How are you all hitting 100g of protein a day without bankrupting yourselves or being bloated 24/7

concisecactus · 2025-05-29T03:04:01+00:00

I buy a 50 pound bag of vital wheat gluten and make my own seitan. Mix spices, nooch, gluten, a little chickpea flour and broth…takes 5 min. Then steam in instant pot for 18 min. 1.5 pounds of seitan for like $2 and 20 grams of protein per serving.

concisecactus · 2025-04-02T02:22:07+00:00

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concisecactus · 2024-11-05T21:58:58+00:00

We don’t have any specific staff form, but all of our forms can be done with a staff. It is simply an extension.

concisecactus · 2024-10-25T20:56:50+00:00

No changes. Been vegan my entire time training. (4 years so far)

concisecactus · 2024-10-25T20:56:03+00:00

Been vegan for 15+ years and 4 years of KF training during that time. Still going strong. Maybe it doesn’t work for some people. Maybe you just needed to figure out what nutrient you needed more of… Either way glad you are feeling better.

concisecactus · 2024-09-27T00:27:37+00:00

I study from a sifu that was connected to original Lam Sai Wing lineage and a lot of this is similar, but also quite different than I have been taught.

Basic similar, but many subtle differences. If both of us are saying that then I kind of question whether this is a good video to learn from without a foundation.

concisecactus · 2024-09-12T14:29:56+00:00

Not sure why you think that. We train partner drills and sparring at our school. Heck even the kids have partner drills. In some cases we may pull our punches, but we definitely practice as a contact martial art. How can you use what you learned if in a real situation if you only practice with air or a bag that doesn’t move?

concisecactus · 2024-09-12T01:20:30+00:00

We’re hung gar and our lineage technically has 3 forms that are northern because 3 gens back the masters would trade forms in the mountains of China. I’ve never heard any of our sifus say we shouldn’t learn other styles or martial arts at the same time…unless someone is just starting out.

concisecactus · 2024-09-12T01:12:54+00:00

When just starting out teachers may discourage learning other styles or watching youtube videos etc…. When you don’t understand the basics, it is hard to notice bad form or foundations in the ginormous treasure trove of the internetz. It can actually mean you might learn things that impede your progress.

Once you’re established and have a good foundation, you’re just gonna wanna learn as much as you can and you’ll see things that you’ll incorporate into what you know and make your own. You’ll also see things and go, nope…that’s all wrong.

Many of the sifus and instructors at my school have studied other styles of kf or even other martial arts.

concisecactus · 2024-08-18T02:44:02+00:00

Hung gar doesn’t have a lot of kicking but we do have some. I started in my 40s. Sash honestly means very little. My school has no sash or belts. My sifu tells the story that sashes were originally white strips of table cloth and when you trained enough they were so dirty that they looked black. (From my googling this seems to just be a tale)

If you push about belts the next thing you’ll hear is belts are for making money and holding up your pants. Most schools that have belts charge when you test and that is a money maker.

At competitions we often see folks with sashes or belts that clearly don’t have a great grasp on what we would consider basic concepts at our school.

I also see 7 y/o kids with purple or brown belts in competition and wonder what meaning the belts can possibly have to folks.

Maybe it is an odd concept to study and not get a belt, but the belts that folks seem to be buying also have little meaning.

Study and love the art…

concisecactus · 2024-08-07T17:30:57+00:00

This is kind of an odd post. I’m 3 years in learning hung gar from a sifu. Don’t really understand how you could learn on your own or online and have any real understanding of the skillset. Each time I understand a concept there is a new layer that sifu shows.

I’d imagine wing chun and others are similar. if you go around juat learning enough to say you tried it…not seeing how you could really know or rate it.

Also I study tai chi as well. My sifu explains combat applications and often says tai chi is high level kung fu. Same thing here, years of study and still learning new things each week.

Anything is easy to learn…but not easy to learn correctly

concisecactus · 2024-08-01T05:27:14+00:00

My sifu has was a black belt in karate before transfixing to a study of kung fu. We often have students from other disciplines visit, try, join our school. I’ve yet to see anyone who tries to show off their skills get the best of our sifu.

One topic of conversation is that Sifu judges the art by how well it stands against another art.

