School Syllabus: Combat Effectiveness

For combat effectiveness the system can be divided into three main areas. 

• Body Conditioning: This is an imperative aspect of any traditional martial art, even more so within Pak Mei Kung fu.  Body Conditioning consists of limb strengthening and conditioning, body exercises i.e. Press Ups, Sit Ups, Dorsal Raises, Basic Stance work i.e. Ma Bu (Horse Stance), Qi (Hei) Gung exercises, Kiu Sau (Bridge Arm), etc.
• Hand to Hand Training: This area of training incorporates techniques, combinations with applications against one or multiple opponents, forms practice, hand drills, sensitivity exercises, set sparring, hand sparring and finally free sparring.
• Weapons Training: Another imperative aspect of traditional martial arts is weapons.  Here the practitioner has to must learn to use both single and double handed weapons, long and short weapons, applications, conditioning exercises, techniques and set sparring.

Any deficiency in any one of the three main areas can lead to the practitioner being ineffective in being able to apply their skills in a self defence situation.