Is shaolin kung fu the my difficult art to train?

Question

I train in this art, and I find it to be , overwhelming sometimes. In Karate , you train forms ,spar , and do conditioning. In Contemporary Wushu, you train to have awesome form-work. In San shou, you focus on fighting and conditioning. Escrima with weapons and disarms.

In shaolin kung fu, you have to do all this, plus Qigong, and specialty training like "iron body". You also learn external and internal styles. I think this art takes the most time to fully master and maintain for that matter. any opinions out there.

Answer 1

I don't know if it is the most difficult, but as a 20 year + tai chi, karate, and wing chun kung fu exponent I can say that after training in it for just over three years I still feel like a novice. It is great though!

Answer 2

It's an incredible amount of material to cover and try to retain isn't it? I don't know if you can say it is the most difficult to train in, but certainly the most comprehensive amount of material. I would imagine that if you had very poor coordination and were afraid to do anything acrobatic that Capoeria would be insanely difficult to train in, rather like some of the drucken immortal styles in Shaolin. I think the challenge of it is so great that it just pushes you straight on through to try to learn more and do more. I have blak belts on Tae Kwon Do and Chinese Kempo and neither of them were as taxing as the training I have gone through in Shaolin and am only a brown belt. I will say that it tests you in more different ways than any other art I have ever trained in.

Answer 3

I feel for you, and feel very, very, very fortunate you can find a true Shaolin School, I also do Iron Body but I started out doing Iron Palm, the Qigong isn't difficult though....but maybe that was because I was a kid when I did it and I wasn't stressed about adult matters. It's not a martial art for beginners, basically. (I can't say that for myself though because it was my first art, and I still use Mizong a lot)

Answer 4

Kung Fu is extremely difficult.

In fact, in Chinese, Kung Fu means "achievement through great effort".

Keep at it, and in 20 years, you will be pretty good.

Answer 5

Shaolin is one of the hardest martial art. I don't want to say it's the hardest because that's presumptuous of me. Shaolin requires great strength, endurance, flexibility, speed, and other criteria. It takes years to develop a good technique for one single move (for example, Mantis hands), let alone proper application. You'll never see a real young (like 20 years old) high ranking shaolin master.

Answer 6

h**l yeah!