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The Shaolin temple monks practice Wu Shu which is just an art for show or beauty. They are not being trained for real fighting. Likewise Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are all in the same categ...
We just charge enough money to pay the rent. So students paid just $20 a month. We were not teaching martial art for profit. But then we found out that people take advantage of this and pay $100 a ...
About 50 years ago a Chinese person told me that there was an art in China where you learned to fight as a group. This was necessary to subdue a superior martial artist who is capable of fighting a...
My teacher master Raymond Chung was teaching until age 105, which is a pretty good reason to do Tai Chi. There is a book called the Harvard Medical guide which explains the health benefits of Tai C...
99% of people do Tai Chi for health reasons only. But Tai Chi is a real martial arts with kicking, punching, locking, grappling sweeping throwing and weapons knowledge. Gun disarming is not part of...
You can train for 20 years with rubber knives but that does not prepare you to fight against someone with a very sharp knife. With rubber knives you take foolish chances that will get you killed in...
There are probably hundreds of styles of Silat with techniques all over the map. Likewise there are hundreds of Kung Fu styles and hundreds of Filipino stick styles. So it does not make sense to lu...
That doesn't make any kind of sense. He never had any black belt and there is no such thing as the best black belt or best fighter ever. Every martial art school has different standards for black b...
I would use the least energy and most economical martial art which would be Wing Chun. This art does the least *fooling around “ and is straight to the point. Very little energy is required if you ...
The least effective Kung Fu style is probably one that has recently been made up and never tested against anyone. There are various comic videos on Youtube of such styles. There are hundreds of Kun...
I met William C.C. Chen in the late 1980’s. So definitely from my experience, he was one of the best and very famous too. The book Chinese Boxing by Robert Smith has a whole chapter about this mast...
I would do the Grasp Bird's Tail sequence 20 minutes each day Then find a partner and do all the pushing hands drillsxrelared to that sequence of movements. Some good people I know trained just tha...
Wing Chun spars with weapons. We spar spear vs spear, pole vs pole, knife vs spear, knife vs sword, knife vs knife, empty hand vs weapons. Then we translate this to more applicable weapons used in ...
I knew a guy who was an enforcer for an Asian gang. He used Wing Chun all the time. The head boss was also a Wing Chun guy. I also met the number two bodyguard for an important Hong Kong wealthy bu...
I would create an army of my own robots and hire the top gamers to develop a counter strategy to the dominating robots. Also I would create a super virus to take down the software that the controll...
The risk for a martial arts master to fight in a public tournament is that probably he would lose which result in him losing all of his students and the empire he has built up. Anyone can lose but ...
Try to punch yourself in the face and then try to block it. Try to kick yourself in the face with a high front kick but then lean back to avoid the kick. Then trip yourself and get yourself into an...
In a lot of Chinese systems there is no belt ranking but the equivalent to a black belt on average is probably about 5 years. After 5 years, you are ready to really learn your art in depth. After 5...
Yes there are quite a few. It depends on what Kung Fu style you are talking about since there are hundreds of styles and out of those there are maybe a few dozen well known styles such as : Hung Ga...
In the spirit world you can pass right through your opponent. Nobody can hurt the other person with a punch. There probably isn't such a thing as violence in the spirit world. That only occurs in t...
Most if not all of the people don't think much of martial arts but they just are polite and sometimes express a fake interest but really just have some negative thinking about martial arts and am m...
It would be easier to beat up 10 nine year olds than 10 90 test olds. A typical 9 year old is pretty weak and doesn't have any good fighting strategy or much speed or power. On the other hand there ...
Since the human race started , it has never happened. So likely not unless every single person gets one of those brain implants that Musk is talking about.
Tai Chi is a martial art with punches, kicks, sweeps, joint locks . The art is similar to Judo with punches and kicks included . So why not if you train it properly. It has everything that you need...
I would say either Sanda or Taekwondo is the most popular art in China. Probably it is Taekwondo. I heard that Taekwondo is also the most popular art in the Phillipines even though the national mar...
Eastern martial arts are not just about winning a fight but are about beauty of form also. In the West we have good tastes in Art, Music, Dance, Mathematics, Architecture etc but these things have ...
Brazilian Jiujitsu 100 %. Wing Chun is a good art but is not designed for ring competition and also has rarely done well in ring competition. Boxing and wrestling are a much better background for ...
Humans are still millions of times more capable than any AI programs and yet you can’t point to any human or even group of humans and think they will take over the world. Many countries have tried ...
One of the hardest strikers I know is 5'6" . He has tremendous short range power. So it is not your size but rather how you train your striking and how many repetitions you do each day and what kin...
Tai Chi is all about pushing and pulling and off balancing and in that respect shared a lot of things with Judo and wrestling. The basic two people Tai Chi exercise is called Pushing Hands.
In another post someone answered that there is nothing wrong with the USA educational system. The argument was that the problem was the poverty level in the USA and once that was addressed , there ...
Animals can teach humans martial arts. Humans typically cannot fight as well as animals. It would be stupid to try to teach an animal how to fight when they can fight 10 times better than any human...
The best thing to master in Wing Chun and in most Chinese Kung Fu arts is the stance and the footwork. Without these, most of the hand actions will not be effective.
Classical Chinese martial arts mostly did not have a belt system such as used in Japan. But some of the modern Kung Fu schools in the west have adopted a Japanese style ranking system in order to s...
In my city there seems to be a Yoga studio on every corner of the street. There are only a few people teaching Tai Chi so definitely Yoga seems to be more popular.
In other fields it is easier to see what a master is such as Mozart and Beethoven in music, Einstein in Physics, Bobby Fisher in Chess, Michael Jordan in Basketball, Mike Tyson in boxing, and so on...
I think the old type of artistic Kung Fu fighting is no longer of much interest to viewers since it is no longer considered practical because of all the MMA stuff.
How anyone would fare in a fight all depends on who it is that you are fighting. Bruce Lee was super good and most likely have been able to beat lots of people. But everyone, no matter who, also ha...
Before answering this, here is Tai Chi as a martial art. After this step is all out sparring and Judo/MMA type of combat. The early students of this teacher were all competition Judo players and th...
For me there is no interesting combat technique because a fight does not just involve one super technique. I think any art looked as a whole is very interesting no matter what the art.Each art has i...
If you are talking real fights against multiple opponents or armed opponents with knives or Machetes then neither Muay Thai or Gracie Jujitsu is best. For the ring , depending on the ring rules, t...
It depends on where you get stabbed. People have fought to the death with some severe injuries. Some people are shot and still come and stab you to death.
Probably because you don’t look at anything in depth. All the things you do are surface knowledge things. A single subject can take you a lifetime to explore if you really apply your mind and have a...
For me it's mathematics There seems to be a hatred for this subject among the general population in the West but without mathematics you would not have the modern technological world .
I have practiced Tai Chi since 1975. My teacher Master Raymond Chung died at age 105 and even a week before his death was still teaching Tai Chi. He still had a very strong voice and everything was...
Your children don't need to take martial arts but if they would like to then the age depends on the school. In China kids can start Wu Shu at age 4. In Hong Kong Wing Chun was typically age 12. Lot...
