Which Southern Style is the Best?

Guys

let’s hear your opionions as to which short hand style is the best. I don’t want any cop out comments like all Southern Styles are good ect.

I just want a good clean vote. To achieve a high degree of uniformity I will impose the following hypothethical conditions:

  1. sample size 100,000 randomly chosen individuals
  2. 5 short hand Southern Styles
  3. trained by a competent teacher
  4. 10 years training.

Best is terms of achieving the most competent hand to hand fighting ability for the group.

Maximus Materialize!

I think 5 Ancestor Fist is the best (Wu Chu Chuan) but then I am very biased :slight_smile:

Guns don’t kill people, I kill people

What happened to Lung Ying?
Anyway, there is no answer. All the styles have produced competent fighters. It’s just a case of which style interests you more. Some people like the variety and the weapons arsenal of Bak Mei or Wuzhuquan, and others like the spartan syllabus of Wing Chun. Others like the flow and clarity of white crane, and some like the shear brutality of SPM. And dog boxing looks good for a laugh.

“Weapons are the embodiments of fear,
the wise use them only when they have no choice”
Lao Tzu

ego

You need a poll because of your
lack of knowledge concerning Southern styles.
Why do you care?
I boycott your poll because of your disrespect
of southern kung-fu on past posts.

Alright tnwingtsun!!!

Lol, i wonder if ego really though a post like this would succeed. Any martal artist with a good sifu would have taught there students to respect all styles of kung fu for what they are. Like people they are individuals.

Ego once again is just trying to fan a conflict, so dont buy into it. Let him talk, just dont listen.

Hey!

tnwingchun

so you’re holding a grudge. speak to your sifu and he can beat the grudge out of you.

Maximus Materialize!

wrong again

No grudge,if a bug bites me I hold no
grudge I just flick it off,you havent even
bitten me yet,but hang around,I need trout bait :rolleyes:

Polling

I believe that this would help dispell the myths of which short hand kung fu style is the best.

Thanks for the contribution tnwingchun. But maybe Wing Chun may have problems dealing with the Southern Mantis bug.

But don’t take my word for it - cast your vote.

Maximus Materialize!

Wrong again

last time I fool with you,if you want to know which one is best,go out and practice them for yourself,
BTW,
its spelled w-i-n-g-t-s-u-n,wingtsun,not Wing Chun,
I like the Mantis,never had a problem with them,they keep the bad bugs out of my garden,no good for trout though,lets talk about trout,
or perhaps you would like to lay down on the coutch and tell me about your mother.

Wing Tsun

Excellent. Yours must be the garden variety mantis. And yes mantis do catch bugs but they aint very good at catching trouts. Glad you made that discovery.

You still want to know about my mother?

Maximus Materialize!

i know all about your mother…

haha sorry couldn’t resist that one

mothers…

Lets get off the mother jokes… like i got off yours this morning

Mothers

CanadianBadAss

YUK! wat do u people do in Canada. My mother’s been dead for 5 years.

Maximus Materialize!

How come Hung Ga wasnt included?

Hung Kuen isn’t a short hand system.
Sorry Kelvin, your sad attempt at sparking a shorthand flame war hasn’t worked. The worst one was started by me, when I asked why shorthand stylists all hated each other :slight_smile:
There are no myths about which shorthand system is best. It’s largely irrelevant.

“Weapons are the embodiments of fear,
the wise use them only when they have no choice”
Lao Tzu

I am speaking of the Hung Kuen from the south, not north. They are spelt differently in chinese.

Red fist

Wu Man

2 reasons why Southern Red Fist has been excluded from the poll

  1. it is NOT a short-hand style
    2)it is a cheap southern immitation of the Northern Red Fist - which you had correctly pointed out.

Maximus Materialize!

Um.. actually Sifu, si gung, si mo AND si po have told me that IT IS a CLOSE range style.

This whole thread is useless. Everyone knows that all Northern Styles kick Southern butt. Hehehehehehehehe.

Trolls, trolls, trolls.

Guns don’t kill people, I kill people