To the Kung Fu practioners of the board.
Please list real life instances that your kung fu protected, saved you, or someone else. Include details, moves you used, etc.
This can be an interesting thread I think. Let’s talk kung fu!
…(um…and JKD and judo/bjj of course 
but not until later)
Anyway, hoping to hear some good stories.
(hey, give me a break, I’m trying)
Ryu
How can breakdancing like bugs protect anyone?
I love you man!
I was at a bar in texas (imagine that) as a matter of fact the semi-infamous horniest place in texas, having a few drinks with my freind. This guy started to hit on a freind of mine, there were a few of us there, she told him no thank you. Well, he wouldnt take no for an answer so she told him I was her boyfriend, I wasnt present at that moment, and he walked away. Well, he walks over to me and asks if she is daitng anyone, me, being the complete ass, explains that she isnt!
He walks over, I walked with him and he calls he a *****. e walks away, I ask her what is goin on and she explains it all. We laugh thinking everything is alright (in Texas).
Later we see him staring at us from across the room and obviously bad mouthing us to his freinds. When we start to leave, he follows us out, so I walk in the back. He comes up and starts cussing at us. We tried to ignore him but I didnt want to let him get out of my vision, and so kept an eye on him, he came at me with a drunken, high swing, I used a bong sau (weak, I was a beginner) but it gave me the time to twist and put him into a lock I learned in the marines. He wouldnt let up until two o fthe bouncers came out and carried him off.
(sung to the tune of deep in the heart of texas -
“theres a white trash fight in the middle of the night, deep in the heart of texas!”
Good story, Red5! Protecting women is always a plus in the stories I like hearing. Bong sau is where you turn your arm elbow up with it bent out a little, right?
Oh by the way Jacki…you’re also on my ignore list so I hope you weren’t addressing me. 
Ryu
Yep, the “wing arm” of wing chun. Elbow up, wrist low, across the centerline…
I think defending women is a noble cause, and she was a good freind, someone I grew up with. When he called her a beotch, I was reaching to grab him there but she grabbed me (she knows me way to well!) and made me sit down and think about it!
okay ryu… a quick kung fu story.
my girlfriend and i were in paris walking late at night through pigalle, which is a pretty dangerous and seedy part of town. we were on our way to a club and there were night people out and about.
all of a sudden this olive skinned parisian dude with greasy black hair comes up to us from behind and jumps in front of us and starts talking all this trash non-sense in broken english, he could tell we were american…and at first we had the socially trained reaction to try and polite…he then starts kicking at my legs and i feel his hand reach for my wallet which i smacked away with guan sau and as i do that he lunges for my girls purse strap, so i punched him in the face, and he jumped back all surprised and started cursing us in french as he distanced himself; we kept walking. within seconds, 4 of his scum bag looking punk friends came around us, they must have been between about late teens, early 20s, and they just came out of the woodwork, must have been watching, and so this other short guy jumps in front of us so hit him with a willow leaf palm strike in the solar plexus, and he went backwards, and a guy tried to grab my arms so i tan sau’ed and jut sau’d breaking his grip and pushed him and as this was happening the other 2 guys pulled out switchblade knives, the guy i had originally punched ran up and tryed to kick me but i moved and turned so it just grazed off, my girlfriend wheel kicked one of the guys with the knives (she’s advanced wing chun and cross trained in kali and jujitsu), we pushed our way together and turned towards them and then they all sort of backed off together and put about 30 feet between us and them, swearing at us, and then turned and walked off down a side street. did we totally beat the crap out of them? no…but we didnt need to go that far, surely people would have gotten hurt including maybe us. but we held are own and fought them off enough to disuade them from continuing and they fled. i’m sure they also didnt want to hang out that long in plain view with knives and risk getting busted. the whole time, a small croud of people, mostly door men and hookers, looked on in subdued, passive amusement. it was a totally surreal experience. our kung fu skills worked fine and the weird part was that we were calmer than we would have expected to be and we which led to lenghty discussions like ‘are we sparring too much and desensitized?’ and how martial training can overcome the ‘dying process’ which starts when people freeze up in fear and anesthetize their senses, which is really the more interesting and possibly more important challenge. of course kung fu can work on the streets; but are you mentally and psychologically ready to meet the challenge? many arts don’t address such important things…in addition to effective fighting techniques, kung fu training can can prepare you for overcoming yourself and possibly your own death.
