Its all about hard work and perfecting skill
Mika and Sho,
I did not mean anything, was really just curious so don’t worry too much.
Forms are very important in kung fu training as it teaches skills and technique, but in the same breath, fighting training is also just as important.
A typical ideal class in our CLF school would be: Warm ups, kicks (stationary and mobile), stances training, basics, conditioning, bag training (different strikes on the bags etc.) partner drills (then sparring) and forms. We spend a big deal on forms.
For san shou we obviously train slightly different as we have those on different nights. A typical class would be, warm up, some heavy fitness and endurance training (more modern style), bag work, kicks, boxing drills, kicking drills, boxing and kicking drills, wrestling and throws, and lots of sparring (obviously depending on the level of class – intermediate class spend more time on sparring).
I do northern shaolin too. I train every Saturday for about 4 hours in one with a coach from China, and our classes are very similar in structure. Obviously slightly different when it comes to specifics, but generally its all the same. WE ALL DO KUNG FU! Which mean we all train hard (as earth dragon said).
Ed