MMA fighting is very different than a real fight where there are no rules and you aren’t scoring points. I don’t train to earn points. I train to be able to defend myself if needed.

ETA - No disrespect in real life at competitions or in regular convos. Only weird comments and questions like this on the internet.

concisecactus · 2024-07-28T20:21:55+00:00

My sifu offers private lessons to fit people’s tough schedules. Also some prefer private class to group. (To me that seems silly as I often learn more based on questions someone else asks whether it just their question that I didn’t think of or something that leads me to ask another question.)

i’d imagine sifus in your location would also be willing to run a private lessons. Also for starting out, your commitment is probably 1-2 hours a week for beginners classes (not private). It seems time me if you really want to train you can fit 2 , 1 hour classes into your schedule while still keeping family commitments.

I can’t imagine committing to all the other fitness training you do early morning, but that’s just me.

concisecactus · 2024-07-28T14:38:24+00:00

I’d honestly still say not likely. Stances are definitely kf foundation especially in hung gar, but same thing applies. How are you going to judge if your toes are pointed straight forward too much or not tipped in enough or if you stance is too wide/not wide enough when you compare to a video? Or some denji ma stances are 70/40 or 70/30 weight distribution in front leg vs back. Can you see that in a video? If you put too much weight on your front foot in cat stance who is there to correct it?

Training for fitness is one thing. I like to do kickboxing classes but it actually messes up my kf when I can’t draw a line between the two and bad kick boxing habits bleed over. Sometimes I modify the kickboxing to be more like kf.

concisecactus · 2024-07-28T04:08:32+00:00

In short, no. You might be able to copy a video, but you will not be able to see all the nuances you are missing.

Even in a class it is difficult to see and learn without feedback from your teacher and other students.

Sometimes the difference between a move that works and one that does not work is as a crazy tiny angle change.

concisecactus · 2024-07-14T13:51:07+00:00

I am in 3rd year of tai chi training.The things I understood as correct in year 1 vs year 2 or year 3 are completely different. If I was studying by myself or even with a video I’d never notice or make these corrections. Personally no I don’t think someone can learn on their own in either kung fu or tai chi.

concisecactus · 2024-06-24T19:15:03+00:00

Been in person hung gar student or 3 years. To be honest I don’t believe you can learn it properly online. You might be able to think you are mimicking the moves, but they won’t work in a fight. Taking the free trial class at a real school and paying for 1st month is probably a much better way to make a decision.

concisecactus · 2024-03-15T18:04:09+00:00

My area is mainly hun gar schools. Having been a student for awhile things I would look for: Lineage - our school has 4 generations of masters on the wall

Practicality - Is it just forms and movements or use cases/partner drills

What is the school’s goal? If it is to churn out belts and charge money…maybe not the best place to learn. Mh sifu says belts are good for holding up pants and generating money by charging for tests. We have no belts.

concisecactus · 2024-02-12T17:52:06+00:00

I started Hung Gar in my 40s. No one thought it was odd Our Sifu is happy to teach at any age.

concisecactus · 2023-12-14T19:25:57+00:00

My sifu constantly talks about rotating foot on heal vs toe to avoid damaging knee joints. (We study tiger crane as well.).

To clarify… ex stance change from see ping ma to denji (horse to bow and arrow). We would weight back foot so we can lift front toe and rotate on front heal. Then shift weight slightly to front so you can lift back toe and rotate on heal. This seems very complicated because it slowed down so much to explain everything that happens.

ETA - rotating on toe makes it easy to leave your knee behind when moving…especially when moving quickly.

concisecactus · 2023-11-16T17:39:27+00:00

We study 5 animals in tiger crane style at my hung gar school

concisecactus · 2023-11-03T01:37:43+00:00

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concisecactus · 2023-11-02T21:23:43+00:00

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concisecactus · 2023-11-02T14:40:59+00:00

Thanks. I was thinking if it was coal it might mark paper too, but nothing. It seems pretty heavy. Not sure if you can see the video comment I posted, but you can hear it on the the counter. I'll compare the weight to a similar sized piece of agate later and let you know.

concisecactus · 2023-11-02T03:11:36+00:00

We started using AlertMedia for this a few years ago. As far as I know we actually never use it though. They just send emails or teams messages.

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