I'm sorry, but my take on these post tell me they should be titled....
"my attack on systems I did not train enough or properly, if at all and know little about the history of...the reality"
I will say no more in this post or any of your future attack posts after this so feel free to all that follow to attack away...I will leave you with...Long fist comes from Changquan...you may want to research its history. And Most Long Fist you find today is form based, modern wushu. MOST martial arts systems, and many Chinese systems, do not need to be fixed or changed for the future to make them effective. They need to be trained properly as they were originally trained....and most are not
Have a nice day
I haven't seen any attacks in this post. Nothing I've stated in my post is an attack either. If you have information that you would like to share then feel free to share it. The small bit that you have shared is good information especially if you can point people in the right direction or towards more accurate information.
Everything you say about the system needing to be trained properly is something that I strongly believe as well, to the point where I don't believe in splitting a system into a "healthy only component". My personal thoughts is that a person who only trains martial arts for health gets only half of the health benefits.
I think the only way to get the full health benefits of a martial arts is to train it for function, right down to the sparring. I believe that even the lightest of sparring has good health benefits. Sparring can be done without head shots or it can be done to practice a specific skill set. I think people short change themselves when they only train for one part.
I think too many people make the assumption that things can be split and extracted in a pure component. A good example. Vitamins. While vitamins are good, our body makes better use of vitamins from food. In order to do that one would have to change their diet and eat healthier, this in turn would reduce obesity issues. I think Kung fu is like that.
In terms of long fist I think it's a great study in body mechanics. The science of it always amazes me, but the only way to see it and experience it is to train it functionally. I'm not sure why my son is suddenly interested in Kung Fu, but I see the amazement in his eyes when I explain kung fu from a practical easy to understand way. I used a long fist technique to explain how to "dropping ones weight." I did the technique as we were training and I told him to block my attack. When my arm reached his arm. I stopped and placed my arm on his guard. Then I gently sunk my weight on his guard. He was amazed a how much heavier my arm became from such a small movement.
I think there are a lot of wonderful things that people miss out on simply because they do not use the techniques. Through my own experience I think there are things about long fist that can only be learned by trying to use the techniques. To be honest I think that's true for all systems. But for long fist, I'm afraid that so much is lost when student's do not try to use the techniques.
