26quot;. Usually employs circular strikes and parries, is divided into external and internal styles. There are many styles of Wushu.|||karate self defencing art. but kung fu self defence and also we can protect a lot of other persons|||Karate is all about power, and Kung Fu uses speed and techniques more.|||Kung Fu is a Chinese martial form
Karate is Japanese|||Karate emphasizes power and methods aimed at ending a confrontation quickly. It embodies the samurai idea of one stroke, one kill.
Kung Fu has much more flourish and aims at developing speed rather than strength.
Of course, practicing karate will make you faster just as learning kung fu strikes will make your blows stronger, but that is not their prime emphasis.|||Karate ( kara=empty te=hand), comes from Okinawa, and spread to the Japanese home islands. %26quot;Kung Fu%26quot; or gung -fu is Chinese and comes according to legand from the Shao Lin monastery. Kung Fu is good especially for very short range and fast hand to hand combat, but also has some less practical, ballet type movements which are still good for fitness. karate is less acrobatic, and focuses on punches blocks strikes and kicks. the blocks are very useful.|||Spelling...
Pronunciation...
Year of origin...
Moves...
Founders...
Uniform...|||Karate is a japenese art form that started in Okinawa. Its based on linear attacks and defence. powerfull strikes and blocks from a strong base. Kung Fu is Chinesse with several different styles under it. Shoalin, Long Fist, Wing Chun and Choy Lay Flut, just to name a few. Kung Fu relies on fast strikes, deception, and manipulation.|||I trained 1 year in karate %26amp; 5 years in kung fu. From my experience %26amp; not studying I would say karate is a great martial arts if you have big muscles already in your arms %26amp; legs. Kung fu teaches more about how to use your whole body to stop an opponent so in day 1 in kung fu I felt like I could throw a stronger punch before I started building up the muscles.
Kung fu seems to have a lot more versatility too. Covers a wider range of things; we do throws %26amp; joint locks %26amp; ground defenses, etc.|||karate comes from japan and it means empty hands or free handed, useing your hands as the wepons and kung-fu is chinese and it means expert... on the styles... their are many styles of each and cant realy be explaned cause theirs so many styles from kung fu and some from karate that are very similer... but most schools in the USA just say thier school is karate cause they know that word and some poeple dont even know what is kung fu.... i hope this would help...|||Karate uses linear techniques.
Kung fu uses circular techniques.|||karate is more about straight and simple kicks%26amp;punches,
kung-fu has a deeper meaning like yoga, and the beauty and flowing of movements, also a style matters|||Different fighting styles.|||Karate is from Japan and SUCKS!!!
Kung Fu is from China and SUCKS!!!|||Te (1/2 of Kara-Te) was an ancient Okinawan striking system.. and Kara (1/2 of Karate) refers to Kung Fu, specifically southern Kung fu of the Fukien Province, China. Karate is developed from Karate, especially Okinawan Karate, as it changed more when it moved to Japan and Korea.
Why are there no wing chun or kung fu practitioners in the MMA?
