Kung Fu

I finally tried out Kung Fu for the first time. I'm happy that I did because it was really interesting. I found that the style is way different than I thought.

I never realized that when you do different fighting styles in martial arts then everything is different. I mean I knew that it was a different style for a reason. But I mean you do everything differently. I'm talking about the way you punch down to the way you walk. I think it's funny how they walk. From the moves I learned yesterday, I noticed something that was familiar to ShoShinDo. When you walk in Kung Fu you walk in Dragon style "90% on your back foot, 10% on your front foot," the same way that Harry had explained it.

I know that I didn't really learn anything in Kung Fu because when we were doing the Matis, our instructor only got me and the other new guy to the 5th move. It was kinda hard to learn the coordination. But after we got through the whole thing once without using our hands then we had to incorporate that part into it. It was a bit harder and every time I moved my hand then I would keep it in a fist and next to my chest as I was taught in ShoShinDo.

Another thing that I kept doing was popping my knee out when kicking forward. In Kung Fu you want you kick to be more like slicing your leg up. The difference for ShoShinDo is that your leg actually goes into a chamber then pop out. The other difference is thst in ShoShinDo you would move forward after kicking forward. But in Kung Fu you don't want to move forward much. I got the impression that you wouldn't move any more forward than you need to.

Overall, I like the class. I like having a instructor aside from the side. It was cool. But that instructor (Justin) is no where as good as Harry when it comes to instructing. Of course Harry has been instructing for years but I love how Harry makes sure that you get it before he moves on. Justin bearly made sure we had it sometimes. I would still go back for a class or two but I love the fact of having a person who works with me directly.