Choose the best answer:
I can’t make a choice there, both answers apply.
sarcasm mode on
Because I like the flashy moves
sarcasm mode off
Seriously though, because I enjoy it.
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You’re fu(king up my chi
Because, it best suits me!
I am ALWAYS Kung Fu Fighting…what about you?
AbMan, sorry, just choose the best answer =)
The most important part of any hobby is that you’re having fun and/or gaining some satisfation from it, or else why do it? Excluding reasons like “The Army made me” or the like, “my mommy made me”, and “I’m tired of being picked on” =)
Although there will always be comparisons between styles, what remains the same is we enjoy them and that is why we stick with them (until we get beat up and then switch to a mix of wrestling, bjj, muay Thai, and boxing) =)
Now lets get in the octagon and find out whose style is the best =) No eye gouging, groin stikes or fish hooking…what? All the KungFu guys dropped out? They say their style is too deadly and at the same time too limited by the rules? =) lol
I choose becose it works the reason is that if it was for fun, i’d probably have just as much fun in any other martial art.
“Now lets get in the octagon and find out whose style is the best =) No eye gouging, groin stikes or fish hooking…what? All the KungFu guys dropped out? They say their style is too deadly and at the same time too limited by the rules? =) lol”
What the **** are you talking about?
What are your intentions with this thread?
Is this another one of those MMA vs Kung Fu **** or are you just kidding.
You brake my elbow i put your face in s.hit! HA HA HA, how about that, HA HA!
haha, dude settle down…i’m not going to reveal the dark conspiracy just yet =)
My intention was to make people think about the poll “Why do you study, pratice or train in your art, style or combat sport?” Did it work?
No
We already know. This is something we think about all the time.
To be honest!
I took up kung fu to impress girls,
Inflate my EGO!
And to learn how to kick ass.
All of which were successful!
I now practice kung fu daily to maintain the higher level of fitness & health i’ve gained from my training, but also to impress the cute chic that lives next door!
Some things never change…
CT.
I enjoy it becuase it works so well.
JWT
If you pr!ck us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that the villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. MOV
This is a complicated issue, and it seems that some will take offense to the question, but I would just like to say that I practice my art strictly because I enjoy it. Whether it works or not will be determined when I have to use it. I’m doing my best to make sure the training will be there for me when that time comes, however. The things that I stress personally in my style/training is the ability to apply techniques, meaning drilling the basics over and over (and over) again, until I use them without having to “ponder” the situation.
I drill constantly to perfect things like issuing power (My Fa Jing sucks, but hey, that’s why I’m drilling it), alignment (to prevent being off balance, or causing a wrist, knee, or ankle injury when delivering full power strikes), balance, agility, and all that other crap. I’ve “played” with quite a few non-trained people, and they tend to vary wildly in the technique department, but my basics have served me pretty well, only because they were ingrained (somewhat), and I’m always looking for skilled partners to push me to perfect my skills.
Now that I’m slowly getting back into training more often, It’s also helping with my overall health, and crap like that. Plus I’m learning new things that I can use like more Chin Na, more grappling and anti grappling techniques, and most of all, how to use what I know within those new environments (I’ve got a multitude of strikes I can use from the knee on stomach, or even in someone’s guard, now that I understand the principles behind them).
Also, When the martial “revolution” hit, I didn’t run right out to learn BJJ, nor did I abandon my style because it wasn’t bringing home the title belts. What I did do was take a long hard look at my training and personal goals. What I decided was to take a personal journey (my own JKD if you will), and my Sifu has backed my brother and I all the way. The basics of any good solid style will always be more than enough to serve you well, but all I’m doing is to expose my “basics” to other styles, and either incorporating their “basics”, or blending the two in order to make it easier for me (ex. It’s much easier for me to use well placed strikes to pass a lesser skilled guard than it is for me to use BJJ’s methods. Until I get better at my basics in groundfighting, I’ll continue to use the positioning I learned in BJJ to deliver the strikes I learned in Shaolin).
Jaguar Wong
The 6th Deadly Venom!
[i]Jaguar’s Wife (To “Judo” Gene Lebell): “Excuse me, my friend (Tigerstyle) wants to know if we can take a picture of you choking him.”
Gene LeBell (in a gravely voice): “If he don’t mind, I don’t mind.”
- actual event from DragonFest 1999[/i]
My mommy made me… 
great post Jag.
I took Isshinryu Karate for about 6 months at the college I used to attend. Eventually I felt like I was wasting my time. I felt more confident with my fighting skills when I was just a highschool wrestler than a yellow belt in Isshinryu.
I wasn’t enjoying it very much either because there was no competition aspect. We would just punch or kick in the air or pads. I quit just before we were to start sparring or should I say point sparring(which the head instructor hadn’t allowed for years but was going to try, maybe he thought katas were the key). It looked completely useless. I would rather have payed $200 for full body padding and go all out than just tap.
Also, Isshinryu karate teaches you to retract your punch faster than you sent it out. The analogy of a whip is used, which is Booolsheit if you were born with a brain that can think logically! When a student’s gi snapped loudly my instructor would compliment the person. Yes…we will scare off our attackers now.
I had little faith in the style because of the emphasis on retracting punches faster than you throw them. It wasn’t taught in my dojo but was a pinciple(or should I say theory) that the art was founded on. My instructors, although black belts, didn’t seem competent in fighting. I felt like I could take everyone of them to the ground and they wouldn’t be able to get backup with out saying uncle.
Someone might say that I should have stayed in it for 6 more years to learn the basics or get good, well…NO.
I did take a ballet class a couple semesters later(seriously i did, but just because I was short on credits) and learned balance and the kicks were actually really similar to Isshinryu.
I told my instructor that I was going to start jiu-jitsu. I went to three intro classes but decided that the 45min commute and lack of money could be a problem =) Needless to say, I didn’t go back to karate and learn some great strikes playing pingpong all day.
I’m not downing karate in gereral. There are some bad bad men out there but they are in Holland and Japan =) Kyoshkin(if that is how its spelled) is cool because there is real fighting to develop the art.
damn, do i ramble or what..
lol @ KC =)
I enjoy it , it works , but i suppose anything can work if you apply yourself to it and train hard
Kung Fu is superior
Holy
Some of the Sh!t that you guys spew. un-friken-belivable :rolleyes:
“Life’s a great Adventure, Mate”
Jacko Jackson
Gosh Johnny, that was so insightful and specific.
Does it need to be ? Read the thread.
“Life’s a great Adventure, Mate”
Jacko Jackson
his name is “Johnny Hot Shot”, should we take anything he says seriously?
LOL
yes, yes you should.
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