I want to learn KungFu but with Kungfu i cannot fight in UFC or k1 sports what should i do. Or people with?

Kung style can fight in UFC and K1|||If you want to learn kung fu, then learn it. Worry about the competitive side later. A traditional martial art has been shown to be a great base for MMA (Machida, Liddell, St. Pierre, etc.) Fighters from kung fu styles usually fight in san shou tournaments. San Shou incorporates punching, kicking, knees, and throws but does not grapple on the ground. Pat Barry (UFC) and Cung Le (former strikeforce middleweight champ) both have backgrounds in san shou fighting. San Shou will work in K-1, except you will not be able to throw. San shou can be a great base for MMA as it teaches striking, takedowns, and takedown defense. You will have to familiarize yourself with ground techniques if you want to be at the level of a UFC fighter though.





Also, make sure you train in a traditional kung fu system. Some kung fu is a modern form produced by the chinese government. It lacks many of the real applicable techniques of a traditional martial art.|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrZM6Jlkj鈥?/a>





Watch Sifu Eshan Shafiq kill this kickboxer in a K-1 type tournament, and then tell me Kung Fu doesn't work. I happen to be an accomplished kickboxer, whom trains in a Southern Chinese martial art (Choy Li Fut), and trust me, get it down, train, train, train harder, and you can use this style anywhere from the ring to the street. Of course there are techniques in Choy Li Fut, as well as all other internal martial arts by the very nature of internal martial arts, that cannot be used in the ring (eye gouges, explicit groin shots, throat shots, knee breaks, etc., etc.). Don't use these techniques when you spar, don't use these techniques when your playing around with your fellow students, and soon enough your body will pick up on the idea of what to use and what not to use when play sparing. However, in case you end up in a true to life, life or death situation, you can always break out these forbidden techniques and start breaking some legs, collapsing throats, and ripping out some eye balls.|||UFC is Mixed Martial Arts theres no restriction on what martial art you practice to get into UFC or MMA you just have to be really good at fighting.Lyoto Machida the light heavyweight champ is a karate expert his main style is karate and nobody said he cant use karate in MMA.Kung fu alone wont be good enough though you will have to learn jujitsu so that you can fight on the ground.|||You can do kung fu in UFC...





It wouldnt be too effective but theres no reason you couldnt, at least most of it that doesnt break the rules.|||There have been Kung Fu fighters in the UFC. It just isn't very practical for MMA fighting. It is all strikes with pretty much no ground or take down techniques.|||Look up Cung Le, he is a sanda practitioner (which is modern kung-fu), and he also competes in MMA.|||Guess you have to make a choice then, eh...





Would you rather be a martial artist or a fighter?