Hung Gar Traditional Skills 3 - Free Drills

Respeto a mi Kung Fu hermano Gabriel y gracias por hacer esta película. Some explanation and free flow of Traditional Hung Gar Skills.
This video is to show how some Traditional Hung Gar Skills are sometimes drilled. This is NOT fighting however. I posted this to give some insight as to how the bridging skills can be learned.
Thanks for the help from my Students Jon Mroz and also Patrick Mulcahy...AKA "Da Champion". :)
Sifu Onassis Parungao
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[@Dolph-Face]

very nice, Sifu Parungao do any of your students compete mma like you did?

[@OnassisParungao]

Randolph G.S. Amaya Thanks and no, my teaching ranges from traditional to hybrid applications that i use at times for a more modern approach. I say it that way because if a guy asks for a private on how to set up a traditional strike or throw from my (mma + traditional) experience...it doesn't really make him my student. Not in a traditional sense anyhow. The most interesting ones are teachers who are looking for new or cross over ways to apply their martial arts. Yeah, people travel here...stay a couple days and train.

[@Dolph-Face]

Onassis Parungao I got you, so your saying you don’t take or train kung fu students in the traditional sense anymore? Inner chamber or otherwise?

[@keithschultz4187]

Sir you are a very good sifu.

[@rinuskungfu]

Best explanations applications of hung gar. 🙏👊🤝

[@TwinDragonNH]

Great Video as usual "O" . With respect my brother, John

[@RocketWalrus1]

Good video. I am just speculating here, when I watch videos like this, the martial arts that came out of China, Japan, and southeast asia were really focused on gripfighting combined with striking. Basically immobilizing the opponents hands and creating opportunity to strike, lock or takedown the opponent. That's not an altogether terrible strategy. If the opponent can't hit, the fight is going to be pretty one sided. Now I think most people have seen way too many video where TMA and CMA practitioners try to use their skills in a fight and have limited to no success. Many people assume this means those arts don't work. We don't see the elaborate bridging work we see ion drills, and we don't see the hard forearm blocks that some styles demonstrate. I have a different theory. I think when TMA and CMA practitioners go to spar, they try to treat their style like a boxing or kickboxing style. This is because for years a lot ( but not all) train the similar to the way karate styles do one step sparing. Everyone knows what I'm talking about. Tori throws on big strike at the opponent and Uke blocks with some impractical block. The basic "if you do X, I do Y" approach to training. But I speculate those styles weren't really meant to be used like that. I think this is where people are getting things wrong. I think if TMA and CMA practitioners took a different approach there skills would work a little better. For instance, if they approached a fight like a BJJ or Judo guy. They could try to get tier grips first, then apply their trapping and bridging techniques. Don't wait for the other guy to strike, because then they would just end up chasing their opponent's hands. I think they should take the initiative and start gripfighting right away. It would be more like this video, where the two combatants are actively trying to get grips first instead of waiting for an attack to come. Tie up the hands, then strike. I've been trying to incorporate moves like this into the gripfighting I do in BJJ. Basically I have been trying to control my opponent's grip in a way that I can strike and they can not. Honestly I've been getting some mileage out of it and I think it can work. But then as I said this is just my silly theory. You're mileage may vary.

[@OnassisParungao]

+RocketWalrus1 Thanks, some good observations bro. To tell you the truth... although this video is only meant to show some traditional set ups. It lays to foundation for allot of other things I do in a more practical fighting sense. That's what I normally do in my personal training, i.e.: I research the common problems that come up in fighting and sparring and I deal with those exclusively.

[@RocketWalrus1]

Onassis Parungao I'm just glad that rambling mess I wrote could be understood. I didn't really organize my thoughts that well. I thought the setups you demonstrated were pretty good. I'm the type to usually be critical of demonstrations, but that's usually just the ridiculously impractical ones.

[@1mataleo1]

+RocketWalrus1 I have been contemplating the same thing for some time and have came to similar conclusions. What you say makes a lot of sense, especial in self defense. I firmly believe that these arts were designed for combat and self defense, not for ring sport competition. I think that many people fail to appreciate the huge difference between the two. For self defense, you are usually already in a fairly close range to your enemy, and in such a situation i think that the strategy you mentioned would be especially effective. Martial Arts are designed so that a weaker, smaller, perhaps even slower person can defeat someone who has superior size, strength, speed, etc. However, the rules and regulations for combat sports take away almost all of the aspects of Traditional Martial Arts that would allow them to be effective against a physically superior enemy. Just to name a few: many of the most effective targets and techniques (that don't require you to use brute strength and can end the fight immediately) are illegal - eye gouge, biting, throat or groin strikes, striking the base of the skull, spine, or kidneys, kicking a downed enemy, elbowing downward from 12 to 6 O'clock, small joint manipulations; there is a ref who stops the fight if a fighter can't intelligently defend himself or if he receives an illegal blow; time rounds, with a break between each; cornermen to help give the fighters strategies; fighters of relatively equal size/weight and strength; foreknowledge of when and where the fight will occur and therefore time to prepare and study ones opponent, etc. And the list could go on. Also, prolonged clinching and ground fighting allows openings for vital strikes; If you can get your hands to touch your enemy's head say for a clinch, you can just as easily gouge out his eye. But like you said, come to grips right away, get him in a position where you can attack while he is helpless, and finish him. That is what i feel is what traditional arts were designed for; a quick finish so that you can move on to the next guy, and don't get stabbed/attacked from behind. Sorry for the ramble; I sometimes get carried away talking about martial arts, something that i feel very passionate about. Good luck with your training.

[@RocketWalrus1]

Gripping like this is neither impossible nor illegal in MMA, but then again it's not unusual to have a top level fighter with 20+ years of grappling experience. It would be much more difficult to immobilize the arms of a high level grappler.

[@mathieujolliff951]

RocketWalrus1 Your theory is far from silly, it definitely has merit. Gripfighting as you call it is tailor made for grappling if you creatively adapt it and use it right. What you mentioned in your comment I’ve been feeling for decades since BJJ and MMA’s been popular and wondered why nobody has ever seen the benefit of combining these techniques or adapting them to work in a grappling situation especially in a real street fight. I’ve only studied a little bit of Hun Gar and Jiu jitsu and as a novice I can see the potential benefits melding these two styles would serve. Glad I’m not the only one who can see how great and effective Hun Gar can be if applied creatively and correctly. Good catch Rocket!

[@yamiyomizuki]

It's interesting to see how your hung kuen and taiji influence each other. I can see some taiji body mechanics in what you are doing here.

[@OnassisParungao]

That is very astute of you to notice that...i won't deny what you're saying. Some people have even called me the "Tai Gar guy" (as if id be offended...nope) Thanks allot In reality, Hung style has hard and soft...but most people only show hard bridge methods. Our school does both.😁

[@yamiyomizuki]

@@OnassisParungao I was talking less about the soft movements, which I know also exist in hung gar, and more about the fact that i see fajing in some of your strikes which resembles taiji, and i would attribute the observation less to my being astute and more to me having been studying various internal styles on and off for the past decade.

[@OnassisParungao]

@@yamiyomizuki O I C...nice to be introduced to another martial artist.

[@yamiyomizuki]

@@OnassisParungao it's nice to be introduced to someone who still practices and teaches the Chinese martial arts as functional fighting arts

[@wizcoolc1]

great stuff