Real Kicks?

[diego]

did u finish watching the chuojiao videos
it shows them kicking pads and bags, theres a guy moving a 280 pound box with his kick. i think he has the real kick

thanks for the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXeX...eature=related

at 2:45 they do swing kick to the back of the head in reps...that's fine that you are young and like to swing your legs and snap your neck to the posterior side...isn't that bad for the upper and lower vertebrae...do old folk in china practise that kick...I mean it's one thing to distort your body for war, it's another to maintain archaic practises when you teaching self defense...we do have guns no need to karate guy the knuckles and ****

Cool Thread Lop...my kicks were getting good for form but then one day I was drunk and kicked a door but at the bottom was a hidden mailbox where i happened to connect and swell the whole lateral side of my foot, haven't been kicking since...

[bawang]

u stop training kick because your feet got bruised?lol? how u train ur fist then rofl

about the high kicks, looks like that school train both people that want to perform and peopel that fight. the women and children high kick to the head, when the men kick low to the waist only

[Lokhopkuen]

thanks for the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXeX...eature=related

at 2:45 they do swing kick to the back of the head in reps...that's fine that you are young and like to swing your legs and snap your neck to the posterior side...isn't that bad for the upper and lower vertebrae...do old folk in china practise that kick...I mean it's one thing to distort your body for war, it's another to maintain archaic practises when you teaching self defense...we do have guns no need to karate guy the knuckles and

I've seen some old cats that can do that swing but they started as children. Why practice these skills? There is an old saying "If one can not extend the limbs freely then it is not gung fu."

The above is just a training method to open certain musculo-tendon lines in extreme. The extreme in the opposite direction is chin to toe. The extreme swinging from left to right heel and toe to touch each ear.

You mention guns.

Do guns make empty hand martial skills obsolete? Just because there are guns is the practice of the sword a waste of time?

In the words of a great Traditional Gung Fu Master I quote:

"I am deeply passionate about our national martial
arts; concerning the various boxing arts and weapons, even down to the various secret weapons, although
I am not intimately familiar with all of them, yet I
still have some past experience with each one.

Personally, though, I believe that today's world,
where guns are so powerful, is not like the days of
old where one had to completely rely on one's skill with weapons. If one were to spend ten years
or more of bitter training in order to master a particular weapon, not only would this skill not be particularly useful, but it is also a needless waste of time. However, I believe that the practice of boxing ("fist-art") and swordplay ("sword-art") is still quite useful.

Boxing is useful both in training the body and as a means of self-protection. As for the sword, of all the weapons it is the most elegant and refined. Chinese scholars have always regarded the sword and the qin (zither) as the companions of the scholar; their praises have been sung in poetry and song, and to practice these is regarded as a refined pursuit. If one can attain the true essence of swordplay, then not only can one, when the moon is bright and the wind calm, draw one's sword and delight in the "dance" of
swordplay; one can also use sword skills to fight with short sticks or a cane. Truly, among weapons, the sword is the most elegant and sharp; it is not for no reason
that it is called a "treasure"!


"Chinese Martial Arts embody harmonized teaching and training techniques which serve as either self-defense, healing, psychological revelation, vivfying exercise, or a spiritual path, and could act as a catalyst to people who would normally not be interested in spiritual practices or other esoteric training."

I am simply offering a wider perspective related to things Martial.

[Lokhopkuen]

An old Kicking demo of mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4fYGHijK0

[SIFU RON]

For real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsAEcaQ8tQ

[Lucas]

okay, this one kind of for a joke. but still good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORvTunk3VY

but anyway, we all know bruce lee had very fast legs. and he could kick very hard.

heres a good way to work on your sidekick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnILq2Mw6Kw

although he pushes more than i would like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0crUD3vr9o

this looks like the same gym, but this video shows better snap.


personally, for kicking almost all of my kicks are chinese. i learned a bit of tkd kicking, because i like for some cases the speed of the chamber that the koreans use for certain kicks. in kungfu i was taught to snap my kicks through my target, and keep my base foot grounded and rooted at all times for better balance, control, and power, of course this is different for spining kicks.

[omarthefish]

I started my MA career, like so many others, in TKD way back in jr. high. I eventually completely abandoned training high kicks because I kept getting smothered whenever I sparred with anyone with any real toughness. I ended up in Hung Gar for a long time and was totally sold on the whole idea that you should never kick above the knee in a real fight. Trained in China since 2000 and the Taiji and Baji I learned there only reinforced that idea. Then last year I came back to SF for a while and met this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV5pAfRB5Q8

Completely revolutionized how I see kicks. The dude can throw down. I could NOT get past his feet to close on him. He was an occasional sparring partner with me last year and now I have added high kick training back in to my training. He's high kick obsessed and also one of the top 2 or 3 fighters I have ever sparred with.

Definately got the "real" kicks.




p.s. The comments in the description of the clip are NOT him. He doesn't call himself "sifu" anything and he doensn't talk like that.

[sanjuro_ronin]

For real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsAEcaQ8tQ

Very awesome.
Excellent clip too with such a variety of styles.

[Wildwoo]

No members posted an video?

[Lucas]

No members posted an video?

where it only that I had a video camera....

[Lokhopkuen]

No members posted an video?

A lot of these folk would rather surf the net than actually practice gung fu me thinks
My kicks are just average for a hobby practitioner such as myself and getting weaker and slower everyday as I age.

Truth is I was hoping some of these oh so outspoken "experts" might show us some skill other than the ability to make half wit catty comments via their anonymous screen names. Oh well.....