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This is why you must train a live Martial Art or you'll end up with ego delusions!
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<blockquote data-quote="Moto" data-source="post: 634860" data-attributes="member: 6945"><p>You gotta separate the wheat from the chaff when choosing a school of any style or discipline.</p><p></p><p>Kung Fu and Karate are not necessarily dead.</p><p></p><p>Kung Fu instructor here. I sometimes go to an MMA school, where my brother chooses to train. I was a varsity wrestler in high school and qualified for state championships. Then I studied at a Kung Fu school. Not a McDojo, not for profit. It is underground. The master boxed for many years in his younger years, then studied many different styles of Kung Fu, with the most time in Kenpo Karate, before combining the best of it all in one system. </p><p></p><p>Some background info on myself and my style before giving my humble opinion. Doing Kung Fu made me a much better wrestler. It gave me the killer instinct that I lacked. My Kung Fu school was and is far from dead, according to the meaning of the OP, but it is underground. We sparred a lot. We have unique drills and techniques. We have deadly forms. Yes, practicing good forms can make you a better fighter. Sparring is important, but drills focussed on developing certain aspects, like speed, precision, timing, toughening your knuckles/wrists/shins/forearms, etc... are also important. </p><p></p><p>After moving to another state from my Kung Fu school, which I call with confidence an elite fighting brotherhood, I was unable to find anything near its equal. I found a Kung Fu McDojo, and cleaned up even the best students, with their multi-tipped black belts, during a "Sparring Festival" while wearing my white belt. I only signed up for Tai Chi classes at that school, by the way, to learn their form. I do quite well indeed, with my Kung Fu and wrestling, against MMA guys in sparring. </p><p></p><p>MMA still has a lot of rules, but true less than a standard Karate tournament. Take off the gloves, the grappling will be much less important. Boxing is limited in the kind of strikes you can throw. Avoiding a punch is good, as they do in boxing, but the technique of checking a punch with your big-ass glove will not transfer to the street and could get you hurt. Why not do more than simply avoid or do a basic block of a punch? It is a waste to not do something with the gift. You may not catch most punches in some great arm-breaking technique, but you can use your block/parry to control and maneuver your opponent. I've trashed Tae Kwon Do guys this way in an open martial arts tournament.</p><p></p><p>If you think chi is bullshit, and cannot feel a chi ball (like in the video being ridiculed at the beginning of the thread) I just feel a little sorry for you. You don't need that kind of sensitivity to be a badass fighter or pro boxer, but life is richer when you have more layers of perception than the merely physical. I no longer waste it on girls I hardly know, having only done this with my girlfriend in recent years, but most girls are more gifted than guys at feeling chi. You can indeed make a ball of chi, instruct someone how to do the same, then merge them and have a very real sensation of the energy. You can temporarily heal migraines like my brother has done with chi for his gf at one time, with no formal training or fancy lessons in Chinese medicine. PM if you're curious. No, I can't make fire or electricity, but I do not disbelieve in the possibility for extremely developed people with advanced minds and spirits.</p><p></p><p>Most important thing- a school should build character. I would have been thrown out for misusing my Kung Fu. This is not a copout, we are free to engage in tournaments and MMA and whatnot. But to bully or use it to engage in robbery or crime would be unforgivable. I don't know if most MMA gyms would feel the same way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moto, post: 634860, member: 6945"] You gotta separate the wheat from the chaff when choosing a school of any style or discipline. Kung Fu and Karate are not necessarily dead. Kung Fu instructor here. I sometimes go to an MMA school, where my brother chooses to train. I was a varsity wrestler in high school and qualified for state championships. Then I studied at a Kung Fu school. Not a McDojo, not for profit. It is underground. The master boxed for many years in his younger years, then studied many different styles of Kung Fu, with the most time in Kenpo Karate, before combining the best of it all in one system. Some background info on myself and my style before giving my humble opinion. Doing Kung Fu made me a much better wrestler. It gave me the killer instinct that I lacked. My Kung Fu school was and is far from dead, according to the meaning of the OP, but it is underground. We sparred a lot. We have unique drills and techniques. We have deadly forms. Yes, practicing good forms can make you a better fighter. Sparring is important, but drills focussed on developing certain aspects, like speed, precision, timing, toughening your knuckles/wrists/shins/forearms, etc... are also important. After moving to another state from my Kung Fu school, which I call with confidence an elite fighting brotherhood, I was unable to find anything near its equal. I found a Kung Fu McDojo, and cleaned up even the best students, with their multi-tipped black belts, during a "Sparring Festival" while wearing my white belt. I only signed up for Tai Chi classes at that school, by the way, to learn their form. I do quite well indeed, with my Kung Fu and wrestling, against MMA guys in sparring. MMA still has a lot of rules, but true less than a standard Karate tournament. Take off the gloves, the grappling will be much less important. Boxing is limited in the kind of strikes you can throw. Avoiding a punch is good, as they do in boxing, but the technique of checking a punch with your big-ass glove will not transfer to the street and could get you hurt. Why not do more than simply avoid or do a basic block of a punch? It is a waste to not do something with the gift. You may not catch most punches in some great arm-breaking technique, but you can use your block/parry to control and maneuver your opponent. I've trashed Tae Kwon Do guys this way in an open martial arts tournament. If you think chi is bullshit, and cannot feel a chi ball (like in the video being ridiculed at the beginning of the thread) I just feel a little sorry for you. You don't need that kind of sensitivity to be a badass fighter or pro boxer, but life is richer when you have more layers of perception than the merely physical. I no longer waste it on girls I hardly know, having only done this with my girlfriend in recent years, but most girls are more gifted than guys at feeling chi. You can indeed make a ball of chi, instruct someone how to do the same, then merge them and have a very real sensation of the energy. You can temporarily heal migraines like my brother has done with chi for his gf at one time, with no formal training or fancy lessons in Chinese medicine. PM if you're curious. No, I can't make fire or electricity, but I do not disbelieve in the possibility for extremely developed people with advanced minds and spirits. Most important thing- a school should build character. I would have been thrown out for misusing my Kung Fu. This is not a copout, we are free to engage in tournaments and MMA and whatnot. But to bully or use it to engage in robbery or crime would be unforgivable. I don't know if most MMA gyms would feel the same way. [/QUOTE]
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