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Originally Posted by Tenchu
Well, I am the only one here who is makeing a liveing off of it and training full time, so yeah. But I am still going to be wrong about some things. Tell me if you think I am.
The only style there in which the head is constantly protected is San Shou. The rest have low gaurds and are mostly weapon forms. They only protect their head when the need arises. This is what I am talking about. One only has to google images the names of the styles to see what I mean. You'll get pics come up of guys with their hands around their waist and stuff. Even so, I dont just google for all my info, I do know what these styles are, but have never done any of them, but have met many who have. Most the Kung Fu I know is all Shaolin and Northern Quan. Dont misundertsnad me though. The styles are well fought through. That is the problem. Most of them are the collection of skills from several masters after their entire lifetime was spent mastering them. Thus, to become effective at the intended level you have to train as these masters did. Most styles of traditional Kung Fu will recomend 20 years of full time training before you can use the style at the intended speed and stop everything thrown. The shortest I know is Wing Chun, 7 full time years recomended. I believe if you spent these 20 years training and were sincere in training, you would surpass the levels of what I am calling more 'practical' such as Muay Thai and Kick Boxing forms. Your technique would become so complex and formidable that the simplicity of such Boxing styles would become their downfall and they would be easily crushed. Luckily for me there are only a few people in the world, mostly in China, who are bothering to spend their time doing just this. And most of em are monks, so I doubt they'd seek to fight me. Do you seriously study these styles of Chinese Kung Fu for the purpose of fighting, Ivon?
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Dude my Mantis requires me to guard my head in almost all situations. All my limbs are trained for this purpose.
And yes I am practicing this Kung fu for the purpose of fighting. I am being trained hardcore and its gonna take around 10 years to become decent at this art, not even pro. So far i've done it for 2 years since i've graded without failing yet. When I said I was practicing Kung Fu I meant its the REAL stuff. There are only 2 of these schools in the whole of England and we are directly linked to the Shaolin temples in China. In another 2 years I will be travelling there for a while to see what extra stuff I can learn at that level.