meaning of kung fu

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back in the day kung fu master were known to take up to 90 people at a time with no problem.

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90 people! Thats insane. And Id say rather impossible. If your dealing with more than four your about to get beat down badly unless you can bluff the others out by hurting one really badly. 90 people! Come on, why would you even post something like that? Besides being far fetched fantasy its also irresponsible. There are impressionable minds at this site that have access to everything you write. Keep that in mind before some over imaginative 12 year old goes out and challenges thirty or so people and gets dominated because someone here said its possible.

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Chinese is contextual language. The same word can mean slightly different things, depending on the context in which it is used. In the case of gongfu, the broad translations can mean skill/art/work/effort/labour.

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It is also my understanding that in China wushu is a generic name for martial arts, all Chinese martial arts,

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Right you are.

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90 people

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Well, there was one man that by himself stopped an whole army at a gate in China. His name was Lu bu, he was somewhere around 2 metres [at that time, chinese people weren't very tall]. His father was the "Hong Te" or emperor at that time and he was attacked by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and the other brother I can't remember his Mandarin name.

Anyway, The emperor, Dong Zhuao, his army was obliterated except his adopted son, Lu Bu was the only one left. Lu Bu said he would let no living man pass under the Hu Lao gate. On that day, Not a single man passed through. An army was stopped by one man, Lu bu. At that time, the army numbered somewhere around 30,000 - 50,000.

I find this one to be really hard to believe but if this is not true, then why didn't the country of Shu win that day and Liu Bei become emperor? Why did Shu write down something like this? I mean, if they said that on that day they got beaten by one man and had to postpone their campaign for another 15 years, due to one man, don't you think the people would lose ALL morale?

The most amazing thing is: All he had was heavy armor, halberd and his horse which was at that time quite a powerful one. And he stopped an army, if it was nowadays, why not just shoot him with a colt. m16?

-Taison out

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yeah i find that hard to believe too, but the kung fu partioners back in those days were highly skilled and was training in the kung fu that isnt like the ones today

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( like someone said here that the martial arts today have alot more crap in it then what it use to )

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I don't need anybody to hold my hand to train. I know how to develop power in all my techniques. The problem nowadays is people don't know how to think for themselves. As long as you are depended on others for your training, the best you could ever be is number 2. If you know how to think for yourself you can be as good as or better then anybody from any time.

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If you ever need surgery, let's hope you don't get a doctor who thinks like you!

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In two or three years someone can become quite proficient in fighting. Big deal.

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Fighting is the lowest form of martial arts. In two or three years someone can become quite proficient in fighting. Big deal. Thinking that fighting is the highest level of MA is just a trap that will not allow the person to advance to the next level in their training.

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In two or three years someone can become quite proficient in fighting.

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You have to multiply that by 10 to get an idea of how many years I have under my martial arts belt.

Guy

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If you ever need surgery, let's hope you don't get a doctor who thinks like you!

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Actually I tried to get a job as a doctor in the local hospital as a brain surgeon, I admitted on my application I didn’t have any experience but I was willing to start out as a foot doctor. You know, start out on the ground level and work my way up.

They didn’t appreciated my sense of humor.

Guy

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A fighters life span only last at the most twenty years so if it takes you ten years to become good than you already missed the boat.

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Well that is fine with me because if you multiply 10 times 3, you will still have to add another year to equal the time I've been active in the martial arts. And I’m still going strong.

In fact right now I am in the best shape of my life. I weigh only 145 pounds yet I can lift over 400 pounds on my own vertical leg press. And not just one rep but around 15 reps. Would you like to see a video of that too? In fact I have a whole basement full of single station weight machines.

Oh you guy are too much. lol

Guy

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What kind of fighting did you do MMA or point?
By the way I have a basement with a wooden dummy, double end bag, 6' thai bag, and a speed bag. For weights I like the gym, all those cute girls.

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In my basement I have a Yukon angle leg press rated for 800 pounds, a Body by Jake cable machine, and the next three things from Body Solid, a seated leg extension leg curl machine, ab board, and a chest pad row machine. In my living room I have a Body Solid pro squat rack (too tall to fit in basement), and a 12 section puzzle mat, each section I square meter for forms. In the dinning room I have NordicTrack’s brand new CX 1055 Elliptical machine. This machine is huge, you can see it at Sears. It looks like they took a treadmill base and put an oversize elliptical machine on it. On the highest resistance it takes about 70 or 80 percent of my body weight to move it. Of all my weight machines my squat rack is the most versatile. I got the one where you can slide the safety bars up and down with just pop pins. Its great for stretching in, for laying a board across and using it for a work table, and a base to mount martial art accessories that I design.

As for fighting I know MA means martial arts but I don’t know what MMA means. I only went to one tournament and I didn’t like that scene. First I had to drive hundreds of miles to another state, then I had to sit half the day on a hard gym floor, after doing that I just wanted to go home so I didn’t really have my heart into it when it was my turn to fight; I didn’t do good. I just thought it was a big waste of my time especially when nobody really cared if I won or lost. I never went to another tournament again. That made my instructor upset but oh well. I didn’t really care about rank either. It seems to me the more rank you have the more you are expected to instruct others and the less time you have to work on your own thing. So now whenever I take a short membership to check out a new gym I never test for the next belt. Even if you are a black belt they want you to start out with a white belt again, but that's fine with me because as a white belt they will never ask me to instruct. Everybody can see that I have a very high skill level and I will help people. I just don’t want to teach classes. I love to train. Most of the time black belts wont fight me because it makes them look bad getting beat by a white belt. And most of the time I’m sparring people who are hostile against me and we are practically fighting for real. That doesn’t bother me either because that is the way I learned. When I get rough with them they take it out on my car so I just ride in 2000 dollar cars, that way I don’t care what they do I’ll just get another car.

So now when ever I feel like working out with someone else I will go to a TKD gym that is owned by someone who seems to like me, he is also a policemen. He will let me work out for a whole year for only 200 dollars. That is real cheap. But even when I work out there I work out by myself. I would come in an hour or two early and work on my ITF forms even though that is not the forms they teach, the class will all come in work out and leave and I am still in my own little space working on my forms after they are gone. Sometime I am the last one in the gym and have to turn out the lights and lock to door when I leave. This is a good TKD gym and teach good skills. Still just my presence there rases the standard for everybody else. I can’t wait to wow him with my Chinese forms.

When ever I want to amuse myself with pretty girls I will buy a one day membership at the WYCA. Sometimes I am watching the women gymnastics working out with other people also watching and they would say. Wow, look at how limber they are going down in the splits that way. And I would say, I use to be that limber when I was young too but now I can only get my crotch this close to the floor and hold my fingers about a quarter of an inch apart. They would say oh no way. And I would say yeah I can. So then I have to get on the mat and flop down in the splits and they are all standing there with their mouth open and all the young women gymnasts are clapping their hands for me. And I have even more fun with the full grown aerobic women. I would find a mat somewhere where they can see me and go through my whole stretch out routine. It kind of gives my self esteem a big boost seeing all these cream of the crop women falling all over themselves trying to get my attention. But I know they just want me for my body so I don’t take them serious.

Guy

PS, isn't it fun being cool? It's even more fun to talk the talk I learned from Muhammad Ali and walk the walk I learned from China and Korea.

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PS, isn't it fun being cool? It's even more fun to talk the talk I learned from Muhammad Ali and walk the walk I learned from China and Korea.

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hold your left hand palm down, press your right forearm against the back of your left forearm and push your right arm to the left letting the friction of your right arm turn your left palm face up and presto the left hand is in a position you can grab the hand to apply the technique.

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What are you going on about?

-Taison out