So what is this about. Yip Man did the Sil lum Tao is 4 hours.
so I want a contest. Yes I know that people could just put something fake on here. But I ask that everyone be honest out of respect for wing chun and martial arts in general. Sil lum tao is a good gi-gong. When I do it I use some of the focus not only of qi but yi (intent) which is used alot in Yi Quan and Hsing-i. stuff like imagining Iam breaking a wall hit palm strikes that can push down a train etc.
I’ll start
last night I did it in 20 Minutes November,10 from 1:10 to 1:30 but I could of went longer.
lets go.
we will see who is the frist to get past 4 hours someday ha.
to be consistent please record here thanks
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20 minutes
i’d rather spend my time sparring, working out, doing drills, chi sau, and running etc.
1/2 is enough for me thanks. Spend over 4hours? What the hell is the point in that? Maybe this is why kung fu people get laughed at all the time. You can’t fight for d*ck, but you can do slt for 4 hours. Great.
Fire away lads.
All i wanted was some RICE CAKES! Now? WE MUST BATTLE.
Sil lum tao is made to build qi and teach proper techniques. It is the ground of wing chun. Without a root how can a tree grow?
look to Wing Chunners out there for real record how long you take to do sil lum tao gi-gong.
The horse stance (any one martial art style)alone builds qi just build staying in it for a long time. the movement of your blood and motion inside you body with the stillness or you body these 2 opposites create engery=qi. come on this will be fun to see who can do it. :o :o :o :o :eek: :o :mad: :eek: :rolleyes: :o
just give it a try.
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i hardly think he was so amazing, just cos he spent all day doing SLT. It is not some special mystical miricle. I’m sure he did a lot of other things too.
4 hours my ass. Get the person who can spar for four hours, put him up against a person who can do slt for 4 hours, see who wins.
All i wanted was some RICE CAKES! Now? WE MUST BATTLE.
A man who greatly understands the fighting art of wing chun gets his understanding through the forms.
A man who greatly understands the fighting art of boxing gets his understanding through a **** load of sparring.
You are a boxer and your thinking like a boxer.
If a wing chun guy trained more on his forms then sparring he would be better at wing chun then if he did more sparring.
A wing chun guy can get in very good shape and learn how to fight as two seperate things.
He would learne how to fight by doing his wing chun.
And get in shape doing whatever physical activities he chooses to do.
All I am getting at is a boxer gets better tecnique by mostly sparring and a wing chun guy gets his by mostly forms.
Practitioners of some of the internal arts build incredible power through standing meditation. It sounds what Yip Man was doing was something similar. If anyone doubts the existence of internal power, go visit a good internal school and feel it for yourself. Be prepared for a surprise.
Back to the original question. I usually spend 20 minutes doing SLT.
This thread turned into “what are forms supposed to develop?”, didn’t it?
Am i wrong if I just say that the purpose of MA is to protect one’s body: by having good health, and defending against possible threats…?
Isn’t Wing Chun an internal/external system?
cos, chances are, if you’ve just done slt for 4 hours, you aren’t gonna have a chance to do anything else that day, and forms alone with no application or practice, have no meaning or use.
Remember, wing chun is supposed to teach you how to FIGHT.
All i wanted was some RICE CAKES! Now? WE MUST BATTLE.
4 hour builds qi alot of qi builds kung fu
so there.
pluse this gives on a chance to excerise on yi or intent.
cause yi leads chi or qi
now back to the subject
Ish you did yours in 31 minutes
alright tonigh I plan on doing mind, meditation, qi culitivation and all in 40. and I wiill post it when I do.
Hi there. Fighting skill & ving tsun skill are not
the same thing. (But ving tsun is a fighting systme)
You & I both have not done SNT for four hrs, so how can we make a statment on what you would achive. ( Yip Man could ) & he was probably better
than any of us. A large part of SNT is for power.
Do you do things such as punching with weights.
The best masters don’t they do stuff like SNT.
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