Why is my class so wimpy?
I've just recently started (I've done like a dozen classes) at a fairly well known east coast hung gar school. It's not bad, but all they seem to teach is forms. It's like going to school and taking one class. All they seem to care about are these ridiculous tournaments, which is probably just them and their parents watching. I'm not a communist. I don't care about modern wushu. I'm a ****ing thug I want to fight!!!
I'm pretty handy with a staff. so I asked if I could show someone some things and they acted all freaked out. Why do they have the massive collection of weapons?? This was way after class.
I like the forms, I'm fairly graceful and flexible naturally, and don't mind learning them, but I'm a grown man. It's depressing
I don't start new threads alot, so try and respond thoughtfully if you can. I'm not just trying to start some ****, I'm really like 50/50 thinking of quitting:(
Forms are very important, BUT
If your not being taught the application to them, it's all just empty dance.
HOWEVER, if your not doing the empty form right, many won't bother to teach the application either. At 12 lesssons, it's doubtfull you've got the details down yet, unless you have been doing this style fora long time prior.
If you want to fight, you can find some schools that use simpler mechanics and don't require as much muscle memory programiming, like MMA schools. You might be better of there, or some sort of Kick Boxing school.
Many Chinese schools drill only forms for quite a wile before geting inot fighting. I personally dissagree withthis and I think that if you are to drill forms for 40 minutes, you should get to work applications fro 40 minutes as your reward for hard work imedeitely after. But that's me.
Re: Forms are very important, BUT
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Originally posted by Royal Dragon
If your not being taught the application to them, it's all just empty dance.
HOWEVER, if your not doing the empty form right, many won't bother to teach the application either. At 12 lesssons, it's doubtfull you've got the details down yet, unless you have been doing this style fora long time prior.
If you want to fight, you can find some schools that use simpler mechanics and don't require as much muscle memory programiming, like MMA schools. You might be better of there, or some sort of Kick Boxing school.
Many Chinese schools drill only forms for quite a wile before geting inot fighting. I personally dissagree withthis and I think that if you are to drill forms for 40 minutes, you should get to work applications fro 40 minutes as your reward for hard work imedeitely after. But that's me.
yeah, I agree - with everything except the mechanics thing. My bjj school does drills and mechanics to a higher degree than my longfist school almost. you HAVE to have the mechanics right for a lot of things to work, unless you are strong enough to muscle your opponent into the tech, which is not the ultimate goal. same thing with kickboxing. the mechanics of a thai kick get pretty in depth.
In the bjj class, you know how many tachniques we learn per class? 1, maybe 2 and we spend the next 40 mins to an hour drilling it. The next hour to and a half is rolling and applying what we've learned.