What do you think of chinese kungfu? useful for real combat?

http://www.martialguy.com my site. I want to know what do you think of chinese kungfu. so I can better do it.|||Having used it for more than 30 years successfully in such situations I can say that it is useful. Of course I was trained specifically for combat so that makes a bit of difference. If you don't train for practical usage then no style is going to be of much help in real combat.|||yea i mean it worked for david carradine.|||Kung fu rocks|||Not against sabres, canons and rpg's. Kung fu is not a martial art. Its a martial art of defense.|||Its an ancient form of "MARTIAL Arts".


Obviously it is useful for real combat.|||kungfu is good against kungfu or maybe other traditional styles, but i dont think its gonna get you very far if your saftey really depended on it|||Chinese kungfu is not the best for real combat|||Wing Chun is designed for combat and self defense applications.|||For pure fighting, you can't beat the Gracie's style of Ju-Jitsu.|||1- just because it is "ancient" doesn't mean it is good today.





2- the ony real answer here is that IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU TRAIN.





If you train realistically with fully resisting partners (eventually) and cross-train against other styles, then you are preparing yourself well for "real" combat- I say real because if someone is unarmed, it is a whole different ball game than if they have a weapon- in that case no unarmed style is going to give you an advantage.





3- CMA (kung fu is properly called, "Chinese Martial Arts") has a reputation for NOT TRAINING WITH RESISTANCE.


Many places do in fact operate like what I like to call a "pajama party" meaning you are merely dressing up in the uniform and doing "forms" (the CMA equivalent of kata) or compliant drilling.





The problem with "forms" is that while some may operate as a form of stregth training using your body weight or shadowboxing equivalent. many many teachers don't teach you how to apply them and the school doesn't even do two man drills with full resistance to even test the understanding.





5- it CAN be usefull in "real" unarmed combat if trained properly. I myself know people (including myself) who also train in CMA and have used it to cross train against other styles successfully. I also know someone who has competed in San Da and an amateur MMA events with CMA and used it successfully.





6- Limits- the thing about CMA is that it doesn't train your ground game much on average and the term "anti-grappling" is bogus. Claims of "anti-grappling" techniques are shown that the techniques do not work with any regularity against a trained grappler. Like boxing, CMA is only part of the puzzle. Most are striking arts with limited grappling applications and most of those that have are stand up grappling or locks.





7- the KEY POINT IS THAT IT MUST BE TRAINED REALISTICALLY- I say it again because it is that important.|||I've been doing it since I was born and it is deffinetly useful for real combat. My teacher has gotten into so many street fights by force that he is as good as Master Alex Kwok|||Why do you question a Martial Art thats been refined thousands of years before you. They've figured everything out. The Western culture has no idea of the practical knowledge the ancient Chinese and Japanese had well before we fricken started trying to take over the world.





If you study any Martial Art diligently you will become proficient. If you are a lousy student, you will become a lousy you will never be proficient and never be a Martial Artist.





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I wouldn't trust any kung fu school unless it's San Shou or San Da.