OK, you want to have a serious discussion, no silliness or sniping?
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Those of you who are familiar with me may remember that I practiced Hung Gar Tiger/Crane kung fu for several years. There were a number of things about the style that I like, and I did learn a lot of useful things at that school, but in this thread I will explain why it is a very impractical way to learn to fight.
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See what I really want to know from you, are the things about the style that you like, that you feel have been beneficial to you.
If I want to read what's wrong about it all, then that's been done to death.
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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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So give us all a short cut.
Share the benefits of your training and spare us all the bleatiing about 'time wasted' etc.
See the internet is/can be a resource.
It's incredibly frustrating to go looking for information and find the least knowledgeable people are the ones making the majority of the posts.
So far this is just like another
'Got my ass kicked despite my TKD Black Belt, now I'm born again MMA, teenage angst' kind of thread.
I'm looking for quality of information, consideration of thought and people who know their subject matter.
If every discussion is deliberately broken down the way they have previously been on the CMA section here, then defend.net would be as well not having one at all.
Maybe just replace it with a section called
"Thai Bri says it's shit, so it must be!"