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In Karate, we have our kiai yell for when we want to add emphasis to our strikes. What is the equivalent of that in some of your styles?

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In our particular school of Wing Chun we don't have any. We're just taught proper breathing and the like.

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same here, in my kung fu class we dont do any kiais...dunno what its like for other styles though....

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Bruce Lee did Wing Chun, didn't he? I wonder where he got the idea to yell so much.

The directors of his fimls, no doubt.

American Kenpo Karate- First Degree Black Belt

"He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position."

Ed Parker

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Bruce Lee did Wing Chun, didn't he? I wonder where he got the idea to yell so much.

The directors of his fimls, no doubt.

No, I think they were his idea. Pretty sure I heard this somewhere, like in a documentary or something.

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Hung Gar has some but not kiai style. It's because breathing adds power (qi and taiji quan style) - every movement with a breathing part has a different type of breathing part - unlike karate where evertything is kiai . . . .

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