Kung fu has fallen!!! It does not work in real fights!!!
No replies saying they use the bench?
I’m very suprised.
Anyone?
Shaolin Tiger. Did you know that i’m going to be fighting another person on January 25? I am fighting JF Springer who is the U.S. representative of Southern Praying Mantis or something like that.
Horse benches aren’t anything special. You might as well pick up a chair or something and start hitting people with it.
Ralek. If you joined a BJJ,muaythai,kickboxing,boxing Club, you could fight every week and wouldn’t have to beg people to come to Fredneck.
“Horse benches aren’t anything special. You might as well pick up a chair or something and start hitting people with it.”
you’re right. thats what makes it an interesting thing to me. its a very ordinary, very common, item. Its more practical to learn how to fight with a chair than it is a broadsword.
Shaolin Tiger. That is faulty logic. Horse benches are not common. Benches in general are not as common as chairs. You would be better off training with modern day chairs becuase they are a lot more common than benches let alone horse benches.
I’ll agree that chairs are much more common.
so in that regard it would be more “logical” to train with a modern chair vs. a horse bench. but if you already know how to use the bench as a weapon, then a chair would do quite well in a emergency.
Ralek. I guess it is just one of the few things that I hold onto from a traditional CMA training. I still practice the form and it keeps me flexible (standing the bench on its end and kicking over it, monkey roll dives over it, jumping over it, good for wrist strenght too - which is needed for solid punching) Ever see a “strength box” in a gym ? basically a plyometrics tool. this one is just old skool.
Saw-horses are common on a construction site.
So are clawhammers,axhammers,crowbars,sledgehammers,nailguns,electric saws,chainsaws,jip-rock knives,etc.
I would take Home-Depot-Do over all of the traditional weapons.
Plus they are all legal.
Badger
Ninjas like to “use their environment”. Isn’t this just like when the ninja’s “use their environment”?
LMAO.
you make me smile big guy 
to ST00
Since your involved in San Shou, I wonder if you can answer a question: do you see a wide variety of fighting styles among the competitors? I would think given the diversity of CMA you would see some variation. Not that anyone’s going to use alot of low stances, that would wear you out in a ring match. Still, I would expect more variation in San Shou than say, western boxing. Which is already pretty varied. Are joint locks/breaks legal, does anyone try to fight this way?
Thanks
-FJ
Shaolintiger00
I know a bench set. It called Long Bench set and it is from Kuo Yu Chang’s Northern Shaolin. Not many people are learning this set today.
Fa jing,
The difference in san shou competitors style varies from person to person. Its not really a fighting style difference as much as it is a personal style. for example look at a group of sanshou fighters from Boston. Marvin Perry has amazing kicks, while Albert Pope has great takedown skills, Rudi Ott (no longer there) has reat hands. 3 guys from one school, each with a personal flavor.
Shaolin,
Nice to see you again!
I understand Mike Krivka is now teaching MT at Rockville? A little welsh bird told me 
who are you calling ‘little.’ [grin]
Ok, ok!
A umm… freakishly strong, cut and muscular, bad ass welsh bird told me.
[laugh]
don’t know who that guy is, but i ain’t crossing him.
MP,
The way he gulps down sushi, I’d call him a penguin rather than a bird..
LOL
New article in the latest issue!
[QUOTE=NorthernShaolin;110469]Shaolintiger00
I know a bench set. It called Long Bench set and it is from Kuo Yu Chang’s Northern Shaolin. Not many people are learning this set today.[/QUOTE]
Read The Bench: Traditional Furniture and a Shaolin Weapon By Rick L. Wing
