Generalizations can help one understand the specifics, theoretically. Yet Knowing it to be a generalization it seems that many hold it to be absolutely true in All cases. By the nature of a generalization one perhaps should be open for the occasional variations to the standard generalizations on perhaps almost any topic.
Unstopable,
The low kick no good? It can jam and shock. It can cripple (at least long enough to end the fight). It as many things if not everything has it’s uses. Not affecting the person with Your kick, dezhen2001 :-), merely says keep working on it or that the kickee had good legs or knew how to use the stance or knew how to use breathing…don’t give up. One example should seldom be the generalization. More at the variation to the stereotype that if looked at can broaden one’s understanding of the True nature of a thing. You low-down Kicker you…Keep at it. It has significant value.
The Iron bridge: when you are less than expert at it it seems good on slow less than best flexible kickers to the upper torso or head. This looks like a set-up technique. Avoiding only to spring load aleg for a risng groin or chin shot. In Sme movies from the seventies or eighties with the name Shao-lin in them there were shots of supposed monk types doing weapons drills and handset forms and exercises. One exercise had one bendover backwardsthen roll on hands (sometimes head if not only head) and feet to form the reverse arch bent forewardthen roll in the same direction into a backbend and this continued. This seems an evasion technique and exercise to strengthen and increase or maintain flexibility.
Snapping Knee,
This broadsword flower seem to perhaps be a series of parries(deflections) Some attacks stab continuously. Backing youuntil you don’t parry or trip. Then you get stabbed spear technique seems notorious for repeated thrustings. My mention has the technique as blocking/deflecting going backwards. HuangKaiVun’s post seemed to talk about the same thought on;ly going forwards. Forwards it is a relentless attack. If it is how I am thinking it to be.
SevenStar,
""If they have patience and are willing to train hard for several years, kung fu will take them well beyond those other styles. "
How’s that for a generalization. there are too many factors that come into play for that to be guaranteed."
How about, Kung-Fu Can take them well beyond those other styles? Under a concept that Kung-Fu encompasses a variety of techniques that address broad and specific situations, where the others have locked (limited technique quantity (all of which have variations…~From one the ten-thousand things~) I’ve been lead to understand that there are styles that have weaklnesses. If they can’t draw upon a well of resources such as Kung-Fu has then ginen the absolute Kung-Fu welltrained and understood can go well beyond the others. While by what I’ve put here, there might not be any thing I wouldn’t consider Kung-Fu (something done well), not everything is Kung-Fu~ (fighting styles~).
Hook kick: I No_Know that we are on the same page. You say hook and I wonder. I say heel to the chin or lower-a straight line shot from floor to contact area. My thouight was to mostly use hands to fight (knee or leg shift (feet in place) to hit or deflect near-by legs). I wouldn’t Know from practical~ I merely threw-in a possibility of could do. Although, I would like to use it. I presume that your thighs tend to be tight and sweeping high kicks can’t be done by you without your knee bent because your legs have straight-out inflexibility some. Not as offensive intended as it might have come-off.
Number of techniques: You might not use very many. But the one you learn that don’t get tried serve to develop you to better do the ones you diduse. Also It broadens your conceptualizaion on how you Could be attacked. Some of these you don’t use might have come frome exhaustive reasearch of surviving. Today we use a limited variety of attacks but if We trained for centuries We might come-up with Greater variety than we currently use. Someone already did that centuries ago~. I prefer to keep it incase I don’t Know all there is to fighting and getting attacked and capabilities of movement and defending strategies… If I get more skilled I might understand what was useless to my think because I didn’t Know any better. So (needle -and-thread), I learn the so-called useless because I No_Know.
It seems that if one looks with intention, well into perhaps almost anything, one might find what one needs (even if that is to look somewhere else).
PLCrane,
That’s a nice concept. I hope it helps others here and elsewhere.
gazza99,
I think I missed your point of referring me to that thread, If it was the hippie rant. One person would only take so much before person wouldgo violent. But That was not enough to really speak to your mention of T’ai Chi Ch’uan people not all Minimum damage-no damage people. Sometimes minimum damage is killing. There are lesser degrees too. But if you are one of these non minimal/no-damage types, unless you and your type, want and try to hurt people without provocation. Or hurt them for your pleasure, then I am correct and T’ai Chi Ch’uaners while they can be agressive use minimal force to no force. If you are Pa Kua or Hsing-I, you could pervert the T’ai Chi Ch’uan techniques to suit your upsetness or disturbedness. And thinking of it, yes someone could be good at T’ai Chi Ch’uan and have a really bad attitude. Hopefully, they would practice more and T’ai Chi Ch’uan would overcome their perverted heart and soothe their soul~ Hopefully.
