Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | Page 203

hints or answers within the five-partdoctrine, where the element metal
(like the four other elements) is
explained as a part of various cycles
and described with different attributes
(for example: “The axe splits the
wood, and can be blunted by this
wood”). Since most
people hardly ever encounter the
element metal in nature, unlike the

elements wood or earth, students in
the beginning of their Hung Gar career
often have difficulties to ass