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Old 05-12-2008, 04:41 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by WC_Lun View Post
The problem with trying to find a kung fu ( chuan fa ) school that teaches "chinese kickboxing" is that there is more involved that putting on pads a wailing on each other. Any decent school will include strikes, grappling, ground fighting, chin na, pressure points, etc. All this is under the heading of Chinese boxing. If you found a Chinese school that focused on kickboxing in the western sense then it really wouldn't be a chuan fa system.
So conclusion is, 'kickboxing' doesn't really exist in chuan fa(Kung fu?). And that san da is basically small elements from chuan fa(Kung fu? ) put into a sort of MMA type competition? And I would be better off going for something like Muay Thai?

Kung fu schools here seem less family orientated and more... How can I say this... 1 Chinese grandmaster and everybody else isn't Chinese? Not saying that's a bad thing. But from what I've heard/ seen, there aren't any family based kung fu schools.
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