I dont know a lot about MMA so maybe this is a stupid question but i dont think there are MMA fighters who use JKD, wing chun etc. Why is this.|||To be fully honest... I don%26#039;t know. Reality is, there is no reason. I have a feeling that it has more to do with how the words %26quot;MMA%26quot; were created. MMA was created through the path of the UFC and PRIDE and other such full contact fighting competitions. MMA is supposed to stand for Mixed Marrtial Arts, which means a fighter takes his/her favorite techniques from ANY martial art and blends them to create a unique and personal style. However, because of organizations like the UFC whose fighters were made famous and they mostly trained in certain MA%26#039;s, MMA came to stand for any mix of: Brazilian Jujitsu, Judo, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, or Boxing, with little else included. This is evident even in the way you wrote your question, you referred to %26quot;the%26quot; MMA. I think you meant to write %26quot;the UFC,%26quot; but like so many, you confused the concept of personalized martial arts training (MMA) with a fighting organization (UFC). By the way, I am really tired of everyone saying that certain traditional and Chinese arts aren%26#039;t applicable for streetfighting or aren%26#039;t %26quot;functional.%26quot; How do you think these arts were invented then? And why do you think they were invented? Have any of you TMA denouncers ever even picked up a history book? The FACT is that all Chinese martial arts were created out of a necessity for self defense. China used to be comprised of 5 separate states that were constantly at war, it is in the fires of these wars that most Chinese martial arts were forged: tested in real-time on the battle field in life or death situations. Wing Chun, Choy Li Fut, Shaolin, and WuShu were all battle tested and saved lives. There aren%26#039;t any special %26quot;modern%26quot; circumstances that make them obsolete. Fighters today simply don%26#039;t believe that there is any logic to a fight other than %26quot;Ug, me hit hard, me tough!%26quot; We need to be careful not to take the %26quot;art%26quot; away from martial arts. Wing Chun%26#039;s centerline theory, Shaolin%26#039;s internal Chi power, and Wushu%26#039;s flowing motions are all Advanced Combat. These are techniques that, after having learned and long ago mastered the basics of attack and block, were created from an intimate knowledge of how the human body works and the process that fights go through. These are not techniques that any beginning fighter can just pick up and utilize, one must first build a foundation and then ascend to the higher skill level it takes to truly realize these techniques. It seems that most fighters today want to stay beginners and not truly gain any skill, only strength, speed, and stamina. We must strive to be artists of the battle field, not merely drones who do what the television tells us to do.
Happy Training.|||because wing chun and kung fu are FOR THE MOST PART unrealistic and have very little fighting application. it isn%26#039;t worth searching through thousands of kung fu/wing chun schools for the one that will teach you to strike effectively when the boxing club on the corner,(or anywhere) will do so just as well if not better and probably cheaper to. In addition many of the concepts and techinques in kung fu and wing chun even in those few good schools are not effective in any sort of fight(centerline anybody?)
and dont tell me any crap about techniques which are meant for the street which would be to dangerous for the ring, if you can train them in a realistic manner you wont be able to do them in a fight, and even if you could they aren%26#039;t the magic bullet everyone thinks they are. eye gouges for instance, look up Gerard Gordeau vs Yuki Nakai. nakai caught gordeau in a heel hook and gordeau tried to eye gouge his way out of the submission, Nakai held on and submitted gordeau even though gordeau managed to BLIND NAKAI IN THAT EYE. so yes eye gouges can do damage, unfortuneately for the gouger you don%26#039;t need to see to grapple and you will likely only piss the guy off. there is no garantee it will save you.|||Because MMA is the real thing.|||There are %26quot;kung fu%26quot; fighters aplenty in MMA but formal wing chun training practices are not conducive to success in competition though you might say that vague permutations of them made it into combat sports such as boxing. JKD isn%26#039;t even a martial art. It is a bunch of concepts thought up by Bruce Lee. He was very critical of wing chun in fact.
Everybody ends up with their own fighting style when it%26#039;s time to throw down.|||the rules of engagement limit the usefulness (if any to start with).
it would also be the same for special forces rambos. introduce rules that take away your styles specific techniques then you limit your ability to overcome the odds. if your key technique is to bite the balls out of the enemy, you cant use it in the fight so you then have nothing.
like a MMA guy playing chess, with chess only rules. unless he can play the game by its rules all his skill is worthless.|||Because mma incorporates moves from many martial arts, so in a way it is a martial art in itself. Jeet Kune Do is considered a martial art that also incorporates moves from many martial arts, but is meant to make sure you dont have that opponent around for a rematch. If you noticed, most of the fighters dont claim to have a main martial art like in the old days when everyone was one dimensional. Ill bet most fighters have at least one move they do that was taken from kung fu, jkd, or wing chun.|||San Soo has a great fighter with a good track record. Kyle Olsen is as he states strickly San Soo, he has done well in MMA.
Jimi H. Woo San Soo Southern Chinese Kung Fu Wu Shu Choy Li Fut.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/Picture_gall...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiRJywCC...
Kyle is only one of many San Soo fighters and or folks that were wise enough to add it as well to their arsenal. Hope this answers your question, as Kung Fu is in the MMA and doing well.|||Everybody aint into Sports!
