Posted by newshound on May 04, 2003 at 05:20:02:
From: Big Soldier Dude (duder123@budweiser.com)
Subject: Re: NHB vs. SanShou vs. MT Kickboxing vs. CLF vs. VT!!!!
Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
Date: 2000/05/25
'KGEH339' wrote in message
news:20000525121235.27000.00000030@ng-cm1.aol.com...
> If traditionally trained Kung Fu participants enter a real sport fighting
> event...sanshou, MuayThai what be it..they will get mopped.
>
Maybe your Kung Fu school sucked. Your broad statement about traditionally
trained practitioners was pretty much debunked in the san shou tournament i
saw.
> This has been proven now for 30 years time and time again. That is why you see
> 'Sifu' not training there guys to spar with traditional KungFu moves...they
> only work in the flicks.
Yep, sounds like your Sifu was a fake.
> I started in Shaolin. 4 years of it. Not an eternity but I learned enough to
> know it was useless.
Maybe you studied useless Kung Fu, there is plenty out there. It doesn't
mean that other people don't train with Kung Fu that actually works. If it
took you 4 years to realize that you were learning useless things then you
might have problems of your own.