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darrianation · 04-03-2003, 02:41 PM

I just want to relate a story to all of you.

Way back when I was a white belt (1977) in wado my school went to the phoenix wing chun kung fu academy for a match with them. First we did katas. They blew are katas away. Their katas were very flashy and cool to watch much like something you'd see in a disco club. Also those guys were very, very good at performing them. They were very technical. Next were the self defense demos. Again theirs was cool much fancier and flashier than ours. I was new to ma so I thought these guys to be the bomb.

When it came to the sparring we did not loose a single match. We destroyed every one of them. It was no contest at all. Even their top students were no match for ours. They had a real hard time using their kung fu. A lot of them especially in the lower belts resorted to fighting like us.

Afterward I was talking to one of them and I said your katas were damn good, but what happened with your fighting. He said they spent most of their time on katas (especially weapon katas) When it came to sparring it was mostly prearranged sparring. They did do some free sparring but not much. I was very glad I went to a school where we sparred in every class.

04-03-2003, 02:41 PM	#10 (permalink)
darrianation Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,161 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	I just want to relate a story to all of you. Way back when I was a white belt (1977) in wado my school went to the phoenix wing chun kung fu academy for a match with them. First we did katas. They blew are katas away. Their katas were very flashy and cool to watch much like something you'd see in a disco club. Also those guys were very, very good at performing them. They were very technical. Next were the self defense demos. Again theirs was cool much fancier and flashier than ours. I was new to ma so I thought these guys to be the bomb. When it came to the sparring we did not loose a single match. We destroyed every one of them. It was no contest at all. Even their top students were no match for ours. They had a real hard time using their kung fu. A lot of them especially in the lower belts resorted to fighting like us. Afterward I was talking to one of them and I said your katas were damn good, but what happened with your fighting. He said they spent most of their time on katas (especially weapon katas) When it came to sparring it was mostly prearranged sparring. They did do some free sparring but not much. I was very glad I went to a school where we sparred in every class. __________________ The law of tyranny: 1. Any power that can be abused will be abused 2. Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it. 3. If people don't resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail. Welcome to the Socialist States of Amerika . Coming soon Jan 20th 2009!