MMA has rules that u have to follow;In real combat:There Are NO Rules!
In the MMA the ONLY thing that%26#039;s preventing these guys from killing each other...is the Referee.|||some would say they%26#039;d get whooped because they dont train/spar realistically many things are techniques they learn in theory therefore they wouldnt know how to use it in a real fight since they lack practice, and also limit themselves by not learning ground fighting. you can look up when the gracies were trying to make a name for brazilian jiujitsu you would see them pretty easily submit or choke out kung fu, karate, kempo masters
others would say jeet kune do, wing chin etc....are self defense arts that arent bounded by rules by entering mma which has rules it would water their style down since they wouldnt be able to use some of their techniques:
just like historians say the spartans boycotted the olympics because they werent allowed to eye gouge etc...
in essence jeet kune do is mma just without rules
those are the main arguements people make for and against those styles|||Because JKD, Wing Chun, and every other kung fu form, except Sanshou, won%26#039;t work. Would common sense tell you that if kung fu was effective, it would be widely used? Kinda like natural selection, i.e. use and disuse.|||many mma fighters have trained in traditional martial arts like kung fu and karate. I think Forrest griffen used to do kung fu.
Happy Training.|||because wing chun and kung fu are FOR THE MOST PART unrealistic and have very little fighting application. it isn%26#039;t worth searching through thousands of kung fu/wing chun schools for the one that will teach you to strike effectively when the boxing club on the corner,(or anywhere) will do so just as well if not better and probably cheaper to. In addition many of the concepts and techinques in kung fu and wing chun even in those few good schools are not effective in any sort of fight(centerline anybody?)
and dont tell me any crap about techniques which are meant for the street which would be to dangerous for the ring, if you can train them in a realistic manner you wont be able to do them in a fight, and even if you could they aren%26#039;t the magic bullet everyone thinks they are. eye gouges for instance, look up Gerard Gordeau vs Yuki Nakai. nakai caught gordeau in a heel hook and gordeau tried to eye gouge his way out of the submission, Nakai held on and submitted gordeau even though gordeau managed to BLIND NAKAI IN THAT EYE. so yes eye gouges can do damage, unfortuneately for the gouger you don%26#039;t need to see to grapple and you will likely only piss the guy off. there is no garantee it will save you.|||Because MMA is the real thing.|||There are %26quot;kung fu%26quot; fighters aplenty in MMA but formal wing chun training practices are not conducive to success in competition though you might say that vague permutations of them made it into combat sports such as boxing. JKD isn%26#039;t even a martial art. It is a bunch of concepts thought up by Bruce Lee. He was very critical of wing chun in fact.
Everybody ends up with their own fighting style when it%26#039;s time to throw down.|||the rules of engagement limit the usefulness (if any to start with).
it would also be the same for special forces rambos. introduce rules that take away your styles specific techniques then you limit your ability to overcome the odds. if your key technique is to bite the balls out of the enemy, you cant use it in the fight so you then have nothing.
like a MMA guy playing chess, with chess only rules. unless he can play the game by its rules all his skill is worthless.|||Because mma incorporates moves from many martial arts, so in a way it is a martial art in itself. Jeet Kune Do is considered a martial art that also incorporates moves from many martial arts, but is meant to make sure you dont have that opponent around for a rematch. If you noticed, most of the fighters dont claim to have a main martial art like in the old days when everyone was one dimensional. Ill bet most fighters have at least one move they do that was taken from kung fu, jkd, or wing chun.|||San Soo has a great fighter with a good track record. Kyle Olsen is as he states strickly San Soo, he has done well in MMA.
Jimi H. Woo San Soo Southern Chinese Kung Fu Wu Shu Choy Li Fut.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/Picture_gall...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiRJywCC...
Kyle is only one of many San Soo fighters and or folks that were wise enough to add it as well to their arsenal. Hope this answers your question, as Kung Fu is in the MMA and doing well.|||Everybody aint into Sports!
MMA has rules that u have to follow;In real combat:There Are NO Rules!
