FREE SPARRING (PART 5)
Free Sparring (Part 5)
Free sparring, called “san-da” in Chinese, is an essential aspect of kungfu training. It is meant to test or confirm whether one can fight, and not meant to teach how to fight. Hence, free sparring comes at the end of a systematic combat application programme.
It is logical that when one practices kungfu, he (or she) uses kungfu in his free sparring and fighting. But for some reasons, many kungfu practitioners today cannot apply their kungfu for sparring or fighting. This is because they have lost the sparring methodology which was once found in their school or style.
We in Shaolin Wahnam are very lucky that we still have a sparring methodology which we have found effective. We release this series of video clips to show how we train sparring in the hope that those who share the same idea with us, that kungfu can be used for sparring and fighting, may find them useful.
But others who have different ideas, who think that kungfu sparring is a joke or that kungfu practitioners should use kick-boxing or free-style fighting in sparring, are entitled to their opinion, and we have no desire to debate with them.
The size of the video clip is 1.81 MB.
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