Chinese Martial Arts

Chinese martial arts is a very well known type of fighting style that has been heard of all around the world. It is refered to as kung gu or gong fu. Chinese martial arts emphasizes on discipline and control with ones body that focuses on physical health and mental health. It is to improve the muscle and physical traits by sometimes mimicing animals.The term kung fu means any individual asscomplishment or skill cultivated through long effort and hard work. This means that anyone can learn martial arts, but it takes a mindset to keep at it and control your efforts. The earliest history of chinese martial arts dates abck to the 5th century BCE. It includes hard and soft techniques as well as strikes, throws, joint manipulation, and pressure attacks. Since the chinese were typically smaller people, martial arts gave them the ability to overcome greater challenges and to overpower larger people. I find this very interesting because chinese martial arts is always interesting and the background is rich in information. Most people only know of this from movies with people such as Jackie Chan, who uses martial arts in his movie and has trained extensively. There are different kinds of martial arts that range form wu shu to shaolin based temple martial arts.