Originally posted by Royal Dragon
I'd rather not see it standardised either. Style is not about curriculem, but about expressing your art in a certain way.
There are 1000's of ways of doing Kung Fu, if you standardize it, you will have only one way, and lose 999 treasurs, that will never be recovered.
I disagree. look at judo. It's very standardized. but you express it in your own way still. I for example like sweeps and pickups. there are guys I train with who live by hand throws, and others by hip throws. And even within those categories, we have techniques that we prefer, different stances, different setups, etc. your art is your art reagardless of standardization.
Look at my ultimate grappling thread. before the SC guys can talk, they need to establish a standard lingo, as they have different names for the same technique.
That said, you shouldn't standardize kung fu as a whole (for example, you can't have SC, WC and mantis all using the same curriculum), but standardization within the various systems can be a very good thing.
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