This preference

is quite important as everyone
has a particular way of doing
things and this way comes easier to that
person than any other technique and so
we try to arrange our training techniques
around that particular method. In this way the student is able to
utilize his/her own natural body method as amartial art. This is what the
training method of Long Har Ch’uan is all about, it teaches us to use
what we have naturally rather than trying to change us and place
un-natural movements onto our bodies. So, it can be seen that any one
person will only ever use a certain ‘way’ of attack and defense while
only ever using three or at the most four fighting techniques and derivations
of these. It’s much better to train in only a few techniques than
many. This also gets back to why one is practicing martial arts. Do you
do it for good sport within the school or to defend yourself?
In a classroom and training with your friends, you tend to gain a false
sense of security in that we know that no one is really going to hurt us in
our sparring matches and so we use many techniques Just for the sake of
using them. In one’s first real encounter there usually comes a big shock
to the martial artist. People in the street just don’t fight as they do in the
dojo or dawgwan.