Does anyone if the martial art called "Kung Fu San Soo" is effective in a real situation. Or is it a crock.

Question

Also if these arts were to be rated of the most effective system in a real situation which will be the best? Aikido, judo, Kung fu san soo, Kenpo karate, submission fighting-mix arts, wing chun or jujitsu or boxing.

Answer 1

wushu should be first

Answer 2

boxing. What kind of idiot would dedicate years of endless training to one of these other so called 'martial arts'. You can learn to box in a month and come away with a good self defense system.

Normal people who want to be successful don't have time to train endlessly. Western boxing for the win.

Answer 3

A lot of those forms aren't really effective in a street fight. Im not putting them down at all but they dont help.

I train with a guy who does Kenpo Karate and you can tell he has a karate background and it helps him a bunch, so its a good thing to get into.

Answer 4

No disrespect to Sensei, but from everything I know and have read, San Soo and San Shou are two different forms of Kung Fu.

Answer 5

Kung Fu San Soo is actually San Shou.

San Soo is the same word spoken in a different dialect.

Jimmy Woo was probably the first person to bring San "Shou" here to the US.

Now that its one of the arts in MMA, everyone wants "San Shou! San Shou!" "Cung Le!!!, San Shou!"

The San Shou of today is a Chinese synthesis of TKD, Judo, Wrestling with Chinese martial arts, and others, just like San Soo of back then.

Only difference is when Jimmy Woo taught it, it was used for the street.  

This is why I get so P. O.'d with the ignorance that is rampant on this board.

Skahoj - you believe that whole "godess of" whatever stuff if you want to. San Soo or San Shou, has been around a little bit longer than you think, and it is the same thing.

Many Instructors of prestigious schools in China and Taiwan have been working on Sanda/Sanshou for a while.

Here is a discussion on another forum where a person who learned it has something to say about it. He calls San Soo "fake", I say it was an attempt to market a product to the unsuspecting:

http://www.martialartstalk.net/forums/ot...

I have seen some San Soo practitioners and I wanted to puke. On the other hand, I have seen some that were very effective.

It's like the whole Bruce Lee thing... do your own thing.

There is a difference and it stems from who you are learning from. Northern style San Shou schools are based on Northern  Shaolin. Southern is based on Southern Shaolin.

They are both San Shou/Sanda (Free Hand/Free Fighting).

If someone from the internal schools would develop a free hand/fighting system, it would also be Sanda/San Shou.

Answer 6

Any of them would be very good for self defense if taught by a good instructor and trained correctly, period. End of story.

Answer 7

I totally agree with SkahoJ. Sensei assumed, San Soo was mis-spelled and made an *** of himself. Please have more respect for people's intelligence.  

Choosing a MA style is one thing, but the most important thing is that your master must have a good reputation for being a good or great fighter. In most case, you can learn a lot from his tried and tested experience.