The ONLY gung fu orientated instructor that I know can actually fight and teach you to fight--is from the Boztepe wing chun group. He is located on Broadway near the Austin hwy intersection. Nico Lahood.
There are only two legititate groups of wing chun (if you care about lineage) and that is the LT on Austin hwy and the Boztepe on Broadway (mentioned above).
Gilbert Leal from what I understand is very good--and came away from the group on Austin hwy many years ago.
NO traditional shoalin orientated places that I can recall, not unless you count shaolin-do karate a martial art (ack!).
There's lots of fighting arts here though--as stated there's judo, jj, a few muay thai places, the boztepe wing chun school. If they train hard and actually spar--you probably won't go wrong no matter where you go.
Last edited by SAAMAG; 08-12-2007 at 11:02 AM.
"I don't know if anyone is known with the art of "sitting on your couch" here, but in my eyes it is also to be a martial art.
It is the art of avoiding dangerous situations. It helps you to avoid a dangerous situation by not actually being there. So lets say there is a dangerous situation going on somewhere other than your couch. You are safely seated on your couch so you have in a nutshell "difused" the situation."