Wong Fei

And a lot of them just a little.

I guess a lot of them do now, huh.

There are so many ways to kick a man, but Japanese kick kind of like a Chinese men.

Any list unequivocally has to include Legend of Kung Fu Hero with Jet Li dressed in a chicken suit. It's funny too.

Hey everyone! I have just started Gung Fu Classes with a student of Adam Hsu out hear in Yokohama, Japan! I was Just wondering if anyone has heard of Adam Hsu and could tell anything about him and his Gung Fu? I would like to hear it from somewhere other than his website.

Just watch grandma kick the crap out of Jackie Chan in Drunken Master and then tell me who kung fu was made for.

Thank you so much for your heart felt words, but you are too kind. Thank you again

It has been said that there has been a long standing opinion that most of the techniques in Gung Fu are nothing more than archaic nonsense. That it has lost it’s validity after years of being pasted down verbally and having its masters withhold information from there students for reasons of security and integrity. After hearing such claims to a high frequency, it seems that there is little reason for me to contest that a good amount, maybe not most, of the Gung Fu exponents out there have benefited from sources that have been modified or even completely rebuilt over time {I say benefited because regardless of what anyone thinks about the legitimacy of what someone knows or not, hard work is hard work. I fundamentally believe that this is one of the most important factors in good health along with concentration and relaxation.} I feel like I should bring up Bruce Lee at this point as an example of someone who has walked the path through a variety of martial arts styles yet come back with a strong reverence for his Gung Fu beginnings. Bruce lee although understanding that the Gung Fu he had learned was not the end all of all styles, which in all likeliness no style is, still held a withstanding opinion that it was a more well rounded style and that the street fighting applications were more direct with the inclusion of attacks directed at the groin and such areas. These sorts of attacks that some other sports, namely traditional Judo or Aikido, do not normally practice and are things that when thinking of brawling at an early age can seem to be an obvious yet unappealing direction to take a fight. But then again, Aikido and Judo, I am sure, can have there techniques applied to street fighting quite well in some instances and Wing Chun, the style that Bruce Lee, as I recall, studied, does have quite the reputation for being brutal and in some instances has been referred to as a style better suit for a women to ward off a rapist. Mr. Lee did, on the other hand, maintain that like any other style it does have its weaknesses which he held one which was its stringent conformity to tradition. Another big thing that he felt set Gung Fu apart from other styles was the Gung Fu practitioner’s preoccupation with being and moving like water. This certainly contradicts, in some interpretations, a stringent conformity to anything. This one fact of the good fighter’s ability to adapt is a truism that can cross over into to any field of study and any facet of life just as much as the holding of ones ground and resistance that inadaptibility can provide. One more truism that past through this mans lips was that Humans are born under essentially the same circumstances with the same set of extremities. Though the supra human or highly talented individual may be able to take any style and raise it to the point that people are unable to argue its validity, a man only has two legs and two arms. The very specific applications and techniques may differ to a large extent but are all fundamental in premise. Aim, strike, guard, think, and dodge: these are the things that make up a fight. Torso, strong heart, arms, fists, spine, feet, legs and brain: these allow you to fight. Just Like A through A on a chromatic scale and subdivisions of time give you all you need to understand and play music. It is up to the individual to learn how to listen to others music and decide when to adapt or stand there ground. I believe that anyone who sticks too rigidly to any style whether it be in music and Martial arts will not be able to fair as well in group situation, be it a song or a fight. I will also go as far as saying that each human has a latent uniqueness in the subtleties of there movements and will never reach the carbon copy status of any style. All styles when learned and relearned are adapted. Thank God for this dynamic world! In conclusion I would like to state that I do believe that using Gung Fu styles rigidly can yield good results, if you can call the outcome of any fight a good result. Though we are only arguing over this mans word and that he may or may not be right under the context of the article, I believe that I cannot dispute him or agree with him without seeing the examples that he has seen and spar with him myself. It does seem to me though, that if you study anything seriously it will be incorporated into the way that you think and move. A man born in Texas will always have a little Texas in him and no matter how diluted it may get over time, the trained eye will seek and find that little bit dieing to be seen. If you know Gung Fu you don’t suddenly forget it when you switch stances. Mohamed Ali is not a Gung Fu practitioner, but if he was I am positive it would reflect in his movements as Mohamed can be seen in the movements of Mr. Lee.

If you would not mind then, could you please elaborate on this much ill understood style?

Whether one may find it fair or not to point out an obvious parallel in Japan instead of providing first hand accounts, I will do it anyways to the detriment of my own credibility. Most everything in Japan has borrowed heavily from the Chinese. From the architecture to the writing system which in turn affected the lives of all masters in question. for someone to claim that there is little evidence of Chinese influence in one of the Japanese martial arts, regardless of whether it is intrinsically and distinctly Japanese in flavor, especially when considering the fact China is an older culture and that if it was not for China, Japan would have a completely different way of spelling the word Jujutsu, seems quite unrealistic. Now this of course is not to say that this style may not have developed on its own accord and that China has not been influenced by the Japanese through time. It simply means that I can't hardly walk two meters in Japan without recognizing something as being dually Japanese and Chinese in nature, excluding various things that may have no discernable ties to the mainland or that may have Korean influences. Again, for realities sake, just because there are thousands of miles of ocean between Asia and the United States does not diminish the existence of crows on both land masses and that unless you name a specific animal there is no way of truly stating whether it has traveled or not. But then again, there are only so many ways to kick a man, right? By the way, at least 1/3rd of the interest that can be found in life is in its origins, the other 2/3rds being the present and the future. It would seem to me that they rely quite heavily on each other to form who and what we are.

Walk with a straight back. Fight with an iron skull.