Perfecting one animal style

[Snakey]

There are too many people nowadays studying multiple animal forms from systems like hung gar
choy li fut.I think it is better to dedicate your life to one animal style because you not only increase your fighting skill but also get the full benefit of what animal has to offer.People must realize that if you do a little of each animal your not getting the full benefit but just a little good from each.Most of famous masters that i heard are stylists of one animal such as,
Tak wah eng (tiger),lueng shum(eagle) and various others.Does anybody have any other views on this?

[L D S]

It's just about technique, and has nothing to do with animals in the strictest sense of the word.

Hung Gar, Bak Mei, well respected styles use five animals. But if you want to stick to one animal nothing wrong with that.

And ofcourse you can also learn it from the neighbours dog ;) Doggy style?

Ling

[joedoe]

Nothing wrong with either approach. If you specialise, you get very good at that one animal style. If you learn many, then you reap the benefits of having a wider range of techniques to draw from.

Ultimately, it is not how many animal styles you train, but how hard you train each style.

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[denali]

Say you have 3 animals with 3 techniques each, or instead you have 1 animal with 9 techniques. It's still the same number of techniques to master. It doesn't make a difference how many animals there are.

[northstar]

I believe that the point with wuxing/ng ying training is to develop five different aspects of your fighting self which are all neccessary. This at least was the original intent of these exercises/forms in the southern temple style, and hence, Hung Ga.
Re: Lueng Shum, of course he "specialized" in eagle, he trains in the Eagle Claw style (ying jaau paai) which isn't a five animal style, but an eagle style.

[Abstract]

I thought that ppl who practice Hung Gar or CLF, ususally end up specialising in one particular style once they've reached a high level in their art? is that just with Bagua & Hsing I?..or no? just asking, I've no idea, I pracitce Wing Chun :D

[denali]

It is wise to specialize in a number of moves no matter what the system. It's much harder to master 100 techniques than 10. So why not specialize in some? I'm not saying don't practice the rest, but specialization is good. Once you feel you are good with those techniques, you could always train more..

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