Please share your experience with Choy Lay fut

hey guys I'm going to college in the fall and one of the martial arts schools that I'm interested in teaches Choy Lay Fut 5 animal kung fu. I'm very curious about this style of martial arts and have heard nothing but positive things about it like its one of the best. If there are any CFL artist please share your experience in this style art with a young apprentice.

You have been asking about CLF and similar subjects for a year and a half now. With all due respect, methinks if you were seriously considering it, you would have checked it out by now.

Why do you post something similar to this every couple of months, but nothing else?

Why do you keep asking the same questions, but have not done what people have suggested to you in the past? (Which was that the only way to know is to go check out a school.)

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“	Originally Posted By: sunn646 hey guys I'm going to college in the fall and one of the martial arts schools that I'm interested in teaches Choy Lay Fut 5 animal kung fu. I'm very curious about this style of martial arts and have heard nothing but positive things about it like its one of the best. If there are any CFL artist please share your experience in this style art with a young apprentice.	”

Where are you going to school at?

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I've had very good experiences with CLF. As with any art, the training methods are what make it effective. Keep in mind that different schools will have different methods, even schools that are under the same grand master.

What kind of experience are you looking for? Fighting? Health? Dancing?

clfsean I'm goin to school at University of Illinois at urbana Champagne

heres the link to the Kung Fu school: Five Animals Kung Fu


beknar I'm intrested in all around conditioning. Health, Fighting, strength mentally and physically. If I get into it I'm definately gonna take it serious

Love CLF, but i have to say that this sounds odd...

“	Kurt started training in 2005, as one of Putty's first students when he started teaching. He has trained very diligently and earned his black sash in late 2007.	”

2 years to black sounds too fast....

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I think the guy in Texas is from TMW's lineage originally & then went to Buk Sing. I'm not sure though.

Either way, CLF is a good way to go. You could also go off campus to Sam Ng's school in Chicago or one his student's depending on location to the university. Ng Family Chinese Martial Arts Association - Contact Information or Home

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“	Originally Posted By: clfsean I think the guy in Texas is from TMW's lineage originally & then went to Buk Sing. I'm not sure though. Either way, CLF is a good way to go. You could also go off campus to Sam Ng's school in Chicago or one his student's depending on location to the university. Ng Family Chinese Martial Arts Association - Contact Information or Home	”

is it possible to learn CLF at one school and continue it at another? how would they rank you because it may be a different way of teaching. like getting a black belt may not necessarily me the standard of a black belt at another dojo

Rank is subjective at best in CMA.

I'd focus on finding a single good school & stay there. Don't hop between. Even though CLF is all the same, you'll find teacher or stylistic differences for a beginner very confusing.

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“	Originally Posted By: clfsean Rank is subjective at best in CMA. I'd focus on finding a single good school & stay there. Don't hop between. Even though CLF is all the same, you'll find teacher or stylistic differences for a beginner very confusing.	”

the only time I would jump between schools is when I'm done with my education because I live in the chicago are not Urbana-Champagne which is about 2 hours away.

“	Originally Posted By: sunn646 is it possible to learn CLF at one school and continue it at another? how would they rank you because it may be a different way of teaching. like getting a black belt may not necessarily me the standard of a black belt at another dojo	”

I did that.

No belts at my current school, so no problem.

“	2 years to black sounds too fast....	”

Maybe, but it's long enough to be a decent fighter.

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“	Originally Posted By: Doughboy Maybe, but it's long enough to be a decent fighter.	”

True enough. Remember the premier idea behind CLF was to turn out fighters fast during the anti-Qing period. 2 years should be plenty enough to have got the basics down, be able to apply them effectively & pass them on.

Granted we aren't living in a period any longer where you trained multiple hours a day to be able to use it in a life or death situation. However 2 years of good solid practice should be enough to get & understand the basics & pass them on, especially if the teacher/student are both talented enough to pass on/grasp the material.

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“	Originally Posted By: aaradia You have been asking about CLF and similar subjects for a year and a half now. With all due respect, methinks if you were seriously considering it, you would have checked it out by now. Why do you post something similar to this every couple of months, but nothing else? Why do you keep asking the same questions, but have not done what people have suggested to you in the past? (Which was that the only way to know is to go check out a school.)	”

LOL......Way to call him out Aaradia. You'd think he'd find a school by now, huh?

“	Originally Posted By: Doughboy Maybe, but it's long enough to be a decent fighter.	”

If you can't fight with CLF after two years you're doing something wrong.

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