I dont understand everybody here talking about not doing stances while fighting, to me, in everything I ever trained whatever stances we practiced is stances we used to fight and spar with. Otherwise, why bother, I think it would look really stupid to punch someone with a regular boxer like hook and then get into tiger descends mountain or something, then it looks stupid.
My worst experience with this fight western/train chinese thing was when I watched a tournament and there was so many different schools that came out and they all fought the same and it looked like just regular stuff I see when I go to bars and clubs. Only people that had some kung fu like style fighting were two different styles of praying mantis, and they definetly made my day. Great to see them do it and see people do it well and not just try to look cool with different things they can do in school.
Wong Kiew Kit has a great book out, Shaolin Kung Fu and talks about how for some reason everybody swings around like kids and all their training goes out the window while those stances were actually designed for combat, not to look cool doing your form.
And on the video just before the "gangsta" attacks, the kung fu guy clearly goes in for some kind of "jab" and once the guy goes in after him and starts swinging around there is a nice clear block too. Besides, that so called funny stance looks fairly mobile and strong if he was to sit back in it if rushed, and the ****ed back arm means lot of power from that reverse punch, because if he's got good footwork he's gonna have a decent punch too, so why didn't he punch? Hard to say, but the "gangsta" guy was already scared and backing of, so had he attacked him at that point it would have been shooting fish in a barrel, so you could even say he shows some mercy towards a weak submisive enemy.
One thing that was wierd too, I dont know if you guys noticed is that kung fu guy had to take of his shoes, and you can see him saying something like, "they'r off, now lets go", I guess they possibly tryed to to use his shoes as an excuse to chicken out honorably.
Also while he was advancing on the gangsta guy, you can hear in the background, "letts jumps this fool" but there is no one jumping in to help out their friend, and just like him they were all talk.
Now I could bet good money, had the kung fu guy just walked up to the other guy and punched him others would have been there because they would think he cant fight and its easy way to rpove them selves with very good odds. I'v seen it lots of times in school and especially on bus stops.
Well, anyway, thats my two cents on this video. :-)