The Distinction between Internal Work

and the External Work of Kung Fu

People who never cease to doing Kung Fu exercise are eager to learn the other 12 kinds of martial arts training in order to span the gap in our knowledge of Kung Fu. It is known to all that the boxing was the law of winning, while the Kung Fu was the fundamental to win enemies. If we have trained Kung Fu without any kinds of boxing, you can not beat down the enemies. However, its disadvantage is still small; if we simply know the boxing instead of learning the Kung Fu, the absence of the knowledge of Kung fu definitely will give ourselves quite a beating. So, once this situation develops without any control, it will bring disastrous result. And therefore, the proverb is reasonable: “There is no hope to win if we just do boxing practice."

We are obliged to notice that the types of martial arts which are complex and numerous, are too numerous to mention. And according to the general distinction between the laws of natural and the structure of the body, there are two kinds of martial arts: internal work and the external work. As we know, the system of the internal work is more complicated than others. And the first step to grasp the skill of internal work is to learn enough knowledge of the history and the elite of the culture of Chinese Kung Fu. The most important for us to remember is to start the study at once and keep on the study of internal work at least for two even three years. But hard work pays off, you know. After several years training, your skills of internal work will inevitably be improved to a large ex-tend.

On the other hand, external work is able to help you to protect yourself and attack others at anytime and anywhere. And there is no need for you to spend too much time in studying external work because external work just requires a short time. From this point of view, you can improve yourself quickly and make great progress. All of these of course will help you to rebuild you confidence, so it is a great pity if we do not make use of this opportunity.

Some Kung Fu experts inform us that, considering the feature of Kung Fu, the best way to develop our skills of Kung Fu is to mix the internal work and the external work.