Juan_Carlos wrote: First, my best regards to all the people in this topic, and second this is my personal opinion, not offense here to anyone...
I agree with distinguish between sports and real fighting (I means street assaults and war), there is one BIG difference between combat sports (like boxing, judo, NHB, etc) and real fighting, is THE RULES, because the most savage tournament in the world have RULES to protect fighters lives and therefore a LOT of techniques are forbidden (the same techniques that guarantee your victory on the streets ....LOL)
Another important thing is mindset, specially the "killer instinct", it's not the same to fight on UFC than to survive a street assault by 4 skinheads armed with knifes, bottles and baseball bats... and I don't criticize the NHB fighters, to the contrary I admire them, (in fact I'm a big fan of UFC and Pride). But training for selfprotection isn't the same of training for competition... and that difference is the one who can save your life...
About "traditional" martial arts (kung fu, karate, hapkido, daito ryu, jujitsu, etc etc) I think the more "traditional" the art is the less useful is for the streets, because a lot of them are still "dreaming" on their origins instead of evolving and growing to modern day situations... that's why a LOT of martial artist have been soundly defeated by streetfighters.
But also I agree with Bailu Taiji on one thing; you must try to use your art ALWAYS, and not to learn all the Choy Li Fut forms and applications but to use Sanda when you've to compete or fight... the main reason is people who do that don't have all the necessary knowledge of the system they practice. That's why I choose Wing Tzun long time ago, because you CAN fight using it from the beginning...
Again this are my opinions and ideas only... take care
Well said sir!
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Bailu Taiji wrote: I've just got a copy of my teachers new book. Needless to say, in the first few pages, it's already completely changed my perception of kungfu!
Once I've read some more, I'll post some more info!
Sounds interesting BT.
What's the book called and where can it be gotten?
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Re:Why Most "Kungfu" Looks Like Kickboxing - 1 Month, 3 Weeks ago
This should be called why Most "Kickboxing" Looks like Kungfu. Get your history right. Before there was kickboxing there was Kung Fu.
As far as:
A real attacker will not wait for you to Iron your Chi Kung, or gather Chi, nor will they tell you which hand they are going to hit you with and wait until you are ready.
If you learned your techniques well it should with what ever hand or foot he or she will use. If it dose not then the one to blame is your teacher for not explaining the technique correctly or not explaining at all as most teachers don’t even know them self’s.
Jose Knight
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HOMB wrote: This should be called why Most "Kickboxing" Looks like Kungfu. Get your history right. Before there was kickboxing there was Kung Fu.
As far as:
A real attacker will not wait for you to Iron your Chi Kung, or gather Chi, nor will they tell you which hand they are going to hit you with and wait until you are ready.
If you learned your techniques well it should with what ever hand or foot he or she will use. If it dose not then the one to blame is your teacher for not explaining the technique correctly or not explaining at all as most teachers don’t even know them self’s.
Jose Knight
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Hi Jose.
Welcome to the Edge.
I'd forgotten I got under BT's skin on this thread.
Nice one.
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If you touch my Llama, I WILL kill you!
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