Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul. 2013 | Page 149

Development of the form with partners
Although with these forms, like the Gung Gee Fook Fu Kuen, they were established important milestones in the Hung Gar training, advanced practitioners are constantly seeking hard to perfect the system and find new ways to help the students achieve their goals, that is, to become well prepared fighters, in the quickest way. With the training of the forms, which are fixed sequences of movements, the student carries out a fight against an imaginary adversary exercising his skills in this way. This works so extremely well that any student can improve on his own his fighting skills simply by practicing the forms without attending school lessons. Despite this fact, there was no intermediate stage, a transition between the forms and the actual fight with opponents or training partners. From these and other similar considerations emerged the so-called forms in couples, that is, with a partner. Unlike conventional forms, these forms are usually designed to be executed by two people, although this fact don ' t make them less dangerous for practitioners. The advantage of these forms with a partner is quite obvious. You work with a companion and therefore there is a solid body contact. Thus there is an interaction and you can take advantage of these techniques in a significative way and so improve your skills. This inspired Hung Gar masters to create a form with a partner that provided the
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