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Hi robothat I have a couple of people i teach that have done other styles from black belt taekwondo to 2nd dan goju ryu karate. They find it hard to adapt but it takes time as they have had that blue print of those styles impressed on them I always tell them don't forget what they have learned as it is useful just use it in a different way. Kung fu suits the body not you suit kung fu. If you are a kicker or a puncher it will bring he best out of you. I have many good kickers as well as punchers in my class some can even kick better than i but as i point out to them You can have a formula one car outside but can you drive. It depends on how adaptive your are and how you want to be

I practice a southern base system and the yells started loud when I was a beginner but now they are more like small sneezes for a better word it depends on the degree of what you are doing with the techniques You also could go down the route of having the five elements shouts which will depend on the outcome of the strike being yin or yang or attacking on the meridians to give greater effect. etc in a real life tumble i would find this hard to do but i guess if you practice it you earn the right to use it

i dont think there is a style like arnis but but to your question will a kung fu person pick up a stick and use it probably yes try not to think of a weapon as weapon but a extension of your hand

I agree with you on this I think everybody wants to be the weekend warrior when I first started in Kung Fu in the 80s we used to do press ups on wrist fingers if it was not hard enough it was not good now where i teach Maybe i am older and wiser but as I look back with fondest memories Did i really need to do that conditioning i guess yes it wasn't the destroying of your hands but it was the mental pressure that you where put under that help you develop as a martial artist. And again in this climate of teaching and litigation sometimes it is best to run a line on health and safety lol

Excellent post

Errrh yeah but if you look at the transcribes of wushu and how they got there it get a bit complicated so best let it be. i have some links somewhere to explain the transcribes

lol yeah probably shouldn't use it, especially when talking to a Chinese-stylist.

so who did create it. I can see it is not derived from Taekkyon as Taekkyon seems more like northan kung fu with it fluidity and softness. I know a kick is a kick punch is a punch regardless of style. But Tkd just seems more a karate without the depth of the internal side any takers would be helpful I don't think you can really say who created it. The reason I say that is becuase TKD isn't really just one thing. TKDTutor does a decent job of explaining it all: http://www.tkdtutor.com/02Taekwondo/TaekwondoHistory/14TKDDevelopment02.htm Basically though, you have a bunch of Korean guys who get educated in Japanese martial arts (mainly Shotokan and some Judo thrown in) before and during the Japanese occupation of Korea. These guys then set up their own schools (called the Kwans) during the 1940s and early 1950s and start teaching their "Karate", sometimes called Tangsoo-Do or Kongsoo-Do. After the war the masters start getting together and you begin to see the beginnings of TKD as the groups begin unifying. Then in 1955 the kwan leaders and Korea's president decide it would be a good idea to have a unique Korean name for the style and "Taekwondo" is born (not all of the Kwans go under this name though, that's why you still get styles like Moo Duk Kwan, Tang Soo Do etc). After that people start arguing and splitting and you end up with the ITF and WTF. So in a sense "Taekwondo" is just like using the term "Kung Fu", it just describes a group of similar styles from a region and you can't really pinpoint its creation down to one man. Probably not the best reference using kung fu as kung fu means hard work so you could do kung fu cutting the grass or cooking sorry to pick hairs. But I understand what you are saying thanks for the response

I do not do Karate but all concepts always seem the same ie block and counter although kung fu does it in a different way its all the same. But there is a series pod casts on breaking down applications on Itunes and it is free I have found this very interesting and interpretation very good there are some masters of tkd and karate at the top of the game. explaining things from there forms. It has help me to interpret thing s in kung fu forms even better as well worth a look go to itunes then podcasts and type Martial Arts Explorer there is at least 50 or so podcasts production is very good keep well

no worries I was thinking would there be the same instance with tkd and karate I think I will rummage around

so who did create it. I can see it is not derived from Taekkyon as Taekkyon seems more like northan kung fu with it fluidity and softness. I know a kick is a kick punch is a punch regardless of style. But Tkd just seems more a karate without the depth of the internal side any takers would be helpful

I was on the kukkiwon site looking at the origins of the style and found this http://www.kukkiwon.or.kr/english/information/information01.jsp?div=01 then i went on the itf website and found this http://www.tkd-itf.org/pub_web/ver_eng/founder.html my question is what is what there seems ambiguity on both counts and ideas

Hi Karate Guys I put this up in the kung fu section just thought you might be interested in the link to sanchin and white crane kung fu a very interesting transition

yeah that would be cool this what i have found which does show a transition from kung fu to karate i would of thought if you reverse the roll the other way would of been more beneficial horses for courses