A man spent his entire life looking for a great sage. upon finding him at his home the sage calls the man by name and asked him to come in, the said: "How is it that you know who i am"
to which the sage replied: "how is it that you do not"
A man spent his entire life looking for a great sage. upon finding him at his home the sage calls the man by name and asked him to come in, the said: "How is it that you know who i am"
to which the sage replied: "how is it that you do not"
imeant to say the man said.
Go to youtube ( no doubt the biggest collection of online videos of all types).
Key in boxing and what do you get? what are the top videos that show up and what is being done?
Do the same for MMA, or Judo or BJJ or kyokushin or kickboxing.
What do you get?
Now, type in Kung fu, or better yet your personal style of kung fu.
What do you get?
Interesting eh?
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
BBWWAHHHHHH !!!!
Sick *******, LMAO !!
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
in 2005, youtube was born.
in 2006, we may find many relevant and good clips about kungfu.
nowadays, it is more and more difficult to search and find good clips.
lots of repeats and not so good clips abound
after wading pages and pages of not so good clips
I gave up.
so I started to save good clips with a free hosting site
and then blogger
so that I may see them easily and share with folks that are interested.
there is also advance search from google
anyhoo
repeats and not so good clips outnumber the good ones
such is the life.
Speaks volumes doesn't it?
The thing is that the top results in the systems I mentioned all showed people fighting or training fighting or training for a fight ( and of course the high profile fighters being interviewed).
You search for boxing videos and you get videos of guys boxing in the ring.
DO a search for Judo and you see competitions.
Same thing for sanshou/sanda or Muay Thai or kyokushin, etc.
I can be argued that these are sport systems ans as such the competitive videos are popular and easy to find.
Great, I accept that argument.
So search for those systems and add training at the end, what do you get?
Do the same for your chosen TCMA, and what do you get?
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
what do you get when you do a search for; 'san shou kung fu' ?
For whoso comes amongst many shall one day find that no one man is by so far the mightiest of all.
what do you get when you type in zen?
how about classical weapons training?
martial medicine?
I think it needs to be recognized that Kung Fu is MORE than just a martial sport.
Why do people bother trying to stick it in that box. You want that? have some san da or san shou. There, you can now have Kung Fu as a sport.
Fact of the matter is that other martial arts just don't have as many avenues or limbs as Kung Fu does. get over it boxing, you have no weapons and meditation. boxing is still good. Get over it judo, you still never learned to throw a punch, and so on and so forth.
Last edited by David Jamieson; 01-30-2012 at 12:39 PM.
Kung Fu is good for you.
I spent most of time in search of music video from the past and present on youtube.
I bookmark or tweet about them.
I also post them on facebook and google +
when I want to listen to the music
I may look them up easily on my facebook, google+ posts.
VEVO compiling some good clips of music videos from singers.
if only some one would do the same for kung fu clips.
or san shou clips
or styles of training clips
and call it
KEVO etc etc
http://www.youtube.com/user/LadyGagaVEVO?blend=4&ob=0
http://www.youtube.com/user/vevo?blend=1&ob=4
Last edited by SPJ; 01-30-2012 at 01:57 PM.
I knew how to fight before I took up Kung Fu and had been in more fights before taking up practice than after.
But if you type "san da training" or "san shou training" you'll see plenty of fighting. These being the sport fighting models for kung fu.
So, in context to what Kung Fu is, it doesn't say much really other than Kung Fu is not just boxing, or not just wrestling, or not just throwing etc etc.
so...anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...=kung+fu+sanda
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...ung+fu+sanshou
and here's a little rbsd from teh kung fu fights search!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHiftWa3yOY
Last edited by David Jamieson; 01-30-2012 at 02:53 PM.
Kung Fu is good for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyseg...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaC1g...eature=related
wu lin da hui
entertainment first, entertainment in the middle and entertainment at last.
such is the life, too.
Indeed, if you search for sanda/sanshou you will see fighting and what is sanda/sanshou?
Modern chinese "MMA".
I mention TCMA simply because this is a TCMA forum, but the issue is present in TJA ( of which the Okinawan ones get "mixed in with")
What we should be seeing when we type in wing chun or hung ga or white crane or praying mantis, is people fighting with those styles.
I was reading Kennedy's books again, the Training manual one and the Jing wu one, and in those manuals what you got was forms, yes, but applications and even strength training and it while even then there were writers lamenting the sad state of TCMA and how they had become "flowery fists", the main view was that MA are for fighting and one took up a MA because they wanted to use it to fight ( from money or military or whatever).
But I digress.
The simple fact is that what we SHOULD be seeing when we do a search is the chosen MA being used in a fight, good or bad is irrelevant, people should be fighting or training to fight.
We do NOT see that.
The thing is that people put up videos ( be them private or commercial) of what they think people want to see, what they think their MA is all about and that THOSE people putting up videos are NOT showing people fighting, that too speaks volumes.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
I don't discount the arts themselves because there has been no model built for them to compete and I don't hold it against any of them for not getting into mma which is indeed what san shou / san da is kind of.
My art may not be your art after all and I don't think there is any value in pressing various arts into a box. In my opinion, that's narrow minded and detrimental to the arts. If a Kung Fu student wants to compete and fight, he goes and does san shou. or whatever else he's interested in that offers that.
Quite simply some tcma are not suitable for sport model and where they are is where san shou answers the call.
We don't ask boxers to train kicking do we?
We don't ask Judoka to start punching and kicking do we?
We don't ask Kareteka to wrestle do we?
We don't ask wrestlers to punch and kick do we?
We don't ask MMA-ists to study classical weapons, medicine or meditation do we?
Why is it so important to force tcma into a framework that it doesn't really fit into or that diminishes the transformative aspects of it as a preference? If Kung Fu became just another ****genous pile of stuff, it would lose it's true value, it's unique offerings outside of the context of merely fighting.
One doesn't need to learn anything to have a fight or flight response after all.
Training is just training and at my age, I prefer training to be around healthful exercises and fitness regimens thet are found within the arts I study.
I'm not interested in collecting injuries from training. lol. I think that's kind of stupid quite frankly and see no merit in it for the over 35 set and those guys that are doing that are just kidding themselves or chasing lost youth or some other mental construct that isn't realistic.
Besides, even if a Kung Fu guy takes his gun to town, he'll get derided for it and if he succeeds or fails, it will not be Kung Fu in anyone's eyes.
Bottom line, if you don't like TCMAs, don't do them, don't participate in their methods and go do what you think is better. the choice is certainly there and there is no one stopping anyone from doing that.
I dig the Kung fu I have and practice and am not in the least bit interested in fighting anyone at all. I train in the event that maybe I might have to fight someone some day and some training is better than none in my opinion, but no training negates any threat, ever.
Kung Fu is good for you.