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Well, it looks like you outgrew your school and instructor!
That happens, and it's not a bad thing. I bet there are other Kung Fu school still more in line with the Martial aspect of the Art or just moving on to something else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe put it this way: Learning is like swimming against the stream: as soon as one stops one drifts back.
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If you look hard enough I'm sure you can still find some effective, hard-nosed kung fu schools, but if you took out a lot of the inefficient drills and traditional weapons it wouldn't really be kung fu anymore. Too much of the art is caught up in tradition and history for it to be competitive with other styles that have been constantly adapting and evolving to reflect modern training methods. Even at it's best I think a lot of kung fu's training methods will never quite measure up because they are antiquated. After all there have been a lot of advances in sports science and medicine in the last several centuries. That having been said I think there are still a lot of very valid ideas in those systems that the martial community at large is unaware of; Hung Gar still has something to offer, it's just that you have to slog through a lot of busy work in the name of tradition in order to get at it.
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Originally Posted by Troll Virus
Just in case anyone is getting confused, ther's been a bit of creative moderating on defend. net, not explained or notified by it's staff;
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I don't think the mods. did anything. I wanted to respond to you but I didn't want to hijack EF's thread about being civil to each other so I decided to make my point in my own thread.