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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drakmar" data-source="post: 850797" data-attributes="member: 1318">Yeah.. Blanka's style is pretty impressive... I have been trying to get that electric shock thing going for past couple of years.. must be because I am learning it from a book and not the master himself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Seriously though.. I personally believe that a martial art can be recent (made within the past 100- 150 years) and still be relevant.  The main ones I can think of off the top of my head are Aikido and Jeet Kune Do.  Now both of those martial arts are effective combat styles.The other thing reason why I believe that these styles are useful in today, especially styles like Aikido, is that they are definately NOT a lethal style.  I don't see why an average person needs to be able to kill with their hands.. disable yes, defend yes.. kill.. No.But.. as I believe I and many others have iterated it is not the style itself that makes a good street fighter, it is the person doing the MA combined with other things like their Instructor.  One of the major things that I feel makes you good at a MA is that you actually LIKE and ENJOY the one you are doing.. I have tried Tong Long.. I sorta like it.. and if I couldn't do Hung Gar, I would do Tong Long... but it wouldn't be the same to me.  My sifu in Hung Gar teaches me in a fairly traditional way very similar to the way he learnt in Hong Kong.. at his own home, and the only way I got to train with him was by introduction of a friend of my sister's etc.. He was explaining to me that one of the major reasons that Hung Gar and many other Kung Fu styles maintain Forms/Kata's etc is not to set a series of moves into your muscle memory.    According to my sifu it is so that past masters of the art could put a particular move into the set so that it is not forgotten, but did not have to teach the move per se to a student who they thought was not ready for it.. and after many years with or without the master they may finally understand why that move was in the form.  This is one of the reasons why he believes that it is extremely important to NOT CHANGE a form that has lasted generations.Mind you, I don't actually study Hung Gar to be an effective street fighter.. I don't have a need to fight on the streets and I avoid locations/situations that would require me to.  Plus Brisbane, Australia is a pretty safe place overall.  I study it Hung Gar because of the tradition, the history, and the way that it feels when I do the MA.. Hung Gar feels powerful.. I like that.LGodamus, your initial comments were to me, slighty knocking other styles apart from your own.  This is quite probably because this is a written medium and meaning can easily be misread.  And I agree with you LGodamus, Takyris, your response was a bit of a knee jerk reaction the way I read it.I believe I have been involved in the 3 major threads that ENB has had on MAs.. I feel that it is important to respect each others personal taste in MAs.. and also respect that different people might have different goals that they want to achieve through them.and.. as to the original query.. zdanboy.  The way I see it is that you will need to personally inspect each of the different MAs in your area, and make an informed decision..  Only you know why you want to do a MA.. therefore only you will truly be able to determine if a Style and Teacher are suited to you.  Good Luck.</blockquote>

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