The World Of Kung Fu

Addicted To Kung Fu

You are here: Home / Archives for Kung Fu Training

Kung Fu Training Tips – Breathing

By 4 Comments

Kung Fu Training Tips – Without Proper Breathing You Have Nothing

kung fu training

Image by Getty Images via @daylife

The single most important aspect of kung fu training is the ability to breath properly. All of your emotions is controlled by your breath.  As martial artist we focus on memorizing forms, sparring, lifting weights etc..

We often neglect our breath, even though it is the most important aspect of all your training.  Proper breathing can help you avoid having an adrenaline dump. For those of you that have experienced loosing control of your adrenaline, you know that it can be a painful lesson.

Kung Fu Training – More about breath work

Martial arts and self defense training – a breathing technique for …

Check out the weightlifting competition or training or other martial arts and you will see that she even this form of breathing. Weightlifting as a message that is breathed, pushing heavy loads. Manygrunting athletes, including baseball …

Publish Date: 02/15/2011 21:09

http://sports-martial-arts.chailit.com/martial-arts-and-self-defense-training-a-breathing-technique-for-martial-arts-nogare.html

Breathing is essential – Maryville Martial Arts

If you concentrate on deep breathing you begin to love the feel of instant relaxation it brings and you won’t get stressed out in otherwise tense situations. ***Systema (Russian: Система, “The System”) is a Russian martial art. …

Publish Date: 01/07/2011 11:44

http://www.maryvillemartialarts.net/?p=24

Martial Arts Breathing Can Lead to Mastery of the Body and Mind

Martial arts don’t just teach kicks and punches. Martial artists also spend a good deal of time teaching breathing techniques – often times it’s a slow breathing technique that martial artists have been practicing for centuries. …

Publish Date: 01/12/2011 16:09

http://social.bigonglasgow.com/tucano/2011/01/12/martial-arts-breathing-can-lead-to-mastery-of-the-body-and-mind/

Meditation and Martial Arts

As your breathing efficiency increases, so does your performance level, especially explosiveness and endurance. In most high intensity sports, including martial arts, having this advantage can be extremely beneficial. …

Publish Date: 02/08/2011 23:36

http://thai.crystaltranslation.com/2011/02/09/meditation-and-martial-arts/

Kung Fu Training – Breathing unlocks many doors

Most people neglect to spend any time really training their breathing.  Do yourself a favor and spend some quality time developing your breathing skills.

Related articles

Kung Fu Training – Creating A Strong Grip

By 5 Comments

Kung Fu Training – Gripping Explained

There are many different elements you have to train in your kung fu. Among them is your grip. It is one thing to grab someones wrist, it is another thing altogether to seize your opponents wrist and have them buckle to the ground in pain. Don’t laugh, that is exactly what happened to me in this video.

Make sure you watch the video before reading the rest of this post!

Of course this video is for demonstrative purposes, I am not fighting back but that is not the point. I know there are some people that will watch this and think something along the lines of  “That is not real, he isn’t really resisting it.” If that is what you are thinking than you are missing the point of the video.

Kung Fu Training – Don’t Grab The Wrist, Snatch The Bone

You just don’t want to grab someones wrist and hope for the best, if you are going to grab a persons wrist you want to make sure that you have a really good grip on it. In the video you noticed that Sifu locks into the bones of my wrist, kinda like hooking into them.

In this way he is able to lock in his grip and makes it very difficult to pull out from.  The technique he is using is sending the energy back into the spot he is grabbing, which happens to be  my wrist which is a weak spot on the body.

In this way he is able to use my force (energy) with his own force and really cause some pain to that area. Coupled with the fact that if you isolate something on the body it hurts way more than if you target a wider area.

Kung Fu Training – Cause Confusion In Your Opponent

If your opponent is unable to process anything other than what you are doing to them hurts, you  have the battle halfway won.  The reason for this is because your mind will process what is going on the moment it happens, whatever that happens to be.

Some people can train to ignore pain or even have a high pain tolerance, but if you isolate something their brain has no choice but to process what is happening to their bodies. This is why if you get a lock applied, it causes so much pain that the person just knows to give up.

Try This At Home…! –> Warning it’s going to hurt

This isn’t exactly kung fu training but it gets the point across. Grab a big hunk of flesh near the side of your stomach and squeeze it really hard. Hurts right, but you could still focus enough to counter. Now take the same side of your stomach and grab a little tiny bit of meat squeeze it and grind your thumb and index finger into it. You will see that it hurts a lot more.

That is what happens when you isolate something, it just hurts that much more…..

Related articles by Zemanta

Meaningful Kung Fu Training

By 4 Comments

Kung Fu Training With A Wooden Dummy

wall art kung fu training
Image via Wikipedia

One of the key factors to actually getting better at your Kung Fu is to focus on your training.  The truth of the matter is most martial art schools teach public classes. While I see a need to be able to work with other people sometimes a person believes that just by going to a public class 3 times a week that it is enough kung fu training for skill to increase.

The reality of the matter is it takes hours upon hours of dedicated training to really achieve results. This is where a Wooden Dummy could be really helpful.  Besides the really cool sound they make when you hit them, they can help hone your techniques and clean up your structure. (Of course as the saying goes wood don’t hit back!)

Kung fu Training With A Partner

It is best to have a training partner this will help keep you accountable for your actions. If you ask me if you want to get good fast do it this way.

  • Learn from someone better than you
  • Train with someone as good as you
  • Teach someone not as good as you

Add some real resistance training and you are golden.  I am a big fan of private lessons or semi-private lessons with a few public classes. Good Kung Fu training is all about dedication, commitment, perseverance, sacrifice I think you get the point. If its something you love to do, find a way to do it.

Kung Fu Training Exercises

There is this whole yin and yang hard and soft thing going on in most kung fu styles. For this article I am not going to dig to deep here with all the philosophical stuff. Rather I am going to focus on the general idea.

More on the Wing Chun Wooden Dummy

Anything in extreme is a bad thing, remember that your workout is for your martial arts training, always keep that in mind. Balance is the key to successful kung fu training.