Deluxe Martial Arts Forums - View Single Post - differences between shaolin and wing chun ?

Paul-M · 01-07-2008, 04:52 PM

I do Shaolin Nam Pai Chuan, which is a combination of North and South, the website is www.cardiffcentralkungfu.org.uk. I started out just wanting to do martial arts, not knowing much about them and Kung Fu looked and sounded really cool. I really loved the sparring straight away which is why I wanna take up a more fighting oriented art like MMA or Muay Thai, but at the same time I wanna keep up the Shaolin because I enjoy forms. A lot of people say forms are not helpful for combat and I understand that but I still think they are good to practice, I love that moment when you have been trying to learn a form and it suddenly clicks, and flowing through one you have been training for a while is really relaxing.

I guess I'm weird with what I want, wanting to fight and spar but also wanting to learn forms, most people choose either direction and stick with it.

01-07-2008, 04:52 PM	#14 (permalink)
Paul-M Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 33	I do Shaolin Nam Pai Chuan, which is a combination of North and South, the website is www.cardiffcentralkungfu.org.uk. I started out just wanting to do martial arts, not knowing much about them and Kung Fu looked and sounded really cool. I really loved the sparring straight away which is why I wanna take up a more fighting oriented art like MMA or Muay Thai, but at the same time I wanna keep up the Shaolin because I enjoy forms. A lot of people say forms are not helpful for combat and I understand that but I still think they are good to practice, I love that moment when you have been trying to learn a form and it suddenly clicks, and flowing through one you have been training for a while is really relaxing. I guess I'm weird with what I want, wanting to fight and spar but also wanting to learn forms, most people choose either direction and stick with it.