Kung-fu in MMA....This is how I got here.

**shogunism** · Posted On: 1/02/2012 11:27pm

Thanks to Omega Supreme and It is Fake in enlightening me. I guess that is the reason my Muay Thai coach pick on my stance which I had learned from my CMA and TKD days. The side kick was the only weapon I am able to use in competition nowadays.

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 1/02/2012 11:53pm

Originally Posted by shogunism

Thanks to Omega Supreme and It is Fake in enlightening me. I guess that is the reason my Muay Thai coach pick on my stance which I had learned from my CMA and TKD days. The side kick was the only weapon I am able to use in competition nowadays.

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 1/03/2012 12:09am

Thanks. The first one I know, the second one is an interesting variation. I like.

**bobyclumsyninja** · Posted On: 1/03/2012 1:33am

Originally Posted by Omega Supreme

That check/catch/throw was the sweetness.

EDIT: I think you might have shown me the first one IIRC, at the first Boston TD, although thankfully you didn't do it to me.

**csharp.negative** · Posted On: 1/03/2012 3:13am

Originally Posted by Omega Supreme

That is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. :D

**shogunism** · Posted On: 1/04/2012 3:30am

Thanks for sharing guys!

**csharp.negative** · Posted On: 1/04/2012 3:56pm

Kung-fu to me was all about training with whoever would come along, like the Shaolin Temple. These ideas of only training one way under one sifu? Well my sifu was never like that I had many sihungs and each taught me something different.

I just wanted to comment on your last paragraph, Omega, when you said that kung fu is about who you train with, and I definitely agree with that statement. You develop your own kung fu, since the term "kung fu" translates to "(skill achieved through) hard work." You can have kung fu from doing your forms and doing stance work and bridge work, etc, or you can do that along with having friends that did/do a lot of wrestling in high school and you work on a farm throwing hay bails all day. You get your own kung fu based on what you work hard to gain. You could even describe it as different flavors of the same dish, or as my sifu describes it, math. A lot of people like to do addition and subtraction "on steroids," but we want to throw you some vector calculus to figure out when we touch hands. I'm a small dude, easily the smallest guy in the adult class in my school, so when I train against the guy that's a good foot taller than I am, much faster and athletic than I am, AND 100lbs heavier, I need to have strategies against him that are different from when I fight the guy that's my height and 20lbs heavier.

I hope this made some sense, as I wanted to just reiterate that point you made, which I think is great. Thanks for sharing your biography. I may have missed this while reading, but what's your hung ga sifu's name?

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 1/04/2012 5:28pm

Go to the advanced striking section and I'll be more than happy to address the issue.

For the record, when you use the term kung fu, as per your first part of your paragraph, that's pretty much how I see things too.