Hello Everyone,

Another old post for the new blog that contains great information!

Happy Easter to everyone that is reading this post and who comes to this blog. When I first started Kung Fu San Soo I enjoyed it. My teacher had a strong personality and "sold" the art well on what it was supposed to do for a person (teach effective self-defense). He really wanted his students to believe that Kung Fu San Soo was the most oldest Chinese fighting style and the BEST self-defense system in the world.

Looking back I was completely naive on attending the school and studying a piece of crap martial art. I wasted a lot of money and didn't learn anything that was applicable to Muay Thai, BJJ, and the real fighting styles mentioned on this blog! There are lessons I learned from my Kung Fu San Soo training that I'm going to share on this post.

1) Kung Fu San Soo IS NOT an efficient, effective, and practical form of self-defense.
2) Your martial art teacher NEEDS YOU more than you ever need him.
3) If your training doesn't consists of a lot of bag work and pad work then don't expect to develop speed and power in your techniques.
4) Sparring is the most important element in developing real fighting skill (For training in grappling, you would need to roll). Period! No question, no debate, and anyone who says that putting on gloves, mouth guard, head gear, shin pads, etc is not needed to learn to fight in the street (or certainly ring or cage) then you need to get the hell out of that martial art school!
5) Just because your teacher studied years and years in a martial art and attained the rank of "master" does not make him qualified to teach a person self-defense. What you should look for is a person who has a history of fighting uncooperative opponents such as in the ring, cage, or street/battlefield (Finding people who have a history of fighting many street fights or in actual military operations is challenging and you always have to look out for the frauds).
6) To learn effective and efficient self-defense DOES NOT AND SHOULD NOT cost a lot of money. The amount of money I spent in my Kung Fu San Soo training (which was less than one year) would EASILY BUY ME two years worth of training at a good Muay Thai/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym!
7) A real fighting style will teach the importance and have a component of physical fitness and diet training.
8) Training spent doing forms is not efficient use of time because the stances, movements, and even techniques aren't going to be delivered like that in a real fighting situation.
9) If your martial art style does not have a successful history trend of fighting in the ring or cage then you cannot conclude it will be effective in the street!
10) Here is another point that I want all readers to think about...if the martial art you study has many critics talk about the techniques, stances, movements, etc not being effective AND the martial art has never been successful in the ring or cage (see #9 above) then you probably shouldn't study it for self-defense. There's probably been one or two guys in the history of studying San Soo that has had a successful history in MMA or another combat sport, but that's the exception to the rule and doesn't support the art being effective. Think
about in an MMA cage, what are the chances of using San Soo striking effectively against an opponent? Conclusion...not good!

Thank you for reading this post and please stay away from Kung Fu San Soo. You'll be saving your money and most importantly you'll be saving your time. Instead, study martial arts/fighting styles mentioned in this blog.

Questions or Comments?

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Muay Thai, Muay Lao, Pradal Serey, Lethwei, Tomoi

Sanda (San Shou, San Da), Kyuk Too Ki, Shoot Boxing, Yaw Yan

Dutch Kickboxing, Savate, Western Boxing

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wrestling, Sambo, Pankration, Judo, Shuai Jiao, Kali/Arnis/Escrima