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Kung Fu takes more time to understand but once learned seems simple. For those who say they can defend with a gun or baseball bat are either very young or they are lawbreakers. I have had guns and knifes pulled on me. People who are law abiding cannot carry weapons 24 hours a day due to todays "brain-dead liberal" climate. Only crooks. Learning a martial art can save your life during those times you cannot carry weapons.
(8 Step Mantis Rules A++++)
-Pilot
Pilot Monday, May 20, 2002 at 10:01:41 (PDT)

lobo,
Who are you to judge what is normal? Who gave you the permission to say that otherwise is odd?
Actually, the name lobo sounds quite abnormal. Have you thought about that?
:) Monday, May 20, 2002 at 07:17:42 (PDT)

I feel the closest to what real Kung-fu should be fist-wise would be to go to your local boxing gym and have instruction on how to punch effectively and then combine it with the fancy forms and them make a martial art out of it.

Real martial arts have to be able to generate true power and have to be effective otherwise it won't work. The ability to take a punch and give a punch are skills every martial arts should know and be accustomed to. It makes no sense to practise a fancy form other than to stretch and move.

Kung-fu was so advanced in its time that it is meant to be used against other martial artists but that was in its heydays when everyone knew something so if you did moves that were so intricate and different then your opponent, they couldn't develop a defense for it. Thus the many different forms to counter attack another's system... Like Eagle vs. Snake kung-fu like you see in the movies.

But nowadays not many people do martial arts and they rather use simplier fighting methods like boxing and rather more effectively. Kung-fu thus became too complicated and too advanced for itself for people to decipher. The methods of developing power and issuing proper force became all rhetoric rather that actually practised. It should be natural and follow intrinsic forces not fancy looking and performance moves.

The masters either do know and don't teach these things or they don't know themselves. The way Bruce Lee was discovering and developed in JeetKuneDo was to simplify the technique to its main essence. Like if you do a front flip and then a left palm block with a right vertical fist in a side horse stance, what is the end result of all this? Its a right punch, of course! A punch is a punch is a punch. There are only a few way us human can use a punch effectively in a attack. It makes no difference whether it is a Karate type punch or a kung-fu type punch the end result is still a punch.

From this Bruce Lee analyze the basic punch and saw how to make this punch more powerful and more effective so he can knock them down with just one punch or how can he apply it to real fighting. From this Bruce Lee developed his own style of fighting but also what everyone in the martial arts should also be doing as well.. Extreme honesty in effectiveness of their chosen martial art and find ways to improve it.

That's why learning boxing can indeed help strenghten your martial arts to be more realistic and more effective in the actual fighting usage.

Mar-nut Monday, May 20, 2002 at 01:06:57 (PDT)

Taekwondo Is the best martial art or sport ever. I have been doing taekwondo since I was four, and I think it is the most well Refined and cleanest form of martial arts.

And RJA, Have you ever been to Korea?? If you havent, you dont know the true meaning of taekwondo. I have lived in Korea most of my life. I have experienced the commercial and rural part of taekwondo. most of the commercial part comes from American's trying to make money.
Gang- Hyun Nahm Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 18:28:26 (PDT)

[i think the best martial arts is called, shao lin baseball bat style, its much more effective than snake or drunken monkey. Base ball bat style is quite simple and easy to learn, you dont use nun chucks or swords but you do use a baseball bat.
the first technique i will teach is the head bashing technique, you have to hold
the bat firmly and bash your opponents head to a bloody pulp.
and there you have it, youve learned the head bash technique.]

AZN Realist,

You dumb f***... you're a waste.
Do you actually think a stupid head bashing techique will give you the edge you need? Don't waste our time with such rubbish.
Hapa Hurricane Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 22:48:21 (PDT)

Kung-fu is too complex for its own good.

this is one very true statement.
with guns available anywhere, most martial arts have become redundant.

at the moment im learning Hun Gar Kung-fu, i want to learn to moves involved purely as an art and sense of self achievement.

if learnt in full kung-fu cannot be beaten by over forms of martial art. since kung-fu is so much deeper than other forms, it goes to the spiritual level more than any other.
and as mar-nut said, to simplify a martial art will indeed create a more deadly form. as testament to Bruce Lee's Jeet Kun Do.
Learning Jeet Kun Do is useless unless they teach you to fight exactly like BL does. Its the way he waits for the right moment and unleashes such power and such speed that make him and JKD so powerful.
JTUK Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 11:20:36 (PDT)

karate... is simple and efective.
normal people are too bussy to be learning how the dragon moves, so kung fu is obsolete for normal people and the world is normal..
lobo Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 00:06:29 (PDT)

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