Uselessness of kata in the real world!

[BrendanF]

He's this guy

But..

I am Chinese. I learn REAL traditional chinese martial arts.

 

[BrendanF]

You guys love to 'hijack' other nation's culture and destroy them !

Look what you guys have done to the Pizza? Now I can understand Italian's feeling when you put pineapple on pizza. LOL

Mmm. Kinda like China calling itself communist?

 

[Akuma]

I did the obligatory stint in TKD when I was younger. Then in university briefly Buk Sing Choy Lay Fut, and some boxing. Later I learned WSL Wing Chun for several years.

After a motorbike accident in my late 20s I stopped unarmed MA - I've been studying Japanese koryu since - Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu for about a decade now, and I just started learning Kodokan Judo and Sosuishi ryu, which has been wonderful (if a bit bruising!)

Wow! Mr. Boke . You must be One leg Martial Arts expert!

 

[Akuma]

Mmm. I am a China communist

 

[Badhabits]

Didn't pizza originate in China?
My good friend is from Taiwan, he loves to jive me about white people stealing stuff from other cultures. I then point out that he's wearing camouflage and drinking a Budweiser. That's usually when he tells me to shut up round eye!
Good times.

 

[SirKicksAlot]

Didn't pizza originate in China?

I think you are thinking of spaghetti noodles.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

kata is japanese term. In chinese term, we call 拳架 (quan jia).
I afraid viewer not familiar with the term, so i use the japanese term.

I prefer to use the term "form" instead of "Kata". In online discussion, I try to use the translation term. For example, I'll use the term:

- "Chinese wrestling" instead of "Shuai Chiao (or Shuai Jiao)".
- "long fist" instead of "Chang Quan".

I will never use Chinese terms (without translation) or Japanese terms. If I can make one person to avoid online translation, I'm doing the right thing.

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Form is to record information and for teaching and learning only. Form is not for training. You should train drill. You should not train form.

A form is like a paragraph. It may contain sentences such as: "This is a book. Boy love girl. One should not steal". There exist no logic connection between book and Boy, girl and One. To train this form 10 times is the same as to train "This is a book" 10 times, "Boy love girl" 10 times, and "One should not steal" 10 times.

I don't train form. I train combo. I may divide a form into 10 combos. I then drill each combo 20 times.

Here are examples of combo train (not form training).

 

[Kung Fu Wang]

Do people know there are 3 ways to do form?

You do for:

1. combat - you punch out fast and pull back fast.
2. performance - you punch out fast and then freeze your punch in the thin air.
3. health - you punch out slow (with slow exhale) and pull back fast (with fast inhale). The slow exhale and fast inhale seems to work with swimming.