why are chinamen so good at martial arts?
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Because they grew up with it.
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Because traditionally, the Chinese men take care of their elder parents, where the females get married & go help take care of her husband's parents. So the boys are a security blanket for the parents when they get old.\nI was told last week that the current rate of boys to girls in China is 4 to 1. So unless the girls want to take on multiple husbands, China will have a shortatge of future boys AND girls here in about 20 years!
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Because, for a lot of them, ANYONE can learn how to be good at them, or at least play.\n\nMajor sports are such big business, if you aren't the best you can't play sometimes.  Plus, pro sports are so much about the money these days, it makes some people feel fed up.\n\nBut karate, billiards/pool, darts, fishing, dodgeball and bowling all can be learned by an Average Joe.  (Except it takes years to get really good at karate).\n\nPlus, Karate, Bullriding, Rodeo, World's Strongest Man, and Dodgeball are all fun to watch.
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stylized fighters can fight like wolverines. \njust because a person learned a style and certain ways to move doesnt mean they will use them that way.
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The japanese were like the nazis of the east.....the koreans think that they are better then all the other asian races with there stuck up additude only because they have the usa to back them in everything.....the chinese are lazy....but are good with math and cook a great meal!
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China is a threat but by far not the real threat. Its nation has survived for thousands of years. These people are not stupid; Eastern military thought is superior to that of the West, even if their military technology is not as advanced as the West's. The Chinese follows the wisdom of Sun Tzu's Art of War; the most important teaching it has is: "To win a thousand victories is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."\n\nIndeed the US is in debt, just like -every- other country in the world. China would not have to even invade and occupy the US; why would it want that responsibility? It already has 2 billion people to worry about. To become the global hegemone, they only need to sit back and watch the United States throw away its people and its money in its foolish exploits around the world (ie, Iraq?). We are weakening ourselves tremendously in all areas. We are alienating our "allies." We are expending our treasury. We are dulling our weapons of war.\n\nHowever, we must also look at a greater threat to every country in the world. Globalization is demolishing national identities and borders. Multinational Corporations, which have no loyalty to their home countries nor the host countries, are able to manipulate governments to do their bidding. The scariest part is that there is no morality and little accountability; the bottom line of capitalism is making profits at any cost. There is no built in morality within capitalism, rather it relies whatever morality a capitalist has beforehand. Other non-state actors also can threaten the United States of America, such as gangs, drug cartels, mafias, etc. MS-13 is the most dangerous gangs in the US, and it is destroying us from the inside.\n\nIf we faced China, it would be easier to know who the enemy is and how to fight them. But as we can see in the past few years, it is the more shadowy enemy that we cannot fight or defeat. Al Qaeda is a perfect example of this. It has been years, but we still have not been able to destroy this organization. States seem to be helpless when it comes to fighting non-state actors, but it is no surprise. Non-state actors have to deal with less bureaucracy, don't have many worries that state actors have. As a result, they are flexible, fast, invisible, all over the place, and deadly (thanks to technology like internet, explosives, WMDs, etc).\n\nBut it is not surprising. Before 1648, there was no modern state. There were only non-state actors. And now they will rise again, over the ashes of the states. It sounds apocolyptic, but we only need to see recent events to see that states have a very difficult time fighting them.
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No i don't do Shui Chiao but i practise Wing Chun. But i am wanting to study more of a grappling art such as yours. Or maybe chin na. But preferably Judo. I feel in a combat scenario people with a more grappling based art are more likely to come of well. You didn't mention whether you did Shui Chiao. Or whether you were just looking for a teacher. May i suggest something if you are looking for a teacher. Buy Robert W Smiths Chinese Boxers Masters & Methods. In there he states that Shui Chiao resembles an early ju-jitsu. And he had a test with a Taiwanese wrestler and won. And would have won easier if they hadn't restricted the moves he learn't in Judo. I know it doesn't sound as cool. But Judo sounds like a really effiecient type of fighting. Plus the conditioning is really intense. I work with a guy who was a big deal in Judo and he is really tough. Just thought i might let you know.
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they are trying to sell their "training" as better...of course they will say "theirs" is better.\n\nYou answered your own question, the art doesn't make the fighter.  Someone with zero ability is not going to become a "fighter" because they learned someones "art".
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Because there are over a billion chinese.
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I think that most Asian people naturally do better than other groups because they are taught from birth to be better and work harder than others.  It's part of their culture to want to succeed.  As for being naturally smarter, I don't think that's true.  It's just a matter of living up to your god-given potential.
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I don't neccessarily know about strongest, but there are actively building their military at an incredible rate. What is most alarming is that they seem to only be focusing on improving their offensive potential. China has no real security threats in Asia to defend against, so peolple should ask themselves, why an offensive build up?
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compared to most kung fu schools i have seen, FMA students learn using weapons on the first day then gradually progress to empty hands. Most kung fu schools start off empty hands first. FMA does not have any long sets, forms or katas. It is very simple, which is why it is so effective. \n\nFMA was not developed in China. The sticks used in training in FMA are called "sticks". No special names. They are substitutes for knives, machetes and other bladed weapons during training. \n\nFMA is still used for combat and survival in the jungles of the phillippines.
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Kung fu's not a martial art. It's the generic Chinese term for martial arts in general. So no, I don't think that martial arts are overrated. Some styles are, some aren't.\n\nUnless you had a specific one in mind?
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The origins of Kung Fu (also written as Gung Fu , and today bearing the meaning of a Chinese martial art) are hidden behind many myths of outrageous deeds and impossible folklore. Much of its recorded history has been lost, with only a few fragments surviving. \n\nIts beginnings can be traced back more than three thousand years in China, when personal combat first developed into a science. But it is only during the Han Dynasty (around 200 CE) that records of empty-hand and empty-hand against weapon combat techniques and strategies are printed in a chapter of Han Shu I Chih. The earliest records of martial arts schools date back to the era of the Six Dynasties (264-581 CE). The next major chapter in the history of Chinese martial arts is traced back to contributions from Ch'an Buddhism, and the foundation of the infamous Shaolin Temple.
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it's a steroetype that Asians are, let's say prostitutes because the Japanese had an open mind about sex and pilligamy (sp?) or having a lot of wives were acceptable in China. And it's been said by a long of guys that they like Asian girls more than others.\nIt's just that the stereotype on Chinese are two different types. China dolls, of shy girls that are quiet and submissive that some aggressive guys in movies like. and dragon ladies, which are like the girls who like to be on top in a basic sense.
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I am a Chinese (man).  I can tell you, most of the Chinese girls would lose.\n\nMost of the Chinese girls can't fight.  They were told not to be violent and not to be strong.  Physically, they are just not at that level.
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I'm mostly interested in Wing Chun Kung Fu, a martial  art developed by a chinese nun during the Ching Dynasty which is very practical and became popular in America after it was discovered that it was the original martial art that Bruce Lee studied before he left China. I haven't really seen any documentaries on this art except for being briefly mentioned in a documentary or two. Also,  there isn't really much info that I've seen on filipino martial arts. They are masters of weapons and knife fighting and it is said that if you train in weapons before you train in unarmed combat, you will posess extreme skill in any martial art. Probably because it takes so much more conditioning to avoid a blow from a weapon than from a fist or a foot. They have arts dedicated to weapons fighting such as Escrima, Kali, and Espada y Daga.