Lesson 4 – Why choose to practice Kung Fu?
The main reasons for choosing to practice Kung Fu
The list of reasons to start practicing Kung Fu can be endless, here there are only some of the most important / interesting:
- It teaches you to defend yourself and the people you love (not just physically)
- Daily, it brings infinite energy and well-being (it also helps to prevent little / big illnesses)
- It makes you every day satisfied and at peace with yourself
- It teaches what is the right amount of concentration, discipline and preparation necessary in every aspect of life
- In terms of personal development, it is a goal for life that, at the same time, helps to give meaning to it
- It fills the dead time that in many cases we waste harming us (or others)
- It strengthens character, self-esteem and teaches you to understand others
- It educates in respect, self-control and patience
- It teaches you to never give up, to always get up again
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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).
The main reasons for choosing 6 Dragons Kung Fu
In particular, 6 Dragons Kung Fu is:
- Accessible to anyone who truly wants to learn it
- A martial art open-to and inspired by other martial arts (Jeet Kune Do, Shaolin Quan, Ninjutsu, Systema and many, many others)
- A “liquid” martial art open to personal experimentation and customization (read The true heart of 6DKF)
- A complete fighting system with a broad overview of the core / collateral skills of a true warrior (read 6DKF: what does it teach?)
- Born in our millennium for our millennium (in terms of self-defense, lifestyle, etc.)
- Specifically created to be studied in the context of online learning and serious home study (with constant practice)
- Created to enhance the practitioner through the style and not vice versa (read A 6DKF for each one)
- Not only a pack of techniques but also a training system studied to be effective, gradual and never monotonous (to maintain the improvement curve constantly increasing)
- A set of interconnected principles of which the techniques are just samples, emanations but not the only possible ones; at the end of the path, a diligent student becomes able to adapt the basic theory to the practice in a so deep manner that he / she is able to adapt if not create his / her own techniques
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A note by Master Kongling – 6 Dragons Kung Fu can be well defined with a famous phrase by the philosopher Bernard of Chartres: “We are like dwarves on the shoulders of giants”.
The inverted learning method of 6 Dragons Kung Fu
6 Dragons Kung Fu is not what is taught but what is learned (read The 6 Dragons Kung Fu’s way).
This is the formula that we use to create real warriors (read also The fighter and the warrior):
- Awaken of body and mind
- Allow body and mind to express their natural attitudes
- Add martial technique to personal attitudes
- Add to the technique high-level psychophysical martial skills (read All the skills of 6 Dragons Kung Fu)
- Improve training and connect personal attitudes, technique, and martial skills
Following this “unorthodox” way (read The use of unorthodox methods):
- Each of us becomes an expert in a personal expression of 6 Dragons Kung Fu
- We can truly be all different and release our potential at its maximum level
A note by Master Kongling – It is almost impossible to learn martial arts only by ourselves but with a guide that gradually identifies our errors, we can reach a level of preparation that has no equals.
Is it possible to learn martial arts online?
Dedication, determination: where is Kung Fu?
“There’s no need to go to Shaolin Temple to train as a Shaolin monk.” – A Shaolin monk
Everyone has an opinion about learning martial arts online, from a book or from a video (read Online learning and martial arts: is it possible?) but the only way to know the answer, dear friend, is to try (read Is it legit?).
There are very few things that discipline, preparation and concentration cannot do but, those who think that these 3 keys have to come from an instructor, will never learn anything (even at the Shaolin Temple in the ancient centuries of its highest splendor).
Read also Learn Kung Fu online: why it is better and when.
If the goal is to truly learn to fight…
The only certain thing is that without fighting and / or without partners (at least periodically) we lose the concept of “martial art”, as in a dedicated gym, in our home, everywhere (read also How to use martial arts in a real fight).
Let’s be completely clear: 6 Dragons Kung Fu does not force the practitioners to do sparring, it forces them to be realistic, to understand that theory; in a real self-defense situation (or in a sports competition), is completely useless without practice.
Understood this, can it be a good choice in life to not fight with anyone and to use Kung Fu only as a way to discover yourself.
The discriminant is awareness:
- Do you want health, wellness or happiness? You are not forced to fight
- Do you want to learn to fight? You have to combat and get hurt
A note by Master Kongling – To learn to swim, you have to get into the water and get wet: the more you do it, the more you learn (all the rest, alone, is nonsense).
In-depth articles
- 10 things that change for 6DKF’s practitioners (physical) – An example of 10 things that, physically, change in the life of a practitioner
- 12 Things That change for 6DKF’s practitioners (mental) – An example of 12 things that, mentally, change in the life of a practitioner
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December 12, 2017 @ 4:56 am
What kind of sparring?
December 12, 2017 @ 10:51 am
We have various kind of sparring, with different levels of interactions, intensity and goals. Do not worry about physical contact, you will be gradually prepared to this and at the end you will find it a completely normal activity.
In our meaning, during training / sparring there is no winner or loser, we are not enemies / adversaries, we are friends working together to grow, to test, to experiment without competition and without the idea to prevail or worst to cause damage.
The best way to fight (as Masaaki Hatsumi teaches) is taking it as a game, in a relaxed manner.
You can see more about this argument here:
https://www.6dragonskungfu.com/category/training/sparring/
December 15, 2017 @ 2:10 am
Hello, I am Yan Lei from China, what about spaces for training and training tools?
December 15, 2017 @ 4:34 pm
This is a subject of the next lesson:
https://www.6dragonskungfu.com/lesson-1-first-kung-fu-training/
December 19, 2017 @ 6:06 pm
How can I find training partners?
December 19, 2017 @ 10:55 pm
You can read this article:
https://www.6dragonskungfu.com/5-effective-ways-to-find-a-training-partner/