I just want to do the Ryo Hazuki Bajiquan elbow strike on some dock goons and bust up their crime ring.
Also putting this in sports because martial arts are combat sports.
I think bruce lee actually talked about the difference between Hong Kong cinematic Kung Fu and actual fighting a few times.
Tracks. He also mixed traditional kung fu like wing chun and cross trained it with boxing and wrestling, I want to say fencing also. But man the cinematic stuff looks soo cool.
I wanna learn to do that Ip Man thing where he punches you like 20 times a second. Can't imagine every hit is very hard but it looks very cool.
Wing Chun I think would be the way to go for that, seeing as Ip Man studied it.
Years ago I did Karate, and the instructors were always clear about it's real life applications being ways to create an opening for you to run. Most of the kata are just ways to stun different types and positionings of un- or lightly armed attacker long enough to gtfo.
I still only remember one of the kata as "that's my purse, I don't know you", because it consists of breaking an attackers grip on your arm/wrist, smacking them in the face, then kicking them in the balls.
