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Lau gar
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does anyone know what the most popular kung fu style 
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stonecrusher69
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Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 554
Location: New Jersey
Styles: Buddha Hand Wing Chun
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| Wing Chun is the most popular kung fu style. |
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Shaolin Fighter
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Joined: 20 Aug 2002
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Location: Van Buren,AR
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Tai Chi is also very popular...... so is Shaolin Kung-fu  |
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JerryLove
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Joined: 19 Sep 2002
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Location: Tampa, FL, US
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Oops, I submitted twice 
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JerryLove
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Actually, Taiji easily has the most practitioners of any Chinese art (unless China is teaching one as a school cirriculum these days; which it may be). I would actually argue that it most likely as more practitioners than the "world's most popular art", Tae Kwon Do.
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Kyle-san
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Joined: 09 Sep 2002
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Location: Brandon, Manitoba
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Um, Wing Chun seems to be one of the most popular. I'd have to go with Tai Chi, though. If you count it as a style of Kung Fu, that is.
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HarvesterofSorrow
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Joined: 18 Apr 2002
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| Why wouldn't you count Taiji as a gung fu style? |
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Shaolin
Orange Belt
Joined: 22 Feb 2002
Posts: 123
Location: NYC Metro Area
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| Why wouldn't you count Taiji as a gung fu style? |
Perhaps because 90% of the time Tai-Chi is not taught in the context of, or for the purposes of combat. In many cases schools teaching Tai-Chi do not even teach the Push Hands aspect of the system. It is unfortunate but true that Tai-Chi was either intentionally or incidentally defanged over the years in China and elsewhere. Many Chinese I have spoken to directly have even denied (out of ignorance) that Tai-Chi was even intended to be used in combat, which is of course not so.
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on the post.
