![]() The heavy sparring emphasis I’ve experienced in BJJ has taught me that martial techniques can’t be too complicated if they’re going to stand a chance of working when the rubber hits the road. It’s like Tim Cartmell said in our recent podcast conversation (and I’m paraphrasing him here) “ in some of these styles you do so much body work that you forget the other guy is actually going to throw a punch!” ![]() And that’s not even touching on the techniques you need to master. Then there are long forms to master, and then other forms on top of that. There are basics to master first – fundamental principles of body movement, posture and breathing, that all need to be coordinated together with the internal elements like mental intent, jin and calm focus, etc. Quite often we make martial arts overly complicated, especially in Chinese internal styles. I wonder how good you could get if you just did that? I think you’d actually get pretty good! You’d need other conditioning drills, of course, and stretches, but you’d definitely have the essence of something.Īnd that got me thinking about the whole concept of simplicity in martial arts. There are no complicated animal methods or anything too fancy, just practical blocks, deflections and strikes done in a CLF style and using the basic Choy Li Fut stances.Īnd then I started wondering about what it would be like if a person only ever practiced that little form, but drilled it intensely every day over and over and also spared the techniques for a year. There’s pretty much everything you need in there to get proficient at something that at least resembles Choy Li Fut. If you wanted a good introduction to Choy Li Fut, that’s it. It’s a little sequence that contains about 8 or 9 basic Choy Li Fut techniques (depending on how you count them) and runs in a loop so you can just keep doing it over and over. ![]() Recently I’ve been training a lot of a short drill-like form that Phil Duffy taught me years ago. Master Tam Sam, founder of Buk Sing Choy Li Fut.
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