Hung Gar Tiger Crane

chiu chi ling performs the famous tiger crane hung gar set, a virtual encyclopedia of destruction...

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• hung
• gar
• hunggar
• kung
• fu
• chiu
• chi
• ling
• tiger
• crane
• shaolin

[GottaBeSaid]

@ZatoichiBlindSword The TRUTH of it is, how many people carry guns around? Not that many! Considering all the people in the world & all the confrontations that happen, the percentage of unarmed confrontations greatly outweighs armed conflicts. Martial Arts are extremely "relevant". That said, if a gun shot DOES happen, good luck having a drawn out struggle!

[chaoimon]

@ZatoichiBlindSword The irony is that a gun is INCREDIBLY limited in it's function. Too close, a martialist will take it away. Too far away, it is highly inacurate. Then you have to consider that the fuctional "business end" of a gun is only about two inches, a line drawn from there shows just how limited the gun is. On TOP of that, one bullet is not likely to kill someone, unless its in the head, or possibly the stomach or lung. All of which adds up to nothing when faced with martial systems.

[zeng0304]

@chaoimon it may not kill, but it may hurt as hell

[Daokwan]

Its not like someone wants to kill you with a gun, except if he is a killer a mafia dude or its a clumsy robbery haaha. Im sure in 99% of the fights there are no guns, much more probable a knive, but that can be handled by an experienced fighter with a complete training, also guns can be countered if the fighter is in advanced position, and can take the gun, if not well, we just humans after all, I wouldnt risk it.

[NiteSaiya]

@chaoimon @GottaBeSaid

Pull a gun on a martial artist, doesn't matter who he his, unless he's mentally unstable, he's taking cover. You dramatically underestimate the effects of a bullet literally ripping through tissue. The effects of it on bone. On nervous tissue. Someone pulls a gun at any range and you cover or you risk being killed or maimed by the twitch of the man's finger. And calling this a "martial arts system" is a stretch. It's choreography. Come at me with some Muy Thai/Jujitsu.

[FunkyFyreMunky]

@JackieJea Yes he is. He's a hung gar grand master, but he starred in loads of old Golden Harvest kung fu films in the 80's, usually in comical roles.

[FunkyFyreMunky]

@nocturnalserpent Unfortunately for me, I'm much more likely to get knifed by drunk teenagers than find mahjong players in my local parks, so if it's all the same to you I'll stay indoors, watch anime, do my kung fu, work on my shogi and mahjong games, keep on top of my Japanese language studies and listen to The Seatbelts or some Soil & Pimp.

[JackieJea]

is that the c fut gwai from kung fu hustle? lol

[nocturnalserpent]

@funkyfyremunky you say you have alot of culture experience but, fighting styles are only a small part of asia's culture. song and dance, intstruments and clothing, and lifestyle is the rest. you cannot learn about all of a persons culture just from learning how to fight. and yes i do know that anime is japanese but you completely misunderstood what i said in my first comment that people influenced by cartoons, i did not say "anime, i said cartoons that represent different aspects of culture.

[nocturnalserpent]

@funkyfyremunky if i wanted to know about mahjong i would go to a park and see how the real advanced chinese men play today. like i said i dont need to watch an anime to know about something i watch the real thing in front of my eyes. As for you playing majong with your friends because you saw this anime "akagi" well it just proves my point that people are driven by the fact that anime depicts something from a culture of another and then theyre are then influenced by that to learn about it.

[FunkyFyreMunky]

@nocturnalserpent By the way, you do know that anime is japanese. If I were interested in the matial arts depicted in animes I'd still be doing jiujitsu, or have moved on to kendo, iaido, or aikido. If you like culture and customs, you should watch a series called Akagi, it's about a mahjong player. I learned to play watching that and I occasionally play with other fans of the series so that pretty much blows your "cultural respect" arguements right out of the water.

[FunkyFyreMunky]

@nocturnalserpent 1st of all, you seem to be talking like you know me. You don't. I've been boxing from 14, jiujitsu from 16, Japanese language, wing chun, hung gar and choy lee fut for the last 3 years. Been watching anime for about 2 years. Considering that I'm nearer 30 than 20 that's more martial arts and proper cultural experience than just anime. You're just wrong. By the way, My favourite anime is Mushishi. No fighting in that. It's all japanese mythology.