I estimate this to be at least a five-part series.

Ponder on this, and I will expound in the next few articles.

The respect other martial artists will have for your lineage and your system after encountering you and your students.

How the students’ experience in your school has enhanced their lives once they are no longer attending classes.

Basically, does your school’s presence benefit those who are NOT members? Not for paying students, but the community.

Works the Kung Fu school has done for the community. Sifu David A Ross (San-Da Web-Site) (David Ross Sub-Domain) David Ross Gallery 1.

Its relevance for health–REAL benefits like weight loss, lifestyle changes, mental health benefits, and repairing/healing the body.

Combat usefulness on the street or the ring.

In the modern world, the usefulness of a Kung Fu school is measured by:

The non-CMA guy doesn’t care who our master was, how popular our style is in other countries, where we got write ups. We do our systems a disservice when we cannot easily relay what we do to a non-martial artist in terms they understand. But Kung Fu is not measured in those things in the mind of a non-practitioner. Sifu David A Ross is the current (3rd generation) president of the Chinese Swai Jiao (Shuai Jiao) Association and has over 30 years experience. Too often, Kung Fu practitioners value their arts by how many forms they know, how well they perform a form, or how popular/famous they or their teacher is. How we train, and what goals we set for the fighting skills we teach, are vital to whether our arts are outdated or useful. When I say that we should modernize our view, I am referring to how we treat our arts. We can’t say that about too many Kung Fu teachers. He is a Sifu that I believe if a challenger walked in his door, that challenger would be leaving with some body parts rearranged. When you get a chance, make sure to get over there and see what he is up to. Sifu Chan Tai San kung fu David Ross Lama Pai kung fu Conditioning and traditional technique order Lama Pai kao pak da gung (iron body) Green Cloud Kungfu. I approach my modernizing slightly differently than he does, but I do not disagree with any of his methods. Sifu Ross is one I consider to have kept up with the times. He is a student of the late Master Chan Tai San, practicing Choy Lay Fut, Lama Pai, Bak Mei and Jow Ga. Lately, I’ve come to enjoy another blog discussing the Chinese martial arts, NY Sanda–run by Master David Ross. Notice I said we must modernize our view, and not modernize our styles. My philosophy is the same now as it was in the late 1980s when I began teaching Jow Ga: Kung Fu people must modernize their view of their martial arts. Over the years, and recently on social media, I have engaged in this discussion with enthusiasm. I don’t live in a town with many real Kung Fu schools (there are only about 5 or so), and out of those schools none fight on the circuit where I would meet and bond with them. There is an ongoing debate in the Chinese Martial Arts world–in America, particularly–about what direction Kung Fu needs to go towards.

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