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    Ground fighting and Kung fu (all styles known as of today

    I haven't see a thread relating a style that do both punch, kick, throws and ground fighting in TCMA in the past history as long as we can recollect written data. I can see some moves with some styles, sweeping, clinch, etc, but I don't see ground fighting techniques as in ju jitsu. Back in the 70's judo or jujitsu was replaced by all the craziness of kung fu during and after BL. What I am wondering is that ground fighting has always existed as martial arts of the world. Can someone can bring some light to why in TCMA there is no ground fighting as in Jujitsu. I know about shuai jiao but I don't categorize as ground fighting. If this topic has been covered extensively I will appreciate to point to those threads.

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    In TCMA, after takedown you stab the enemy.

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    Dog Boxing kung Fu Gou Quan .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Firehawk4 View Post
    Dog Boxing kung Fu Gou Quan .

    Really, so in your opinion this style is equal as jujitsu? or fighting on the ground? I am trying to find out why I haven't seen a style similar to jujitsu in China though most of the Japanese martial arts originated from mainland China. Maybe Sanjuro has a different opinion among those who may understand what I am trying to understand. ??

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    In all seriousness because Japan has warm, comfortable, smooth flooring inside its buildings where people don't wear shoes and kneel on the floor anyway. Grappling seems like the way to go. China has filthy, rough, cold flooring everywhere even inside and no one wants to roll around on the floor unless they really really have to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by -N- View Post
    In TCMA, after takedown you stab the enemy.
    Sadly, this point is lost to these idiots. They don't realize how modern fighting like BJJ truly is. Here's another question that's thrown around in JMA "Why is there such a short time limit in ground fighting in Judo?" Answer - "because you don't fight on the f***ing ground." People used to carry pointy things that can kill you.

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    In Japanese culture, warriors carried primary weapons and hidden weapons. Empty-hand fighting was for losers who were unskilled enough to lose their weapons. Empty-hand fighting was a last ditch method that would probably result in death anyways. Standing or on the ground without a weapon were terrible ways to face someone wielding a katana, spear or naginata.
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    Most (all) iterations of Kung Fu that are available today, styles and such do not offer any wrestling or ground fighting techniques.

    Most all styles are void of such things. Locking and throwing are found in all styles pretty much, but wrestling etc is simply not part and parcel to Kung Fu.

    For the same reasons grappling or ground fighting isn't part of boxing or kick boxing and boxing is not part of wrestling etc. Kung Fu as Chinese martial arts go is kick/punch/throw/ lock. Best to pick up any grappling skills elsewhere. You might get a tip or a trick off a sifu but if s/he is not versed in another system that addresses this specifically, then that doesn't cover the scope of it. many people up their game with BJJ, GR wrestling or Judo. All reasonable and complimentary arts.
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    In Japan, it was (is) common to sit/kneel on the floor when visiting in homes and some other places. So it also makes sense that if attacked while on the floor, and if he's unable to immediately access his weapon, the MAist would need skills to deal with that situation. And such attacks would almost certainly have involved short weapons such as tantos. The idea is NOT to engage in an extended grappling match, but to be able to defend against and dispatch the enemy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    GR wrestling or Judo. All reasonable and complimentary arts.
    Greco Roman Wrestling, Sumo, Judo, Scottish Back-hold wrestling, Mongolian Wrestling, Shuai Jiao, Ju-Jitsu, and many other forms of traditional grappling share a common trait - they do very little and sometimes no groundfighting.

    Groundfighting as we know it is an ultra modern construct. Sure it's fun and effective nowadays, but it had little value when pointy things were involved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyB View Post
    "Why is there such a short time limit in ground fighting in Judo?" Answer - "because you don't fight on the f***ing ground." People used to carry pointy things that can kill you.
    And there's the difference between sport and combat.

    In traditional ghetto-fu, if you get taken to the ground, 3 homies kick you in the head.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyB View Post
    Greco Roman Wrestling, Sumo, Judo, Scottish Back-hold wrestling, Mongolian Wrestling, Shuai Jiao, Ju-Jitsu, and many other forms of traditional grappling share a common trait - they do very little and sometimes no groundfighting.

    Groundfighting as we know it is an ultra modern construct. Sure it's fun and effective nowadays, but it had little value when pointy things were involved.
    Absolutely.

    And the idea that the samurai would have willingly chosen to go to the ground and grapple with an opponent on the battlefield, as I've heard some people on other websites suggest, is ridiculous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by -N- View Post
    And there's the difference between sport and combat.

    In traditional ghetto-fu, if you get taken to the ground, 3 homies kick you in the head.

    I've even heard many purely sport-fighting proponents say that that's a cliche and either doesn't happen, or isn't a factor. Which doesn't mean grappling skills aren't important, but that they have their place. And some situations are less appropriate than others.

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    bjj teaches using an opponent as a shield while lying on the ground against multiple opponents, its still more realistic than wing chun.

    traditional folk wrestling usually emphasize holding an enemy on the ground where your team mates can finish him off. wrestling was required against armored elite troops in ancient times.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MightyB View Post
    Greco Roman Wrestling, Sumo, Judo, Scottish Back-hold wrestling, Mongolian Wrestling, Shuai Jiao, Ju-Jitsu, and many other forms of traditional grappling share a common trait - they do very little and sometimes no groundfighting.

    Groundfighting as we know it is an ultra modern construct. Sure it's fun and effective nowadays, but it had little value when pointy things were involved.
    This is a correct but misleading statement. Groundfighting existed in Euro lines of combat. It was simply not viewed as a separate class of fighting from the primary armed skills. The separation is post-Reniassance (and FYI, a number of those "traditional" skills you've listed aren't really all that old). Groundfighting was historically avoided in armed warfare but it was not excluded. It was simply ground killing more than ground fighting. It was just one end of a spectrum of ranges of armed combat, though one not particularly favored. For all the mud that ego hurt traditionalists like to try and throw at MMA, MMA strikers are probably the closest analogue to this on common display.

    But this is all non sequitur to the point of TCMA and its absence of developed groundwork, which has as much to do with societal norms as it does this notion of hidden pointy things in someones frog suit. People (non-Chinese) need to stop trying to frame every question about kung fu in terms of making assumptions about practicality and do more work into trying to understand kung fu anthropologically.

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