I don’t punch or kick so well, for obvious reasons. I know NOTHING of weapons defense.
How about you?
Weaknesses and limitations
To become good a person must practice alot
Hello Merry ‘P’,
This question will sort out the men from the boys’.
Many martial arts people simply couldn’t bring themselves to accept the validity of the question.
As a lineage holder, I may not be supossed to answer this kinda question but, I will say that its weakness is in anything that is good that isn’t taught in it;)
That means that our people MUST go out and test themselves and the system, and that the system MUST be open ended.
Dialectical - physical pressure testing.
Generally, a weakness of it is that it is very hard to teach, so, that means that only a few will ever grasp it. I don’t mean this as an elitist statement but as a statement of fact.
If I’ve not answered properly (which is entirely possible) please come back.
Cheers,
Steve.
Hot chicks, not enough
My system has a 56 k modem, and a pentium processor, it is very old and out of date, plus it still uses windows 95, I need to upgrade soon or Ill become a dinosaur.
But seriously , what is deficient in my kung fu is no indication of what isnt present in my kungfu system. I’d like to break stuff like bricks and concrete blocks while they are on fire… so far my system does not have that. I’d really feel better about myself If I knew how to break a pile of bricks on fire. I know its childish of me , but this is something I really want to do… effortlessly.
Taiji: Too dependant on the other guy “giving” you something to work with. This causes troubles witha well trained fighter.
Rarely given set technique to use as a base for future knowledge. This can cause a lack of confidence in on’e abilities as well as slowdown the learning curve.
We only do point-sparring, which is practically valueless.
I cant walk after 30 minutes of training. After 2 hours, I feel like a corpse. haha errr hang on a second, that is what I am. aiks !
Do you do some type of Yoga or something? (just curious cos it seems very powerfull if it takes so much from your body)
Xebsball
hehe after 30 minutes, the legs goes to sleep. About the corpse thing, yeah it is something to do with the meditation 
hehehe
We can’t shoot chi ballz out of our azz either. That’s a major deficiency in any system.
I am the only limitation of my system 
Baji: No ground grappling
Boxing: Well, its uhhhh…only punches
BJJ: The weaknesses of BJJ, both legitimate and illegitimate, have been well documented in a thousand kung fu vs. BJJ threads
I don’t train in a cage against fully resisting opponents!..
Weakness
Wing Chun~The ground
Wrestling~Standing
That is why I put them together…
Steve,
In a very general way, that’s exactly right. Anything that is useful that isn’t taught is a weakness.
Or perhaps more precisely, anything useful you aren’t taught how to deal with is a weakness.
May I suggest that if it is so hard to teach, that development of teaching methods be explored with the same rigor that went into developing and refining the style?
The dialectic is the only way to travel!!!
Water Dragon–this seemed to me to be the problem as I was watching an Aikido class. It seemed to be awfully dependent on the other person overcomitting. What if they don’t, ya know?
In American Kenpo I tend to think we have way to many self defense techniques which detract from working the basics! In addition we learn 2 and sometimes 3 kata’s for a belt. Ouch, my skull hurts just thinking about it.
I am not sure if I can say anything concrete since one of our top priorities is to spar using as many unusual situations as we can think of. Maybe the weakness is you won’t be able to use it until at least a few months into it, but it doesn’t take ten years either. So I am not really sure. My weakness is my enthhusiasim I tend to scare people away when I get excited during sparring. I also tend to showboat against weaker fighters, I know it’s a bad habit and I might get hurt one day(yeah right I’m to da mn good haha).
Hi Merry ‘P’,
I agree re the dialectic - and I understand that some of the Gracies champion its use in their teachings.
Many times in the past, I’ve suggested to other Chinese martial artists that they should train to ‘beat’ their own system … NOT by training in a compliant way structurally… but to uncover its weaknesses as if you were from another system and wanted to take it and it’s practitioners to fric**kin pieces.
Usually this gets a hostile reaction - as in ‘how dare you suggest that!’ or ‘traitor!’ etc etc.
I think it’s simply logical - if we don’t find out our systems weakness’s then we can be sure that little 'ol blind spot will be uncovered very effectively by some other sod.
A good system has nothing to fear from this as it will grow with the results. As for individuals - it becomes an issue of character: those that want to go living in happy virtual reality fantasy world full of magical mystical BS will resist the notion like hell, and simply project their anxieties back on you in the form of hostility.
More developed characters will rise to the challenge and grow as people and as martial artists. It’s a BS buster - and a lotta people don’t like that;)
Cheers Friend,
Steve.
the problem with looking at your arts weakness, is how experianced are you at the art you have taken on. is the weakness you see, one you have within yourself or one that the art doesn’t answer.
without question every art doesn’t facilitate all areas, but saying that, understanding the art you have both nei and wei, will permit you to adapt to what is required.