Smee
21-Sep-2004, 11:51 PM
Hi there
I'm a hung gar kung fu student so forgive me if my use of language is confusing or perhaps even insulting (although I hope not!!). That is down to my ignorance only.
I am particularly interested in learning about silat/kuntao langkahs. These seem to be footwork drills and initially trained as a separate entity to jurus (upper body drills). Obviously, these combine at a later stage of training.
My reason for showing interest is that I believe that much of the "stepping" within CMA forms has a definite combat purpose that sometimes gets overlooked. I think langkahs (the way I understand them) make the student focus on the combat applicability of footwork so that this is built into the attack/defence techniques through time.
I think this approach would seem to have a lot of merits but I can't seem to find any footage of langkahs in order to understand how these are done?
Can anyone help with some video clip links?
Paul
I'm a hung gar kung fu student so forgive me if my use of language is confusing or perhaps even insulting (although I hope not!!). That is down to my ignorance only.
I am particularly interested in learning about silat/kuntao langkahs. These seem to be footwork drills and initially trained as a separate entity to jurus (upper body drills). Obviously, these combine at a later stage of training.
My reason for showing interest is that I believe that much of the "stepping" within CMA forms has a definite combat purpose that sometimes gets overlooked. I think langkahs (the way I understand them) make the student focus on the combat applicability of footwork so that this is built into the attack/defence techniques through time.
I think this approach would seem to have a lot of merits but I can't seem to find any footage of langkahs in order to understand how these are done?
Can anyone help with some video clip links?
Paul