format_quote Originally Posted by
Pure Purple
I don't think these activities beneficial to us.
Martial art was introduced in my school's co-curricular activities.
trainer told us to run 3 rounds in school's compound in the first session.We were exhausted.
We all complained about this to our class teacher and demanded it to remove this activity.
I agree, one must learn to be fit first... the teacher probably discovered that MA was too difficult for lazy kids who couldn't even run compound runs. In MA we used to circuit train for a full 2 hours before our lesson officially started. And it was all very VERY repetitive, and this is necessary in order to build something called "muscle memory" ... so when the time comes to actually fight for real, you don't have to think, it just happens ;)
format_quote Originally Posted by
ardianto
Paper with words? it's called "Hu". It's not part of Kung Fu (Whusu). Hu is from Taoism.
A master of the Preying Mantis style in Shanghai, owns a dip da clinic and yes he does hu (spirit/jinn) healing - this is very common for martial artists from around the world to go to dip da clinics in order to heal parts of their bodies that conventional doctors say will take surgery to fix...
... like I said in an above post, some elements of martial arts contain shirk. This is one of them.
format_quote Originally Posted by
Snowflake
I pray salah sitting down. When I do try to stand and pray, I get tired and experience severe pain in my arms when raising myself from sujood.
In that case, I do not recommend martial arts. I trained in Muai Thai, Wing Chun, and Hop Gar. In each discipline we were all taught that if one cannot stand, one cannot fight.
We can all stand - so we think this won't be a problem. But in MA, standing means something different. It means being able to keep standing and not get knocked down to the floor. It means, learning stances and doing exercises which train leg muslces. It's tedious work. And stretching for 45 minutes is just the start of most lessons. :D
What I do recommend sis, is to go swimming in a sisters group. All your muscles and your breathing will start to slowly be in tune - in harmony, and gradually you will build strength that is there to stay.
If you cannot swim, I suggest learning to swim, because it is one of the acts not from worship, which Allah takes pleasure in seeing humans do :)
Scimi