Good stories! Keep 'em coming.
Too bad I don’t have any of my own to contribute, but (fortunately) I’ve never had to save anyone or myself in such a situation. I don’t know if its my size, or my attitude(I’m very calm, even when people think I shouldn’t be, so it weirds potential aggressors out), but any potential situations have always fizzled out with no true fight.
Great thread Ryu! I was thinking of starting one similar a few days ago. So far there’s been some really cool stories. Being confronted by four guys while in another country is pretty intense! I really wish I had some cool story to tell… Keep 'em coming everyone!
well it was just after this christmas igot alittle money
i live in van,bored so i decide to bus downtown to goto mikado and buy a hsingyi book i was looking at.
so im bussing feeling kind of sick and tired,its like a hour busride to get to mikado,so im like 4stops from where i get off,and i decide wahh i dont even need the book and i dont have that much spare cash,so im mentally *****ing,then of course i miss my stop so im like ****:mad: 
:rolleyes: 
,so i check myself
and get into my walkman,now im feeling better-so i ring the bell and boom
bus rides right by the next stop,so i stroll to the front and the busdrivers like this is a express its rushhour you have to wait till we get to main street.so mentally i laugh at the irony of my *****iness,so im walking the half mile back to mikado,and i see this ladie sitting on the steps in front of a retail outlet,NOW I HAVE BAD EYES FROM FAR AWAY,i look and i think shes reading a book,i get close and shes smoking crack,at 2 in the afternoon,im just like wtf-i hate the ghettoe,kids gotta see this **** when they get off schooll.
So i get to mikado,and the gates are shut im like wtf,i look in the window and thier tearing the place down.so im just like **** why did i even leave the house now i gotta bus back,WAAHHH.
SO I GOTO THE CORNER STORE AND BUY A SNICKERS,the persian owner is chatting with this black dude,and they see this big native ladie wearing pumps and a miniskirt"read prostitute"
and the storeowners all to the black dude hey thiers shirlly she owes me twenty bucks,all friendly like like its a freakin community.
so i leave the store and now im just laughing at my day,so im standing at the busstop just chilling eating my snickers,get on the bus and its standing room only,were near chinatown,and this old chinese gentleman gets on,and were standing neext to each other,now i could tell hes at least 70 looking at his face,but his posture,i just new he knows gungfu
and i started thinking,**** thiers prolly crazy cats who know gungfu,but dont teach,to them its just part of thier culture,like halloween,its just something you do when your a kid.
and it made me happy,the possibilities of masters i may have the chance to contact living in van.
you dont want to here about my fights,they to dirty.
so theres my story
neat stories, keep em coming,
But describe the movements, I don’t know what the hell a wheel kick is. How about using the standard karate names we all grew up with and describe anything wacky. I got the bong sau from wing chun because he described it as a wing. but flop nock sam plop doesn’t mean anything.
Ok, heres mine. I was partying in some college dorms and a drunk guy tried to grab me aggressively while smiling like he was joking, he was a total stranger. I did Pung. Its like throwing a frisbee, it was like that and that ba gua stance you see, I got that under his arm and uprooted him, then turned him so he spilled down the steps. His friends laughed at him and helped him up on their way down. No one had any idea it was kung fu. I said, “omigod, is he ok” and made light chat with his friends, blah blah, Party…right on, yeah, see ya later."
another time it was a guy that knew I did kung fu grabbed me to see if I could escape, I joint locked his sorry ass and brought him to his knees. He said something about gun and martial arts being useless, but he didn’t press the issue.
Here’s mine
I was walking up to my mail box, and four guys pull up in a car, and all four doors open at the same time (which was kinda comical because that’s what ahppens in the movies :)) Anyway, they start comming toward me, and i knew they wanted to kick my ass for some reason (i didn’t know these f.a.g.s). As soon as two of them got within my distance i gave one guy 3 chain punches to the face followed by a bil jee to the throat, and then i gave the other guy an eye gouge, and a bil jee to the throat as well. The other two got scared i guess and picked up their a.s.s.h.o.l.e friends and took off swearing and s.h.i.t.
