stonecrusher69

I thought that Kali was based on western sword fighting and chinese arts

Hung Gar...is great style and hard to train.You have to have real patience to make it.

I noticed when dillmen does these knock blows the guy is just standing there.In a real fight the guy is not going to be standing there waiting for you to knock him out,somy question can he do it for real in a real situation?

yeah,I had to use what I knew a few times but that was a long time ago.When I did not have a car and I used to walk alot at night.last something happend was late at night I was with 3 friends of mine.One of my friends through a bottle at this one guy that he knew.(long story)anyway, he was not alone.he had 2 other guys with him.My frind was knock down from a side kick to the stomack.The other guy with us ran like a baby which just left me there.I tried to help my friend but when I tried to get close to help my friend this other guy kept trying to kick me in the groin.I really did not want to fight, so I just kept blocking the kick and I would come in with a fake attach to move him back so I could help my friend.I was not able to help my friend he really got a beating,but he was fine in a few days.Not a great ending but it was real...

yeah I like to see that to.I love a good magic trick.

just punch the chi will be there.

sand the floor

If all you needed to do is increase your muscle mass to increase your chi then that means body builder are chi gong masters...

Welcome back to the forum...

It's great if you can go to China and study any art from a really good teacher,but sometimes the best teachers are in your back yard.many good masters from China left already.

the only way to defeat fear is to face it...

Chen Style is pretty much a real MA.It still has strong martial roots.

come -one there is no such thing as dragons...perhaps the easter bunny is real to..

I know sifu Randy Elia school is in NJ.But sifu scott school I'm not sure where he is located at.

so how did the training go? what did you learn ?

Good Luck with your training. I have met a few time sifu Randy Elia. He is a friendly guy.His school was many years ago used to be only a few blocks from my house.Now there is a Black Tiger school ther now.BY the way what is GUMDO???I never heard of it..

I'm a not a big avocate of cross training,however I feel its very important to spar and to test your art agaist other arts.If your not able to defend agaist so other art then your own then you need to either train harder (if you lask skill )or if your teacher can't teach you what you need to know then you need to find a new teacher,but I don't think the answer is in cross training.

I have no problem with keeping an open mind,but are you saying if you don't cross train your gong-fu is useless?

It sounds like you are tring to cause trouble.you give us this story about your friend easly beating a WC sifu and he documents it,yet you will not say who he is?What the point of the post then?you make it sound like wing chunner can't fight.

I study wing chun.It 's a pretty nast art designed to kill or cripple.

the other things that come from horse stance training is a firm root and internal forse training.Also a low horse lowers your center of gravity making it hard for someone to push you over.

daedelus4 I see you study White crane style.Some people say WCK came from White crane.What similarities do you see with both systems?Do you think they are very similar or very different?

In W.C. you are supposed to keep your elbow in to generate power and to protect the side of your ribs.When I do back fist its similar to the basic WC staright punch when you keep the elbow down and in except its a back fist.(meaning your hitting with the back of the hand instead of the knuckles)

Ali...who was the Wing Chun sifu?

I have never sparred a C.L.F style but I have seen that punch before.I have sparred with some Hung gar guys before.I'm not sure if they use that punch or not.A Wing Chun guy should be able to block a sao punch.