Intensive study

[Chunyat]

[Sifu at Large]

[Asmo]

No that was most likely directed towards me

[Chunyat]

Fundamental.
I consider my students who learned several years for 2 times per week still beginners. Maybe after 5 years if they kind of get the hang of it, then I consider them intermediate - but not all of them, for some it will always a nice hobby, nothing more - if you get what I mean. (PM's remark of first 3 years a visitor, I really like ).
In my native language fundamental is not common with sets (more only for buildings): beginner or basic would be normal, and it would still mean you first have to build the fundaments and then maintain them - else it will get rotten.

For whom it was ment.
Well, you see I wrote I still need my sifu. And I feel intermediate, sometimes beginner as I still feel I can learn a lot from my sifu - and that's after 9 years under Lam Chun Fai. If I wouldn't still follow my sifu, my kungfu would possibly still turn out crappy.

So for whom it was ment - for 98 % of the visitors here on the board.
So if anybody thinks this post was just for him/her, I have to dissapoint them.

[vaulander]

I am very much a beginner. Unfortunately due to geographical location, I don't have access to a sifu, all I am learning from is some DVD's by Kwong Wing Lam, the texts by Lam Sai Wing, and Kwong Wing Lam's Hung Gar book. The only advantage I have is a history of various martial arts, like Judo, North Shaolin kung fu, and some Tae Kwon Do. Which means I can see the more obvious applications of the Kung Gee Fook Fu Kuen. There are 7 applications that I've found in the salute alone, for example. So yes, I am reinventing the wheel, I know what it looks like, now I just have to figure out where the spokes go, and how they intertwine. So, I am going to build the best wheel I can, take it to a good school and have everyone laugh at me and help me rebuild it properly.
V.

[Chunyat]

[PM]

[Asmo]

[vaulander]