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Kung Fu – The Illusion Of Strength

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Kung Fu – Are You A Mighty Oak Tree?

There are only 2 types of fighters in the world. Those that use their strength and those that use skill. Unless you understand the principles of energy you will always loose to a stronger opponent. Interestingly enough is the fact that unless there is a resisting force it is impossible for strength to be used against you.

Kung Fu – For Every Action There Is An Opposite And Equal Reaction

Kung Fu – Final Thoughts

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I have always believed that a true self defense system is one that a small woman would be able to use effectively against an attacker. I have heard some pretty silly things when it comes to self – defense for example  I had a conversation with a woman who told me she was taught in a class to get raped and don’t resist it. In this way you will be able to live another day.

My jaw dropped, there are like a million and 1 different things you can do in rape situations , laying their like a dead fish is not one of the options I would choose, nor is it one of the “techniques” I would want my daughters to use.

Understanding how to connect, conform and control energy is the great equalizer.  knowing this and a 240lb man can do nothing to a 130lb woman.  Just look at Bruce Lee, in reality he was a small man. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe he was around 125lbs when he was making Enter The Dragon. He could seriously kick the snot out of a 300lb man.

Ultimately it is not the person who trains harder that will be the victor, it is the person that trains smarter that will if you know what I mean.

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Kung Fu Training – Creating A Strong Grip

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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…..

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Meaningful Kung Fu Training

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Kung Fu Training With A Wooden Dummy

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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.