In the MMA the ONLY thing that%26#039;s preventing these guys from killing each other...is the Referee.|||some would say they%26#039;d get whooped because they dont train/spar realistically many things are techniques they learn in theory therefore they wouldnt know how to use it in a real fight since they lack practice, and also limit themselves by not learning ground fighting. you can look up when the gracies were trying to make a name for brazilian jiujitsu you would see them pretty easily submit or choke out kung fu, karate, kempo masters
others would say jeet kune do, wing chin etc....are self defense arts that arent bounded by rules by entering mma which has rules it would water their style down since they wouldnt be able to use some of their techniques:
just like historians say the spartans boycotted the olympics because they werent allowed to eye gouge etc...
in essence jeet kune do is mma just without rules
those are the main arguements people make for and against those styles|||Because JKD, Wing Chun, and every other kung fu form, except Sanshou, won%26#039;t work. Would common sense tell you that if kung fu was effective, it would be widely used? Kinda like natural selection, i.e. use and disuse.|||many mma fighters have trained in traditional martial arts like kung fu and karate. I think Forrest griffen used to do kung fu.
Is Kung Fu very good for self defense?
Who does practise Kung Fu here?
Some say Kung Fu techniques are kind of fantasy(unrealistic).|||I%26#039;ve trained in various styles of Kung Fu (aka Wushu) since age 5, primarily the Southern Shaolin forms. The movies cram in the most fantastic strikes, but in reality, you use those types of strikes sparingly and only at the appropriate moments. Kung Fu is a good defense, it instructs on attacks, defense, counter-attacks, awareness and an attitude. But like any martial art techniques, your ability will depend on your instructor and your dedication to the art. Tai Chi is one style of Kung Fu that was developed solely for self-defense, consisting only of defense and counter-moves. It is said that if you master the techniques of Tai Chi, you will never lose a fight, although, you will never win one either. But Tai Chi is more popular these days as an exercise, and rarely will you find an instructor who teaches the fighting aspects of it.
So learn, practice, and spar. Sparring practice is very important in Kung Fu, even more so that other martial arts. Because Kung Fu techniques are complicated, sparring is the only way to learn the timing and reaction, so that it becomes essentially a reflex. Some people learn the forms without too much sparring practice and think they are Kung Fu experts, that is a big mistake. I saw a so-called %26quot;expert%26quot; start a fight with a fantastic flying spin kick. Looked great, but he didn%26#039;t defend and left himself exposed for a counter-attack. Ouch.
Kung Fu isn%26#039;t for everyone, you need time and dedication. If you want to quickly learn how to defend yourself, I would recommend another fighting technique, and then come back to Kung Fu when you have more time. It really is a lost art form. Only a few instructors still incorporate meditation into its practice.|||Kung Fu has come to mean Chinese martial arts for the most part, and there are hundreds of styles of Chinese martial arts (also known as wushu). In all these styles there are numerous adept masters who can show you how their art is a viable form of combat. However there are even more practitioners who don%26#039;t know how to effectively make use of their art. Does this mean that Kung Fu is ineffective? NO, NOT AT ALL.
It just means that (as has been said on this forum for thousands of times) the martial art does not make the fighter, the fighter makes the martial art. Kung fu has received such a bad rap because of over commercialization and instructors who are inadequately trained (or not at all). Find yourself a competent instructor with a verifiable lineage and you may be surprised as to how good kung fu can be for combat.|||%26lt;begin rant%26gt;Ok, it seems that many people that do not know Kung Fu can tell you all about it. Most people%26#039;s view of Kung Fu is one of third hand over-repeated junk. %26lt;end rant%26gt;
I practice Seven Star Preying Mantis Kung Fu, and have used it in real world self defense situation. I have also put my Kung Fu against other MA%26#039;s and prevailed.
Kung Fu, just like every other Martial Arts (if taught by a qualified instructor), can be used for self defense. Also, just like all the others, there is quite a few bad Kung Fu schools, teaching flash and dance rather than real Kung Fu.
Kung Fu has been around for longer than most other MA%26#039;s. This usually means that it has evolved more than the others. Also, the famous Okinawan Karate(s) started out as Kung Fu.
