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Old 04-18-2008, 01:36 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I don't think he is by any means focusing on whether Chinese martial arts are any more or less effective then anything else. The point he is trying to make is there is no martial art that is called Kung Fu. Kung Fu or Gung Fu translates as through time and hard work one can obtain skill. You could literally have the kung fu of playing piano or cooking. Chinese martial arts correctly should be classified as Quan Fa (fist art) Wu Shu (matial art) since wu shu has been identified greatly with the performance art of modern wu shu the term Guo Shu or Kuo Shu (combat art) has been added to differ between the two. MM47's point is if you do Kung Fu are you really doing a martial art or just being suckered in. i.e. I had a guy stop training with me to do Kung Fu and I asked him how kung fu was going and he answered back very irritated it's gung fu not kung fu. I was like ok enjoy your idiocy.

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