A little doubtful

Ah ya gotta love Mac! don't agree with everything he says, but I did like that quote of his about the Streetfighting.

I think MattJ And Guitarninja made a good point all the same, a lot of TMA's places don't train enough. The only place I know locally where they offer training more than twice a week is the WTF TKD at the local uni. They train 5 times a week. If I didn't travel to another dojo, I'd only be able to do Judo once a week as well.

To excel as a fighter, then you would have to train as a fighter. Train and practice with the mentality that you are going to use these techniques to fight. Try and find out what your techniques are used for, how to apply them. Learning all of this, step up the intensity. Remember you're not just training for excercise, you're training to fight.

Also like mentioned before, step up the sparring.

And if you spar, maybe you should approach it as more of a streetfight, meaning have a more relaxed stance and keeping your body and techniques loose and simple. Because you probably wont be doing 540s in the air on the street and standing in a monkey stance. Though it mite scare some people, haha

Make sure to spar as much as you can in class...even if you can't do full contact face strikes, you should be able to strike towards the face, and you should get in that habit. You should also be allowed to use Chin' na and grappling moves that are in the forms, and you should practice using those as much as possible. Making it really work will also require a lot more training than can be offered in class. There is generally not nearly enough time in class for bag work. I would invest in a heavy bag of some sort and practice all your techniques full force on a regular basis. Experiment with ways to hit, hand formations, different types of kicks. Make the techniques your own, and don't depend on the exercises in class to teach you everything.

A real fight is just sparring without rules and pretty much just do more damage to your enemy in simplest ways, just watch out as some ppl will play dirty.

You should be able to use your Kung-Fu techniques in a "real world" fight, because you train using those techniques and you will end up using your Kung-Fu out of instinct pretty much.

I train TMA! So maybe if your not learning something in your TMA, you should switch to a differant TMA

Any kind of full contact sparring will make you a better street fighter. Take two fighters- Fighter A has been in 5 street fights, one on one, no rules, and is untrained. Fighter B has been in 5 fights, one on one no rules, and has done 1 year of hard regular tgraining in Choy lee fut kung fu., with regular full contact sparring with protective gear and rules.
In a fight, fighter B will most likey win.

just train harder, look and see how your techniques can be used..and yea the important thing is to spar alot more and alot harder.

When you just train for a good amount time and then you start to spar you get to see how much strength and speed you've developed...or you can see the more advanced guy and see how fast and strong hes become to motivate you some more

hard training + sparring is directly proportional to your survival on the street
increase in (training + sparring) = increase in (survival)

geeez chinese people and their math (jk, im chinese)