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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.

Fuk Sao Used In Wing Chun

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The Fuk Sao is a very effective weapon in the Wing Chun arsenal.  It is a great defensive and offensive weapon. You wanna keep your elbows down when using a fuk , if they should lift up it will weaken your structure.

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The Hidden Treasure Of Tai Chi

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Tai Chi is well known for helping to reverse the aging process.  Since the main focus of many Tai Chi school around the world focus on health and wellness. The Fighting techniques are vanishing and this writer feels that they need to be preserved.

While you can start gaining benefits from practicing Tai Chi right away, it could very well be years before you could use it in a combative sense and that is assuming the person teaching you is trained in combat.

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What has been lost seems to be the fighting applications of  Tai Chi, I believe a lot of that has to do with the fact that it really can take years to become proficient enough to apply them in actual combat.  But Tai Chi isn’t called the Grand Ultimate Fist for nothing. Hidden beneath the layers of form and energy lies a effective fighting art.

I started my training in Wing Chun and have always felt that it is great fighting art in it’s own right. However once I started diving into Tai Chi Chuan, I started to realize that Wing Chun barely scratches the surface when it comes to energy control.

This video demonstrates some of the possibilities applying Tai Chi to combat

As you can see from this video, that the techniques are choreographed and may not exactly work like that in real life. However it gives you an idea of what is possible using this art for self defense purposes.

Generally speaking, if you are looking for a place to train and want to start learning the combat side of the Grand Ultimate Fist, make sure you find a place that focus’s much of their training on push hands. Just like Wing Chun’s (Chi Sao) bridges the gap between sparring and fighting.  Tai Chi’s push hands training has a similar effect.