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Originally posted by darrianation
If you are a kickboxer, there is nothing wrong with your sparring looking like kickboxing. In fact, that would be quite desirable. If, however, you are a kung-fu practitioner, sparring that takes on the form of kickboxing is quite a problem.
Unfortunately, the majority of kung-fu practitioners look primarily like kickboxers when they spar. Falling into this practie is the "kickboxing Trap". But there is a way to avoid the trap altogether or at least escape if you've had the misfortune to fall into it.
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If this was the case, then did the kung fu schools I looked into/trained at taught kung fu as well as kickboxing techniques? An example of this would be the Lau Gar schools in the UK - they teach kung fu and kickboxing?
In the Hung Kune school I trained at for a number of years, we were taught the traditional kung fu stuff as well as kickboxing techniques?
I think another question that should be asked is why this persons students aren't trying to use the techniques found in forms in the first place? If the students find them to be flowery and useless, then its because of two reasons:
1. They haven't been training long enough to apply them properly
2. The techniques are genuinely useless and its far safer to spar in a kickboxing manner (guard up, jabs to probe) etc.