So to answer your question, Yes, Kung Fu is very good for self defense, provided you find a quality instructor. Yes, some KF techniques are outdated and unrealistic, but there are not many. Especially when there are literally thousands that are still very viable.|||Kung Fu is fantasy, whatever small good it ever did has been long erased over years of exploitation.
For purely self-defence try TaiKwanDo, Boxing or Judo. Although Judo isn%26#039;t very good if you think wrestling someone with a knife isn%26#039;t very smart.
Self defence courses that have elements of all three can be good but there are a lot of fakes.
Best bet is either a qualified TaiKwanDo teacher, or qualified Boxing coach.|||I feel like all the people who answer, then talk about how they%26#039;ve instructed for 20 years aren%26#039;t being completely honest. One who is skilled allows his or her ideas to show that he or she is knowledgeable.
Kung Fu, like all martial arts, if practiced often, is good to survive an attack. It is generally an offensive martial art and teaches aggression and attacking.
In self-defense, you never want to go on the initiative and attack someone else, you want to merely survive the encounter. The best %26#039;martial art%26#039; would be anything that you can use to create space and avoid/evade conflict. A good pair of shoes is a good tool.
The BEST thing to do is simply be aware of what%26#039;s happening around you. Stay away from potentially dangerous situations and try to diffuse any violent confrontation. If all of that doesn%26#039;t work, kung fu is a good way to resolve the problem, but it takes years of practice and training and dedication to become proficient.|||To be good at defending yourself, you need two things:
1. A great master/sifu who is a great fighter/trainer.
2. You. Ability to consistently put in the hard work. 2- 4 hours per day.
A great master is hard to find these days. Every master say he is good, but unless he has been put to the test, talk is cheap. Also, lots of the martial art moves looks good, but ineffective.
But if you found a great kung fu master, my god, they are so dangerous, their skill level would be incredible. Iron shirt, Iron claws, iron head and body, plus internal chi, one inch explosive power, pressure points, stick hands, circular defends, hard and soft.
Discipline yourself is not easy. You have to love martial arts and love fighting in order to endure the hard work of training.
good luck.|||wushu the modern style of kung fu/ stuff u see in films is a bit unrealistic, like butterfly kick, if you actually hit anyone with that you will do a face plant.
shaolin kung fu was created by monks for self defence.
I have had to us kung fu a few times for self defence and it has never let me down, it is also good for offence as well as when i have had a few people attacking me at once i defended and then went on the offence and it works there to
someone put that being a heavy weight means you cant do kung fu, thats crap, im a big guy height and weight, and i have just pass the exam to become a sifu, if you train hard and you are committed to something you will be able to do it.|||Kung Fu is quite wonderful thing for defense when something is happen with u in aleart time. Anyway, it doesn%26#039;t mean it gonna help u solve the problem all the time cause the limit of amount of the enemy.
In my opinion I think if u really wanna practise Kung Fu. go fo it for exercise is better than for hit someone.|||wing chun kung fu is excellent for street level self defence, some others are more suited for competition or body health and flexibilty such as the shaolin styles...bruce lee only did 5 years of wing chun and hardly covered anything in the syllabus and look where he got!!! but was also an incredibley devoted athlete too...which is not needed for wing chun generally|||Mr Big is actually correct. Kung Fu moves are more offensive than defensive. It%26#039;s defense is basically overwhelming opponent with offense so they can%26#039;t fight back. Ironic thing is, the concept of Kung Fu is for training and healthy exercising rather than for fighting.|||Hi Yoly,
I apologize, as I know very little about kung fu. What I do know about is using self defense items to protect myself. http://www.protectusfromevil.com I did not have the time to learn a martial art as I needed protection quickly in my situation.|||HELLO
I AM A HEAVY WEIGHT SO KUNG FU WAS UNSUITABLE FOR ME AS THEY JUMP AND LEAP AROUND ALOT SO I DID SHOTOKAN WHERE THEY KEEP ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND
IF YOU GO TO OPEN COMPETITIONS YOU MAY SEE THE DIFFERENT STYLES, ESPECIALLY THE KATA OR SET MOVES WHICH ARE DONE BY ONES ELF AT ALL LEVELS TO COMPETITION LEVEL. IF YOU GET GOOD ENOUGH TO FIGHT IN OPEN COMPETITION YOU MAY END ANY STYLE THERE|||It all depends on the time you put in to it. Studying martial arts will improve your reaction time, give you more confidence, and increase your strength. The only thing is you have to practice every day and throughout the day to get to be good enough.|||i would only train in kung fu if i could go to a shoalin temple. however the most realistic and effective martail art is Brazilian Jiu Jiutsu|||It depends more on your skill than style. But I think Kung Fu is primarily offense.
