Kungs / skills / feats of strength are they needed?

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[vaulander]

[ginosifu]

Onasis
I sorta dont understand the analagy of the "GUN". Is it to have the ability to use the earth and legs to fire off your technique? Is it the ability to move quiclky enough to get your technique off?
Explain a bit?

And about the answering my own question... I do teach basic Lin Gung daily exercises but I try to incorporate [EXAMPLE:] Catching the Jar exercises or Fingertip pushups or Rope climbing and people start complaining and start not showing for class or I have them learn basic Catching the Jar (Tiger Claw strengthening) and after years and years of letting people see the basics... no one ever asks to move to the next level! Another problem is I tell people that if they want to get to the next level of that certain gung they need to start practicing on their own as many times per week as they can... and it ends up they only do it during class (2-3 times per week).

arrrgh.
ginosifu

[vaulander]

The gun is there to get your bullet to the target. An analogy for getting your technique, say Ping Chui into your opponent. In other words, practicing techniques so you can hit the opponent. So, in the example of the Iron Palm, you could have the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, but if your gun, your delivery system is bad, you won't be able to drop your bomb on your opponent. Say your airplane has broken wings, bad engine, or whatever. In either case no matter how good your IP might be, if you don't hit your target it is worthless.
On the other hand, if you got the best gun in the world, but only small pellets you can fire like mad and it won't get the job done.
Take the analogy of a flyweight top class vs a heavyweight beginner in boxing. The flyweight can dance around the heavyweight, stick him 20 times in 10 seconds, but I don't see mr heavyweight going down any time soon. Then there's the slow, ponderous and far less technical heavyweight, one or two punches can lay out the flyweight easy, but hitting the little bastard is the big problem.
Perhaps aiming for middleweight middle skill is the best of both worlds. Good gun, good bullets, instead of excellent gun, bad bullets or bad gun, excellent bullets.

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