How hard are the requeriments on your Kung Fu Programm ?

[mooyingmantis]

How hard are the requeriments on your Kung Fu Programm ?

I want to ask to instructors and students about how many forms do you think is immportant an student need to memorize before he can star to learn new forms?

In large styles like Northern Shaolin or Praying Mantis with a large number of forms and weapons how do you work ? Do you teach 10 forms and push your students to memorize all them or do you only focus on the forms your student is learning right now and you don't push him to keep and memorize the previous forms learning years ago ?


thank you

My Northern Praying Mantis instructor said we should practice a form 1000 times before expecting to learn a new one. He emphasized quality rather than quantity of forms.

I choose to teach less than five mantis forms.

Theories/strategies from each form are extracted and taught.

Students drill every combination from every form as they study the form. Drills are done on the wooden dummy, BOB, focus mitts and a training partner. Combinations are expected to be worked into the sparring session in each class.

After one form is thoroughly trained in the above methods, a new form is introduced and trained the same way.

Students are expected to remember every form (and its quan pu) and be able to perform it whenever asked, regardless of how long ago the form was taught in class.