Some say Kung Fu techniques are kind of fantasy(unrealistic).|||I%26#039;ve trained in various styles of Kung Fu (aka Wushu) since age 5, primarily the Southern Shaolin forms. The movies cram in the most fantastic strikes, but in reality, you use those types of strikes sparingly and only at the appropriate moments. Kung Fu is a good defense, it instructs on attacks, defense, counter-attacks, awareness and an attitude. But like any martial art techniques, your ability will depend on your instructor and your dedication to the art. Tai Chi is one style of Kung Fu that was developed solely for self-defense, consisting only of defense and counter-moves. It is said that if you master the techniques of Tai Chi, you will never lose a fight, although, you will never win one either. But Tai Chi is more popular these days as an exercise, and rarely will you find an instructor who teaches the fighting aspects of it.
So learn, practice, and spar. Sparring practice is very important in Kung Fu, even more so that other martial arts. Because Kung Fu techniques are complicated, sparring is the only way to learn the timing and reaction, so that it becomes essentially a reflex. Some people learn the forms without too much sparring practice and think they are Kung Fu experts, that is a big mistake. I saw a so-called %26quot;expert%26quot; start a fight with a fantastic flying spin kick. Looked great, but he didn%26#039;t defend and left himself exposed for a counter-attack. Ouch.
Kung Fu isn%26#039;t for everyone, you need time and dedication. If you want to quickly learn how to defend yourself, I would recommend another fighting technique, and then come back to Kung Fu when you have more time. It really is a lost art form. Only a few instructors still incorporate meditation into its practice.|||Kung Fu has come to mean Chinese martial arts for the most part, and there are hundreds of styles of Chinese martial arts (also known as wushu). In all these styles there are numerous adept masters who can show you how their art is a viable form of combat. However there are even more practitioners who don%26#039;t know how to effectively make use of their art. Does this mean that Kung Fu is ineffective? NO, NOT AT ALL.
It just means that (as has been said on this forum for thousands of times) the martial art does not make the fighter, the fighter makes the martial art. Kung fu has received such a bad rap because of over commercialization and instructors who are inadequately trained (or not at all). Find yourself a competent instructor with a verifiable lineage and you may be surprised as to how good kung fu can be for combat.|||%26lt;begin rant%26gt;Ok, it seems that many people that do not know Kung Fu can tell you all about it. Most people%26#039;s view of Kung Fu is one of third hand over-repeated junk. %26lt;end rant%26gt;
I practice Seven Star Preying Mantis Kung Fu, and have used it in real world self defense situation. I have also put my Kung Fu against other MA%26#039;s and prevailed.
Kung Fu, just like every other Martial Arts (if taught by a qualified instructor), can be used for self defense. Also, just like all the others, there is quite a few bad Kung Fu schools, teaching flash and dance rather than real Kung Fu.
Kung Fu has been around for longer than most other MA%26#039;s. This usually means that it has evolved more than the others. Also, the famous Okinawan Karate(s) started out as Kung Fu.
So to answer your question, Yes, Kung Fu is very good for self defense, provided you find a quality instructor. Yes, some KF techniques are outdated and unrealistic, but there are not many. Especially when there are literally thousands that are still very viable.|||Kung Fu is fantasy, whatever small good it ever did has been long erased over years of exploitation.
For purely self-defence try TaiKwanDo, Boxing or Judo. Although Judo isn%26#039;t very good if you think wrestling someone with a knife isn%26#039;t very smart.
Self defence courses that have elements of all three can be good but there are a lot of fakes.
