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Never had any exposure to it myself or sparred with someone who trained in it, at least they never said anything about it.

As a CMA (chinese martial art) that does in fact utilize animal forms it is imperative that you make sure the school is going to teach you legitimately and not give you some load of crap about "we train so we don't have to ever fight" or "what use is sparring when you can learn to fight by yourself". CMAs have a large chance to be selling you a line of bs.

If you don't see resistance training (training the techniques against someone else who is non-compliant) then you are at a school that is feeding you a line of bs and you should check out other choy li fut schools (if there are any where you live) or other schools of other arts.

The important thing is not what art you practice, but the quality of the training. training in untessed techniques with no pressure or against a fully compliant dummy opponent will not help you. You will see some degree of this so you know how it should work, but after doing it 2-3 times you need resistance to see if you are actually getting it right or if it even works or not.

Choy li fut is a kung fu style that seems to specialize in longer range fighting. I'm not too fond of it (personal preference only), seems that most movements are circular (as opposed to a good mix of straight/circular/angular techniques). But choy li fut grandmaster Doc Fai Wong is a kung fu Hall of Famer.

You should take the class. It's great stuff. I always think that it's cool to say that I know (some) Kung Fu.

Shaolin Dragon practitioner (blue sash -whatever that means)

it sounds great man. sanshou isn't really a style but more of a full contact combat sport open to all styles of kung fu but just like kickboxing new a days it's more a set style that people have put together over the decades that exploit the loopholes in the rules of sanshou & they just call it sanshou. choi li fut is pretty good too. I wish you the best of luck!.

This is style of kung fu in my opinion is one of the best. This style of kung fu can be trace back to the shaolin temple. I am currently studying this art and I have been doing it for five years. I am a purple sash and I already know 5 weapon forms. If you want to know more about this go to www.plumblossom.net. There you can find all about choy lee fut.

Over years personally I have lose all my faith in any CMA beside San Shou/San Da. Not because of the style or origin, but because CMA tend to have more bs marketing and make up lot of false mythical surrounding them.

Also CMA guys tend to give me creeps since they act really weird and try too hard to act like a character out of chinese movies. So listen to what first poster say.

Most CMA's attract the D&D nerds or Sumner geeks. They think they can all be Jet li's. Truth be told that most CMA's are crap and I have yet to see one that works well.