Master Kongling: facing the other martial arts

Master Kongling All, 6DKF School Wing Chun 1

0 Shares

Widening my vision of martial arts

A note by Master Kongling – With this article we continue the narration of my martial life (read Master Kongling: confrontations and teaching).

My master pushed me to further expand my horizons by inviting me to actively follow more and more complete courses of other martial arts (read 6DKF: what does it teach?).

He was very focused on the fact that I must not stop widening my vision.

He wanted 6 Dragons Kung Fu to include the best aspects of the other martial arts and at the same time he wanted it to know their “setting and weaknesses” (to use his words).

Note – This article has been asked by one of our Core Course practitioners on Patreon (see how to attend our home study classes here Learn Kung Fu online: a beginner-to-expert course).

Partecipating to full courses

Martial arts

I started actively various courses:

Ju-Jitsu (traditional and modern)
Self-defense
Armed combat (Eskrima, Kali and Silat)
Combat training (functional training, etc.)
Capoeira
Wing Chun
Aikido
Basics of Boxing
Kudo
Mei Hua Quan
…

Each day I had more and more training hours in different styles / disciplines and they were full courses, not stages / seminars.

Other disciplines

In addition to martial arts, I found time to:

Follow Yoga classes
Put together previous NLP knowledge
Deepen the Qi Gong study
Start with the early rudiments of Traditional Chinese Medicine

You can not know everything

In spite of the wide amount of dedication time I knew with certainty that I would never become an expert in these individual sectors: it was not my goal.

What I was looking for was a confrontation with people, ways of doing and always different points of view.

The idea was to enrich as much as possible 6 Dragons Kung Fu:

Both through positive aspects to be captured
Both through the negative ones to be discarded

After the first period of information overload (contradictions, different thinking methods, etc.), I sought (without any pretense) to find:

A “synthesis” of what was similar
A “separated application” for what was incompatible

The result: good and bad experiences

This practical learning experience had a lot of unexpected consequences, some positives, some negatives:

On one hand, I have been able to collaborate with extraordinary people (both in terms of training companions both in terms of instructors)
On the other hand, unfortunately, I have come in contact with the rotten, bureaucratic, commercial, limited, amateurish, belligerent, dispersive and castrating side that pollutes a big part of today’s martial world (previously unknown to me)

The frustration

Prolonging my studies (with great regret and disappointment) I began to suffer some of the typical limitations of the “classical” martial arts gyms:

Where profit (though thin) overcomes the idea of martial art
Where respect for individuality disappear in favor of complete exploitation (as in an assembly chain)
Where self-exaltation replaces teaching
Where envy takes the place of encouragement / esteem

In addition to these minor problems there were added some other more substantial:

Workouts were often lazy and full of dead moments (effectiveness, speed, power and spatial intelligence were often excluded from the lessons), I had to integrate with additional individual morning workouts to compensate for the lack of dynamism
The techniques were explained in a too limited, linear, amateurish, ineffective way, nothing was brought to the idea of excellence
In-depth questions were often avoided, whether for limited expertise, whether to do not go too fast (in detriment of earning)
Learning and intensity was each time leveled in relation to the appearance of new temporary students (instead of dividing the classes into skill levels)
…

A note by Master Kongling – Even if it is sad to say, the situation was degenerating and the frustration caused by certain “personalities” with a too restricted vision had made me reach the breaking limit. Unfortunately, this is a very common situation, I have eared this kind of stories too many times, even from some of my students.

This way I came back to ask my master’s advice, the advice of one of the few people who helped me with honesty and transparency to trace my path.

Continue…

In-depth articles

A note about the practice of other martial arts – When and how it can be a positive experience
The complete list of all the martial arts – A regularly updated list of all the martial arts (present and past)

Questions

Reply in the comments and share your experience:

Have you ever experienced similar problems / difficulties?

Author: Master Kongling

Founder of 6 Dragons Kung Fu.

Twitter Facebook

How to master 6 Dragons Kung Fu?

Are you searching for:

Daily training exercises?
Synthetic theory and concepts?
A step by step path from white to black belt?
A path (clear, consequential and gradual) designed to build real martial skills?
A direct contact with Master Kongling?

Go to our Patreon page and choose a training plan: starting from the Practitioner level, you will gain access to all this and much more.

Inside each Premium Lesson, you will receive the same teaching (practices, tips, concepts, small secrets and corrections) reserved to the live students of Master Kongling.

Important - Once a certain number of registrations are reached, no other participants can be accepted. For more information write to: [email protected].

Follow the White-to-Black Belt Course (25$ / month):