nah. It's easier just to switch to Hane Goshi.
Good fighting is a byproduct of good training. As this video demonstrates, perfection of technique is what its all about.
"You hit like a girl!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eplL...endscreen&NR=1
Guangzhou Pak Mei Kung Fu School, Sydney Australia,
Sifu Leung, Yuk Seng
Established 1989, Glebe Australia
I think good kung fu training makes you smarter. Take this technique shown in this vid @ 1:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhCEIPaI5KY
He uses it several times throughout the vid with different follow-ups. In the style I learned, we practiced a similar technique against a 2 handed shove to the chest. I tried to teach it to a friend who does muay thai. I sometimes forget that these techniques that I find easy to do, can be tricky for your average guy to pick up because you need to learn to open up the attacker's arms in two different directions. If you ever been on the receiving end, it makes you feel "empty" for a moment.
I have taught for years and I tell all new students, in my classes you will learn self confidence, discipline, anatomy, Buddhism, medicine, qigong, taji, and praying mantis. You can excel in any one of these teachings but you will learn all of them regardless.
It is up to the student to which their goal is or the "byproduct" as you say.
KUNG FU USA
www.eightstepkungfu.com
Teaching traditional Ba Bu Tang Lang (Eight Step Praying Mantis)
Jin Gon Tzu Li Gung (Medical) Qigong
Wu style Taiji Chuan
Teacher always told his students, "You need to have Wude, patient, tolerance, humble, ..." When he died, his last words to his students was, "Remember that the true meaning of TCMA is fierce, poison, and kill."
My goal is to be the toughest guy in the nursing home.
SKM
Absolutely love this statement!If they attack me, I will take an eye, break a finger, rip an ear, break a kneecap, whatever I can do to make them pay rent for my space." I would warn them that should they choose to attack me, win, lose, or draw, they will 'wear' me the rest of their life.
Before I fought someone even when I was working running security and bouncing at Night clubs, I would always warn them in some verbal way, felt it was only fair to give warning.....
sometimes it was as simple as you should think this out.
KUNG FU USA
www.eightstepkungfu.com
Teaching traditional Ba Bu Tang Lang (Eight Step Praying Mantis)
Jin Gon Tzu Li Gung (Medical) Qigong
Wu style Taiji Chuan
Teacher always told his students, "You need to have Wude, patient, tolerance, humble, ..." When he died, his last words to his students was, "Remember that the true meaning of TCMA is fierce, poison, and kill."
Look at how old these guys are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNYeQAmDqM
They were champions and fighters in their youth. They're still having fun. They're still formidable. This is my goal. I want to be rolling and fighting until the day they put me in the ground. Then I'll wrestle in heaven. Angels fight dirty. They're know to break hips to gain the advantage.
If you live somewhere where you get into a kung fu theater brawl every time you leave your home, then you should think about moving.
Sooner or later, you get shot.
I don't fight these days. I end the threat and move on.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
~ Joe Lewis
A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
~ Author unknown
"You don't feel lonely.Because you have a lively monkey"
"Ninja can HURT the Spartan, but the Spartan can KILL the Ninja"
If you can still have this kind of flexibility through your old age, you should be proud of yourself. This is the Baji master 馬英圖 Ma Yin-To, the teaher who taught Baji in Nanking Central MA Institute. Even my teacher had learned Baji from him in .
http://imageshack.us/a/img199/3853/mayintu.jpg
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%...BB.B6.E6.94.AC
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More opinion -> more argument
Less opinion -> less argument
No opinion -> no argument
One teacher I had kept alluding that the higher purpose of training is most important. I found that to be disingenuous. The higher cannot exist truley without the "lower" . Its like learning how to write only to exercise your hand. It becomes devoid of purpose and empty. Whatever lessons gained by the struggle in the lower aspect would be lost.