I've been doing some thinking on practical Vs application. When I've been away from SRKF over the past two years I dipped my toe into some "practical" martial arts training. It was pretty interesting to experience this. I've already had 5 years of training under my blue belt but I was very interested in watching the new people.
You see there was very minimal time spent on proper stances, alignment and technique. There was a lot more emphasis on the moves for say blocking and countering. I found this interesting as without proper alignment and grounding there wouldn't be much power to either block or counter. I watched how the students went through the motions that they were taught and some looked pretty good in a controlled environment.
However the next main focus of the school was sparing. It was then that I really saw the deficency of this style of training. From my perspective the students sparing were off balance, not centered and when it came time to throw a punch or a kick it lacked power. When the speed of the sparring session increased students with little proper understanding of how to generate power from a properly centered stance quickly either covered up and become defensive or wildly threw punches and kicks.
I love the style of Kung Fu that we're learning at SRKF and the foundation of everything is learnt at the white belt level. I personally have forgoten this lesson as the techniques has increased in complexity. However when I get back to basic everything falls back into place again.
Mr. Ian Repay
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