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The Gun Fu Manual (history
of the Gun Fu Manual)
establishes the criteria and performance
expectations for those who undertake this
particular path of personal growth.
Because the scope of the style is so broad,
testing criteria are defined by  outcome,
and not by how you are to achieve the
outcome. For example, in demonstrating
your competence in self defense, you would have
to execute valid and complete responses to named
attacks, within a given window of time (the time
window would vary depending on your
level). You determine what response to
present, just so long as you accomplish the
performance objective. This represents the
crystallization of your training into confident
performance. It is for this reason that
Gun Fu has many guises and appearances. It
is rare that two Black Belts will execute in
exactly the same way. Gun Fu intends that
you create your own personal style, best suited
to who you are, using the many resources that
are made available. Within the system,
there is a hard style, a soft style, a Japanese
style, a Chinese style, a Korean style, Stick
Fighting, Sword, Bo, Short Stick, Joint Locks,
Pressure Points, Grappling, Knife, and anything
else that can be meaningfully integrated into
the system.
The Black Belt usually takes 5-6 years
of rigorous training to achieve, and the test
requires a demonstration of everything
learned. Generally, it takes an entire
day, and those who undergo the test leave
knowing they can apply their skills competently
in the most adverse of circumstances. Sort
of like the Shao Lin Temple!
However, the single most important
emphasis in this system is that principles
taught are grounded in a sound guiding
philosophy. This is a system where ethics
and philosophy propel self defense. The
highest achievement for any Black Belt of the
Iron Crane School is not to beat somebody up,
but rather to “self actualize” and become a
productive, beneficial, loving and
compassionate member of his or her family unit,
and society as a whole.
Thanks
to Calvin Devereaux, the Manual (short
version) is available in Adobe Acrobat format
The entire
Manual (Version6) is now available and can be
downloaded from this link
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to read our response to your questions
regarding the Manual
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