Ch1. Why do you want to learn it?

Before we start talking about kong fu and building a customized program for you to develop the necessary concepts, skills and physical abilities to become a kong fu master, there is a very important thing you have to recognize so that whatever it is in the following chapters would work for you. You need to know why do you want to learn Kong fu?

People learn kong fu for many reasons, and most of the time the reasons that lead them to kong fu actually lead them into things look like kong fu but in fact are useless time wasting exercises with no real life value at all.

So, If you want to learn some kong fu because the latest movies show you some really fancy stuff and make you feel anxious to know it, I would suggest you start learning movie making and special effects rather than kong fu. The students with wrong and exaggerated ideas about kong fu usually learn it from movies, despite the fact that I am a frequent movie goer and love action movies, it is very clear to me that the movie makers don’t know kong fu and the stunt men learn their tricks from somewhere that has no idea what kong fu is.  

Or, you may want to learn kong fu because you think it is so beautiful and mysterious and represents some exotic oriental stuff, I would highly recommend you go buy some Chinese painting or learn some native Asian dancing moves. Because kong fu is not something meant to be beautiful and it is not mysterious and above all, it is not some exotic oriental stuff that only some kinky old guy can teach you. It is beautiful because the real kong fu masters were/are usually minimalists and always follow the form, fit, function principles. It is mysterious because you don’t speak Chinese and the masters don’t know English, it seems exotic and oriental because without proper explanation and interpretation, the kong fu moves makes no sense in real life.

There are many other reasons that make people want to do a little kong fu while I would suggest you leave the current page so that you won’t waste any more of your time and energy and you can keep pursuing the imaginary kong fu land, unless you want to learn kong fu because you want to be stronger, faster, deadlier with this evolving skill set that embodies the wisdom of how to make human body the most dangerous and effective weapon you can imagine.

Coming Up Next: Ch2. What is Kong Fu Anyway?