Is Kung Fu overated? When was the last time a Kungfu fighter won K1 tournament? Either Muay Thai or Karate win

Answer 1

What is the national sport of CHINA?QUAN FA which means fist art .All martial arts are unsuitable for sport and have to be so altered that their original intent is lost.

If a challenge match in the lawless days of ASIAN history lasted more than 3 or 4 techniques it was considered a long fight usually with one of the participants crippled or dead.
Yes there is a lot of bull associated with KUNG FU but that's the fault of phonies on both sides of the PACIFIC OCEAN and gullible followers looking for secrets that dont exist.

Answer 2

Could go either way. From the schools I've visited in North America, Muay Thai is more sport based and kung fu is more theory martial-appreciation based where they sell belt stripe tests to gullible 12 year olds, so here a Thai boxer could probably beat 2-3 kung fu guys. However, if it was 4 hours x 6 days a week for two years in a Shaolin temple shoving their hands into barrels full of hot pebbles and stuff like that it would probably be a pretty even fight.

Answer 3

I'm afraid Sixtus is incorrect here; many Chinese soldiers and tactical police are taught gongfu. Just look up stuff on the Taiwanese SWAT teams, for example. And they don't just strip it down to the bare bones like most professional combat units do, they teach all out.

Tournaments and MMA cage fights aren't the only indicators of effectiveness. It's a mistake to use them as the only measuring rod. Gongfu is certainly less overrated than Muay Thai or BJJ--two of the more overrated styles around these days, although they are very effective arts themselves.

Answer 4

It depends. Wushu today has lost a lot its combat roots, due to an appeal to performance in most cases, but traditional kung fu, and Sanda are both powerful styles. Sanda is pretty well-known in the MMA/Standup world. Cung Le is a good example.

The only thing overrated about Kung Fu and the like is the claims of the supernatural, which we know in most cases is malarkey.

Answer 5

From what little I know most of what you see in tournaments is Thi Qwon Do or some of its many derivatives. Where as Kung Fu is much like Thai Chi and less popularized due to the fact of its nature of harmony and balance.

Answer 6

San Shau

enough said

Answer 7

Well you said it yourself son. Add to the list, no special forces or tactical police, or prison response teams use it, even the asian countries don't teach it!

99% of martial arts membership is white suburban guys in western countries,who want to do something that won't make them sweat too much.

If anyone feels Kungfu is worth more than that they should write to the president of china and ask why the countries who invented don't even teach it to their soldiers or police...

Answer 8

kung fu is like superstitious art iner powers ans stuff nothing real at all.