Posted by KC Elbows on October 16, 2002 at 07:27:54:
In Reply to: Re: YooSul posted by RDRR on October 15, 2002 at 22:35:19:
'Most chinese arts have deteriorated to below abysmal levels.'
[rolleyes]
'Some are still quite good however, I don't know of any that are used by any first rate army or miltary groups.'
What you don't know will make you look silly. Try the chinese army, among other things, their bayonet is pure kung fu spear(and they have the best bayonet design I've seen), their hand to hand is pure kung fu, and considering people are about as loathe to fight the Chinese as they are us, that would be about as first rate a military as you're gonna find. Seeing as how there's no official martial art for the US armed forces, that means that kung fu is the only style used as a standard by any of the top armies in the world, which is exactly the opposite of what you mistakenly said.
'. The good ones left actually take too long to develop real skill at.'
All skills take time. You're making blanket statements about the hundreds of styles that make up kung fu without any real substantiation.
'I found out first hand early on after a few years of judo that most kungfuists with less than 10 or so years in 1 good style were going to be weaker fighters and appear more uncordinated that the average thug.'
Anecdotes can be fun, but they aren't real evidence, and they aren't necessarily true, are they?
'Wing Chun (sometimes) is a notable exception.'
So, this means you actually met a wing chun fighter, as opposed to all the other styles you just commented on without having even the slightest possibility of having met and fought practitioners of them.
Thanks for posting.
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