If you only knew how much i hate punkers.
I should’ve came up with some one liner like “no, you give me your wallet!!!” but i didn’t.
This didn’t happen long ago (3 months), it was my first fight, and i had been training for 2 months at the time. Good thing i train my ass off 
you seriously pulled some wing chun
onsome naniamo kids,that would be good video.
what do you mean by that diego?
me confused:D
This is Diego
He never makes sense. Dude - you owe me an Uma Thurman picture!!!
All of my fights have been scrappy and usually against drunkards.
Best fight [comically] I’ve ever seen? Two college kids, just stood there beating each other in the face. No blocking, no stance, just swinging haymakers at each other in a wild attempt at destruction. Beautiful.
My last effort
My last little effort was over before it began but my training was what kept it that way.
I used to work in a stand up comedy venue doing light and sound and during one night we had a a large group in for a work party. One of the guys was a big meat head and the comic was actualy so impressed by his size he pulled him up on stage to show him to the audience plus take the p$$ out of him. At that time the guy was getting drunk but was really cool about everything and was having a great night.
At the end of the night after close we were all sitting around having a drink and winging about our night. In storms this same meathead going off is nut in a wild rage, i remained seated and sat there trying to figure out what he was saying. Eventualy we got out that he was missing his credit card and was obviously VERY high on something most likely coke. We started to try and tell him that none of us had his card but he wouldnt listen. He moved around behind me [still seated] and litteraly put his hands around my neck in a choke grip from behind. I spun up and out of the grip so that i was now standing facing him. Im not a particualy big guy and i was litteraly looking strait into this guys chest. I started to try and tell him i didnt want any trouble but i saw him drop his sholder back and shift his balance. As soon as he did i stuck my hand up and put it strait on the same sholder. He knew he couldnt punch with that arm now and i kept my hand there so as to be able to take his neck if i needed to. He started to relax and backed off, he then went over to a comic throws him out the way and stormed out.
My friends were quite impressed becouse i was half this guys size and i didnt back down an inch. Im pretty sure thats why he actualy backed off, he knew i was confident and he was well and truely off his face.
Moral here is often outwards confidence and being relaxed can get you a long way. If i had shaped up and put up a gaurd or even waited for that punch to keep winding up, i would have been dead meat.
Good story Jon
Observational Awareness is a very important thing.
In a confrontation, my stance at first is always palms out open, in front of me. It looks very passive, and hands are in a good position to block.
There’s a page at WingChunKuen that deals with awareness. You won’t find a better article.
Once I was driving in a train, and when we got to my station I got to the doors to get out.
Then there was this skinhead guy who started to enter the train before we could get out, so I told him to wait.
He got this fU look on his face and started to reach behind his back, so I front kicked him in the chest, and when he fell I followed him out the door, and when he tried to get up I kicked him again in the face.
When he fell back on the ground I ran away, never looking back.
What if he was offering you a cookie. That wasn’t very nice.
Ok, I got some stories for you. I going to choose the one that happend to me christmas day. A guy that is my “friend” started to wrestle me and I went for the closed guard(bjj)! He then tried to hit me(great friend!!) and I used simple WC chain punches and chi-sao to hit him. This is not a troll thread but I got to tell everybody that WC-BJJ is an excellent defence. They love each other…
I’m going to get flack because of this thread but what the hell…
Hmmm
Does it have to be me saving the girl? Can it be the Girl saving me? Kidding. I barely get into fights, usually the girls save me. Calming the guy down before they kick my ass, or calming me down before i do something stupid (which would probably turn on me).
A girl flipped me and threw me to the floor mat once…but she was just kidding because she asked me to PRETEND to be an offender so she can test out her new MOVES. Never will volunteer again…wait yeah i will, it was all worth it (her soft hands grabbing on my body, her nice long blonde hair brushing on to my checks; then BAM the hard floor).
So far, nice thread, good idea. Keep the stories coming since i have no combat story of my own i share with you a moment in my life i barely remember…too many new ones that are so much sweeter…hehehe.