Best bet is either a qualified TaiKwanDo teacher, or qualified Boxing coach.|||I feel like all the people who answer, then talk about how they%26#039;ve instructed for 20 years aren%26#039;t being completely honest. One who is skilled allows his or her ideas to show that he or she is knowledgeable.
Kung Fu, like all martial arts, if practiced often, is good to survive an attack. It is generally an offensive martial art and teaches aggression and attacking.
In self-defense, you never want to go on the initiative and attack someone else, you want to merely survive the encounter. The best %26#039;martial art%26#039; would be anything that you can use to create space and avoid/evade conflict. A good pair of shoes is a good tool.
The BEST thing to do is simply be aware of what%26#039;s happening around you. Stay away from potentially dangerous situations and try to diffuse any violent confrontation. If all of that doesn%26#039;t work, kung fu is a good way to resolve the problem, but it takes years of practice and training and dedication to become proficient.|||To be good at defending yourself, you need two things:
1. A great master/sifu who is a great fighter/trainer.
2. You. Ability to consistently put in the hard work. 2- 4 hours per day.
A great master is hard to find these days. Every master say he is good, but unless he has been put to the test, talk is cheap. Also, lots of the martial art moves looks good, but ineffective.
But if you found a great kung fu master, my god, they are so dangerous, their skill level would be incredible. Iron shirt, Iron claws, iron head and body, plus internal chi, one inch explosive power, pressure points, stick hands, circular defends, hard and soft.
Discipline yourself is not easy. You have to love martial arts and love fighting in order to endure the hard work of training.
good luck.|||wushu the modern style of kung fu/ stuff u see in films is a bit unrealistic, like butterfly kick, if you actually hit anyone with that you will do a face plant.
shaolin kung fu was created by monks for self defence.
I have had to us kung fu a few times for self defence and it has never let me down, it is also good for offence as well as when i have had a few people attacking me at once i defended and then went on the offence and it works there to
someone put that being a heavy weight means you cant do kung fu, thats crap, im a big guy height and weight, and i have just pass the exam to become a sifu, if you train hard and you are committed to something you will be able to do it.|||Kung Fu is quite wonderful thing for defense when something is happen with u in aleart time. Anyway, it doesn%26#039;t mean it gonna help u solve the problem all the time cause the limit of amount of the enemy.
In my opinion I think if u really wanna practise Kung Fu. go fo it for exercise is better than for hit someone.|||wing chun kung fu is excellent for street level self defence, some others are more suited for competition or body health and flexibilty such as the shaolin styles...bruce lee only did 5 years of wing chun and hardly covered anything in the syllabus and look where he got!!! but was also an incredibley devoted athlete too...which is not needed for wing chun generally|||Mr Big is actually correct. Kung Fu moves are more offensive than defensive. It%26#039;s defense is basically overwhelming opponent with offense so they can%26#039;t fight back. Ironic thing is, the concept of Kung Fu is for training and healthy exercising rather than for fighting.|||Hi Yoly,
I apologize, as I know very little about kung fu. What I do know about is using self defense items to protect myself. http://www.protectusfromevil.com I did not have the time to learn a martial art as I needed protection quickly in my situation.|||HELLO
I AM A HEAVY WEIGHT SO KUNG FU WAS UNSUITABLE FOR ME AS THEY JUMP AND LEAP AROUND ALOT SO I DID SHOTOKAN WHERE THEY KEEP ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND
IF YOU GO TO OPEN COMPETITIONS YOU MAY SEE THE DIFFERENT STYLES, ESPECIALLY THE KATA OR SET MOVES WHICH ARE DONE BY ONES ELF AT ALL LEVELS TO COMPETITION LEVEL. IF YOU GET GOOD ENOUGH TO FIGHT IN OPEN COMPETITION YOU MAY END ANY STYLE THERE|||It all depends on the time you put in to it. Studying martial arts will improve your reaction time, give you more confidence, and increase your strength. The only thing is you have to practice every day and throughout the day to get to be good enough.|||i would only train in kung fu if i could go to a shoalin temple. however the most realistic and effective martail art is Brazilian Jiu Jiutsu|||It depends more on your skill than style. But I think Kung Fu is primarily offense.
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