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On my martial origins

When I started studying the martial arts I was thirteen years old. I studied under Yip Man. It was a Chinese art. The form of the martial art that I studied was Wing Chun. Some have called gung fu “a Chinese form of karate,” but you cannot really call it that because karate came after Chinese gung fu. I mean karate, and all these things, came after that, you see.

MARTIAL VARIETY AND ASSESSMENTS

On gung fu

The word gung fu includes techniques of hands, feet, knees, elbows, shoulders, head, and thighs, the thirty-six throws, the seventy-two joint locks, and the eighteen different weapons. Swordplay is the most difficult of all arts in gung fu. It requires at least ten years of hard training to be a master of it. The sword must be united with the mind, and be used as the limb of the body.

Classical gung fu analyzed

1. Classically inclined—hand position, ritualistic and unrealistic techniques

2. Rhythmic training—forms, two-man cooperation

3. Partial in structure—the nucleus and the circumference